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/, V 4 {. If You Don’t Read THE CHRONICLE You Don’t Get The News. ♦ - - ■ n J I • : THE CHRONICLE 5 5 Striees To Be a Clean New** J • ^ P«P«rt Complete, Newsy, ^ and Reliable. r' ami Reliable. • * n'S s VOLUME XXXIIL CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1933 NUMBER 26 PARLEY OPENS Make* Appeal To AT CAPITAL Cotton Farmer. Hoarins On Textile Code Begfins Wilh Labor Opposing Plan For Wages and Houts For Textile Industry. Fight, On Against ‘^Stretch-Out” System. Roosevelt Urges Support For Cotton .Reduction Campaign In Progress This Week. Washington. Juno 24. •»— President I Roosevelt threw his personal influence ' behind the cotton acreage reduction Washinifton, June 27.—plan for j pro^r>*am today as administrators of raising ,wapres and lowering working!the farm act put final touches on hours in the cotton textile industry j plans for begwining on Monday an in- was put ^efore the industrial admin-j tensive campaign in Ffouthern states] istration today and drew an immedi-' to, cut down this year’s output of the' • ♦ % I ate and “^open expression of dislike | cro]> from labor. 1 In a i)reface to his explanation ofj The day-long hearing brought oppo-! the plan issued under the president’s' sition, too, from elements of the in-1 signature, farmers of the cotton belt dustry tl\at did not wish to come under' were called upon to cooperate in the the code. program under which Secretary Wal- All factions: however, while unable'>ace hopes to reduce acreage about ten to agree on details and on where to' acres and cut down this year s draw the wage and hour lines, ex- production pressed willingnes.s to cooperate in the nntajOT olrtective t>f raiding wage leveir.* - 7- to’stir purchasing power. 1"" "'‘^Port it is given Iry Wse Hardly had representatives of thi "ho are a<ke<l to put it into oper- textile industry who ptvpaie.l the'ation.” the presidents message said, code completed their-presentation with; "This program for the^ cotton^roduc-1 asserting th<it l(M),(M)t) additional men from three to four million bales. “The faith of any jdan depends hiiv ubili- would be employed as a result of it,: when 1’rc‘sident William (ireen of tiie •American Federation of Lalmr olijeet- ed to the . 10-h()ur week, and $1(1 and $11 minimum wage. Quickly, too, sev-^ Vral manufacturers came forward with , re<iue.-ts (hat their plants he ex-1 empted. ■ , Robert W. Johnson, president of er es'«‘ntia!Iy places the respons ty upon the individual farmer. “lie and he alone will, in the last analysis, determine whether it sluill succeed. This plan offers tin* cotton i>roducer a practicable, definite means to put into immediate. api>lication the methoils which congress has jtrescrib- ed to improve his situation. “I have everv confidence that the Johnson Johnscin.Jai’gi. ‘sul'jricai cotton producer will face the facts an.l dressings manufactui ers who operate j'’’^’M’crate their own mills, issued a stateihent of- anil fering to join with (Jreen in demand- , , ing the higher wage .scale. ~ ■* .announced . jy • He also attacked again, the proposal t‘*'tton production chief, lo limit the -4irod.ucLi\J.* _ma chinery. At the end of the day's session Hugh S. Johnson, the .^administrator, who presided over the hearing, gave fully in the reasonabh practical pl'an that is proposed.’’ .An important change in the plan ■\. (j>bb^ the who left for the South to direct personally th<* campafgh -I H,froir,tWt) Bales In t^rospect Washington, June 24.