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TOURSDAYj AUGUST 4, 1932 / THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CUNTON, S. C. PAGE $ • I WASHINCTON •Y RADFORD MOBLEY WashirifTton, D. C., July 25.—Withi the end of. the first session of thei seventy-second congress, Wasl^ington! is surveying the wreckage an^ paring plans for the presidential cam paign. HASNT (By Howard E. Everett) Business may be slowed down. Fac.| Some day a new wave of farm ma. Hones may be closed or operating on 'fhinerv hnvino. reduced schedules. Mercantile con- ^ neceaaity icern.'« may he doing the smallest vol- have a habit of i umes in years. But prinluction on six what they want at the exact [and one-half' million farms still con tinues. It may a little more per- jjunctory than no'rmalt sohie of the en-' thusiasm for increased yields and ! more efficient production may be side- and the bar. It was merely an.ither thought that it was no great gift after j temporarily hut there i.< no jbeen enjoying the comforts of the ■ ‘ ‘ ■ ■■ ‘ ‘shut-down” on the farm and fjroduc-' stove and electric fan in the office FELIX PI9SENBER6 moment they want it. WTien that time c^meadl wjlL^ top late for can- va.'ssing and building up the farmer •ontact.s that decide business. When hat time comes the dealer who has working shoulder to shoulder to try to enact) legislation which Would tend to stimulate business and industry. But as the’ political situation grew more intense the session developed into a 'at-and-dog fight. Neither par ty Hi'd a large enough majority in either house to force its party meas ures th-ough. SIXTH INST.\LL.MENT Synopsis: Johrmy ^reen, Ifi ypars I picture of the pverpovycring city, so ull. None of the readers he saw were i Unprejudiced observers here are alold, who had spent all of uhis life tremendous in its contrasts, unit in calling the work of this cq;i-j aboard a Hudson river tuglwat ply^frigj Pug- Malone, ex-prize gress a good deal of a mess. The ses- near New York, is tossed into thcl^r fj'r the Samson Sion otarted out harmoniously, with river in a terrific collision which sinks I hard, honest, mediurn-M^tm, muKue- - ‘■k-- - v ..ex.-. o.v.., w.- leaders and members of both parties the tug, drowns his mother and the aged man. shorn of his illusions my scran with SiifU. I just due this' “P their hay' moment as a confirmed trend of the ■■ ' d trunh. Uokit over, .lack,:"" Kv tfon 1but they re working, their true value — the farmers today trying which only to he kicked out at dawn—and j ^ye of the trainer who sat otrihe edge at the fuH-lcneth wood-cut of ^Malone, 1 '^“^mer out m the field, for the) at l>est promises little. They’re, not into the midst of a tough gang ofiof his cot smoking his morning pipe middleweight champion, etc. etc., his jcommuning on > with him-] >a a buying strike. All the talk about riVer rat boys who beat and chase 1 After a half hour of this John turned roaming over the figure of nature, is undoubtedly doing them qhittmgW hackslid'ng to more him. He escapes into a basementiout the blankets to air. and ma.^ter friend in fighting pose. Tcar-s welled i ^ con.Hructive thinking about; primitive production method.^ comes doorway wh^re he hides. The next day and pupil met a string of hovs at the kUo his eyes; the picture Marred; thelP fbo category of a slang word he is rescued and takeP into the home! joor of the club and rAn hard red tinged .'heet was not so crimson.'*!