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.7 M* ■ • 1.. ■ : THE,CHRONICLE | • Strives To Be a Clean News- • / Jr ■J ■' “«3 Kt~ paper. Complete, Newsy, • and Reliable. if t ’ ^_J zjf Yoa'DPn*t Read THE (pHRONICLE Yoo Don’t Get The News, t VOLUME XXXII r CLINTON, S. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1932 NUMBER 40 HOOVER MAKES City Revival ! Physician Added * Ministers Meet I Interesting Facts ! AND FRANK FIR^JPEECHi Starts Soonj At Training School In Greenwood On Frosh Class! ARE REUNITED Opens His Campaign In West By!Evangelistic Cam-1 Dr. K. S. Chance of Augusta,i"The Minister As Pastor" Sub-'Choice of Vocation. Church Af-7„„ , r~Z— Declarinff Democratic Victory i paigm Begins Oct. 19. Prelemi- Succeeds Dr. F. L. Webb As; ject of Discussion At First! filiation, Record By Countiesi^ or I res^ential Norn- ^ Would ‘‘End Hope of Recov-i nary Services Being Held. Assistant To Supt. Whitten. Fall Conference. i and States Shown At College. I 1?^ I”", ^ ™ , . ^ I U^.h Lehman for C^vernor. Outlines Tw'elve Policies Extensive and enthusiastic prepa- Dr. F. S. Chance of Augusta, Ga.,! Grcenwooll, Oct. 4.—Twenty miri«- To Aid Agriculture. Des Moines, low^a, Oct. 4.—Declar- ration is being made for the Union! joined the staff of the State Training I ters of the .Presbyterian and As'»oeiatc Evangelistic and Christian Life meet-j school on Monday as resident physi-j Reformed Presbyterian churches at- ing to be held in the cit.v Oct. 19-30. ■ cion and assistant superintendent. j tended the first tall eonference of the eoHege.' This ls'done' in'o‘rde'r't.r find , Albany. N. Y.. Oct. l.-“Al” .S'mith. President John Mc^wcen ha.s a pri vate conversation with each member of the freshman class at Presvyterian Smith l*raises Roosevelt and Platform During Address. ingtheprograminitiatedunderDem-,meseriesof services is to be led by. In discussing the matter yestet^ayi second-year program at the Kirsti„„t the aims and ideals of the new'waraiar,'" and Goverao; ocratic leadership during the last ses sion of congress would have been “the end of recbv€;ry,’’. President Hoover tonight sponsfired before an applaud- mg'farm aujjRbfice a .«erics of 12 j interest. icies of the Republican party” in aid of agriculture. A throng that completely filled th All services will he held in the I Roosevelt, who gave him that sobri- Rey.-R. C. McQuilkin, president of the I>r. B. 0. Whitten, superintendenU,; Presbyterian church here Monday af-i i f • i fu Columbia Bible coilege, Columbia, and staled that the institution is fortunate: ternoon and listened with interest tol*'^^”’ in any way handclasn^ and noted Bible teaeher of the country, in having a man so well trained in { papers on “The M inislcr as Pa.stor." ' finds outnnn.lclasps rand prair. and his coming is being awaited with medicine to give his entire time to the A program for nine meetings to be different .types of convention toniirtii. -needs of the tmnates. I>r; Cbance re-; held for the next nine months wa.s i ^ and the am^‘,^iutuai choree Herbert H ceived his K. S. degree from the Uni-1 adopted, the general theme to be, “The |’»‘5ons of mo.st of the men. Lehman, wa.s nominated’for governor Thornwell Memorial church. ThiS|Versity of Georgia. Since graduating. Study of the Church.” The Rev. Fre.l| This years ST.nnsties are interest-j It was the fir.st meeting of New church has the largest auditorium in , he has served as interne for one year T. McGill will preside at the meetingsling. It may be worth while to note York Democracy’s two most celebrat- 4 ’ > 10,000 seats of Des Moines Coliseum town and by reason of that fact the, at Watts hospital, Durham, X. C., six. and the November meeting will be | that of the seven girl students imthu'^’f^ fiiriirea since they ‘'ought for