— Administra tors of the farm act said today that a cotton crop 6f about fourteen million bales was in prospect this year. They said a crop of this size, in ad dition to old cotton on hand,' would This change provides that farmers will be .permitted to offer to destroy up to r>0 per cent of the area they a y'igoiou7dinmi to' r..l.ort» ,.f a' .li».ihave planted ii. coHon instead of a agreenient .between himself and .Sec-1 maximum of 40 pei- eent prevu.usly retary Roper, chairman of the cabinet | »innounc.a. ^dyjsory committee named by Presi dent Ro.sevelt. In a formal statement, Johnson said “there is no dissension or disagree ment or snipping or ill-feeling”- in the national recovery administration. He said the administration “repre sents the cohesion and coordination of this whbte^ovemment work. Presented by more than "two-thirds of the domestic spindle and loom op- eratois, the proposed code t>f fair etirnpetition must be ajiproved by the Roosevelt administration before it takes the effect of law binding minor ities to abide by it. . .Johnson, administrator of the recov ery h'gislation, prt'sitfed ovei the heat ing at the start, telling'the thousaml or more persons crowded into the big, hut hot,’ commerce department audi torium that “you are about to be wit nesses <if what may prove one of the Processing Tax ^ Put On Wheat Thirty Cents Per Bushel Decreed ^ Effective At Midnight July 8. i Cotton Order .In Aujjust. | Washington. June 27.—The Roose velt administration tpnight topfH‘d a wildly rising wheat market with for- ! mal imposition of a $150,000,000 pro- j j cessing tax on the grain to finance! the gigantic price boosting program. I The action came by formal procia ' FARMERS FAVOR COTTON PLAN Enthusiasm Grows For Acreasie Redu<|fion In State/ Senator Smith Speakintf For'Campaisrn Before I..ar)>[e Audiences and Urpes Sipn-Up ForN^Price- Raisinjo: Plan.- - (’olumbia. June 2H.—If there wa.s a * farmer who <lid not favor the govern- I mntion. of .kcting .SncreUry of Agri- 'f" ‘'’‘P'*;’’" culture Reiford G. Tugwell. It has the | t approval of I'fesidont RooseVolt. it ‘"r ' rp II 1 1 .v -1 ‘^Jrent, in the Richland county court- 10 .pm ■'■“•■’"'“J’’ h" Itiii not 4nd op I spt at ,10 len s px-r bnsM ‘o b-whon a.skp.) to do so. Thero wore a'hout live midnight July 8. It will be col- .jon i . .i lected from millers and other u.sers of .u,. ,.,,,.,.*1,^.., * • ^ 1 o • . the courthouse to hear Seiiator Smith. - raw wheat. ^ At the .same time, al.so under au thority of the emergt'ncy farm relief j act. a. conpen.^ating tax or “tariff”' e<jual to the amount of-the domestic At the close, of his address and the answering of some iiuestions by Dis trict f’ounty Agent Ward, all who were in /avor of the plan Were aske*! 1 , , 11 ' u * • stand up. It appeared .that all the port.s. The action of the administration will automatically increase by JO cent.s per bushel the cost of wheal to the milh'r, ,with subsequent increases 'down the line to the ultimate eonsiim- er 4)f bri’ud. .Vddeil \o the speetaeular market rise in grain prices, the tax will skyrocket the cost I'f wheat to'ap proximately $!.J0 a bu.sbel. Funds from the levy will be paid to the farmer in the form of A*a.sh “bene-1 fits’’ in return for a promi.se to re duce wheat acreage in HUM and I'JJ.A. | Technically, the amount of the tax is .supposed to enual the diffeienee be- ' tween “depres.sed’’ pr»‘sent levels 'of | ii number of visitors, and a> some of them did not st.ind iif». the fjuestion was put again forjall farmers oppoM'd ; to stand up. ami mine Jitood uf>. The plan as exiihiined l>y .'ser;iti>r “.