The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, May 18, 1933, Image 8
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S. C. WETS CLAIM
■ ,* FOUR VICTORIES
•^Columbia, May W. — Four major
victories have been scored by wets in
this state in the last* year, Romulus
Reese, executive secretary, told the
boart! of directors of th^ South Caro
lina Association for Prohibition ^
form today in his annual rept^rt.
“Despite these victories,” Ret^
said, “the frreatest test is yet to come
when the state votes on ratification.
We must not let up until the votes
THE cumos pHRONlCLE, €LINT|QK; S. C
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THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1933
coni?re.ssional leaders about the possi
bility of compromising the debts. ,
The debt situation will come to the
fore in the London conference, beyond i
a doubt; and that may be the rock on
which the conference will split. It is
nominally for the purpose of consider-'
and the duties of the different execu-
tkve. defined. JUlintOn HOSt
Peek, Wilson and Tugwell
'Mr. Peek is to administer,the trade
aarreements jyovided in the new law.
His usk will be to line up^ali the!Greenwood. Clinton, Honea P:
various units in agriculture and agri-
ing means of raising prices and stabi- cultural industry.
Washington, .May 15.President
Roosevelt’s declaration over the radio
lizihg world currencies, but disarma
ment and war debts will be so hope
lessly mixed up with those consider
ations that there’ is a good deal <of extent put into the new law, will be
doubt here whetlmr the cpnference will j the wheat administrator,
come to anything. If it is a failure.
Professor M. L, Wilson, said to be
the originator of the domestic allo‘,-
ment plan, whick has- been to some
To Many Lions
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ail
Xc'f^la^’d and Miss Norma HaHett;'
Negro spirituals by the Joanna quar
tet, and several dance and song num
bers by little Miss Martha Lou Blake
ly and’W. P. Baldwin, Jr., directed by
h i Misses Nany Owens and Anna Bell
and McCormick Chibs Gather
Here. McSween Makes Talk.
Hudson, with Mrs. J. F. Ja^'otsTTr.,
as the accompani^st.
this was the last meeting for the
district before the state convention to
• Bctw«n 75 and 100 members of the SparUnburg * May 22 and
Clinton, Greenwood, Honea Path and {
McComiick Lions/ clubs attended
a,v.v..-.L -1 * failure,: Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
that he intended to use the power to | however, the losers will be the other, Rexford G. Tugwell will specialize in
„ inflate the currency only if, as and j nations and not the United States, for j the effort to expand our foreign mar-
Reese listed the lour "wei vicionesbecame necessary to do so i^ cc®-j ket for agricultural products through j jUcSween took as his subiect !
as follows: ^ quieted the Tears of a good manyT^'^^ affairs and can do about as we, reciprocal trade agreements and tariff m stressing the fact that I
- The vote of the South Carolina cTeH word'“innati\” *meant I regardles^of wh^it the rest of'treaties and the effort to obtain inter-^^is was needed by the nation todav*
egalion at the Democratic, national j national ggrce-ment nft emrtrtd W pro-"—
,23, and Di.strict Governor Clai kson
J *; declared that it was one of the best
district meetini^ here last Thursday i j
night at which 'Dr. John McSw'een, j _______________
president of Presbyterian college, was I ^ ^ i
tbs pvincipai speaker. ' ] Couiity Garden
at the Democratic
cbnvehtiWi^lvI^aT-^^
mixlification.L
A majority vote of the South Car-,
olina national delegation in Washing
ton to carry but the planks of the
T>emof*riUic party.
Passage of the beer bill in the legis
lature. ’
Approval of the repeal ratificatior
convention bill providing for election
of delegates at large.
Prospects Fine
when the Tuark
many ten ye^'s ago,
went so low4hat. it took a billion\^’f
th; in to bby a ham sandwich,
wa.s not a case of an inflationary
r 'oviirieni running away, but it was
■ (lelii)eratP effort on the part of the
’.len German government to.'.wq-ie out
he .-'"ipitalistic class.
.Nothing of the sort i.s contemplated
' duction in* other countries.
of the essential, of leadership, he de- , Laurens, .May I6.-"VeirelaWe gar-
View of some close to the President
Farm Relief Differences j Secretary Wallace will be in general dared paying., tribute" to President uniformly good over the en-
How’ the new farm relief act is go-j &ud is expected to devote ]«'ranklin D. Roosevelt as a courageous county, in fact, they offer an im-
g to work out nobody now professes >uch of hi^ .pwn ejiergy .to emphasiz-deader, has dared'step from the food .supply more promising
■ ' ' I path when he considered it for' ^
ireca.st. It is frankly experimental,! iJiF the nece.ssity for acreage reduc-jheaten path ^
and in the case of all experiments, j •; , ! the good of the nation to do so. Dr ' cannon, farm agent, in discussing
there axe a lot of conflicting idea.s as! Now Ready For Work j .McSween wa.s introduced by Charles pifo.spects.
