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I VOLUME XXXIII PLOWING PLAN City School. TO BE PUSHEDi County Agents Authorized To Issue Permits To Farmers To - Befrin Plowing JJp of Cotton Covered By Government Con tracts. Reduction To 3,500.000 Bales Under Plan. Cotton Plan For Next Year Orphanage Loses Friend In Gould On New Code Superintendent and Corps of Teachers Elected For New Year. Four Changes In Staff. The teaching staff of the Clinton Total schools for the 1933-34 session, headed by J. Harvey Witherspoon, Program To Be Similar To That In Wheat Belt. Farmers Who Cut Acreage To Get Benefits. New’ York Millionaire Had I^ng Been Interested In Local In stitution and Visited Here Five Years Ago. Washington, July 15,—A new cot ton production contrc^l program to cov er next year’s crop and possibly that who has seiA-ed as .suT»erintendent for |?f took form today as farm ad-1hv every child and ev Farm admin-j i ^*^*^^***^^*^^’ heartened by the • Xews of the death of Edwin Gould, friend of orphans, was received with re-1 pleted w:ithin the past week and was j of cotton growers to this year’s plans ^ died Washington, July 18. istrators today ordered acceptance of yesterday by the board of^P^an, moved ahead with their all contract-offers signed. by cotton i trustees. ; along the whole farm front, grow-ers to reduce their acreages! In the roster of teachers, there ar< ; Formal activity in drafting the new. which have been approved by county only four changes for the coming • cotton program will begin as soon as!^^®**^ ® agent, and county committee, in the;y«'‘'‘- *>»> •>!?•> ^hool Mi.. Jo.ie! distribution of about $100.000,<HH) campaign to reduce the output of the I Pres.I.v of Fa.vetteville, Tenn.. ery member of the Thornwell orphan age family during the past week? He SCHOOL BOARD CUTS BUDGET Forty-Hour Week Schedule Inau gurated Monday. Big Boost In Weekly Payrolls. Mills in Clinton and Gbldville, along with those of the South and nation, began operating Monday morning un- Trhns Almost $10,000 Off As Compared With Last Year, and Reduces Specktl-^ L»t y Hopes To Be'Able To Operate For Full Nine Months Tenn. der the 40-hour w)rk .schedule provid-j 0(1' 1T1 nn * in Oyster Bay. N. Y.. Thurs^iay, night of a heart attack. He was' 67 _ ^ » \ '. > distribution of about $100,000,000 to For a number of years Mr. Gould sue-jthan 700,000 farmers in 16 states!had spent millions of dollars for chil- The board of trustees of the Clin- for in the textile code recently ap- ton city schools in session Tue.sday afternoon, fixed its budget for 19:15-34 at $5/,733.61, which rei)resents a re proved by President Roo.seveIt. At the Clinton Cotton Mills and Lydia Cotton Mills, the working hourpl^^^*®^ compared with the builgev scheduij*- is frcrni 6 a. m. to 2 p. m. for r*'*’ of $9,420.47. The budget the shift, and from 2 p. m. to lO””** 19.32-33 was $67,154.08. The re- m.'for the has been completed. The bulk of these i>ayments for agreements to cut the output of farms staple in the sixteen growing states Miss Louise Sims in the depart- this year by 3,500.000 bales. biology and general science; They authorized county 'agents to ,®”*^ H. Taylor of Greer, succeeds _ issue permits to farmers to begin' Narcissa Gray in the commer-|of tjw* year’s growing crop from 25 plowing up their growing crop, when-' department. In the Florida Street j to 50 per cent will be finished in throe ’ " * " .eeks; in two months the job will be complete. Producers and representative.s the cotton industry ever it is covered by a-contract whichbf .Rock Hill, has w has been approved, .so that farmers j *1’*’ seventh grade, .sue- co may plant feed crops for home con-K^^^*^ John Kilgo. Miss Lily ^^r- sUmption without waiting for formal transferred to this .«bhobl the cotton indu.stry will Jho consulted acceptance of each individual.contract, the .•\caden\y Street school to the i in drafting the new plan hut it was Last week administrators sawl they’^'\'^^ gratle position formerly held byj rejM>i*te<i by aulhoritutive sources that intended to forward an individual Lillian Krxnvn. At the Academy ; a«lministrators already have come tO| ceptance'K* each farmer and warned i school Miss Yai’borough’s placeman agreement on many fundamentals, them against plowing up their crop filled by Miss Helen Milam of thiSj The chief of these is that they in- until this had been received. ' ttm'l to employ the principle of the Another reason for approving early j Pressly is an .