^ , . some o < ru^t^ machine riieard fie<}ue^;ly in the ^.x2^ pre.siden- 01 a Jewish family living in the rearjfj^j. man he called father. Ignorant, un-[ matched over John Breen. John rose tip in mv oh schooled, and fedr driven, he drags at six, with Malone, jumping-up in the y'>u’l! ^ee Stiftt topped me by ten; 7’Vu“‘ ‘ worKing, uu-.r irue vaiue —the farmers todi himself ashore, hides in the friendly "oiisk air when M skipped rope, swung pounds. ’ and/Fotg held out the paper j!?. of qjitting are not in ^ arc merely marking time and tryin darkness of a huge covered truck—j clubs and shadow boxed under the fo John. John took the paper, glanced ! H ^ ® .vear whic at the fuH-lcngth wood-cut of Malone. The "farmer out in the field, for the at l>est promises little. They’re, Now Toy the Election With the adjournment of congress,,their second-hand clothing store., awakening of the nty traffic, coming tear-bathed cyt^s, looking straight at lat the Democrats in Washington | woiks in the sweatshop store i t)itck to the club for a cold shower;aiuii Btig. halted ^lie trainer in his recital. v'G g r.e home. Washington’s po-int I openly courted by Becka—the j ^ rub down. ; “Pu^, I can't read a damn word!” a.s to the campaign, there .'young daughter . . . The scene shifts j almost overwhclminglv Rc-jU^ home of the wealthy \ an j it is still too early for even avenue, where lives ; exjoerienceci political oh- mo ha of V --U' fore*. > the in ).s servers to make any serious predic- tion--, .,ut the feeling in Washington is Ji" vht.ni the election is over both sid*'- vv , i>dow they have been in a fight. / Mr. li^ovcr has personally taken no steps a- ytt toward shaping up his part in the campaign. He is leaving the - tnpiete direction of political maneuvering to Evert*tt Saunders, the new chairman of the Republican na tional committee, who has a freer hand than any of his predecessors have ever had. The same is true of ex-Senator Henry Allen of Kansas, who will he in complete charge o| Re- ' puhlicAn campaign publicity. Senator Allen accepted the publicity chair- \ man.ship this year only on condition ^ that he wa-> to have an absolutely free hand and be the supreme boss. Mr. .Alien is an able newspaper man, as well as an experienced and astute pol itician, and it is to he ex^iected, tlv^re- fone, that the Republican publicity ef forts will l>e as effective as it is pos sible t) make them. Malone and John then breakfasted' be said, alone, in a card room back of the bar,' "(’an’t read! Can’t read Ga- itahle production. No one i.s in hotter In the new day which will come position to realize the need for more; without warning, and when least ex- efficiei t protluction machinery. Un-' iX'Hed, the fanner will not h<>-ome a ; (loubtedly, millions of tho.-Jo farmer.- reckle.>s i>iirch.x:jer hut he will be a are thinking in terms of th’ ec atul jirovident buyer of the be. t merchan- four-row unit- which will eeahle them di.H* which the farm equ pment indus- Johnny Breen and Gilbert Van Horn first croisswhen Van Horn sees Breen win his fir.st, important ring battle. Now (to On With the Storv: The H«M)ver Notification Th *re ha.s been some talk of mak ing the .K'casion of Mr. Hoover’s ac- ceptio' c of the presidential nomina tion a big celebration, with tens of thou sar is of Republicans coming to Washingt in from all parts of the will b* a rs^er simple ceremony with only a few party leaders pre.sent, in the White House or on the White House grounds. Malone, in the dres.sing room with j all about the fighters, saw Sol Bernfeld slowly count out thi^e five dollar bills and offer them to John. They were stand ing in a corner, partly shielded by .a locker. “What’s that?” Malone demanded iharply, approaching the boy and h’s manager. “What I won. I get fifteen and Sol gets ten; he’s my manager,” John ex plained. “Say—you dirty crook!” The trainci glared at Sol, blanched to a deathly pallor at the discovery of his duplici ty. “You give that .boy his money.” Malone, with a suddeli grip, pulled the retreating Bernfeld backw'ard. “Dig, damn you—dig!” an he drove his el bow sharply into the middle of Sol’s soft hack. Bernfeld, wincing with pain, hesitated. John eyed him with sus picion. “Dig, you rotten crook,” and machines. Regular meals, clean air. ! and early to bed filled out his frame with an abounding health that glowed land .'sparkled'through hus elear skin I in startling contrast to the sodden ! wrecks of men ami waonen drifting r> can produce. He will me.a.sure hi.s pirrcha. es carefully; he ha- learned his lesson from the last three years. II«‘ \v 11 do mi'ie of his buying on a ’ a.sh ha-i-s, paying as he govs. ’The in thy (lay when farming will hyenme next era of farm having will he on an more jirofitahlo. .Many of them aiv| immea.suiahl.v better basis, . . . .Mear- actually deciding the kind.