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. ^ V >■ >. ? • r3 ■ ■, • ‘ Zi r- ■'4, t I l^E CHRONICLE f I Strives To Be s Clean Neirs> j S paper. Complete, Newsy, • and ReUable. iiV rn;" » ^ I : THE CHRONICLE S Ton Don't Got If Ton Don't Rend The Newsr VOLUME XXXIII- CLINTON, S. C.., THURSDAY, MAY 11,4933 U COnON WEEK” HELD BIG SPUR TO RECOVERY 25,000 STORES WILL JOIN IN EVENT FROM MAY 15 TO 20 “EVERYBOFyY USES COTTON” WILE BE THEME. VERSA TILITY TO BE STRESSED. LEADING EXECUTIVES ENDORSE PROMOTION. Closing Exercises At Cross Anchor N-ilKonai Totton Week "should V an important factor in contributing to general industrial revival, George A. | Slpah, nre.sident of the Cotton-textile, Institute, New York, said a few days, ago, in statement outlining the sup-, ■port-pledfred to this year’s observance of the event froniiMay 15 to 20. Re sulting from special cooperation of . leading whole.sale dry goods houses with independent stores in smaller ctunmiinities, it is likely that moiT thslin25,0004ri;tailz^labl ishhients wtir Cross .-\nchor, May 0.—The Cross Anchor high'school closed. Friday af- ttr. a suewssful term. The baccalau reate sernion was delivered on Sunday morning at tlie^igh school auditori um by Dr. A. M. Trawick. of Wof ford college, who sjiokQ on “The Van- ity of Reli^ionT I participate in the eveht, he said. ^ “This year there are several fac tors Uiat make for an intensified sell- "ing d’ ive’on cotton,’’ Mr. Sloan con-^ itinued. “There are present signs of rvsThg market values""" wTiTcK attract consumer interest to household* cottons, such as towels, blankets, sheets,''tahleclothsj etc. - j “Secondly, womem’s fashion author- , ities are of one opinion that the style prestige, of -cotton is now at a new j peak, Thanks to the bestowal of fur ther favor by American designers and : Paris dressmakers, cottons loom lar- I ger in the public mind as the unique means for women of all income levels| to keep ab-reast of fashion without re.sort to any ‘holiday buying,’ More- ■ oyefj on the basis of last Summer’s observance an i^crbasingly large nmn-} her of men will ne turning to cotton i suits in the selection of thei** Summer wardiob<?s.” Mr. Sloan said that the newspiqwr advertising of cotton merchandise of all kinds and types during National Cotton Week last year not only reach ed an unprecedented high mark for a .single week but “proved to be LIMITED PRODUCTION AND PROCESS TAX THE KEY TO profitable instrument as to both im-' On Momlay the’ graduation exercis- j es woi'C held in the high school aiuli-1 torium. The ]>rogram was as follows, ; Prayer, the Rev. Mr. Moore; saluta tory. .St. Pierre Poole; history. Eve-j Ty rT 11 i n4 manl Ifi'bphecyr MThnTe .l ane Fincher; will, Ruth Senn; awarding of i dispjomas. Dr. C. M. Workman; ad-1 dress, Dv. .lohn .VlcSwecn; valedictory. | .Addie Sue Waldrep. W. L. Hennett, j superintt ndent, presided. The 19;}3 graduates are as follows: Uiis Bailey, Mary Irene Chumley, Minnie .lane Fincher, Evelyn Hind man, Frances Ijamb, .Annie Lawson, Frames TayU r, Sara Stribling, Ruth Senn. .Addie Sue Waldrep, Mar>^Fran- ces Watson, Coy Bates, Furman Es- te.s Hugh luiytorf^ Russell Murphy, St. Pierre Poole, Everette Stewart, Ifouglas Stewart, Herbert Smith, Wan*en West and Joe Waldrep. We shall use aj^tenreies already in the field, a.s far as possible, including the jthousands of county agent.s of the ex- i tension service. FarmersWill be deal- j ing with men they know, and will not be made to feel that ..they are being oliceci. / “The complicated part of the work will be in (Washington, where we shall il|have to weign tne experiment step by NUMBER 19 ! step, and change our program over- ! night, if we find part of it isn’t work ing. I* or, after all, this is an experi- j ment, but one which, in my^ opinion, holds more promise for the welfare of most farmers than anything el.se that has been proposed or tried.’’ SL’BSCRIBE TO THE ( HROMCLB “The Paper Ever} body Reads" VISIT KRIESBERG’S SIXTH ANNiyERSijARV SALE And Observe National Cotton Week SPECIALS ft-4 JHorotox IS IDc quality, now Extra IiTrjje Bath Towels, t^xTiT), never iijrain at this price . 