^mith. in results, in bis words, is “tails, tin* farmers win; huids. the government loses." As i xplaine h ‘>v |S(*nat()r ,‘^mith it i- cotton redu-^ on 'that the government wants. It i-4 ri-'t so much acreage as the reducti< -i -f laereage that will produce ctitton. Al- i ready there are -I'kinjI.liOCi bales of 'cotton on'hand and if a larire erop is produced this time tlu- farmer w !1 ' e. ruined. What the g(>V(*rnment is ty ing to tht‘ farmer is reduce vour South Carolina Gets i Life Of Promise ,, _ $5,459,165 For Roads Comes To An End Claimed By Death Public Works Board Officially Al- Aocaiea $400,000«000 To Stales For Hijufhway Buildintif. Will Griflifi Davis, Popular Youor Alotk Passes Aftei* Lon}*: Illness. Funeral ,services for Davis ,were held .Monday a the I’resbyterian eeinelery an conducted by the Rev. Kthvard Long Washington, June *2.'L President Roosevelt’s public works Itbard today officially allocated amon^ the states $400,000,000 for highway coifstruotion, behind t^his i twenty-six w moreimlesFU* put, men hack tty wor and took jiastor «>f the First Baptist church, i^l i of cotton to X>e sold this year, as. big j under advisement a $1 J5,000,00() hous- Dr. J<)hn’7di*Sweeii7pi^Sri^^^ a supply as a year ago, unless defi-jing program re<iuesteil by the army, byterian college. He had In-en in ill; nole steps to reduce this year’s acrO-1 South Carolina would receive $5,- health for several nionih.s and during and productfon/sm^eeils. j ir>l>,Dl.'i for highways, ami C.eorgia the past few weeks had gradually would get $10,001,000. 1 grown wi*aker until the .sad and <*x. A JO-hour week where feasilde and iieeted <*nd came ..Sumlay aftm noon. “ju.st and reasonable compensation, At the home ami the grave, many sufficient to provide a standard of i fj-jj-nds gatliered ti» pay their last living in decency and comf<»il’’ were t,.]!,1,1,. (,f esteem ami affection to a farm products and the pre-war price siJilc. .Actuajiy at present wheat inW-lT'' will be made for es the levy far exceeds this anuiunt,!^ at M*age p tiw-tnl up at fiom $U--W but .lepartment exiH-rts .said they werej^’,*: ^ Tigurihg on-n«mg-terni average. to thiLiftrmei the ajnount j>L-ot:: I . I ton which he wo.pid have produced on the acre at 0 cents a pound. Thi.s is called the cotton option. This optkm is not to bt* sold before December I and at no} less than lbr» cents a pound, nof later than May 1, IIKU. .As shown ~ Senator Smith, at the present price I k 11 1 Funeral services farmer wouM hare a prof it oTTorm , m-r.. hfld .Siiml.y afUmoon from thr cvnU now. Thr third i, -h .t lo'm!'...-!:':" . ..'."""‘”".1”' •'‘>^"!thr farnirr. after-plow,nit up hix_iiat; and. ^ The (juestion was'Tere asked w.-r.! •'"•“•'Son. if,,.„„ „„v the last rites were conducted by the Laurens. J une 26. T.., rp , ,, , 7 itur iannA-1, ai lei " fnOWing Up ill c.riffin;ton, may plant foialstuffs 4,n the moon ^'y Lghtning Saturday a’ a to W, A. Stevenson ofi ; plant corn in the middles hj-fore piow- age ami the !>a Rev. cotton, and the question drhe--af-('-mn«t+ve- (pialification of risk shouUl the it Governor Acts Columbia, .lime 2h—4toveinor 1. ( . Blackwood today proclaimed next week “Cotton .Acreage Reduction Week” in keeping with the eampaign Rev. J. N. Watson, a former 1.0th of (!r,-.nvlll.., an.l tho Wt. A. Hulilwin of Rabun. Inlri'- ,p,. inenl ..was^in the family plot in thr church cemetery. The prescribed by the board in regula- to 1h‘ launched in the 4<» counties Mon-j lions, announeeil for governing road day to seeun* acreage reductjjon leases | work contracts, along with the stipu- und<‘r a* federal act. . lation that .American products must The governor saiil in an official | he used as much as possiiile. pnielamation that the reduction plan] The army’s program, which calls most momentous meetings of this kind “the only reasonable means of 1 for $ll,rMKl.OOO in new construction that has ever been held anywhere.' .maintaining fair luices for cotton.” jand $10,1)00,000 in reconditioning i»»es-' rgr “We have presented here from a urged "patriotic- citizens and | ent structures, along with about $S5,-. to the urged great industry, with practical unani-j fy,.