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V // 't-^ "'"■J 4 PAGE SIX THE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON. S. C. THURSDAY, APRIL 20. 19.^3 Ke’i'y'S Revie^v of Current Events the World Over A' Secretary Roper Offers Plan for Big Cut in Commerce Department Expenses; Congress TacUes Legis lation for Relief of Small Home Owners. eTION on the f;irrn riTief hHl wn< (h'l!iy,M<l lt\ a e»'iiiaroused over flie Sj!iii»,.ou (irlte ulv( li h;is (»:cii written into t!ie ;nl- niiriistrafion 1.* 'I'hiM <le\eloped ^at a time wltei ilie Ihxisevelt - |*:o;:r}tni r(»r inerensiuu the'I'nriiiers’ liieonie Jind j lift in;: the lurden ol iuortKu;:es " aa j ttiimpiti;: ”innu on »• l•on;:h road sprin- j kled wtrti (leniarids for currency ex- i [lanslon jts h nieatw (►f re«t(»rins a;;ri- I cult lire, I'he iiiort;:{t;:e s**eti<»n of the iidinin- TODAY Md ■. -^r- O f'eit^TA fiy of Oiininerce tl iper ^ has laid Itefore rresident Uoose velt a plan to inakevdrastic reductions in the exiiense of his depart iue_nl whicii ^as loutTitu'en pointed to as an, out stJUnlin;: e\;; : ;pl<-‘‘ of the exlf.-tN ij a'it tui reaiicracy of U ii di itia. Mr. Koper iirop"^^**'' to sliisli lie* expeu'di tures of I lie ('olllUieree department frotii SI-'. OfMi.(HK) in the current year to in the'iiexT fiscal year, a rediietioii of (Mio, or- t'J per ceid. Tf the report Is apprised, and Sec rotary Koper Ir siieeessful In operat- Inc h-is departniont at such a savlau. If fs hoMovod he profiortionafoly far out (list jitK'e in' economy jirotate tlon any of the other departiiients. -—weretary plan?*-do fHtfisolid.ttit ShoalSu, wliich to date hn« cost the .\rm‘ricaii taxpayers some Tl.'t(J,0(t(MH)0. t In the house a lull Hirnilar to the Nor- } ris hill was lii'froduced by Ueiiresent- ) Httvo MeSwain. IteAaicrat, of South Carolina. owners who Secretary Roper nutiiy activilies‘ of the department and to aturmfon- others. The^flgiTre of S'JO.tHMMi(K1. u'hich lie proiioses | BptMidinx' In.the Ili.'M ttsejil yetir, he ,! pinninc next .Tul> ! Is not only 42 j jier cent ui.der llie tiyure. hut j It is nearly Jtl 1 under the j actual fippropriatIons made for T.t.'M j hy tin* last congress. 'I'lie appropria tiom hills carry an expetidiliire of J.'td.d/ir. ldrf for the (’oiamercp de- j partiiicut In r.i.'M. j This is the first time in the his tory of the po\eniuieiit, aceordiup to Secretary Hoper. tlmt an administra j tion has supL'esfed it is not wise or j safe to use money which eonpress , Itself hiis apprtiiiriati-il. hut lie de ' dared fhitt the "“administration In- ^ fendei] to carry out faithfully Its <'innp!iipu jiledpcs of ecoiioiiiy. j Mr. Ipipcr plans to esiahlish six hiircaus to Ial<c o\ er file wurk hereto fore done h\ ten. 'I'lie six huretuis f> i:i.ii:i for {Umill home are stapperiiip under S‘J0,(HM,(Ntd,- n (.if riiortpapi* debts is a.sk<*<l hy I’rea iricnf Koosevelf in a special niessapc to <*oiipress. I'dlls with that end In view were Introduced In both hoU!|ieH. In his nn^sape the President laid down a new national policy to [irotect <iwners of homes valded at not more tlitin !?10.<K»o from foreclosure and ex cessive Interesf riite>i as the next §tep in his'propram for e<*onomie recovery. The proposetP li'pislaifdti would set up the Home Owners’ I/>an corpora tion, to he orpanized and npenited by tiip foderut home loan hank'board, for the diieef and fmmeiliate relief of small owners and holders of small home mortpapes. The corfioration ilVbmtf 'BlH’C a CltlkHHl uf Jistratiori lull is almost certain to have ■ tlie approval of the hou.se. j In antiei|iation of the pas.sape of the ■ bHL Henry .Morpentliau, cI.