- and makes while, don’t overlook the fact that . , - i ,1 ‘MX’pinent w'hich they will buy) purchases of the future will he dp‘er- customer who sjiiked the drmk liber-, „„ P,..i i n i. : ,, 1 • * L . lu -1 .' soon as pos^inie. toirtinate .'«ome 'ninod hv the .selUag effort of toda'*' ally, wondering what the excitement uon tv-.. il-... o., i , *• , • ‘ovta.. .. 1 , f I will i)c the manutlUtur(*r> and the, lOj^many tarmer.s are lH*ing sold on ■ , .. u- who have maintained their; thf need for new etiuinment by tha When .lalone recovered the ^his-1 rather than by the efforts of those within th^ trade. and he shot the water with such force it t|)lash(,‘d the !»av, drowning out the Scotch. “Here, take some more,” and I'ug passeti the bottle hack to the After two months of training for , , . m - - condition, Malone initiated John into, bottle Ije turned to the hoy. Tears! the science of pugilism, coaching,him K|*3U*ned in Johns eyes and staini^d behind closed door.s in the art of jah-)^''^ cheek wheie he had loughly da h- bing, hooking, and blocking blow’.s, He f^ ^ sleo\e ucrni^ h,is l^ace. A great impreised upon him the great value; m the throat of the trainer, of infi.ghting, and the secret of ter- wcot to the <|xd^of the bar, povired out a large drink of cold black coffee rific punches with the crooked elbow, throwing the full force of the body in to the blow bv applying the funda mental principles of mechanics and dynamic force. One day, after a long go with Ma lone himself, the trainer, wiping a bleeding nose, and out of breath, re marked shortly, “You’ll do to take a crack at a few second raters,” John flu-^hed. “Sure—you must alw'ays win.) and tossed it off. W'hen the customer ’eft he returiuMl to John. “VVhv didn’t vou tell me this Ix*- fore?”‘ “Too hu.sy, Rug,” the hoy explained haltingly. “I wanted to make good at the sciapping. I ain’t had no chance.' I figured 1 was too old. So what’s the i use?” John’s voice held a note of! hopeless, maturity. Time, the master. llon’t forKet that. John.'Get th'e haWt }'>'■ j!;' rtf alwa.V8 winnin(t’-alway.8, Ifs thei'’"" ' "I- into tho Pug Malone gave him a second and ' (Jozen “set ups,” third and second rate much harder hook in the back as a | hoy.s disposed of with startling ra- crisp fifty dollar bill came to light., and with cold calculating pre- Malone isnatched this aruL handed itjto j Almo.H over night the name of principle of success.” ' gloves for their us- And then John polished off a half ‘ ual fast round before supper. Malone, scoring a hard left to the nose, drew b'lrmd.. “There, son, you see you got to go to ischoo-l now.” He carefully wiped POI.nU’AL ADVERTISE.MFNT country and having, as it were, a _ _ . , s- u- i tna^"^^'tlriirT>tr'thg-^a^tM">Plaxx7| Johr^ “TakeHhat, xonrywi earned it. i |,*jjjhting Breen, the w'elterweight, tuTrilng to Sol, "fade, an’ pame known on the Bowerv fromi fade fast, before you get what’s com- j Chatham Square to Cooper Union. The ^ Weedinr^nw. It s the mght school in’ to you.” Bednfeld took the hint (j^^an gang claimed him as one of f<H-.vmu. Night school with them kykes, without delay. 1 their original members and boasted ofl«" ‘tomorrow, kid,] What’s your name,, son?” .Malone jhi:, rem)wn. Fighting Breen wa.s on' i^^Kinnm . I ug was positive, j During the campaign Mr. Hoover. asked. “You look white.’ ; the road to championship honors andi bet you 11 he lemling the I olice r-.