„jors’’to support the movement. of mity,” he said, “a suggestion ol a method whereby management In that industiy, a^pd labor in that imlu.slry, have joined hands in cooperation to pull this country out of the difficul ties in which w'e havi* been tor the last three years.” But rei)resentatj,ves of th}* mills - George A. Sloan, president of the ( ot- ton-Textile institute; Robert-^ .Amory of Boston, speaking for the Xoi’thein plants, and William D. Anderson of Macon*. Ga., spokesman for the South had not concluded their statements before opposition was v0ice<l. Appearing unexpectedly with a re quest that he he heard. Senator James Boll-Weevil - . Activity Light ( leiiison ('(dlege, June 27. Hot, dry ' w-ather prevailing over most of the state during the month has been fa- voiable to the (levelopment of cotton and at the same lime has been decid- «‘diy unfavortrhle for majAir Imll wee vil activity, says .Alfred Lutken, ex tension entomologist. Reports from county agricultural agents for the week ending .lune 171“ 'show va'iying degrees of plant infes-!^*^* '0O‘),()U0 for non-military works such j as parks and cemeteries, was referred ! by the hoard to a sub-committee for a I report next week. The highway program will he relied ' iqrtin to get humireils of thousamls [hack, to work. 1 .Surveys, plans, specifications and [estimates for the Voaii work v^'ill he under the immediate direction o'f state highway departments, along with im- j mediate, supervision of the construc- . several ,hioad requirements wi re set down by tht* hoard toijay in its r'‘gulation.s. Among them was that there shall' a large number of small projects employ the .maximum of human young man who was highly regarded liy all who knew him. 'ITie funeral Irih- iiles were numerous and handsome. Will Giiffin had just ri*ached his 2()th birthday and had always made his home here. He was a .son of Mrs. George M, Davis, and of the late ‘ .M. Davis, who pr»H*e<led him grave in lir>ii. He was a bright, promising and jmpular young man of 7,' ““ ". , . i, . . ^ . district trustee for many udnnruhle ti-aits of character, and a loyal luemher of the Baptist church. He hud jiumerttus friends here and elsewhere who mourn his untime ly passing, and who unite in extend ing sincere sympathy to the family in their bereavement. Besid«‘s his mothor. the young man is survived by the following brothers and sisters; .Misses /«*lime, .Alina, ('id- lette and Beverly Davis of this city, .Mrs. Lewis .Jones of Macon, Ga., Rob ert Davis of .Atlanta, and George and. services were attended by one of the largest gath- ei'lngs seen in recent years on a simi lar occasion at IVinrelon. ' .Mr. Traynham, who was .M years j of age, was a son of thx' late .-A. .1. Traynham and .Mary .McFuen Trayn- hani of the 1‘rinceton seelion, and he had spent his life on the farm. He had been accounted as one of the uulstund- ‘ log farmers of his .section by B.) Gannon, county farm agent. He was a. meruher of the Brinceton Baptist church and had scrvcil as a school 1 a numlier of years.' His wife died in ItKH. j He is survived by the follow ing sons j and ilaughters; J T. ami I-awrencc Traynham, Kelly Traynham. Glemsou college student; .Mis.ses Hilma, Bessie ’ I whelmingly. and Gcnevievi* Traynham and Gleve- land Traynham, all of I’nnci'looj Two —'’b ** 1 . cotton, and there wa no loai tha ;h«. When .Senator JTmith came into tlic hall ho was greeted with cheers, land his adrlrcss was a|iplaudo<l a MuinbiT of tunes. He was introduced by County .Ag«*nt D. Ii. Hopkins Si-natoi .''^rollh tolil of the difficulties la- had ha i in having anything done foi ‘he faioier in the lliviteii State simate. The , ,ow there was that of the busines- nan who diti not think in terms of agi m!