*airinaB of the federal farm hoard, is pettinp his ilepartment fully preiiared t,o speed the aetmil Hpitlicaiion of the relief. Some delays in [lUttinp Into effec^ .ill the ciWlIt rdief facilities planned liv President Itoosevelt and Mr. Mor perilhau will occasioned by reasem of the.fjact tliat the cuusulldat ion or dor under wliieh the President joined JiM farm credit activities do(>sn’t be come efr<*ctive for a period of about six weeks. Put .Mr. Morpentliau bus reached out i into file ()tli(‘r apeiieies Which soou I will come under his head, and us soon j as the credit lull heciinies law he-ex I pects to brinp about a prompt orpani I '/.at ion of’the work of issuinp per ; r*ent bonds to be exebanped lor the j firesent farm mortpapes averapinp I hipfuT than 0'*^ per cent; •Presi(h*nt^ IJoo.sevell i.s reporti'd^to be firmly of TItp: opinion That The bip- p'st help that can be piven to the farmers at this time is a looseninp of their credit. Om*e the farmers’ debis tineL ■/ ' to do our more perfection of machin work for us.- When r wai a boy I u.sed to aiJoiire the muscular development of the men : w ho worked in my uncle’s machine 1 .chop. Not lorig iag‘0 I visited the san^C' plant, now tremendously chanjfed, 'Slid found one of those old-timesrs still working. He w’as sittinjr in a rockinjt chair wrftchin? an automatic machine do al most exactly the same sort of work he used to 'do by hand, only many times a.s rapidly and accurately. Ev- i ery once in a while he would take ai fini.shed piece off the machine and pm i phone people had b’roken down the barriers that kept women out of of fices., ■ . t , » NATIONALISM A lot of the W'orld’s present trou bles are due to an excess of national- ,, , • istic pride. Every nation is tryihjr toi^ new block of metal in its place. be self-contained, and then jcrouchin?[ “They say the machines will throw because other nations won’t trade w ith ‘everybody out of work,” he said, “but itf 11 notice it still takes a human hrain ” Every dollar we spend for foreiim ’^'' machine when to stop and iroods helps spme other nation to buy sthrt.” That is scmethiniir people over- our ^oods. .1 believe in America first Nobody has yet made a machine i ♦ YOUR PHYSICIAN ‘Doctor, 'what’s the matter with me ei’a*u‘d; fdebtw (sHitraeted wheo laud I Bubscritifd bv the treasury and would be aiitborizf'd to Issue 4 per cent bonds up to .TL’<KMXK),(XK). 'I'bese bonds would be exelianped for mortpapes on liomes not exeeedinp $10,(HM) In value, uiv.to bO fier <ent of tlie jirdpert.i value. Home owners wmild pay Ti per eeiit interest to the eorporatioii, with fifteen years to pay off the loan. A spe<*ial provision is made for a moratorium, not exeeedinp three years, on Interest and iirineipal payments. Din-et loan.*^. up to SO |M*r eent of the assess(*d value of the projierty, may be made by the eorjioratioii to home owners, if fin* properly Js not otlierwi.se "eneumbered. values I* lj>'rja liipti and erop prices up. it may not lie necessary, in the opin ion of niaiiy of tlie administration ud visers’oulside tlie proiip controlled by sSeeretary of Aprieiilture Wall.'ice, to re.sort to price tixinp and allotment selieims, to help the funner. but I do not believe in the stupid doc trine which would prohibit me from bu.vinp something I wanted because it was made abroad. Nearly ^ hundred years apo there iwas an apitation in thi.s country .simi lar to the “Buy American” movement of today. The party which advocated non-intercourse w'ith foreipn countries pot the nick-name of “Know-Noth- inps.” Presi'Htl.v we will wake up apain that can think, and nobody ever will. “Can you cure it?” These tw’o i questions make the “horn.s” of the dilemma in every case treated or applyinp for treatment. Roth que.stions are of the hiphest im- porance for the doctor and patient. A doctor may know' exactly ' what • ihe trouble is—he may be the be.st of |djavmoi.stician.s—yet he may be .