the and overflowed into the Shrine temple meeting was located there. The hours I ninths m the Lutheran hospital. Des | held at the First Presbyterian church | fro.shman class, three have not decided presidential nomination at Chicago' and across the capitol plaza cheered for the, daily meetings will be 10 a. m. Moines. Iowa, and one year in the here Tue.sday afternoon-. November Liunnn a life work Of tRn * the chief executive repeatedly as he P- m. A large choir is loeingj Henry Ford hospital, Detroit. hoirtvminnr i-‘lo 'ru,. • ., i o opened his first campaign speech since together by Mrs. J. F. Jacobs,. Dr. Whitten states that accepting the renomination. ’Ir., and the singing w'ill be an attrac-inaugurate a department tive feature of all services. Rev. S. P. research as far as funds Bowles will lead the congregational j particularly in many of the , _ singing. es where glandular dy.sfunetion is' Leaders in discussing the subject. ‘••it’ Bapti.st. ‘’I throng drowned ;>ut It listened as he expounded such “policies” for farm aid as shifting w’ar debt payments to expanding agri cultural markets abroad, revision of A meeting for all church officers -supposed to be the most disturbing the agricultural marketing act, inelud- is being held tonight (Thursday) at. ittflucnce. - ing repeal of the stabilization clause, I the First Baptist church at 7:30. It is. Dr. ('hance will fill the position for- and enactment of even higher tariffs hoped that every church officer in thejmerly held by Dr. F. L. Webb, who on- farm commodities where neces-! city will he present. There was a large i resigned last, April to enter general sary.”^ ' - j crowd present at the meeting Tues- practice at Whitmire. .Accounting his stewardship, the! day night for the Sunday school teach-i pr. and Mrs. Chance are making “The Minister as Pastor,” Monday were Dr. James P. Pressly, of Due West, “The Pastor’s Relations to Edu-.his life work is to be. Throughout high cation”; Dr. L. Ro.s.s Lynn, of Clinton, i sehoo' ho has thought on it, hut few "The Pastdr’s Relations to Business”; and Dr. J. W. Carson of Newberry. “The Pastor’s Relations to Polities When a boy enters eollege he has'"^*'^ they then said to each other, h'.it -eldom made up his mind as to whatil^'* governor’., secretary later said the first remaiks were these: Roosevelt; ".Al. this comes froiv the heart.” reach decisioms until after a year or two in college. But tl]^i.s year’s fresh-j man class sinmis especially sure of what they want to make of their president as.serted near the outset of | ers and officers and the officers and (heir home on the Training .schbol i Government.” Others taking part his spet'ch that through “battles on a' leaders of the various women’s auxil-j campus, in the house formerly m en-! were the Rev, IL F. Gettys, of de la ijy-.c. sivt(>»n ' Cff > . T " thousand fronts” against depression | iaries of the different churches. pied by Dr. F'. L. W’ebb. Howe .school, who jjave an informing ‘ ^ oujpa ions economic forces, “a great national vie-' Tomorrow (Friday) night at the .A. • _ | insight into his work there, and the J'* choice of the tory has been achieved.” R- P- church a meeting will be held ' ^ '1 n • 'Vhite, of Ware Hhoals, this year s rmw class, al- Borrowers raying Production Loans tory .As another major point he promised his farm belt audience even higher tariffs than now existed on farm com modities “where necessary to protect agriculture.” 