- ture, ami rlid not understand ;hat fuinimg was the basic ridiancc for 'his government and when it came t< the export trade cotton was the king. He insisted that the South still had a vir tual monopoly on cotton. That K -.sia was producing less cotton r+Tan before the World war, and waiFliow' hV.'fAl-' ating for XbO.UO-) bales of .Ameiovin cotton. Ht‘ said that China wa- My- >uV'1.0<>i»,•><>(• I'ales of \nie> cm lo ot hers, Wikter Traynham, f Ireen wood, and Kelly Traynham. Jlonea I’alh; fhi’e»‘ si.slefs, .Mr--. C. T. Flem ming, .Merna, Dials township, and .Miss e.s Ula ami latlla Traynham, Laurens tation ranging from 5 to 4()<) weevils j)er acre, and square infestation rang-1 J 1 ing from 1 to 20 per cent. During PjllltOir - , 1 l.same period la.st yeai, jilant inicsia . , On Visit Here acre F. Byrnes of South Carolina, made an '”7'’’77.7‘_V V.. 'mo labor, ajipeal for curbing the stretch-out system. -A few minutes later Green told newspaper men to the prime provisions of the code the-wages and maximum hours juovid ed in it- ner cent 'TTie c^^ proposed ff 4tf-hour f generally for the industry,-Avith a $11 ^ . a week minimum scak in thu North | a|.plyin(f inhson wht-re tho for unskilled inside vvoikeis and infestation is great enough to war- in the South. . 7'' • rant control measures. -A great many Green suggested instead a maxi-poi- mum of 32 hours a week, s^id .5U effectively with the 1-1-1 inix-;j,even congregations in this commu- even more to be desired, and as.serted ^^^^ Older cotton with well devel(H>ed ^ity in 181)2-93. He occupied the pul- .South. did not haw tlic control of ‘hf cotton crop of the woi I f. tii r-xp!a ned how billions, of dolhi'N had fucn^uo- firopriattul for the railVoad.s, in ius_ tries generally and ih> iratici .conuntn- ii‘s,' blit that finally the goiuunrn mt had been persiunlcd' to do somethiftg for the farmer. But he said now it wa.s Up to the farmer to take'ailvantage of the government’s offer. If the farmer did not destroy the growing cotton ^ z^ct II tion ranged up to 3,000 weevils 'per, and square infestation up to oH cent. . ■ Lion should Ih* giveri, Air. XuC- advises, to i^hecking individual a $14.40 weekly minimimi wage would be too low. , Union Services ■ ' Begin Sunday The RevyVV. A. Hefts, hdw ofTlam- tTdfeme'YRllfPns TMitif^ t^ berg, has been spending several d^iys; H. Townsend 1 ule de^iartment iifficials in the city as the guest of .Mr, and to show cau.se *iu*xt Wednesday why •Mrs. J. M. Pitts. ' ithey shouhl not Ik* forhahlen to. re- Mr. Betts is a former pastor of the; quire the licen.^e renewals by car own- local -Methodist church, having served ; ers. The complaint fil«d by lawyers for the group sets forth that they fuiid squares or blooms should be poisoned] pit of the Methmiist church last Sim- 50 cents each for drivers’, licenses with four to five pounds of calcium U^y morning and was most coniially! when they iHuight their 1933 license arsenate dust per acre-after the in-|*j^,.eeted by a number of old and new'plates, and thoqght that payment en- jfestation has reached 10 percent. ‘friends who heard him with interest, j titled them to drivei^’ licenses for a ' Picking up and destroying fallen, a letter of reminisyenCes and impres- year at least. Istjuares will be of great value in re-Ljons of Clinton today, appears etse-j .The act, providing renewals by July [.ducing the number of first generation j where in toilay’s paper from Mr. jl, they contend, applies only Mo m<.- weevils, particularly if the w eather j Betts. j torists who do not ow n cars, and the .lames Davis «»f this city. I Kiwanians Hold Driver’s Ucense Law biter-Club Meet Taken Into Court _ ■ .'Vlciiihers of the Clinton and Green- erop the cotton crop would destroy the Columbia, June 2L Charg-ing that wjmd Kiwanis club's heUi a joint meet- tanner. What the government \va< lo- the State Highway department Would Greenwood .Monday evening, j^g was like'giving a man something with officers cliarge of the -w as -featured by -afr atWre^oi-by IL tW farmer- would havtra proL liohin.son. Jr., of Cnhimhia, on County ,t of $20 a hale now. 