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I » 'y- t f If Yon Don't RomI CHRONICLB Ton Don't Got The News. • ^ VOLUME XXXII CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1932 NUMBER 27 ROOSEVELT ANDINow U Time To GARNER NAMED Democrats Choose New York Governor and Speaker of Na tional House As Candidates for President and Vice-Presi dent At Chicago Convention. Persons Contemplating P u r - chase of Land larged To Dcf So By .Economist. j Clemson Gollejre, "June 22.—In* the : face of recent values, any perst>n con templating the purchase of a good | * farih should not hesitate in the opin-! The Democratic party, in its quad-ji^^ of q. M. Clark, extension econo- rennial convention, held in Chicago J is the time to buyland, he last week, and ending Saturday fve-j nirvg at seven o’clock, nominated as' “Where For any reason a good farm ’ its candidates for president and vice- permit an efficient use of machii^- president Franklin Delano Roosevelt, ^^y is on the bargain counter, it r)2-year.old governor of Ne<«' York, should not go begging,” Mr. Clark and John Nance Garner. 6S-year-old' « discussion of farm land val-1 speaker of the national house of rep- ^resentatives. and for 30 years a mem ber o^ that body from the state of Texas. RooseveK’.s nomination caiie on the ues. He pointed out the most important and fundamental tvf several factors in determining the price of farm lands is the earnings attributable to the fourth ballot, following an all-night| land, greatest weight being given to •session Thursday which adjourned | the experiences of the years immedi- Friday morning at nine o’clock. Thrt'ejately prectMling the time of valuation, ballots were taken during the early I On this basis, he concludes the price morning hours before adjiuirnment,! of farm real estate in South Carolina but Roosevelt lacked about 90 votes' is m»w much lower than it was three of having the necessary two-thirds 1 or four years ag<* and very much le.ss majority. Smith wasjHH-oml willi ap-.than in 1920. proximately 190 votes, with Garner,! “It is a rather singular fa»t,” Mr. Ritch.e, Traylor and several other fa- ('lark said, "that during the prasper- vorite sons trailing. ous period just after the war the price The < onvention rec<*nver.ed alH)ut, of farm lands went higher as com- 9:30 Friday resumed the night and immediately pared with pre-war, in South Carx*. roll call of the states. i ijna than in any other state and has t'alifornia, fourth in order, ^enl its 'S}X)ke.sman, William (i. Mc.\doo. to the speaker’s platfdfhi. Mr. Mc.Xdoo in a dramatic announcement told the assembled delegates that California and Texas delegates had been re had the greate.st percentage tb*cline from that time to the present. "The March 1, 1932. price was 73 per cent of the pre-war price. That, however, is still high as compared with the price of comnnKlities pnv IPARTY MOVES wh«^aiwin.i for HARMONY Declines To . Say Whether He !„ . , ‘ „ Will Support Roosevelt In thei’^'S , Coming Campaign. ‘ Smith Ticket In New Hard Campaign Planned. t'hicago, July 2.~Alfred K. .Smith,^ ^ a silent, defeated^ man. turned his back! New Y'ork, Jul’ 3.—Swift gestures tonight upon Chicago and the arriving j of harmony begai con.splidating the Democratic presidential nominee. i nation’s democracy behind Franklin Surrounded by mtunher.-^ of hi.s fam-lD. Roosevelt today and raising the ily and close friends, he boarded a' possibility of a Roo.sev'’’.