19* Lovely Imported Lace Cur tains, just the thins to fin ish up the home for AOc summer. All cotton I/O One lot and Voilos,- * * ^ all fast colors. Sold 1 A** up to 50c yd., now . lU Men’K BroadcloOt Slrirt#,- white and colors, for- QA<^ merly 9Sc, now* OU 1000 yards Voiles and Or- trandies. just the thing for the Cotton Dress, 1 f c fast colors, varii SECRETARY WALLACE OUTLINES THE NEW FARM RELIEF PLAN er will find it difficult to decide whether to come in or .stay'^out,’’ Mr. Wallace answered. “They will maks their contracts with local commitU>es. Hundreds of bargains in Cotton G(M)ds at opr ^(^re this week. Now is the time to buy, before prices go up^It Will pay you to visit us. KRIESBERG'S DEPARTMENT STORE Where Your Patronage Is Always 'Appreciated S FAIR EXCHANGE. mediate respon.se and in giving^cot- ton.s a sales impetus that continued' . „ througho'uT the ^Sufhmer.!’ I Wrjtteh Specially for The Chronicle.! said Mr. Wallace. “In the law those v^. , U tbrmp “Fvervbodv ^ «>’ Erank Parker vStockbridge ' basic-producU are named: wheat, cot-. featured in df»i.layt, WaahinVton.'May 8.-The aenate “>>>»«'>• ’i"’ This Uses Cotton,' i.s po.-jfers which have been furnished to pa.ssed the farm relief bill on a Fri- n erchants by the institute. ' (day. I telephoned at once to the ’de- .Serving on an advisory committee Wartment of agrrculture. to see if I and dairy products. But the law also per mits the department to make market ing agreements with processors, a.sso ciations’of producers and others- en- storing the fair exchange value of the basic products as well as of others “For example, in the case of cotton I am asking the planters, ginners, handlers of, raw cotton and the spin ners to form a committee representa- tiye of the entire cotton group and work out an agreement which will be fair to everybody concerned. It will Hood, president. National Association! “Fm .sorry, but I won’t have a min- of Cotton Manufacturers; .Magruder ute of time until Sunday morning," Dent, pre,sident, .Association of Cot-1 said the secretary. “Can you come in ton TexLile Merchants of New York; * then?’’ W. P. Fickett, managing director, Tex-' “At your house?’’ lile Fabrics A.ssociation; W. L. Pierce,: “No; I’ll be at the office.” National Association of Finishers of Thex are working long hours in Textile Fabrics; Flint Garrison, direc- Washington, at least the members of tor general, Wholesale Dry Goods th-1 the President’s cabinet are. Workingjeveiyoouy conce stitute, and Lew Hahn, president, Na-!fast, too. Sunday morning carpenters Ireduction of the cotton acre- tionai Retail Dry Goods Association, 'were already at Work in the agricul-1 course, for we are producing Iture administration building, convert-1 "7more cotton than the mar- ^ ^ . ; ing a long, wide corridor into a .series' will take: How are the planters Smith S Cotton of offices for the u.se of the men and cut down their acreage to be com- - 1 J ''^■omen, still unappointed, who will ad- 1 ISin 18 1 USilCCi minister the farm aid law! The bill: • * / - ha-lnt b»n approved hy the houae I P’'"'' that will be's«t,»factory,-or of Will Pnt4 Rip Pool In y«. but everybody knew it wool,) be! ,‘bem for the uPKlown Farmers Will Enter Bir I mI In wastinir any timy. paym™!"- -ERoiIJEq^JSoosI SecttUry, Knows. Faxminf^., .L “Earmers who make this kind of a ■ pie. W allace Reac^y To Act. 1 “it looks complicated on paper, but - j-— it wilD no^ be so complicated as it pensated? The government has alter native of leasing the idle acreage at a ’T6htra7*t~w’j|| rec6Tv(%’'w'Reri they frTaT- ket their produce, the going market Washington. May G. — the Smitb seein.s in'^pefatmn,'’' said Mr. WaFfTHtc at the gin, elevator w other mar- cotton plan—one of the provisions of|'lace. A .straightforward, direct-speak- ket. They will also receive a benefit the administration farm relief bill — j ing man, this .secretary of agriculture, will be put into quick .'operation in whose father held the job in the Hard- hope of brightening the economic ing administration and whose grand- skies oL Dixie. “ father was the founder of one of the Jl^CigU f ilTlT ~ W imn " if TTiT 1 m fijrjt74TTTn»Wil«i1fcii«Crif act tfie mi