^adly telephone ^ieficient in his knowledge of the best A TELEPHONE ‘ Everybody who ha.s. a must have wishes for some sort of an: remedies for the disease; so broad and attachment which w’ould ans'.ver auto- deep is the science of medicine! matically when the subscriber is aw’ay.! I IWlieve there a^e hundreds—thou- \V''.rd comes fiom Vienna that just sands of patients treated and cured— such a deviceshas been invented and I when the diapno.sis was absolutely a ’is in use there. WTien one is poinp to. mistaken one. How? Well, the skillful be out of telephone reach he sets the [doctor t/eated the important .‘>W-V1P- tJ,the truth lhat ;«Ty’.;b;ucTu ' to international tVa.Io hurts cvervho.ly , t" bock. Then, if a call coines| The .loctor strives to be equal to the concerned " ' ' t-throuph in his absence the caller hears j answer to both of the questions'at the Ut ponp rinp to indicate the hour when , head of this letter; happy the/physi- [ the person called will return. When'eian that can, truthfully answer both, he returns he finds a record of all j .Suppose the doctor cannot accurate- JEWS IN GERMANY iewi.sh people all over the world (-aiig preatly "^e new dtsTurbed over The povefhhvemf policy of ly diapnose the .ca.se—:yet beilti.vi .s hu “oT i say of Chancellor Hitler, in boycottinp j ^.jjj Jewish merchants, doctors, teachers , and others. ** convey. I talked the other day with an in-i ll kill be iuis.ylia_deveIo^^ that idea,. j into a phonopi iif.'h record which would j w here. Why ? Just b(?cause he knows -ymp- back on the fifteenth.” or, toms. . other message it is desired ^ 1 would be perfectly willing for a ioctor to treat me who knows well the matiy, under i^he practical dictatorship | “Mr.'Sm.ith has pone to FloHila' what remedy to apply for the S KCUK'rABY of the Treasury Woodin lias laid d«>\j ri the law* to the New York posed of twenty itf file eilT. Hf I'learin;? A I’-CE.VT postal rate within cUies. retaining tlie .‘t-cent rate for In- lerdistrlct postage, is recoiiiniended in N |ilan for halaiicing the pijtsjt ^otfice hudget suhiiiilted to President Uoo.se- velt hy I’ostinaster (leneral Farley. It is’ Mr. Farlex s hope that hy iu creased postal revenues and a program of economy, to ha la nee the budget, wliieh at the pieseiit rate is running into an animaPdeticit of $l.‘{‘J,Plid.bhb- 'Fhe postmaster general said he had Somethinp tellipent younp Gei man Jew who had' been pettinp letters from home about! the situation in Germany. He was not of that s(,rt will come :»»•’. ion of the medicine he ust^s; he 1 knows the cause that will bring about at all worried. His people had writ ten him that they were not beinp an-! noyed and that fhe whole anti-Jewish, apitution was directed at a Commun ist element, mainly compo.sed of Jews. „ Another Geiman, a non-Jew, said to me: “Here in .America the Jews wo^ the effect. .