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* • " • • V ^ • : THE CHRONICLE • • ' S • Strives To Be s Clesn News- • • • • -paper. Complete, Newsy. • S and Reliable. * (••••••••••••••••••••••••I ? j- Mi >• ’ ^ r; . 'i / If Toa Dent Bead THE CHRONICLE Ton Don*t^ Get The News. VOLUME XXXII CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1982 DEMOCRATS TO LAUNCH DRIVE Roosevelt To Open Tour Next Month In Mid-West. Leaders To Stand On Platform Adopt ed At Chicago. Washington, July 26.—Congression al Democratic leaders and James A. Farley, nevr party chairman, talked over Roosevelt campaign plans today and agreed generally to stand on the Democratic platform, including the repeal plank. The Capitol Hill pilots sent back word to Governor Roosevelt through Farley .advising the usual “wing around the circle” campaign, but the genial chairman said he wasn’t mak ing any bets on what the presidential nominee would do in this regard. ,S. C. Went Dry In Election Of 1915 Thirty-Seven Counti^At That Time Lined Up To Abolish Whiskey and Dispensary. Columbia, July 23.—rlJntil the state legislature’responds to demands for a prohibition referendum. South Caro lina remains on record as a dry state by virtue of a three-to-one state-wide vote against liquor cast at a special election in 1915, In 37 o$ the 44 counties then dist ent, the electorate refu.sed to accept liquor by a vote of at lea.st two to one. Charleston and Dorchester survived the balloting as the only wet counties in the state. Wet forces in Richland, Barnwell, Beaufort. Berkeley, and Horrv counfies were out-voted fewer Farley disclosed that the governor ^ (^^e, but lost these coun- probably will open his campaign in the Middle West sometime next ties. The total vote of 58,544 went 41,735 month. This'speech is expected to fol-1 against the legal manufacture and sale of liquor in South Carolina, and 16,809 in favor of alcoholic beverages. Spartanburg county voted 3,338 against, 1,2<'>1 for; Greenville, 4,096 Richland, low resident Hoover’s acceptance ad dress on August 11 and to form a re ply to it..The time and place were not announced. The national chairman spent almost again.^t, 1,028 for; and three hours in conference with the 25 | j 057 against, and 784 for. Democratic members of congress he j pj.jg election, called by the legisla- found here. The meeting w’as in the; previous spring, abolished the office of Senator Pat Harri>on ; dispensary system at the close of 1915 Mississippi, who will open the party s | SepteniWr 14, radio drive with a speech from here |y|r, embattled pr{)hibitioMist.>i Friday night. . 1 pushed the fight. Farley prgjiaated -hi.s.,,plans for ar Marlb<»ro won the title of'drye^t campaign based on state control with I state by a vote of near national headquarters in New York. | |y 22 to one against the dispensary He then called for expre.ssions j and* liquor. Edgefield came a poor see the congressional leaders. The round j struggling against the demon table discussion brought out a wide j variety of subjects and views, but! , rum, with a ten to one vote. Farley said “everyone agreed that to follow the platform was the thing to do, including the prohibition repeal plank.” There was talk about the wi.sdom of a special .session of congress next spring should Roosevelt he elated— i Charleston, wet then as now', swung squarely against the outlawing of liquor with eight wet votes for every dry one in "the county. Dorchester managed to emulate its larger neigh bor by a 4il-vote margin, but other counties w(ire overwhelmed by dry and everyone talked most confidently of the election. There was .immedVatF doubt cast on the advisability of any deci.