\. B. graduate voluntary domestic allotment plan as plowing was that in the lower jwrtion of Erskine college; Mr. Taylor a B. S. far as possible with a prospect of an- of the cotton belt the harv’est has be-! Jtraduate of the I’niversity of South other campaign this fall to obtain gun and administrators are eager to Carolina. Mr. Parr an A. B. graduate | agreements fnim growers to cut next .see the crop destroyed before it is ma-jOf Erskine college, and Miss Milam an , year’s crop and giving Secretary W’nl ii er o years . r.iou adopted. On the 40-hour scale,bonds of the district, leaving only wee^k’s work at all mills will ter-imills of the special levy for ordinary ge of this city, r IVe years iSchool numoses for tho mmincr dren and had established the Edwin Gould Foundation to w’hich he had do nated around ten millions dollai's. Thik work will ho continued, hut it will lack his personal touch. For a number of years Mr. Gould had shown m (Well orphanag ago, he came to Clinton fn his private car over the Seaboard, arriving here at midnight. The following morning.j^ which was Sunday, he went to the orphanage for a visit. He found a girl to escort him and went almost over the campu.s before he maile himself' known to the president. He attended services at the Thornwell Memorial church and dinod with the big family at the dinner hour. Since that visit Mr. Gould has been night shift. In speaking made necessary by a cut of [e yesterday, one of the''*'* mills of the 2.3 mills levied on the P- of the schedule officials stated that the hours wore ithe past year, together v-ith a agreed upon after a census was taken 1 •‘tnluction in the state appropriation. of the employes to ascertain their i'I'tiis leaves the special levy for this preference. Ninety-nine per cent of-^*’®’' ®t 17H mills. Of the mills, the workers requested the scale that i 11 "it applies to interest and retirement minate on Friday night. i school purposes for the coming .ses- At the Joanna Cotton Mills. Gold-salaries and.-items of expense iVille, the hours run from 7 a. m. to 4i<*ntering into the operation of the m. for the day shift, with one hour were reduceii by the boards in out, from 12 to 1, for lunch. The sec-j^l'*’ interest of economy and in com- ond shift runs straight through from I with the new school law as 4 p. m. to 12 a. m. j approved by the recent Icfislatiire. It .Mill executives of the three mills understood, howevei. that the 5L. .'yesterday stated that their payrolls mills reduction will apply for this year' jwill show a weekly increase of ap- nnly. The hoard expressed regret that ture in order to eliminate prospects A- B. graduate of \N inthrop college, of cotton being picked on which the government will having destroyed. —-Administrators said their means that offers to destroy-a acreage pay for order given The complete faculties of the four city schtwls for the coming session follow: High School I lace an option to require those agree-!'tianifesting real interest in the work ^ ing to make a substantial reduction in Thornwell. His esfiecial concern has 'been for the iirotection, hapjiiness am Payments would be based entirely j‘‘“Ituial refinement of the children, 'on the principle that growers will gifts have been for fire escapes jproximately $10,000 as the minimum 1$12 wage under the new federal cmle r becomes effective. At the (’Union Cotton Milks there 350 at reiiuce I are 1,000 employees. \V. R. .Anderson, Jr., chemistry and physics, "'N^iss Olive Tuck, English Miss Gladys i>lilwell, geometry and! ^^”^Udion area of cotton w ill not be .scaled down, that when a. farmer has agreed to plow up 10 acres and his contract has been approved as to estimated yield | trigonometry, and other elements by county agents, j A. I... Duckett, history, the administrators are waiving their, .Mi.ss Lily Mae Werts, I.