-f rnnke more than .six “Breen, sir. John Breen.” the “sir” (lazette in a month, he added hinu*- does not^-daii to make more than .six or seven speeches. The principal apee-'h-,Maker for the administration wUl-pr4jhiahiy .be-Ogden ,L.. Mills.,—sfic- retary of the treasury, who fired the fir.st gun in his Boston speech on the eleventh >f July. Uadio will be used in this campaign by both parties to an extent never at- temptei before. •'Charlie Mike" On Job “C harlie" Michelson, chief publicity director for the Democratic national committee, is expected to continue in that p)sition throughout the cam paign. He is regarded at the National Press ciub, and among newspaper men generally, as the most energetic and ingenious publicity man who ever di- r^'t^i the propaganda of a great po- fornia and a brother of the late Prof, litlcal party. He is a native of Cali- A. A. Michelson, the famous physicist, and of Miriam Michelson, the novelist and ihjrt story writer. “Charlie Mike” a.s his intimates know him, has been writing politics, first for the Hearst papers and later for the now dead Sew York World, for more than thirty years. Debts and Power It may safely be said that the ad ministration is not in the least wor- ■ f oneohdatien of F.uronean opinion on the .subject of war debts, which has been interpreted in some quarters as a threat to the ’ United States. Nobody, from the pres ident down, conceives even the possi bility of a cancellation of these ^debts, no matter what united Europe says or does. It would not surprise anjd>ody here, however, df the president should call the reprseentatives of the nations which owe us money into a new con ference, to be held in America and ^ not in Europe, to consider the qu^ tiop of their precise ability to pay. It is Breen, sir, John Breen,” the “slipping from some dormant cell, re corded, perhaps, while overhearing Caiitain BreejDLlftddress ski me wharf or ship officer. Pug Malone, compac*t, gray-haired, and pink, looked like a god to the boy. “Where do you work?" Malone knew that John was not a profession- al. “VV’ith Mr. Lipvitch in the Clothing Bmporium.” “Pay?" demanded Malone. “Yes, sir, he pays me.” John felt his benefactor was under criticism. “Of course he does, son. How much? What do you get a w’eek?" “Three dollars—-and board," John added by way of good mea ure. “Board! Board!" Malone ran his hand over the body of the boy- “Board —rats!” And then, .seeing the alarmed look on John’s face, he went on in a kindly tone. “What you need is feed- in’. ^tter stay here. I’ll give you a job, five a week an’ real board. Rub- bin’, that’s the work, an’ I’ll train yon, son, an split right. Are you my boy?” And so John Breen left the Ghetto to erter the Bowery of the Greater City of New York. year passed over the head of John Breen, a year of ampler freedom and of physical development, a year •ubatsged with the clements-af crime^ fully. rewards. And at most of these fights, sitting near the ringside, alone or with Judge I Kelly, was the well'knowit sporting^, , . man. Gilbert Van Horn. He alwaya beti I*"' agers who sailed their crazy caravels acrca.s the waters of a virgin world. J(,hn Breen knew no more where heavily on Fighting Breen. “No,” Malone was positive, “that boy’s under my care. Never mind about meetin’ him, now. He’ll be g champion, then you can all meet him. The kid’s too young—don’t give him bum ideas. You sports spoil too many good fighters.” Strangely, it was .Marvin Kelly who wanted to talk with John Breen. Gil- l>ert merely looked on. He had bought a Panhard, and on days following the i tights roared through the countryside I . . . . ^ . , 1 V 1.-4. J j!.4. * with his treasures, and then spent the in cloud? oT white <ii«t, tearing up the ! .. . ; . He plowed ahead with an energy sus tained by hit magnificent vitality. In six months’ time he had burst his pris on bars. In his feveri.sh research he ran l)eyond the limits of the school, lit a year he carried on is quest to sci ence and philosophy. The day John Breen first stumbled into a second hand book store he became aware of a vast mine of incalculable wealth. John trembled a.s he walked off of drunkenness and brawling. John saw, without knowing, the dregs of the city. Blear-eyed victims of the sodden alums of Chinatown drifted into the bar at McManus’ Tor a bowl ite d«i^t water packed 'anacadam. People thought he was crazy in his goggles and ma3k^ He hardly knew whether he was or not. At Dobbs Ferry he up set a farmer’s truck cart, the horses were really at fault, and the Morning Advertiser carried a long story of his doings. It ?eemed as if the Van Horns would always be in the public eye. In the meantime, Malone, guarding John with the care of a father, placed his winnings in the Bowery Savings bank and John, at the time of the re form wave, engineered from the in side. had saved over four hundred dol- night .searching the pages, wringing from them the ecsta-sy that went into their making. (('ontinued NojH Week) MeSwain Speaks To Laurens Audience Laurens, .