'Then, quoting directly from the criticism of the pi-esent tariff act by his Democratic opponent, Franklin D. Roo.sevelt, he asserted: “W’hat the Democratic party pro poses is to .reduce your farm tariffs.. Aside from ruin to agriculture, such an undertaking in the midst of this depression will disturb every possi bility of recovery for all officers and leaders of, the young people’s organizations of the various churches. All officer.s and leaders in these organizations are urged to be present for this service. Throughout next week, cottage city. Announcement of the places, the time, and the leaders for these prayer meetings is made in another column of the paper today. On Wednesday night of next week there will be held a union prayer meeting in the I’irst Baptist church to take the place of the regular Wednesday prayer meet- EarlieD Mr. Hoover listed proposals j ing of the various churches in the city he said were initiated in the Demo-j for that night, cratic conrolled house of representa- United States Senator K. D. Smith announced from his headquarters a prayer meetings will be held over thejfp^ days ago that the crop production who talked interestingly on the min ister in politics. The Rev. W. L. Pressly. of (Jreen wood, wa.s added to the program com mittee. loans which were obtained through legislation he spon.sored in the senate are being repaid rapidly by South Cai - olina farrriers. In the 21 states in the Atlantic coast area, South ('arolina farmer.s Greenville Party Welcomed Here Smith; “That goes for me, too.” Then they stood with clasped h'.tndJ ami passed remarks back ami ^•>rtn which broadened their .milcii. Flashlights boomed. They faceo the cameras, hands still joined. “.lust one more, governor,” a oli/- tographer said. “Why not?” Smith shouted l»ack. It took a full minute of gav:-!. pounding to .stop the bands’ tives'/‘hnder the leadership of the gentleman who has been nominated the ' Democratic candidate for vice- pre-ident and thus these measures ami policies werr" approved hy their party.” One after another, the pre.sidenl Plaxico Heads .A party of thirty G)‘eenville husi- "" f'""' llankinK, business, chemical en- are leading both in gross payments! tour, arrived in ( Iinton Tuesday morn- • i * • i , , • , and in the percentage of loans being j ing at 10:20 for a 20 minutes stop.j ^ met. the senator said, adding that the Tbe visitors were met on Che .j ^•^'dustry. lead South Carolina farmers are tak- skirts of the city by Mayor Abrams, | The religious side of the freshman ling in settling their obligations is,City .Attorney R. W. Wade, Gilbertj^^ass is aho very interesting. Of the “inosit gratifyung” to him. In several' Blakely, jirosident of the (’haniber of counties nTTTouth Carolina, more than ' Commerce, and Chief George R. Hid- 03 hoy.s, only eight are not members • n. n<)U of some church. There are six differ- percent of the’ohli'gations already laiwf.^-a'nd piloted into town, where-ent denominations represented in the IvlW^afllS V/lUIJ have been eared for, he said. , they were’extended a mo.-it coi;Ualire-~[egroup. HixLy-fonr, are members of the The best record in South Carolina, I eeption. ! Presbijr^ vin^ church, and three are Senator Smith added, is held by the. The big bus in which thi^isitors i i>r,.^h^fciai7but hot church members. ^ .NiiietmuTare Methodist,-and though .‘10 of thi^ men have not yet (leeidml upon their life work. Medieifle led the list with eighteen. This num- lK*r far exceeds the number preferring ,, ... v i .. . *1, .. i- L walk's 'tif .New i ork ami “Ha ipy any other on«> occupation. Teu -hers, . .u u . 1 I __ \ . i Days, and to (juiet the hat-wav.ng, noisy crowd. .Smith, .'till in the glare of tf..*- bright lights, faced the .sea of .c..- gates ami spectators to put Rosew- t's lieutenant governor in noininatior. He reviewed hi.s political career, h'* launched vigorous * riticism at c Repulilican administration. Then ‘v came to prohibition. He praLsed L’.e platform adopted at Chicago. lie said the prohibition ‘'reforn'” he. advocated -cAm-ld—lie aceomulib.ir 1 “by a Democratic victory - by t/'e ministers and lawyers were next in line, with seven, six, and five men, le.