*’-Smith tick- special train for the return trip to'et in New Y’ork. New Y'ork while Franklin I). Roose A Tammany movement to nominate .Alfred F. Smith for a fifth term as governor was described by the Eve ning Post. .All of Tan^many’s spokes- ... absent and vSmith still . nuth, himself^ gave no indication! maintained hi.s silence at the home of of whether he intended to .support the Veit, his successful opponent and for mer close friend, was approaching the scene of his triumph to accept the de cree of the party. , nominee ! From ! came woulil in the coming campaign, his associates, however, there expre. sions of belief that he not. .A memlKO- of his party a son. Governor koo.sevelt speilt a busy day announcing a vacation yacht trip, expressing pleasure at the coo: pli- menta.ry statement of the independent sail! he had not .sent a communieation Republican. .Smiator Johnson of 4:ali- l^ind to (lovernor Roo-sevclt. i fornia, an<l planning to come here this 1 he one-time intimate of Roosevelt MAt'ek-end. There was immediate ->|h*c- ulation as to whether a conferen e who made go.od his threat to take off* his coat and f'ght but who lost that fight carried home from the fray a feeling of bitterness. Strangely enough, William Gibbes •M. .Vd.io. his rival of inght years ago, was one deteat him would be held heTwi’c.’i Smith and Roo.-evek. > In Hoston. Mayor .lames C'urley, ardent Roosevelt supporter, temiet-iti the olive branch to Govern ir Joseph of those who again help|^ to H. Kly. staunch Smith partisan. Tur- . ley said not only w'ould he suppoi *^ Ely .Aftei listening over the radio to, for re-election, but he regarded t its FRANKLIN DEL.VNO ROOSEVELT the lambslido which swept the conven tion into the Roosevelt line, Smith re- 1 tired eaiTy today and di<l not leave his hotel until time tb go to the railroad station thi.s afternoon. leased by Gamer, and that they would (juyed on the land. If prices of farm . Harvard, and Columbia university law .school The Governor of New Yijirk was born in the house in which he still live.s, at Hyde Park, Dutebess county. New York, on Jan. .30, 1882. He is a gradu-i ,session of u • » u I , Jthe convention had started .Smith, in- . He married his distanti, „ i p i m formed of the ciiTulating rumors that ^ly to run “cl<*arly the iluty” of again. "1 propose to do everything pos sible for hi.s (Roo.-'evelt’s) success,” said Curley, “and under the cir-um- stances 1 am not a candidate for gov ernor and will support whomsoever nominated.” cast thair vote, for Ro,m.velt. The peoducta remain low the price of land. oouain. .Anna Ro.wvelt, d.uithter of Theodore IWv,.If, brother, in li'«.^; Tevar and California were to put their ” ^he" powerful O’Connell hrot .votes of the two delegations totaled will decline further. they have five children. He served in the New York legislature, was a.-isi.st- strenirth behiml Rfx»s».v*.lt h.wl am.' l-.i . ..i i\.! r a ,.C ^ /about 90, enough to give Roosevelt; "Igigically, the price of land should j ant secretary of the navy under President Wilson, was Democratic the two-thirds necessarj' for noniina-jhe determined not by its past or pres-i vice-president in 1920, and was first elected governor of, New Y tion. With McAdoo’s announcement | earning power bi»t by its I^iture re-elected in 1931. the convention went into an uproi(c-|-; power to earn. There is no way of | the Roosevelt band-wagon had started j j^nowing just what the earning power j and it did not slop until the New! of land wilPhe, but there are reasons “ nominee ork in - strength behind Rmisevelt, had en-jKd and'Dan, of Albany,"who sw ung deavorj'd to reach Speaker Garner in ^ their force.s behind Smith at Chicago, treated for peace by arranging W-r jf- ficial welcome to he held there Thuri- day for Roosevelt. .Mayor John Boyd Thacher, who ,,)t- Y’orker had amassed a total of 945 of jto believe that while during the next ; the 1148 votes cast. Smith got 190*»,|ton years M ten years farm commodity prices will Baker 5>tj, Ritchie 34, (lovernor; be lower than obtained during the White of Ohio 3, and former Gover-j previous ten years they will be higher nor Cox of Ohio, standard bearer in I (ban they are at the present time. , # 1»20, one. ’’While ehaoKe. in land prices lag! text of the l,ein.