-ion in this regard now and some opposed in any event. The unhappy days inaugurating the Hoover admin- . The Charle^ston vote was 2,007 for liquor, 370 a^inst it. Marlboro, afthe dry extreme, voted 828 against ?he dispensary, and 38 for liquor. Hampton county, which held a pri vate county referendum in 1939 to op Governor Issues j Home Gardening * Advice On Loans Gets Attention Blackwood Says State Must Re member That Funds Must Be Repaid With Interest. istration with a special session which amendment four to one, lasted into -the regular meeting were j jjj.y ranks in 1915 by a recalled. The up.shot of the day’s conference was a lot of /talk and no deci.sions. Af ter all, Governor Roosevelt is going make his own decision.s and this fact was kept in min<i throughout. Senator Cohen, of Gc'orgia, a new vice-chairman of the national commit tee, stood behind Farley’s statement two-to-one margin. The Hampton vote at that time was 545 dry to 227 wet. Darlington became* the third divest county in the state upon e!ecti«;n re- ; ults, which gave the county prohi bitionists an eight one one victory at the scene of the dispensary riots. Oconee, opposing dispensaries s(>\cn to on<-, and Saluda and ('herokee. Columbia, July 23. — (iovemor I. C. Blackwood sad today that in attempts -to obtain loans for municipalities, counties and relief organizations from the relief fund s<*t up by con- gre.ss “we should keep in our ob; erva- Many Textile Mills Are Aiding Their Operatives In (’linking Vegetables for Winter Use. Clemson College, July 23.- An im portant phase of the live-at;hQme movement reported by A. R. Schillet- ter, extension horticulturist, who is giving special attention to home gar dening, is the canning of vegetables Borah Wants Debt Revision Parley Idahoan Declares It Is His Belief That Cancellation or Revision Would Benefit United States. on prohibition. . [fjghtinir the liquor sy.stem six vote^ ^ “'rhe South Tsi«tanding'on'the I4em-! ocratic platform and will whelmingly Ik'iiKM-ratic,” hi' J tion that this move is not a gratuity,, and fruit in mill comniimities, the i but the money will have to be repaid; mill authoritie.s cooperating with their ! with interest.” The governor I'xplained he had been j cost by using .eijuijiment that can be.seiged with im|uiries concerning the| adapted at little or no I'ost. Washington, July 23. - Senator Bo- rah_,_of lilahOj proposed tonight an im mediate world conference to consider ri'vision of war debts, integrally with a program for settling other post-war probeins. Itoiah, chairman of the povveful a-iKiU' foreign reations committi'e. de- go over said. Btrrs ON WEST Albany. N. Y.. July 26. — Senator Key Pittman’s optimism is so pro nounced that he thinks it’s an even that Governor Roosevelt will win 0 oiy in each county, took prominent !~pos{ubns in the formidable dry array j which swejit the state. ;• Dry voters of .Florence, Marion, Greenwood and York counties turned 1 out more than five to one to 1 loan, whiskey” and do so. Aiken, (’olleton,! Greenville, Jasper, Lancaster, I.au- lens and Willianuburg found four probability .uf securing loans from the relief fund. He said he had not had time- to study the national relief legislation arid could not now give .specific ad vice on how to proceed in obtaining a (t|M'ratvi‘s to can products at minimum ] i in<r his nu'ssuge by radio, propo.s- (d the world conference a.- a follow-up to the Lausanne reparations agree- tlu* Go.s-iim nt which he sai<i was more of a sett milj.s are using dye vats for pri's-1 t‘)ot, hiugc_ruf peace and hope <ii’ hu ll) .Xmierson, for exampb', bet ^ ^ th<* electoral votes of all the Westeinl^^ electors for every wet within ever,” he continued, “it i.s my opinion that any hurried effort to sure canning, and the Orr mill.s have figged up'a discarded vat for the same purpose. Gunning is done ojily for the mill people, who have been encouraged and aided by the mill officials in the production of good hom<* gardens on mill land. No charge i.*- ma<lv except than the Voosailles peace! states, an accomplishment of no other l»emocratic a.spirant. their confines. The normal majority for the elec- Th« ^Nevada senator s predictions three to one, prevailed in Abbe were echoed by Kdward I*. Goltra, ville, Chester, Clarendon, Dillon, Fair- .St. Ivouis, former national committee-j Liexington, Newberry, Orange- man, who said he fore.saw victory “by possibly 200,000” in Missouri, a doubt ful state. Pittman and Goltra today visited Mr. Roosevelt, their party’s presiden tial nominee. “It’s an even bet that every ern state will be Democratic this fall,” Senator Pittman said. “Wilson, you know, carried California, and it can burg, Pickens, Spartanburg, Sumter and Union counties. Wets withstood the