«tin. right under the contr&ct to cut down! Miss Jusie Pressly, biology the atnount the farmer may destroy |general science. ,, to, for example, eight acres, and to H. H. Taylor, commercial and curtail payment to the farmer pro- gebra. portionalely. j Misis .Azile Livingston, algebra. The order amounted to acceptance! Miss .Ansie Kirven, French “sight un.seen” when contracts have English, npt been received at tabulating hea'd- quat’fprs here from 'counties where agents and committees are just w’ind- ing up their inspections of the acre- ! and general science. offered. .Agents have until \Ve«l-j Florida Street School principal; based on pre war averages on that portion of their cotton—required——tK>n>eHiio Onlv farmers' eon- agrCiung to His for the buildings, playground equip ment, children’s magazines, canary hirtis. etc. In addition, he has made cont rihutions to the general support I reduce their acreage a* given percent-i I*^*^*! over a, period of years from the ; age would be entitled to these pay j ments. and! A parity price is I raise the purchasing oi. 1 farmer’s <iollar to the one designed to power of the same level it and had during the pre-war period. The new’ pla-n w'ill bear many re semblances to the wheat program on which administra!tors will concentrate A. H. McQueen, English and geog- j with what they called an edu- raphy - ’ jcational” campaign some of whose Mis.s Nella Ixmg, home economics loan drive.s Foumlation. was the second son of railixiad builder. Jay Edwin Gould Mr. Gould the pioneer Gould. In his youth he gave indications of having acquired his father’s financial ability. He left Columbia university in 1887 and went to Wall street on his own. Within six' months he had made a profit said to have amounted to $1,000,000, and soon Jay Gould took It was neces.sary to further aries just at this time. In perfecting plans for the ap proaching session, the board expre-sod Lydia‘itself as firmly opp()sed to going into milks, and 550 at the Joanna plant; deln next year. While practically ail at Goldville. Uchools in the county closeii the year W. A. Moorhead, local manager of ; in .May with a deficit, the Clinton the Joanna (’otton Mills at Goldville, ^schtMds managed to wind up the yt*ar stated yi-istenlay that 230 new looms |as they have always done, withou*. a lTaVP‘1imi"l!niygtlgHgd iiy his company ;tfa<ftpit. wUh all .salirrie o paid in fui^ and will be. installed during August, iand with a small balance on hami. In 'I’his increase has been made in order (addition, all maturing bond.- have to balance the looms with their pres-‘been promptly retired ami the nec--- ent spindles, he stated. The insUlla--l.sary allocations made to the sinking tion of the new machinery will call fund to keep it within the law's re fer 100 additional employees. iquirements. The board expre.sseil i - ProviHions of ('ode -j.stdf as highly gratified at the.vshowirtg Hours of factory workers limiterl to made. 40 a \veek. ' methods will be reminiscent of liberty I into his own office. o,..,i The board approved Minimum $12 •" hotitlr. „„„ in North. Machine hours limited lo HO a wiH‘k,i two lal>or shifts. age nesday night to get the contracts intOj the mails. , ■ The message sent to county agents! today said: “The st*cretary of agriculture has authorized acceptance ;ind approval of all producer contracts where same are approved by county agents ar^d county committees. j “Printed instructions and emer gency pei*mit blanki^are on the way to be. used by farmers to secure per-j mils from county agents to immedi-j ately destroy cotton without having to j aw’ait arrival of formal acceptance! blanks. “Instructions and emergency permit j blanks should reach you Fri<lay. In no ev¥nl shall producer begin the <le-! struction of his crop until his appli- j cation has be«*n approved and permit ^ issued by county agent.” i Administrators explained that “the, appl^ation for a permit to take thet land^out oL production does not re-1 lieve the producer of the requirements of executing the formal acceptances 10 Mrs. W. R. .Anderson, Jr., principal, seventh grade. H. .A. ('arr. seventh grade. j Miss Ii'ene Workman, sixth grade. | ■Miss Pai4!!A'abe Elrod, sixth grade, j Thompson Heads Young People .Miss .Margaret .McGord. si.xth grade, j County Baptists, Meetinj? In Miss Floy Owings. fifth grade. Laurens, Present Pageant.. To Meet Here Next Year. Laurens, July 15. — .At the annual meeting of the I,aurens County. B. Y. P. r„ held with the First Bapti.stinot limited to tiansiwrtation compan- church here, R. E. Thompson of i,au-, ies. He formed in 1894 the Continental rens, was elected as the new