«-ratle platform ap TEXT OF DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM ^ sp, ^ ^ aiw 'i»p ^ ^ ■ Chicago, June 29. — The complete jthe rehabilitation of silver and related I taavt nf tViu I lax M>ra (S<a an. ' (JUeStionS. Washington. .At the hotel where the .speaker lives, however, thiu’e was no answer to the telephone. A little later Smith telephoned the manager of the hotel, a friend of his, and was tol<l that Sjieaker Garner had said he did not want to talk to Alfred E. Smith. * 4. A competitive tariff for revenue , with a fact finding tariff ciunmission * flee from e.xecutive*interference; re-1 All other candidates except I'lnith. behind changes in agricultural com-j full resolutions com- released their delegations. .S'mith re-^„.K|i,y values there haa been in gen- ■>»<«■<’ '<>r presentation to the conven- .eived the vote of the majority oT the,eral a fairly close relationship he-“ton follows: . , New York delegation, which was not'tween the value of cotton and the av-j In this time of unpnj(iedente(| eco-1 tariff agreements with other opeiating under%the unit rule. .Alsti prage price of farm lands in Stiuth! nomic and social distress the Demo- remaining under the-banner of the (^ardlina. The present land prices are I cratic party declares its convictions former .New Y’ork executive were jp keeping with aJMiut nine cents cot-Mhat the chief c*u.ses of this condition the delegations from Massachusetts, ton assuming a normal yield per acre.. were the disastrous policies pursued Rhode Island, Connecticut and New “if agriculturaf comminlity pricesjliy our government since the World Jciiey. Roosevelt carried all other ,.ppiai,i low, land prices alnaist cer-, war of economic j.solation; fostering nations; and an international eco nomic conference de.signed to restore international trade and fiudlitate ex change. 5. Exteii-sion of federal cretlit to-th** .-tates to proviile unemployment re ed for .Smith on all four of the c-m- vention ballots, will he the princ pil s {leaker. A possible bar to a fifth'term “’ ■r Smith in the governor’s chair \vx< I .seen in the general understanding Mao j Roosevelt desired Lieutenant Gover- i nor Herbert Lehman to succeed ‘ni. i fiehman, how'cver, has been frie ily I both to Smith and Roo.sevelt a’>;i jl Senior Senator Ha.s Served His ’ party ’.u - State * Ihe henefitted wa.- not rega-',le;l Smith Sets New Senate Record Lung Time. Surpas.ses Record Set By Tillman. I as imjirohalde. As a coriverition i •. , j gate U'hinan voted for Roosevel:, I A more likely harrier woulii Ellison I Smith’s reluctance to retrace hi.s •' i'e states and territories. ’Vainly will lie lower; but, all things It will he recalled that Smith and ,.<>nsidered, for a person who wants to a slandstill in the^ f^|p to o-perate. himself, it would ‘memorable battle of lOl ballot.^ for gppp^ that this i's not an inopportune the nomination in 1924 at Madison tjp^p to buy good land-capable of l»e- Square (Jarden, New Y'ork. It w’asijp|f worked efficiently which can be .McAdoo who last week played the bought for 75 per cent of its pre-war'these policies have abandoned chief role in the Roosevelt victory, j price.” ' , j ideals on w hich the war was won, and turning back the forces led by Smith, — ' thrown away the fruits of victory, who endeavored to prevent the nomi-: « »• i nr% nation of Roosevelt. ' HlCKOry 1 aVCm the merger of ciimpetitive businesses i lR*f wherever the dimini.''hing re- into monopolies; ami encouraging the: <»f the state.s tnuk«‘ it impos- indefensjhle expansion and contrac-, *>hle for them to provide for the at! needy; expansion of the federal pror A ? - jirofit tio'n of credit for private the expense of the public. Those who were responsible (’(diimhia, July 1. Senatoi D. .'^mith today gained the distinction | again and run for guvcrnor afte o| having servi-d .South ('aroliiia long-; |)ij ing' tti the presidi-ncv'. er continuously in either branch of; VVhile Deinoci atic campaign <le lii^ coiigiejJS—than any. otlierman. Ho a^ hinged upon Man Auto Victim Horace League Killed In Head- On Crash On Princeton Road, Funeral Held 'Monday.