beleaguering of the dry armies for a time, only tg be outnumbered two to one, in Anderson, Bamberg, Calhoun, Chesterfield, Georgetown, Hampton,' Kershaw, and Lee counties. The election was declared October 5, 1915, “to have resulted against the have an application for a Joan serious-1 for t ans bought at wholesale ami for ly conbidered will be found to be pre-; special lalmr reiiuired. The county mature.” I farm and home agents have' been ac- "It is my earnest wish and hope,” tive in this jiroduction and conserva- he said, "that a large number of our tion work. public spirited citizens will get Copies SchilietU'r reports that other of this bill and give it a concentrated manitv trc'aty. Horah painted the ment as “the most taken since the War looking to the restoi at ion of confidenee in political ;in(t business affairs.” He added that if the policies initial ed at I.au.-arine wen* carried forward "there will come a time when it will be di.stinetly to the interest of the people of the I’nited ijtates “to again consider the ipiestion of war debts.” NUMBER 30 BUSINESS NOW ONUPGRADE Encouraging Reports Are Heari From Many Sections of Na tion. Factories Re-open, and New Industries Start Going. Chicago, July 26. — Steel, textile* and automobiles added bits of che«r to the business news today. Directors of the United States Steel j corporation proclaimed ftliith in the future of the company by declaring j the regular quarterly dividend of $1.75 a share on preferred stock, but an nounced “that improvement in • the ibusineis and earnings must in future j determine dividend actiori bn'the pi>J- ferred stix'k. j The action of steel directors was i somewhat unexpected as it had been 'freely predicted that the dividend^ would either be omitted or redo-ed. The announcement came tix) late to affect the stock market. The Studebaker corporation, auto mobile manufacturers, likewise bright ened the (lay with favorable dividend action, declaring the regular .|L75 ' quarterly dividend on preferred .stock. I Report.s fnim Fitchburg. Mass., in i the heart of the textile indu,-tries of New England, indicated operatlon.s there were expanding. The Shirroffs W(»r.'(ted company, a branch of Uie .Aetna mills, is working full time lay.i j and has a night crew of 30. .At .ea.-»l b250 workers will be empiloyed lutiV September 15 and prospects f t a good faH busine.ss are bright. I The .Arden mill.- of the .Ainer’ an i Woolen company are working furl itime with 50 per cent of the normal 'help. The Star Worsted compai y ts l^oiXTating with two-thirds of the j:v ual crew. The Fitchburg Yarn com pany and the Fitchburg Duck mills are also going part time with pects for business this fall gwxl. Sewell .A. .Avery, president of -he United States GypsumVClimpany and a director of United States Steel, wias reported to have told regional mana gers of Montgomery Ward and com pany that “there are signs of upturna L)r business generally and .Montgom ery Ward in particular is at the threshold of improvement.” I-. .A. Dow'iis, president of the Illi nois Geivlral Railroad c<>mpany, (ani “Grops are good in the Illinois Gen- tral’.s territory, and this and other factors have resulted in a distinct changi' toward better sentiment a? to the business outlook.” From Hazletown. Ih iui., comes word th.it .McGowan Bdothers, Inc., a 'Ik mill, resumed o(>eratiofis after being •su pended for a month. The plant will lun with three eight hour -hifts daily and empb'ys- 159 men. ’ “ Domestic sales of Fvaporaled MdK were 4.6 per cent greater in the ust .ausanne agree- ijy^. munih.s than during the sin.Uar important step!,1!>31, with 591.551 r-are , a es sold. The increase is said to re- ult from expanded use by we turo agencies. . 4 he wheat market said “aye” it. the [vote for better business and higher prices with an advance of 1 to 2 1-8 cents a bushel. Wall street added its voice to -he I general approval until a short time mills are also operating improvised 1 Borah warned, however,- that revis- cl().s<‘-when successive fiur- l>e“carried this year. My -anil .