to which'bf the numerou.s plans to try
first. The dispute between the advo
cates of cliffehmt ways of doing it be
came so acute fKat the President him-
hy the American government; and it
Other speakers at a meeting of the is. regarded as quite possible that the
a.<sociation’s directors here urge.l president will not have to use very self had to ta^ ¥^nd
the^ be no let-up in the activities of much of the inflationary power given Secretary Wallace believes
the organization until the ratifica-1 him before the downward course of
I the dollar meets the rising course of
organization
tion convention.
that
acreage reduction is\the important
thing; it alone will cube the major
..No time is being lost, and it will not I H. Garrison, of Greenvilb?. deputy:
The home gardt^n is an economic fac*
he long before every farmer grow’ing governor of the .«ixth sub-district. growing importance, he said,
cash crops in every part of the United In addition to Dr. McSween, those this ^year has Seen more general
States w'ill receive a visit from a local who were heard during the evening
repre.sentative of the department of
agriculture to explain the whole
were \\\ K. Charles, of Greenwood,
past district governor; John Clarkson,
commodities at a leve) comparable | troubles of ^the ibajority
with that of seveh./years ago, when I be thinks. George N.
every'body was more prosperous than
most jieople had dreamed of ever be-
'comiDg^ • ; - - ..... ...
There seems to be a quite definite
determination to put silver back to its
old monetary
farmers,
who for
years represented various faVm or-
Peek,
scheme to him and‘show him how he' of Newberry, district governor; and
can make more- money by not produc-: the. Rev, J. Edgar Stockman, presi-
ing than by enlarging- his activities. dent of the Greenville club. J. Ferdi-
The explanation now i.s that con- nand Jacobs, president of the Clinton
gress will get through about the first Rotary cliib, was also a guest,
of June, having accomplished more in' Robert S. Owens, president of the
ganizations as the principal lonbrist
for the equalization fee ^lan of faVin-three monthti than any previous con-[Clinton club, presided, and was coni-1
relief) believes .that farmers sTiouldlgr^ss eVer aecdmplfsbed 'In'' three|fhende(T“by'the visTtor.s 'fdF’^h^^
be permitted to raise as much as they ^ars. The talk in the lobbies of the lent program arranged.
interest taken in providing for them.
Trucking 'on a moderate scale >.s also
succeeding very well.
The gardening industry i.s receiving
attention very generally in the'town.s
and textile villages. In the city of
Laurens there is a 5-acre community
garden, laid off in quarter-acre plots.
It has been planted and is being cul-
' tivated under the. super\’i.sion of a
-overseer. .A - balanced. -va.riety--
of vegetables has been provided, and
is doubts like, under a government guarantee: C^itol, however, is that most of the . Entertainment fc:itures included &; ^ ’^reHef
ful that Mr. Roosevelt will make a, of an eijualized domestic price andjhe
step in that direction until the world [ fui’plus over domestic consamption to
menibers will not start- home until number of selection.s by the harmonica :
economic conference, which meets in , he dumped abroad for whatever it wiM
, London on June^ 12, has had a chance bi*ng
to consider international
• the remonetization of silver.
they have had a chance to read up on band from the State Training .school, agency which is sponsoring the pro-
the biUhNbey have passed so that they, under the direction of Miss Ellen ‘laction enterprise,
can give their constituents some sort I ■ ■■■ —- ■ ■■ ■— . field crops, cotton up to a
Get your
Pontiac now and
enioy the thrill of/
V '
a fine :new car
Without any inflation of the cur
rency \vhat*"ver, but merely as a result
of the power known to be vested in
th«* Lresidenl, and of his action in
locking up all the nation's monetary
gold, commodity prices liegan a sharp
rise in .-Xpril and are still going up.
This has made .Mr. Roosevelt’s friends
very happy, as it seems tangible evi
dence that his administration has al
ready been able to keep its campaign
promise of higher prices,.
The Debt Situation
The only financial question pending
wKiPh is still urrsettleil is t'hat of
EuroiieHn war debts. Europe i.s still
trying to wriggle out of paying them,
and congress is still firm in the de
action for I -Mr. Peek, having been .selected to of an idea bf what they are about, request It was enough th«t he sent I Food stand a.s a rule, and thp grain
Tie the administrator of farm relief For it is literaHy true that the major-- them a bill and a.sked them to pass e.-ipecially ''heat and
under the new law, had quite a run-in ity of members iK both hou.ses do not it and outside of a few leaders the ciops.
w'ith his chief, the secreta.i y of agri- pretend to under.stbmd all the impli-1 members and .senate asked no ques-
culture, it is reported. At any rate, cations of the moasb|-es.^'W*hich theyjtions but voted whatever it w'as Mr. SUBSCRIBE TO THE ( HRONICLE
the situation has been smoothed out j have been adopting at bbe President’s j Roosevelt ifsked. ' “The Paper Everybody" Reads”
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Up out of the bojf f TtaRnanf
business ixips Pontiac. Sales
increasing every month
Ahead of last year.