^ The convention on reconvening Sat urday afternoon at 2 o’clock went into j the balloting for the vice-presidential, candidate. Alabama, first on the rolL of states, yielded the floor to Texas, whose delegates in turn gave the floor to Representative Duffie of Ala- j hama. The Alabi^man placed Gamer in; nomination. The succession of states’ ij^ureni, July 3. — Horace Leagde, merely seconded the nomination, until Hickory Tavern, merchant, was Iowa was reached, when a I*'®*'''* j fatally hurt in a head-on automobile son was nominated. Continuing ' collision on the Laurens-Princeton loll call, every state seconded Gar-. from Laurens, at 11 ner’s nomination- At the end of .Saturday night. He died at 4 roll call Iowa’s favorite son took the ^ ^ Sunday in the Laurens hospital, floor to withdraw his name, and Gar- j ^ league, brother of the victim, iwas also injured and brought ^ the unanimous.''! ner’s selection was made The vote was by acclamation. In the meantime, the New governor was on his way. to Chicago by ail-plane to appear ^fore the con vention. When he arriyed in the hall at about five o’clock he was given a great ovation. Instead of lyaiting sev-| thus rejecting the greatest o|)|Hirty- nity in history to bring iieace, pros, perity and happiness to our people and to the world. They have ruined our foregn trade, destroyed the values of our commodi ties and product?, crippled our bank- irtg system, robb^- millions of our people of their life savings and thrown millions more out of work, produced widespread poverty and brought the government t((^a state of financial distress unprecedented in times of peace. The only hope for improving pres ent conditions, restoring employment, affording permanent relief to the people, and bringing the n|ition h»ck to its former proud position of do- gram of ncce.ssary uiul u.-^eful con fer: .striictioii affected with a public inter- such as floiMi control and water ways, including the St. Iji'wrence- Great Lake.s (Un'p wulerway.s; the .spread of employment by a suhsian-, ^ eandidate Tor reeleclion in the .Aug ust jirimary.. .According to .A. .S. Salley, .secretary of the state historical commission, Senator .Smith has rounded out 23 year-; and four months of member- hip in the senate. 'ro<lay, Mr.,Salley said, the senior senator exceeded the previous re<’ord for length of service held by the late Benjamin Tillman, who entered the senate March 4, 1895, and served until his death .luly 3, and 29 days.. tial reduction in the. h«mrs of labor, the encouragement of the shorter W'eek by applying that principle in government service; advaiu’e planning of public works. ♦5. Unemployment and old age in surance under state laws. 7. For the restoration of agricul-! ture, the nation’s basis industry, bet-! ter financing of farm mortgages | through reorganized farrii hank agen- j t cies at low rates of interest, on an | I amortization plan, giving preference ! to credits for the Yedemption of farms j 'and homes sold under foreclosure; ex- Clinton (Jirl Among Those Seek- tension and development of the farm . cooperative movement, ami effective. '"K Lntriince To WlnlhrO|l Roosevelt, Sfieaker Garner and inan .lames .A. Farley, thi- Re{nihli:aas made ready to ojien their main head- quartei's tomorrow in Chicago. Crime Increase Seen In State Columbia, .luly 2. Crime in .'s.jih , Carolina is inereasing. Dr. G. ( *of/; 1918 a total of 23 years, three months, wiHiam.s, head of the departmeik of Eleven Take Scholarship Exam By StKolafsWp Route. control,of tirop surpluses so that our( r x. 1 T u . ■ . , • . • t • I farineris may have the full benefit of. — y . i local hospital. John rranklin, Uie we-' jjuppjness andfinancial, in-j joniestic market; enactment of | Eleven young Ixaurens county wo- gro who w»8 driving the other car, j^ju^trial, agricultural and commercial i 1 ,„en took the scholarship and free was hurt and is in the Laurens hoa-i i^^d^rghip in the world lies in a ^Icas-j farmers to receive for basic'tuition examinations for Wiuthrop ..U.l I .cxm^iux «jxv*r* in- I -I .