<tale of alcoholic Ji quors and beverages in South Caro lina.” By Decembed 31 of that year, one of the hardest for the Dernocrats to win, but I think it is safe this year. We haven’t ntany votes—dispensaries closed 33,000, and there is a comparatively large independent vote.” The late Resident Wilton is the and careful reading before they per- canneries and that in Greenville and j debts should not be predicated ^ j-ies of profit taking erased miu ; of Results of the 1915 election laid the basis for subsequent political action , in which congressmen and state lei^is- lone Democrat who approached »• labors adopted the 18th amendment “gVand slam” in the West but "®*'| and Volstead act for South Carolina, ther of his years, 1912 or 1916, did election was practical normal. mit themselves the view that loans may l>€ had under certain circum stances and by their advice cause oth ers to entertain the hope of getting a loan without knowing definitely whether or not they fall properly in classes that will be authorized loans*/’ “We should keep in our. observa- tion” he concluded, “that this move is not a gratuity, hut that the money will have to be repaid with interest. It certainly should not be borrowed with any other view than that it must he repaid in full.” other places community canneries are ' reparations alone, being operated for the public, an im-|‘h*lA-* were just debts the gain. He said the and the only poi tant'feature of the movement be-1on for reduction or cancellation of ing the use of equipment already at 1 them would be, “in the interest of the hand. Not only cotton mills but hot- P‘“ople of the United States.” ^ tling plants and other concerns, he | "I entertain the Ixilief,” he said, says, have vats or boilers that can be‘“that the cancellation of the debts in thus adapted to save food for winter j <‘onnection with and as part of a pro- ,UM. gram including settlement of other 'pyUuiuh Fleming, 75, prominent In IhiH oonneclion, Mr, states, there is growing interest in Miss Lula Fleming Of Ora, Passes Laurens,,July 25. Mis-s .Margi'-t dent of Ora, died at 5 o’clock Sa---- <lay moinrng at the l-aurerl^ ho.- ’iMl win *11 the West, . Goltra said ht* felt certain that St. Louis, generally Republican, would lead the way for Missouri to land in the Democrati? column. “I understand there is a ‘Roosevalt- for-Ib'esident’ club in South St. Louis, 111 n. German district which always has been Republican," Goltra added.- ,with 58,544 votes caat as compared with 61,000 in the next gubernatorial election. Many Scholarships To State Colleges Hurricane Plans Columbia, July 25,—The state tax commission announced today 72 per cent of the approximately 3,000 appli- iMtions for free tuition in state-owned coHegisrhave been approved. Applications for free tuition are handled through the office of F. C. Robinson, one of the tax commission, ers. Appeals from the commission’s ruling on the applications must be made to the state hoard of education by letter before August 15. A larger percentage of the applica- Convention Here Attracts Many The T8th annual convention of the South Carolina Young People’s Chris of the mill at LaFrance to offer land and assistance in preparing home gar dens, 90 men were present and eager to grow vegetables for home use. In Greenville county over 1,000 people have attended gardening meetings be ing held by the farm and home agents. 'Thousands of bulletins on gardening j , ,, , , , ,, have been distributed from Clemson; tian union was held here July IJ an college on requests from every corner j 20 on the Preebyteri.n colleKe cam. pus. This was a delightful place to have the convention and it was well Attended by yfiung folk and ministers above indicated. fall and winter (tardena. At a recent;, th-t 'hf ."■<>'I‘‘ after an ill,leas of one week. Ku. jr.l meefinit called by the auperintendent /"'*;"' '-- I" deal, were held at the home at O i 'with reparations and debts, disaniw-1 Sunday morning at 10 o’clock, .-j • ment, reestablishment of the Jrold \iuct;;(n>y-'the Rev. Dale H. Whi"- . f standard, the .stabilization of siTven in ^e" As.so’ciate Reformed Presbyt-r.an the Orient and po.ssibly other qnc.s- ,.hu,eh. Interment followed in the O i tions. 