-peetively. Dentistry will claim four of the class, journalism three, and aviation and coaching two each. The army will 1h* work for one, while one each will be found in the following ■At the regular meeting of the local Kiwanis club la.st Thursday night. Dr. j farmers of the Loris section ()f Horry ! were traveling, stop|K'd at named "a program oTpork barrel leg- j L. Webb tendered his resignatlbiricounty, where yu per-cent of the obli-^ nu-nt \vhere the weTeoinc islation in the sum of $1,200,000,000, president, and it was accepted with ' gallons have been .settled. 'were held, with the college R the bonus hill, the “creation of sheer fiat money, a bill to "de.stroy the ef- fec'tivene.ss of the tariff eommis.sion, and a “price fixing bill-” ' “.AH this.” he asserted, “undermined public confidence and delayed all the election of the Democratic camlii* * • i in the coining election.” \Vhj^'*^be tol<l (if hi.s worl; as , ernor, he said; “.And when I lid't here on the f -t of January, 1020. 1 left with a fee.:’..’ ■satisfaction Ix-cause wiih.ajidi'il.liiaL genuine regret by the entire member ship. Dr. Webb recently moved to Whitmire where he is now a practie- ing physician, and in his letter of res ignation stated that hi.s action was j necessary on account of his “inabilit.'. ^ City Tax Books Are Now Open band on hand and offering lively mu sic for the reception. ' —^leth(Ml;i t-buLmot members. The Bap-{ Roo'CvetUaml Lehma; . ^ ■ tist chiircb is repre.sented by fourteen j hen .Smith concluded )\e wciit-ba i\ to sit witb the .\N*w ^’o^•k city dele.{;i- efforts of the administration and ^ attend the meetings regularly.’ p .weiful instrumentalities which we j Kiwanians elected R. L. IMaxi members. There is one Kpi.scopalian,, , ,, . • . I) p I i> I i ■ lion, of which he was a member, il I’rof. M. W. Brown of th college H‘*f‘>rmed I’re.sbyterian. j fac.ulty, extended a juo.-t cordial wel- -i'"* G.mgregationalist among the come to the boosters in In’half of the i‘''‘l '>n<‘ who is not a member, city and college. A happy response I'lit priTers the Lpi«‘'<>I>al denomina-j ]i^. ,-^ m The city tax hooks have be<‘n com- was made by Col. W. IL Keith of the j tiori. [.Smith had made .New York a “na‘ r- pleted and opem'd on October 1st for party, who spoke of tl)e object of thcj .Xnothi’r interesting fact about th<*|al criterian of good government. was thiM'e a short t:nie iatm* v\ v-'H Roosevelt mounted thi sfand to .sji • ia lie gave (‘Xtended praise tn .Snr‘b’' had placed in action to .-ave the coun-vice-president of the club, as Dr.: the collection of ltf32 taxes at the of-* ae<iuaintance tour and expres.sed theltiuleiit body which has come, to light | “You know and I know.” he declar- 4>y- . * I Webb’s successor. John Holland H;m-jficc of I). C. Heustc-ts, city clerk and visitors’ ajipreeiation for the "glad-ij,, that there is at least one stmlentU’d "the task that Governor Smith an-i ‘s repre.senting *h‘* elected vice-pre.sident to fill j treasurer. i hand” extendeil by the Clii •'These measures dominant Democratic place made vacant by Mr. Plaxi-i ordinance the books will,. “ di^ouragemtn an i promotion. Both of the new ‘>D’u open until NovemlK*r 1 oth, and ' That recovery began th^ 2’ 'rn esteemed members t^e expiration of this limit all taxes ' ton to view when it wns certain that tnest nesirut-^ e]t.ot.ion was will have a penalty of 1.5 per 7'"" Products show now umler way inton people. 1*1.0,o eighteen iif the counties 1 havi- had for Id years. 20 minute stop, the party , counties, and the stii- ! on its itinerary to ( harles- the wonders of the Caro .Speaking of .Smith's pre-guhe '\.i- dents from each follow, the first num-'t"iial career, Roo.sevelt -aid. tive mea.sures of this Democratic con-l cordially received by their fe!