>,<4 <wxuarn- . ... ...ii piUl. Mr. League suffered Mvew in-'tic change in economic and Ifovern-L^^ commodities, prices in excess of j college last week before .Supt. C. F. j ternal injuries which caused his,death. I policies. I cost. j Brooks in the court house. The jia- Funeral services for Mr. League. Believing that a pa'^ty platform is ^ g a navy and an army atlequale j pers will lie sent to Winthrop college were held Monday morning at eral weeks in professed ignorance <^lo*clock from the Rabubn Creek Bm>-* “ j a covenant with the people to be faith- national defense, based on a sur-; where a decision wi „ 1* u ivxv -III ^ fully kept by the party when entrust- , .i /-..tg affecting the existing who wins the tw-o hU nomination. Rooaovelt broke •« I ti,t churvh, the Rev. B. F. Ca^n of-, ..j ijth power, and that the poopi*! ol all tacts aiieeiinK me exmu a, precedents by appearing before ( * I fixating, with* interment in ihe<g|p^ entitled to know in plain words national convention to he forma >{^^,^3.^1, cemetery. 'the terms of the contract to which notified and to deliver his speech o Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Lucile|^||^y asked to subscribe, we here- Baldwin League; two brother, J. C. jjy declare this to be the platform of the Democratic party. The Democratic party solemnly promises by appropriate action to put into effect the principle*, policies and reforms herein advocated, and to}^^^ fjig^rihntiAr; th«» r«xmnval of guv.' garct Patterson. Lanford. hff acceptance. It was a dramatic event, unparalleled in political history of the Ralph League of Hickory Tavern; nation. Roosevelt’s speech of acceptance was a "call to arms" for the Demo cratic party, a summary of which ap- 'pears IbdayTn another column of his mother, Mrs. Florence League, of Hickory Tavern, and a sister, Mrs. Hope Stewart, of Fairview. Chronicle. The address of the nominee was the closing business for the con vention which adjourned sine die at 7 oVlock Saturday evening. - The convention was presided oiter by Senator Walsh of Montana, the choice of the Roosevelt forces, wbo defeated the Smith candidate, Jouett gbmit^i secretary—*of —the National, Democratic executive committee vey eatablishmentit, that the people in time of pface may not be burdened by an expenditure fast approaching a billion dollars annually. 9. Strict and impartial enforcement II be made as tr .scholarships opi-n ] in this county. Tho.se taking the ex-j aminations were France.s I’utiiani, j ^.ias.sification3, totaling 1,357. sociology of the University of Siuth Carolina said in an article todaj in The Chlumhla Record. .A survey of crime in South Carolina for 1931 was recently completed- by the sociology department of the an’- versity, based on the report of tha it* torney-general. According ttr the .'■urvey, a total of 3,973 cases were brought to trial in general .sM.^m s couTf arid 86 per cent convictions were secured. Five years ago, the report .said, 2,642 cases vve-'e brought in the sessions court. "If our education and economic '>f gress continues to increase as regu a-'- ly as crime increase.s, "Dr. ^’ill'im? ironically observed, "we need ha\c ^ fear for the future of our state,” Of the 3,976 cases in 1931, violat' a of the prohibition law led the c' me Mary Florence Culbertson, Laura Madden, and Nancy Emily Gasti 11, Ijiurens; Emma (iopeland .McCrary, of the anti-trust laws to prevent mo-1 Clinton; .Anna IMtt.s, Helen Balent'ne nopoly and unfair trade practices, and and Katherine Eugenia Wood, Wart revision thereof for the better protec-! .Shoals; Mary Jean W'inebrenner and tion of labor and the small producer' Lucille Bums, Mountville; and Mar- Next Tuesday The July meeting of the Ghamber|^|^|j^^|^^ ^f. of Commerce will be held at the