'cemetery. I Mis.s “l.ula” Fleming, a.s she Wharton Offers For Commissioner The first Sunday in August—the 7th—has been set aside as a red letter day at Hurricane in commemoration of the 100th birthday of this historic church. An interesting all-day pro gram is now being arranged for the occasion, find an unusually large at tendance is expected from this and j tions ^ere allowed by the commission adjoining counties. Dfniier will be | this year than la^ year. In 1931, 51 served on the grrounds smd all inter ested friends are cordially invited and asked to. bring well filled Baskets. The .program for the"special centennial celebratiqp will be announced in next week's paper. Parker Jones it spending several days with relatives in Estill. per cent of thp^.Odto seeking free tui tion were turned ^wn. «. Most of the applicants sought free tuition to Winthrop college. The Uni versity of South Carolina was second; Clemson third, and^i^e Citadel fourth! . Mrs. J. A. Bailey spent Saturday in Spartanburg with friends. from alt districts of the state. “The Church of Tomorrow” was the theme used throughout the conven tion. ‘*Choo8e Rather” wai^, thei thought used for discussion in the de-1 votional exercises. Some helpful and inspiring talks and musical selections were rendered by the young folk and ministers. “The Church of Tomorrow” was discussed in relation to a number of (different things; Personal charac ter, consecration of talents and wealth, the home, prayer and personal work, evangelization and missions, pleasure and amusements, education, business and politics; worship, Bible study and doctrine, the Y. P. C. U. A. A delightful entertainment was fur nished by the Clinton people and en joyed by all. Bruce P. Robinson of I.<anca8ter, was elected president of the •South Carolina Y. P. C. U. for the year 1932- 1933. The union me^ts next year at Due West on Erskine college campi^. College Heads Here In August T^he pulpit of the First Presbyterian church of this city, will be filled for the morning services tluring August geiH'rally known, sjient her life i>' t.'ie Oia .Hectiun of the county and wa^ an esteemed neigWior and devout phurch memlHr, She reared from infancy ^ i .Mrs. .Montgomery Wilkins, of Gaff- Announcement of his candidacy forjney, a niece and Joe Martin, of Ora, county comini.ssioner in the Democ rat-! a nephew. Other nieces and nephews ^vhxr-sMrmre her are Mrs. Lou Fergu son ' ^ and (. 1C primary made election? today’^H this summer is p¥pef by John Hrr known and .succes.sful -oT by four outstanding college presi-ithis county. He is well qualified for dents. On August 7th, Dr. John Me-1 the office he seeks and has a wide in Wharton well known and .succes.sfuL and Lillie Nabors, of Laurens; J. H. farmer of Waterloo township and a Nalxirs, of [.Aurens; Laurence Nabors, highly esteemed citizen of that com- Hall Fleming and Samuel Fleming, munity. all of Ora. She is also survived by one Mr. Wharton is a son of W. H. sister, Mrs. Emma Fleming Martin, Wharton of Waterloo, and a native of; widow of Conway Martin, of Ora. circle of friends who will welcome his candidacy. Uniqn Service At ! First Pre8b3rteriani Sween, president of Preebyterian col lege of this city, will be the speaker; on the 14th, Dr. W. H. Frazer, presi dent of QueensXhicora college, Char lotte; on the 21 st, Dr. R. C. Grier, president of Erskine college, Due West, and on the 28th, Dr. Walter L. Lingle, president of Davidson college. To all of these services memliers of j city union service next Sunday ot^r congregations in the city are; ^jn i)^ })(,](] cofdially invited. ^ , hvterian church. 'The pulpit will be Dr. D. J. Woods, pastor of the! occupied by the Rev. C. Bynum Betts, church, will be out of the city during i pastor of the Associate Reformed August and the pulpit committee has j Presbyterian church. A cordial invita- arranged the alx>ve schedule in his tipp is extended all congregations to absence. ' Tunite in this service. . Huiricane Plans r Special Services i — — .Announcement is made thaUspecial services will begin n^xt Sunday night at Hurricane Baptist church. The pas tor, the Rev. Edward Long, will be assisted in the meeting by his brother, Rev. Samuel Lung of Chesterfield. All members and friends of the congrega tion are cordially invited to attend tha .services. C. E. N^^bls spent the week-end with friends in Clover. L L,