- trolled house were stopped. Had their | Kiwanians. program paasjed. It would have been, club enjoyed a clever .hiaturkal cent attached in addition to the ac-^l'*’*'*^* count. Anna Bell Hudson. the end of recovery. If it ever gn^p^^inment presented by a group it will 4?nd hope and recovery. ! ^ {.'lorUla Street school children, lun* “Do you propose to place these men j direction of Miss Nancy Ow- in power and subject this country ^ Anderson and Miss that sort of measures and policies? it is by their acts in congre.^s and their leadership that you shall know them. ’ Earlier in his address, the cjiief ex ecutive recounted what he d^sc^ibed as efforts of the administration against depres.sion economic force.s, and declaied “a great national victory Home-Coming Day At Duncan’s Creekr is thirty-seven (37) mills; twelve (12) mills for current oper-ating expenses! of the ‘ town, and twenty-five (25)] mills for interest and sinking fund on i various outstanding bond issues voted I by the people. This is a dccrea.se of three (8) mills from last year’s total of forty (40) mills. '‘*■"1 I • f L ' I iL i! “Whv I found him up here in the ,,, - her being freshmen, and the second i i i n • i - 1 .legislature when I came here a- a *ir departure. President | vlas.smen. Abbeville, one, i j,„y. »* j Blakely of the (’hamlM*r of ('ommcrce i Anden on, two,! j,,. turned to j rai e of L-‘’.i- preserfled each of the visitors a eopy;Dve; Bamberg, one, one; (.hester, of the .attra^’tive bo(7kTeF(7rr^lihtorr j bhel rrarend<Tn,~noTiersc‘Vjm;--DaTlTTT^—ATteFFlu^ gova-i'n »r’.s" ATTEND PRESBYTERY Inldia 5s, ‘he recently published througi. iTie coop- ton, thee, none; Dillon, one, three; I in rapid order cheered a eration of this organization. .Florence, two, four; Georgetown, two, i i,,i(.f speeeh by Lehman, notni!ia;ed ^ none; Greneville two, six; Hampton,! the re.st of the slate and adjo’jr :»■ i. [one, nora*; Kershaw, one, two; Lau-j The rest of the ticket; William Bray of Utica, was n iiated for lieutenant governor, ard .Morris "S. Stremaine of- Buffalo, f ir Home-Coming At Hopcwrdl CHurch'Newben-y, none, one; ! rens, 27, .5.5; Ix‘e, none, five; Marl boro', one, none; Newberry, nom*, one; Oon<*e none, four;* Orangeburg, one, icies rnTnilin^nir'^wVat he called the “doI-* ^'^me-coming day at the historic Dun-i Dr. L. R. Lynn, Dr, D. J. Woods, ' nf th/Esmiblican D»rtv " the Creek Preahyteitian churrh near Rev. S. P. Bowles, Dr. John .Me.Sweon, listed the followin'^ 121 here. There will be preaehinK serviees 1 Dr. Dudley Jones. Dr. M. G. W.,o<l- • both morning and afternoon. At thej worth and ,W. D. Copeland spent:! ' presiden _ points: „ . , , 1 .inone; Picken.s, one, two; Richland,/. ■ i u- Home-coming day will be observed o 4 i * e 1 Comp ete harnionV marked thi- three, three; .Spartanburg, two, four;! , t r . 4 r -o u .. . s ,T • 4 4. al ses.sion of what for <2 hours had .Sumter, two, none; Union, two. four; „f „ deadlocked tfifh- at Hopewell church on Sunday, Oc tober 16,. Sunday school will be held TTwl^ m. J? L. Dicke'rt TriiTpe7m:|7'^;» one, fwn; York. -sTT.-1tl—--- It was the eleventh hour agreement tendent. Preaching service will he held , '^his shows a total of 6!), freshmen at n o’clock, with thd fiastor, Rev. M.|Hnd 137 upper cla.s.smeri from all sec-.:,^f organization leaders to aband;)i'i s K. Medloyk. in the pulpit. The public ■ lions of the’.state [fight for .Mayor .John Boyd Thacher 11 o’clock hour Dr. John MeSween ofjTuesday in Abbeville attending the j is cordially invited to be present. ; But not onlydoes P C. look to South Of Albany or any compromise car.d’- this city, will be the speaker. In the] fall meeting of the Presbytery of | ('arolina for tier stuilents hut to elev-idate for governor that paved the .va;.’ afternoon at, three o’clock. Dr, H. W.! South Carolina which was held with [ Pierce D, Bishop and William Wil-1 i-n other states. South Carolina, with for the dramatic finale.. 1. Maintenance and possible eleva tion of the protective tariff on farm fo°Americ*an IgriJulturF’'^ DuBose, pastor of the First Presby-jthe First Presbyterian church of that 2 Revision of the agricuUural mar-church of Spartanburg, will c-ity. The owning sermon was preach- keting mt, including repeal of the occupy the pulpit. ' ed by Dr. Woods of this city. stabilization cluase. ‘ This home-coming is an annual I ^ ^ — 3, Creation of a program for “the, «vent at Duncan s Creek on the fourth reorganization of agriculture so as to i Sunday ofDotober. a time of pleasant, divert lands from unprofitable to prof-! reunions and good fellowship, and a j i large gathering—iir always presetitr* w,., j f Jl (»LIJ i* I •'1U U LI» ' ait/llllA, Wim Vil*. burn of Union, were here Saturday •tops the li.st by states, and Geor- Smith had fought for hours during for the P. C.-Lenoir Rhyne football ’comes second with 42. 4North Caro-' the day in Tammany’s smoke-filled ^ e ... ......I... game. lira claims 19; Alabama, Our; n„r., «'nrcrcncc room uKanist ; but Ijehnian. anything (Continued on page t-wro) County Ginnings Almost Double Cotton ginned in Laurens county through September 16th was almost twice as heavy as during the same pe riod last year, according to figures re leased by the government reporting agent. ^ Through Sept. 16th a total pf 3,383 bales had been ginned from the 1932 crop against 1343 bales over the same period for last year. This is an in crease of 1,540 bales. ^ The first government ginning fig- Members of the congregation and, their friends are asked to bring bas- i kets, since an old-fashioned picnic din- j ner will be served on the grounds be- j tween the morning and afternoon wor- j ship hour. Quarterly Session | On Friday Night; I ^ I The Fourth quarterly co.nference for j the Broad Street MethoiUst church, will be held at the church on Friday I night, October 7, at 7:3# o’clc^k. All, official ntembefs of the conference | are expected to be present. All othei* are released bears out the statement, members and friends of the church of local citiaenf in touch with the | are invited to come. Rev, J. R, T. Ma- farming'situation tihat the movement | jor, presiding elder of the Greenville of the 1932 crop began earlier than I district will be present and hold the in 1931. ' j conference. 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BRING IN YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TODAY, A SET IS THEN YOURS ABSOLUTELY FREE. STAFF NAMED FOR COI.I.EGE MAGAZINE I i Both were called to the conference I The i'ti^ff for the 1932-33 Collegian. finally .said he was jcollege literary magazine, has been | whh hts ■ ’ ■ mained 30 minute.s and left with his ♦ecYct^ry annouscing: “Mr. Lehman is a candidate for governor and nothing else.” Then the decision was made by Associate Editor*: Ben Covington, | Tammany Chief John F. Curry to go announced by Johi) E. Osmanj editor,^ as follows: Assistant Editor: Tom .Shinnick,'! ’34. 1 ' ’33, Barney Macl.«ean, 33, Charles N. Plowden, 34. Staff: Frank Gues*, 35, Billy Nex- sen, 35, H. H. FeFrguson, 33, Charles through with an unammou.s nomina tion of a ticket headed by Lehman. Thacher was chosen to second the gubernatorial nomination, in the Barrett, 33, Hart Odom, 35, B. Gra-withdrew a.s a ham 33, T. H. Wingate, 34, J. w. I Combs, 34, L. A. MoCall, 36, J. C. McCaskill, 33, H. Wyman, 34, Agnes Shealy, 34, Julia Parker, 35. It wa* 75 minutes before the expir ation of the legal time for filing the ticket when adjournment canoe.