\ pood physiolepist is a good doctor; the man who knows health^KH(e is quick to recognize any 'like other people. In (lerrnany a lot'(if them don’t do anything but try to TYPEWRITER BIRTH DAY I have a vivid memory of the day ^ , when /ny mother received a letter *h‘parture^rom it. Physioh'gy is the from her younger brother in Buffalo, j science of life. with the words printed instead ol ! , I atft not so devilish particular about written with a pen. He saidi ’Th'.s'a technical diagnosis; I do not care letter is written on a new kind of how many red^cells a man has, just so machine we have pot in the office,! I know he is anaemic. Now laugh, if 4 house,, cein- of fhe biggest banks make ti'ouhle for the government. But, of cour.se, the German povi'in- TuTs" will be'’^f!ie IriiiisperlaMon, patents, ei'iisns, staiiidiirds. tl?dh*ri(‘s and for ^•lVll and dfuiie.mie eoinnn'rei'. The hiircaii of fniiisportiilion will eiiiliody a supervision of tlie govern- iiieiit over all forms of trnnsportiition. land, air and water. 'I’ln' lloper pljin coiili'iiiplates merging under (uTe^snli- ordiiuile to become the new as.'?lslant ” .Secretary of'eommi'rce for transjiortn- lion, supervision ov«*r tlie Interstate Commerce coiiimissiifti, and Ihe aetjvl- fies cd' tin*-: Ciiilt'd Slat(*s shippUig board; tlie ,\gricnltnre departiianifs biireaii of weather tiiii! pilhllc roads; Ihe federal radio Conniiission, the-Com nierce department's Imrean of a*'ro- iiaulies. ceodelie survey, liglil hotises and navigation, sli'amlioaf inspi*‘ction; the War department's inland vvater- wa.vs eorporatioii; tlie naval ohsi'rva "'T-ory.' und The • tint ionaT iiiittee for-* aeromuities. told the Hearing bouse banks, in diplomatic hingnage, that they must keep their word and make giMxI tin* de posit.s of the Harri- man National Bank am!. Trust company, now in the hands of a fedt'ral eoiis«*rvator. The itressure brouglit by Woodin, It is ex- pi'cled, will cost the clearing house banks In the vicinity of ,$♦!,(Mid.UUd. The firm stand-of- the secretary was made- known simnitaneonsly with the arraigiinn'iit in court of .ios«‘|ih W, Harriinan, former elmirman and presl- d(*nt of tlie liank In'aring his name. .Mr Harriman. ill since his arrest, was received opinions tlmt if flic postal ^ rale is eul the vidiime of business vvin\,Wient has handled the situation slu- ~t>i(T}y ti(‘-su rI*>!tored~TLs. U> .vid(J gi'.eutbLil!i. called a tyjiow’riter.” j That was almost sixty ! about lH7d,< I should .say writer was only three or old IhehT f()r the sixtieth annivi^ary you want t(v! ago; I ^Vpe-I years Th'> four years I Try CCrELAND CAFE and he added That , at ion (Tensed revenmy, .in-i ht , some udvis(*r.s f(*lt that a tlut 2 cent the letter postal rate over the country would liring in enough revenue to bal ance tlie postal bndgid. 'I'lie postmaster general akso dis closed a study is lieing inad(‘ on vvbeth er till' (lepartinent sliall (ontinue the heretofore sonievvbat farcical practice of giving examinations to lirst, and secondclass postmasters. haniii.'.- any situ-"" '-r' - ■ ' c rirciacT iTiCu i More timn I him-lml warrS.!"' ""mrloB by pWor SHol-s PLA1 E LUNC More tJmn a hundred years ap<,, . „ Kreat : FT-..n,-i, hirf.uian, Cuizol,; h*' Just b,-™ ci.l.T.,aW.I. wrote: "TheFg is somethinp Giirman tetriperapient which them utterly unablt^To understand th( cr- point'of view of other peoples. MACHINES When these hard times in the There was (juite a celebration makes by the Young Women’s Chris,- tian as.sociation. The typewriter, they held, had emancipated women by mak ing it possible fof them to do work in offices. I don’t think that is sound reasoning. Hardly anybody but men' are ovei - ; used typewriters for at least twenty! Secretary Woodin- E'l: hUCATION, lilerature‘'iMid religion and that won't bt* long now—we J’halhjyears after the machine w'as invented, not go hackwarii but forw'ard. And one ^ The rush of women into business bb- i