'Fhe farme/ was Government as proposed by the South practically offered from $0 to $12 an acre rent for the land on extract double fees for driv«*rs’ IL- cen.ses from car owners, a group of of the latter club in -ind |»aying him to take it.- If the -ut- prograin. the meeting] ton options hud been closed at 8 c.mts Carolina Council, apd thi* address of rent for the land on iirhich he Carl K. Kndicott. national president, had the cotton, was sold as much col on “Fellowship.’* The addres.s in full; ton at 8 cents a pound as he could pro- w’a> rt‘ad by the Rev. .M. R. Wingard. j ^^uce on the land, and was permitted .A large - number of Im-al Kiwanians'to plant food crops on the land. were in Greenwoml for the occasion. ADVERI’ISING IN PRESS WILL BE EMPHASIZED But, he said, the farmer must keep faith with the government. The cotton planteil must he de.stroyed. and it must be the good average cotton. He said that this wa's the greatest boon the farmer had ever had from the gov- The first "V"- become* cool ami rainy during the lat-1 - I mer will be held next Sunday evening at 'eight o’c^k with the congregation of the Nor® Broad Street Methodist church of thw city. The pulpit will be occupied by the Rev. M. R. W ingard, pastor of St. John’s Lutheran church. All denominations are invited to unite in these services during the months of July and August as they rotate with the local churches. ter part of .June. 22 Mills Tkx Levy Laurens District Sorgee Posts Bond In Gwinn Death Sor- < huttanoogri, Tenn.. June ‘27. — An 1 l . • • i u- ... . u • .V .ernment, and what rejoiced him most intensive campaign to emphasize the' , • a 1 .i. e l • , , . a- • , wss wh»l it meant to the faniitT s value of newspaper advertising and I highway department therefore luck.'* importance of the South as a , ... .. authority in their cases « * 1 ■ 1 .1 .1 v. life ne had pledged himself to lilt the ^nuLiioiiL> in im.li .market was diTided Upon today by the,. , - /• . #■ u.. I V n wr U • . burden from the farmers wife. “** Southern .Newspa|>er rublishers a.s-! CONFERENCE CLOSES s(K‘iation. „ The ,as.si>ciation, meeting in annual The senior conference in session the convention, unapitnously approved the past week at Presbyterian college, report of its advertising committee, immended the campaign, an estimated investment Lauren.s, June 23.—Talmadge 'gee, charged with slaying Colie Gwinn j ^losed Tuesday .and the 300 young which reci lJune 10, was released from jail yes* | people in attendance left immeiiiately calling for was what it meant to the fannt'r’ wife. When he first went into public the He had struggled to do this, and so long as God gave him strength he w'ould continue-to dp this. r MR. HENRY BETIER Mr, and Mrs. Tom Workman and Miss Irene Workman are visiting rela tives in Batesburg. Laurens, June 24.7-At a session; June 10, was released irom jail yes-; peon Friday of the taxpayers of Laurens .terday afternoon upon completion of 1 for 'thekj3.res|»ective homes. Confer- hy the pii^li^hers of $&t)0,000. .school district, which embraces the j a $2,000 bond. Judge Featherstone hadjences held for both intermediates and ^^ Laurens city graded school, the tax'gi^anted bail nine days ago. The bond‘seniors this yeair, have been unusually .Margarei--Kem has returned to her levy for another year was placed at | sureties are B. E. Sorgee, E. W. Pat- successful, according to the leaders‘'^in home in Greenwood afle viaiting her the same figure as last year—22 mills, j ton and Marion E. Settler. [charge. grandmother, Mrs. Agnca Kent. [■i^a kclfgoaijiigiLLr’TLrr The friends of W. J. Heary will learn with plea.sure that he is now im proving and resting comfortably at his home following a slight stroke of paralysis last week.