\ug. 1.—Speaking before a Laurens gathering for the first time in his campaign for renomination t{* congress from this distrrict, John J. in the fighting game pleased him. for he was beginning to hate the conte.“«ts. A feeling of hopeless unrest seized him. He became moody, discontented, pettish. Malone studied the boy and of l)eer and a snatch of lunch, then ^.vvondered what poison was entering sink back again to the drug-soaked atmosphere below. He saw these into him when they were engulfed in the heat of the great municipal cam r - - Lakes. This is something that Chi- looked upon as good common sense jxago, 'D^trait, Cleveland^ Buffalo and Tot any creditor to inquire into the! the rest of the upper lake porto have dr^matahees of Me debtors, if the f been looking forward to and working things through the sqvinging doors be- tween the gym, at one end of the j ^Malone sen.^^ed something .Hrange in dance hall, and the private parlors j what he attempted in vain to discover. But the boy, noting a bar. a deep waterway from the Gplf of 8t. Lawrence to the hewd of the Great interest rate which Europe is paying is too far above current grates for mon ey, that might be revised without im pairing the obligation itself. If the terms of payment are too strenuous —if the $176,000,000 a year which Great Britain is supposed to pay us, for example, is too larp an annual instalment-—then a readjustment over a longer term an<i with smaller an nual payments would not be in, any sense a cancellation. for for a quarter of a century and more. It will mean the employment of tens of thousands of ..men and tb« spending of hundreds of millions of dollars oved a period of seven or eight years. j A political issue may be made of the question of how the St. Lawrence water power, which will be developed as'a part of this subject, is to be uti lized. The clash between the advocates of government ownership and oper ation of electric light and power utili- After twelve years of negotiation ties and those who believe that they the United States and Canada have^ are-best administered as private en- agreed upm the terms of a treaty | terprises may yet become a major po- which will per.Tiit the, devejopment of j litical issue. MeSwain di.-cu.’scd national issues taw’ and har alsi)' proViSed him.self! Saturday evening from a pavilion in with ---- . . The Foarth diHrict representative .ipoko for about an hour, delivering a stirring speech in which he di.scussed presert-day conditions, the big fi. nance corporation and the certain re- j turn to power of the Democratic party with P’ranklin D. Roosevelt as the leader. In reference to the Reconstruction Finance corporation, Mr. MeSwain told his Laurens audience that he was; politely turned down by Chairman Dawes on an application for $3,000,-. 000 for a group of.aeveral textile room loafer sitting at one of the ta- bles thumbing a newspaper, knew that he was looking at a- isuperior. bejng. The bum's clothes might be foul; he might be filthy inside and out, but he possessed » great key to all; he could read. John had grasped a word or two in casual contact with letters. He knew that,r-y-€ spelled, rye whiskey and that b-e-e-r spelled beer, but the label “Pilsener Genossenachafts-Brau- erei” was utter mystery. He did know that there were such things as letters and an alphabet. But he knew of no way in which he could go about the task of acquiring the art of reading, or of what he might find out should the gift come to him like magic in the night. For