thing we may look for is more and i pan in the early IHllO’s, after the tele- PHILCO Radios & Tubes Smith’s Pharmacy ist OIK* (d ils most■ di?linguislied ' u T il 1C iimiiitioiis sehe^K'. Iiv rresideiit K(ieS(/vell Sen. Norris the Tl iiTK'ss('(' river viiHev of an iiidii'-Jtriiii. economical experiment, bus bi-eii laid before congiT’SS In a brief message. Mr Boosevelt’s Impe Is to demonstrate in the 'reimessee valley Ibal great **conondc ebafiges for the tietter be m:id(' I'.v eon (M'rving and develop ing iia4.nral reMiuree.s. “Sm li u>e. if en visioned iir . its CM tirely.” said tlnVj’ri'S- iib'iit in liis message, ‘‘tran.seends m»*re power developiiK'iil : eiili'i's the _ „ Ik J.' 1 e t! ‘J.d.jif fjjfod (ymtrol. >14»* l^t'n >si o n,_ ~ Hfr, rreMiiTtoT[.f tnral u.se of marginlil land.s. and dis- tnbniioa and div(‘rsitication of ii?dus trv, “In .siiort. this power development of war davs b'lids logically to nfttional planning for a complete river waler- sbed involving mahy states and tlie future lives'and vvi'lfare of millions. It tonehes and gives life to all forms oi bnmaii eoiieewis. “I, tbeiefore, siiggi'St to the congress ’-legislaVem- to VTeat e -a .Tviruesatui-VAl-- ley *‘Hrr0i7iiTrw~a (■(iriMiratloiT cldfTied with tlu~|»ower of goverijim*nl but |h>s' ses.sed of the flexibility and Initiative of a private eiiteiprise. “It sbouhl be (hargi'd with the broadest duty of planning fur the , pro|>er use. conservation and develop j riieiit of the, natural resources of the i Tennessee -river drainagt* basin and ! its adjoining territory for the general S4H*Ial and economic welfare of the ua lion. This authority should also he clotlied with the' necessary [lower to caiTy these plans Into effect.'’ . 'Hie I'resident s [ilan includes the runtiing of eiectric power into every farm, to r'ontrol crop pnalutTions, to build (hims and promote forestation (iroj«(*ts in the' Interest of relieving —imuphv; inent. 1l far-reitchlag plau which will take years to work / but. but If a plan Is agreed uiain uiuk. it apiietira aueeessful even Itefore it ia fUliy triad out, the {'resident ex wwA.siu «’#k Mthexlii cilnill«r a 4n /W Is. tea rivira «sait<rj« RcT.ator Norris of Nebraska i^itro diu'ed in the aenale a;bill jfpr govern ttTIvFsAry J IirouglO-, inta cmicL,ln,-a-,-Vi± Tin* indictinent eliarges that he cans('d false ('iitries to lx* made in the hank'^ iMieks, cov(*ring the use of $1.71M,‘g2A of tlie ib'positoi's’ moiu'.v for spoeula- tieii in tlie bank’s stock. Si'crelary Woodin’s action Is based on a jdedge given to fhjP controller of the tn*asiir.v at a time when the bank | was in financial ditllcultle.s. that th“ cb'aring hou.se Wmnd support the bank. eomeiv ed t,o make the scene and .social leaders In tlie death of Hr. Henry Van I >,v ke, wartime ambas.sador to the .Neinerlands and Luxemburg. He died in bis slei'p at Avalon, his home in' I’rineeloii, N. J. He was eighty years of age. Hr. Van Hyke had succeeded, as one YTTiTs'frieims X >v p'-! il'.TlTlHNS have bei n filed with fhe L'uited Stall's s(*iiate from citizens of Louisiana (b'luanding the removal of Huey P, Long as si'iiator from that slate. 