presi which will be sent out to indTvitfual | jr,-ade. producers. “The application also gives the .sec-| rotary of agriculture the right to cor rect all irregularities, imperfections,; omissions and inaccuracies which may appear in the offer,” they said. j “The producer is also required, un- ■ der the terms of the permit, to fur- .Miss .Anna*ReII Hudson, fifth grade. ’ .M iss .Agnes Davis, fourth grade. Miss Nancy Owens, third grade. .Miss Ina ('urry. swond grade. Miss Lily Yarbon»ugh, first grade. Academy Street School Miss .Alline Newsom, principal, fourth grade. Mrs. Teague Harris, fourth grade. Mrs. Hugh R. Workman, third grade. Miss Martha Davidson, third grade. Miss Lucy Burns, second grade. Mrs. J. Gary Martin, second grade^ .Mi.ss Collette Griffin, second grade. tnct, .Miss Lillu* Nekson, second; Miss Mrs. John \\. Little, first grade. Mrs. L. B. IWIIard. first Rrado. ■"“'•y r M-l Miss H-Irn Mil.m, first irraile. -eopard. fourth Mrs, Halon Mil- , lette was named junior-intermediate Providence School I M rs. H. A. Copeland, principal,! Annual bani..-r awards on the eight- fifth grade. ' point system to the three departments Margaret Blakely, announced, the senior mottir be- dent. Mrs. Robert Taylor, of Prince ton, was named vice-president, and .Miss Clara Tumblin, of I^aurens, sec retary-treasurer. In addition, Mrs. .Margie Stevens the' list of I colored, fo^^ |the year ami fixed .salaries on tl't* newly adopted scale. In the teachers’ ‘r" ‘fu’’ 1 . it is statod that it is ths Child abor abolished, no one under may ii i mp iiyyi. schools fora fiill nine months session, ' ~ Ault if necessary to shorten the .se.f- ! sion in order to avoid a deficit at the 'end of the school year, such action will he taken. Ti'achers employeil will dent, president, chairman of the board j ^ enter the service with this under and finally senior vice-president. ' n- A C Wnffnrfl He was associated with railroad A. Kcmberl, 0l A\orrord j^e new .school law this year terprises until eight years ag<*, when! (’ollejje Dies At 74. Education- all teachers will be jiaid sixtydollars he sold control of the St. Louis South- .j] Leader Nearly Fifty Years, western and erased the Gould name Spartanburg, July 18.—Dr. .Arthur Gailliard Keml»ert, 74, a memlnT of one of South (’arolina’s oblest fami-; lies and a lekder (if educational work ^ .in the state nearly half a century. Edwin Gould became secretary of the St. Louis, .Arkansas & Texas rail way, holding the position until 1891, when the road was reorganizi'd as the iSt. Louis .Southwestern. In that com,- I pany he was successively viee-presi- Noted Educator Taken By Death from the American rai His business affairs, [road map- however, were Match company, later consolidated with the Diamomb Match company, njjpj morning at the home of his and was a director in several banks, j sister-in-law, -Mi^s. Rena Watson, He was 2t) when his father died De- j Springs. a month for a term of six month- by the state. The money reiiuired to pro long the .school session over the .-ix- nionth period, and ^xcc - -:ilarie- i»aiii ab<»ve this amount j mu.-t pro\i,l. : Fy the''district,''TKe new net p**c *' Mt'mlu rs of the board are: B. H. Boyd, chairman, Dr. T. L. W. Bailey, clerk, W. W. Harris,‘^C. .M.,Hailey :tnd ! .Mrs. E. .1. Adair. cember 2, 1H92. The handling of the | j)p Remliert was horn of Huguenot Jay Gould estate by the four of his j in .('harleston May .30, IH60,' elected president of the first dia-|Kix children, who were appointed tcun- entered the field of education CottOH A. degree tees, resulted in long and expensive litigation. In recent years Edwin Gould had] lived in retirement, byt had retained his interest in yachting, polo and oth er sports. ter receiving his_M. Wofford college in 1885. j He syrved a.s head master of Wof- f Prive Pushed ing won by the union of the First Bap- Meld* V<>n Hollen, third grade. church of Uurens, the intermedi- \\. H. Simpson, second grade. . ■ p,-,'or banne Miss .Mrs. \V. H. Simpson, second grade, banners by units of the Miss Martha Wilbur, first grade. Baptist church of I.jiurens. The session opened with devotional Bell Street School (( olored) 'services led by the Rev. T. M. Bostick, John Mims, principal, algebra and of Cross Hill. Address of welcome was geometry. ^ given by R. kk Thompson, w’ith re- Isabelie Jack.son, English and his-. ^^ponse by Miss Maxie Garrett, of The after- Wets Win Ilf Two States ford Fitting school from 1887 until 1895, and as profess(*r of Greek at W(»fford college from the latter year until his death. In 1910 he also was aa&tfHt^Lthe -chairS:-of Ih>»le and psy-! (TioTogy at the college. A past grand chancellor commander .More Than Two Thousa.nd Farm- ers’Si^n Up To Destroy ir>.3.