he did dream such miracles, often, that he could read, and just as he. was about to gain some mi^ty truth his fairy gift faded away. Then, | at times, he consoled himself with the; plants in his South Carolina district. Aest ~ /Sir because^ 1. It fleet relief by Mfves FFf deedealaf tbew. Coetikis ae epiatet. Woe’tipteftteeuch. “Cdtton" Culbertson Replies To ■■ “ ■■ ‘'s Charges In toda.v’s issue of this newspaper a political advertise ment by Mr. James D. MeCullough states certain things about me which are not only misleading hut in one uarticu- lar instance is ENTIRELY UxNTRUE. I feel that I owe jt to my friends and supporters to reply, though I regret that Mr. McCullough has compelled me to si)end money to pub lish this statement. I have only a ver.v small campaign fund to conduct my campaign with and did not anticioale spending mpjney to_ans_wer„charges brought by a candidate for U. S. Congress. At different intervals I have been on the payroll of Hon. John J. MeSwain but did not draw money exceot for actual work done Jis assistant secretary. Although MR. .MeSWAIN IS NO KIN TO ME he has always shown a keen interest in my career and from time to time has given me employment which helped me get a college education. In the years to come I hope to handle a great many claims for disability and War Risk Insurance for Veterans and in the capacity I occupied with Mr. MeSwain I was able to command prompt action from the government deimrt- ments in Washington and Columbia, and by handling ♦hese cases I have been able to learn the laws governing these cases from the ground up. 1 think that Mr. MeSwain ha.s been very kind and considerate to allow me this chance to work and I shall always be grateful to him. The fact re mains, however, that I drew no pay whatever from the Government except for actual work done. At pre.sent I have an office for which I pav five dollars a month which I keep ,| open in Laurens to render free service to Veteran.s, and a Winthrop College graduate has kindly consenteil to act as my stenographer free of charge for office praetk-e and ex perience. 1 receive no pay from any source for this .service, not even from the Government. Mr. McCullough intimated that I drew monev from the Government while in school, but regardless of what he savs I WORKED MY WAY THROUGH COLLEGE. My freshman year I worked in a Ix/arding house, clerked in stores, peddled on the streets, and even shined college boys' shoes at 5c a pair, and in my sophomore year I worked in a boarding house and did other small chores to make extra money. Later I worked for months from 5>30 ever>’ morning until 8:30 at night delivering newsp:|i)ers over a ‘only Tor* my classes, to make $15.00 a week and mv board to pay my own way and to save money for my sister's edu cation. Many nights I would work from 8:30 until midnight soliciting business for an express company to make e.xtra money to .send home to help out there. Fully 120 Iwys from all parts of South Carolina will testifv that I have secured jobs for them which helped them stay in school. At present I have arranged to take two poor country boys to college next year and to help them work their way by starting off as waiters in a boarding house. I can show many letters from boys I have helped offering to come to Laurens this summer and tell the people here what I have done and what a hard-time I had getting through cjdlege, with k silver spoon in my mouth but have had to work hard for my success. I am one of nine children, from honest, C*od- fearing people, living on a rented farm, and^huve had the backbone necessary to make my own wiil’Vjrpu wonder that I resent any misleading statements and untruths made about me in a political newspaper advertisement by a can didate who is not even in my race? I cannot finance a news paper controversy but I trust that Mr. McCuUough will meet me on the stump. Respectfully submitted. \ riMii^erpow$«^ V SoM at ^ 2Ii,orl0e,30e,60eii*«». John Bolt CuHiertson » *i Candidate for S. C. House of Representatives \ -W • *• '.-eY a;,-