'I'lie petitions accuse the st'U- afor of personal dislioiK'st.v and cor rut'tiiessi Tin* petitioiK'rs asserted tliey could furnish witnessi's to esialdish that Long “vva.s personally dishofu'st, cor nipt and Immoral," and addt'd Long’s -"to-- lh(* respectalde and law abiding citi zeiis of I,ouisiana and to the nation." * 'I'licy eontendi'd. among other things, that Long had “creati'd and main tained In Loiii.'iiana a system of cor- nipt ion and deliam lK'ry imparalleled sard''a8 ‘ "pber-(n'']TT(r-es^' sayIsf-novelist, educator lecturer fisher man pnipitv'er.” I >r. I'an D.vke resigned his diplomatic post in 11)17 so that he iniglit say vvliat he thought almiit the World war. Holding degrees from sev»*ral Aiuer lean uiiiversiires. lie also had been lion- on'd liy Oxford and (he Uiilvi<*rsity of (iem'vu. He was comniandi/r of tlie la'gion of Honor, had bedh president of the .National Institute of Arts and I-»*tters, was moderator of tlie general as.semldy of the Presbyterian church in‘.\uicriea Iti BKVJ and 1 DOJI, and from I'.HK) to I'J'-’H held the chair of English liti'raturi' at Prjiiecton univt-rsity. T ill to IE immense impotganoe attached i; the Washington conference by In the bi.story of the state.’’ plJd'.HAL Icgisl ^ vvdrking week lation for a 30 hour ng week in industry was as .xiircd vvlien tin* administration placed ; Itself squarely hehind the measure, r TTi+'^ldll ■pjossaat ttfprrjQqp:: f ate.-and it !« exiieetml to lie quickly ..approved by the bouse und signed by ! tin* President. 'I’he bill, regafdi'd as one of the most radical labor measnies to win the ad- I udnlstratlon supiiorf, provides in Its i pres(*nt (orHi that for an emergency I [verhMl of tw(» years no articles may be reecivi'd In Inter.'itate sbipiin'nt whlcli liave lieen mannfaeinred or [iro- dui^ed. by labor working more tliari six hours In. any day, or more than five lays In any wei'k. B', A vote of 00 to 1 Michigan's ■ensfilnihmal e(inventlon vivent on ree(»rd as favoring the abolition of the Elghteeiilh nniendment, and sn .Michl gan haa the distinction of being the drat state to ra,tIf.T fhe Twenty-TTrsL (>r repealt^r. amendment stihmlttiTl hy con IfresH, - There were great cheers and hand rlappitig when the roll was ralh*d on 'PK-. * i-avi tfy t'UY v-iiiMis f ui Barry Hcounty, former dean of the col lege of agriculture of the University o^nnol^ the British Is Indicated in the [icrson- ncl of the party acconipanying I'reiuler : MacDonald. .No more -laipuraant-v-group—of-i "TtrTtlsh "officials hiTs^ ever gone abroad, and i It is evident tliat much 'i V ' is expected from the ; meeting between the , Britisii prime minister I and President Uoose velt. ! 'I'he cldef delegate after MacDonald hiiii- I self is Sir . Robert Vansittart, permanent underseorctarxjojT J^he Sir Robert is the per manent ciiii'f of the foreign office, no matter what foreign secretaries come und go, ui^U all the threads of BrltlsK' dliiU'macy are In his hands. .He knows America well, his first wife having liech an .\mericiin. 'Fhe next memlier of the fiarty Is.Sir Frederick l>*ith-R(*ss, treasury ex|)ert.* who has reiiresented Great Brj^iin at ITS^ALWAYS GOOD BUSINESS TO USE GOOD PRINTING Premier MacDonald foreign odice.^ all financial meetings for soihe .years. 'Fhe tidrd member is A. E. Hvertori. as sistant si'i retary of.the.board of trade, w hose specialty is . tariffs and Inter riatlonul trade relat.bms.'^ P'; UESlHENn' RHtjSEVELF'S Invite- ion to .]«|iun to'Join the fra<le am’ [KiUfical conferences in Wasliington Tia s CO ironptiffe attitude of, Japan toward America imicticully overnight. Friends of .\mer ica express Jubilation, s«‘eing the first ray of hoin? for tlie return of relations iM'tween the two nations H» the friend {>• state existing before the ^liii^'den Incident on Septemlier IH. BKIL Jajmn not only is gladly acce[)t!nj the invitation but the gui^ioii is being made of the pr(*atest Inqwirtftnce. MMki We Do All Kinds “EXCEPT BAD” y- 0 ’’ Chronicle Publishers — printers — Stationers Telephone 74 Clinton, S. C* t t .. i n