certificate which can’be cashed. The sum of the two .should amount to the fair exchange value of fthe same com modity-in the pre-war period. '^‘Farmei’s who do not agree tg-limit. ■ we ru>|yg' ! - C * proval is given to the entire measure * ed States and Europe. He understands - ment and will have., to take their next v'eek. foreign trade and the effect of low ! chances on the market.” ' He intends first to call represpnta- export prices on the American farm-1 “Where is the money toming from lives of growers, handlers and spin- er’s exporUble surplu.s. . for these benefits?” I ask. neis together for the establishment “What tlris new law is intended to! “F^om a processing tax to be col- of a commodity council whicht will do, and will do;” he said, “is to re- jlected from the^millers, spinners and -draft the4>dlicy to be followed in^cleal- store the fair-exchange value of farm' proces-sofs,” replied Mr, Wallace.'“The ing with the chief crop of the South, products when measured against the tax will be fixed, at first, at uate More than 2.200,000 bales of cotton thing farmers buy.” That isn’t a mat- which is calculated to- bring: .^about the fair exchange value of which we are i talking. Maybe that will berdifficult* perhaps impossible in .some cases. If the market will not absorb the com are available for the pool in which ter of a fixed price per bu.shel or farmers who agreed to cut ti.eir acre-1 pound, he went on to explain, age by at least 30 per cent will par- , “The department for years has ticipate. The amount ,available repre-, been keeping records of farm prices senls co^ton in storage on which gov- , and of prices the farmer has to pay j modity and pay the full processing emment loans have been made. ! for what he buys—food, clothing, ma-1 tax which would be required under The bill in-structs the fai*m' board chinerj', fertilizer and the rest. Just {the fair exchange test, the-law pro- and ^ther f government agencies, ex-j now the index price of w hat the farm-j vides for a lower tax. But even the cepting the federal intermediate|er buys is about where it was just be-1 farmer who has reduced his acreage banks W sell all cotton owned by, fore the war, while the price of what j and ha.s qualified for benefit pay- them at prices not in excess of the he sells is about half of that. So that nicnts w'ilL fare better than other- market. / present the ‘fair exchange’ value of wi.se.” ’ ‘ Fariners will be allowed to buy op- what wauld be,about 90 cents a bush-{ Limited Productioh tions « cotton in thg pool. The op-iel, cotton, 13 cents a pound, hogs j “Who is to decide how many acres tions ^1 equal the amount ‘.he grow- about 17.30 a hundredweight. ButT if should be planted to a given crop?" er agree* fcp reduce the output, in any 4 commodity prices continue to rise in | “The department will make the fin- case at Pegst 30 per cent below last 1 the things farmers buy, the fair ex-jal decision, but we will be guided as year. WHM DO . P. S. Jeanes (change value of what he sells mi^t ' go up in proportion.” j Into Details of Plan I “How are you going to do that?*^, I asked. far as posiijble by the counsel of the people chiefly interested." ^‘How are you going to enforce this reduction of acreage? For that mat ter, how are you going to get this “The Paper Everybody Reads" “W’e are going to try to do it, ririjit, | plan accepted by the individual farm- bv limiting the production of the baric; ers ? ' W'on’t that take ah enormous jmestic markets will normally absorb,’* “I 4o Hot believe the average farm- HAS ADVANCED 33 . PER CENT BUY COTTON GOODS NOW BEFORE OUR ^ PRICES WILL BE FORCED TO GO UP u COTTON WEEK SPECIALS” organdie: Yard 50c VOILES Yard • • • • • « • • . 10c Vat-Dyed PRINTS Yard 10c and 15c BROADCLOTH f' Yard ... 10c 40-Inch SEA-ISLAND Yard 5c Yard 10-4 IJn Bleached SHEETING 25c ^4 — Cotton BEDSPREADS 81x109 — 89c and $1.50 “SlxOO' .’rT; .--“rrTTT-r 'SLOO WASH RAGS 2 for ■ ■ ■. ■ 5c Pair ... .: ; .. 19c » ■ / ('hildren’.s ANKLETS Pair 15c and 25c WASH DRESSED Each —. 50c and $1,95' VOILE BLOUSES Each ...; $1,00 SMOCKS Each . —50c and $1.00 Fast Color CRETONNES 10c and 25c J. A. BAILEY, Merchant x . 1,('