The sheer newness of. ihe
car 'the balanced ' aiue that
anyone ran see and f'^ei, the
good Old spring sunsrlne that
waj^s hearts end thaws out
i termination that they must be paid in
full. That is not to say that unreason
able offers of immediate cash settle
ments might not be considered, but no ]
such offers have been received and j
j there has been no exchange of prom-1
ises. regarding the debts between this
j government and those who owe us.
Neither has the President talkeil with
coie^4^t make a combina
Ppp that a lot of folks can’t
resist forever.
Stop any Pontiav"* owner
anywhere and ask tiim what
he thinks of his Pontiac Econ
omy Straight Eight Ask any
automobile.man what the
men in the business think of
Pontiac
Mrs. McGlothlin
Killed In Wreck
Wife cf President of Furman
University .Meets Death Near
Kings .Mountain.
Everywhere, there is the
greatest enthusiasm ever ac
corded a Pontiac. Never in
our history have so many
otvners written amji phoned
caj
us to say how' pleVsed they
are with their new Pontiacs.
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Kings Mountuin, N. May D5.
Two persons, one of them Mrs. W. J.
.McGlothlin, wife of the president of
Furman university. Greenville, were
fatally injured and several others, in
cluding Dr. .McGlothlin, suffered hurts
of a less serious nature when two au
tomobiles collideil a mile and a half
east of here this afternoon.
Mrs. -^McGIothlin died a short time
after being brought to a physician’s
office here, while E. A. McCann. 35,
employe of a Charlotte plumbing con
cern. said to have been the driver of
one of the cars, died shortly iiefore
11 o’clock tonight. .His condition had
that he was not moveil
Every* day Pontiacs are at- 1 ^
. u *u • to a hospital after being brought to
tracung new buyers-by their , „,fi,e here.
k>oks,theirperformance,their d,.. McC.idthiin was not beiieveti so- ;
comfort, their safety, their niously hurt. After he was taken toi
a hospital in Gastonia, physicians
said his principal injury appeared'to j
be shock and several broken ribs and
economy, their durability and
their low price^
Don’t resist temptation too
long,—get one now. You’ll
be in good company - and
big company. ^
that, hjvri ing complicalions, ho' wouTif
’bf di.'^chai'ged within a few'days.
VV. .L Mc<;iothlin, Jr., and
His son.
Winner Fallow, who wer^ passengers!
in^ the .McGlothlin car, \\ere only]
Alt closea cars have Fisher
bodies, tvith Fishnet, No
U^ntiiutiom !f«m aca’I
sliuhtly Ivurt.
A. C. Walker, of Charlotte, plumber,
‘who was riding with McCann, was in
* a hospital at Gastonia with injuries
' \
summer driving.
"^iTmTiTlTre’TioaTrtmT-Tiity
Inrit.
PONTIAC
THE ECONOMY STRAIGHT EIGHT
585
And up. f. o. b. Pontiac
fasy G. M. A. C. terms
A GENERAL MOTORS VALUE
Thomason
MOTOR COi
East.. IfBiR'Street
Laiiraui,S.C.
not believed serioVis. Miss Louise Rus-j
sell, of Charlotte, another passenger j
in McCann’s car, was only slightly
hurt.
Dr. McGlothlin and members of his j
family were enroute to Washington to)
attend the meeting of the Southern!
Baptist convention of which he is a
former president.
.\ulhorities said the collision oc
curred alKiiil 3 p. m. after a sliowe/
had %ade the highway treacherous.
Both cars \yj?re {demolished, Mrs. Mc-
Glothlfn’s body was sent to Greenville
tonight, but Tuneval arrangements
wiere not exi>ected* to he comj^eted be
fore tomorrow.
Mrs. McGlothlin was 58 years of
age, having lieen born- at Anderson,
in 1875. She waX the former ‘ Mary
Louise Breazeale and in 1894 married^
Eugene Franklin Bates, of Edgefield, j '
They moved to Greenville where Mr.
Bates died some years ago. She was
married* to Dr. McGlothlin in 1929 and
since that time she and heT husband
had raacle their' home, on the Furman
campus. ^.
Surviving in addition^io her hus
band, are two brothers, Eugene Brea-
zeale, of Greenville, and William Brea-
zeale, of Anderson.
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