Mary consolidating departmenU and eradiate the policies, meOiods ana g^nment from all fields of private en- practices herein condemned j twprises, except where necessary to We advocate:; ’develop public works and natural re- 1. An immediiKe. and drastic reduc-: sources in the common interest, ( on- tion of govemraentaT'expenditures by servation development and use of the nation’s water power in the public in-! Musgrove tea room next Tuesday eve ning at 7:30. The usual dinner will be bureaus, . and eliminating extrava- Laurens Fanners Borrow $41,000 In proportion to the number of ris es tried, the ratio of convictions 86 per cent for white.s and 87 per Viit for Negroes. .As to cases, in 2,104' whites w.-re defendants and ia 1,869 Negroes ware on trial. This, it was pointed out. showed a larger • number of crimea uy. whites in relation to population. tecest. , , Approximately $41,000 was borrow- We favor the repeal of the IKth (jy about 310 Lauren.s county farm- . *wx J wi u ♦V- •«« i **nce, to accompHsh a saving of not | amendment. ers this spring from the seed loan .. kmocratic executive committee. i an*! all mamhiirs are repeal, we demand fund, accoxding to announcement by on June 23rd and her body was FVinowimr adjournmeirt of the con-j P* ® federal government; and we call upon that congress immediately proptise a c. B. Cannon, county farm agent, who I brought here the following day for in- ntion a meeting of the new national to ne present. . ^ Democratic party m the sUtes to, constitutional amendent to purely assisted the central committee and; terment in the Hopewell cemetery. was held at which time* uvuw wDrxis nsisw iinake a aealous effort to achieve a representative conventions in thejiy^nDy applicants in completing papers- Miss Henderson was reared iu the Miss Henderson Dies In Columbia .Miss Nannie Henderson, 80, a na- live of this county, died in Colur.bia on June 23rd and her body was ’n- vention committee James A. was held at which Farley, Roosevelt’s Dte-* HBIUE FROM CAMP ! proportionate result. ! Gus Blakely, Jim Da^s, Howai^ j Maintenance of the • national convention U|npair< J SUmps, Cnrl Adnmo nnd Tom Hovwll.! ^ - federni budeet annually 'who arc at Camp McCWlan. AnnU-^ J. Raskob. ton, Ala., this summer, ^nt estimates within revenue*. Within t^ ociit few «cl« «nl«- here with relativn b™! I „i,«j fay a .yitam of uxation levi^ otl^' ^ ^ ^^ P-«PU. of ability t. pay^^ oat clans for the natibhal efilipiifttibe opposed by Heibeit And’ 3. A wound curreney to be preaeread to be held this summer. ‘Charles E. Curtia, the praaent pn^-jat all hazards; and an international The election will be held in Novem-jdent and vice-president, aa tjhe Re-{monetary conference called on the in- ber and the Democratic nomineea arill | publican nominee*.’ jvitatiaitof our government to conaider many applicants in completing papers states called to act solely on that pro-’ foj. jhe loans. There were 314 appli-j Hopewell section where she lived for po*al. . , cations for loans. A few of these did I a long period of years and was high- We urge the enactment of such not qualify. ly esteemed. Many friends gathered measures by the several autes a* will ^ d. N. Hamhright of Clover, one of actually promote temperance, effec-1 fj^id agents of the state, will cov- tirely prevent the, return of the sa-ier Union and Laurens counties in the loon and bring the liquor traffic into ntatter of checking the specified in- tha open under complete aupervuioni^jivi^al applications of^the federal and control by atatee. * We demand that the federal gov- (Continued on page seven) loan and he wll ako look after the collection of the same in the fall, it is understood. for the last rites to pay a final trib ute. *1716' deceased has no relatives in this section, her brothers and other connections all having preceded her to the gr*‘''« in recent years. Mi8s Mary Bobo spent the week end in Spartanburg and Asheville.