>l Acres. Average Yield Der Acre Is 2.38 I*ounds. nish proof of performance of his ob- tory. ligations under his contract upon the Lillie Smith, general science, form prescribed by the secretary of gy ^nd physics. agriculture and it a.s .expressly pro-, Naomi Garrett, Ijitin and French, vided that the producer shall be en-, Matred McKissick, home economics talks Birmingham, Ala., July 18. more than half the vote in prohibition referendum in Alabama at 11::10 p. m.. repeal held a 22,451 i majority. The totals from 1,081 out of 12,1.37 ballot bcixes gave nf the Knu'hts of I’ythias of the .state. ;he was awarded the honorary degree — With of Litl.I). by the L’niversity of .South today’s ('arolina in 191.5 and the degrv^^* of doctor of laws by Erskine college the same year. ('. B- Cannon, l.aurens county a.-cnt.. stated yesterday that thr<»ugh M -ti- day, the records of his office >h.>w that 2,0.36 cotton acreage reducrioe contracts had-been signed and' f.- - wanjed to W'ashington. riiiv ’ >'• shows an average for the eouluy . * ner ac titled to ia done^ no com|>en.sation* until Administrators estimated that more; than 10.5(X1.0(K1 acres have been of-1 fered by farmers and that about I 1,000,000 individual producers have, signed contracts. The first checks to| producers covering rewards for de-, stroying part of the crop are not like-1 ly to be kssued until next week, they said. They estimated that approxi mately $100,000,000 will be distribut ed in cash payments to grow’ers. : this' and chemistry. t Ruth .Alexander, seventh gr^tde. Effie .Alexander, sixth grade. . Clara Sims, fifth grade. Claudia Dorroh, fourth grade. Alexine W’aH, third grade. Myrtle Green; second grade. Dorothy Lomax, first grade. Bethel School (C^ored) Supearley Beasley, principal, first. Lucas Avenue B. Y, P. U, I'he after-j2 137 ballot bcixes gave for repeal hiolo- yjoon session opened with devotional (*,3 <>53 against 41,534. Dry leaders 1 exercises by Mrs. Edward Ixing, of 1 Clinton. During the day addre.s.ses and were made by k'urman Finch, conceded that repeal had carried. 3 To 2 In ‘the retiring president; the Rev. Ed- Little R()ck, .Ark.^ July 18.—^^81311 I ward Long, the Rev. WL- D. Spinx and maintaining the 3 to 2 ratio for re- R. E. Thompson. ip^al established in early returns, a A feature of the morning hour was11.40 p ^ave .52,957 a pageant portraying Martha Linda ^^p^al of the IHth amendment and Franks, missionary to China, on 3^ 1^3 against repeal on the basis of lough back home. This was given ;by I f^om 1,027 of the 2,10.3 pre- a group oLY. W. A. members. Miss; state. Incomplete returns Amaryllis Smith, organization pianist,| been received from all of the 75 Arkanaas 18. TO SPEAK HERE SUNDAY The Rev. F. W. Brandt'■«f'-4-n»on. will occujiy the pulpit of the local Lutheran church next Sunday after noon at 1 o’clock. The public is cor dially- invited to attend’ this service.- be pI. 2:18 pound.'^ of lint eottim with 15..’151 acr«‘s signed to up. In siK’siking of the campaign in *e - 'county, .Mr. Cannon ha- in,<triicts.i a;, j farmers who have signed iif» to avva" (Instructions _before_ He further .state.s that plowing. ‘h^!r it is Marshall Smith, cornetist, together second, third, fourth and fifth grades, j Cornelia and Dorothy Roper playing a piano duo. provided the mu- B. E. Geer Elected ’ Furman President Admiral McC^wan Sick New York Washington, July 18.—Rear Admir- jal Samuel McGowan is ill ih New York Columbia*^July 15(^Ben E. Geer,,with a .aerio^ attack of pneumonia sical program. The next annual meeting will be held with the First Baptist church of Clinton.'It was also announced that the next quarterly session wrill be held at Gray Court, Sunday, July 30. Union Service With Lutherans of Granville, who q^iit teaching to accordiiig to reports reaching Wash- become a textile manufacturer, today ington. During the day he ^ was said was elected president of Furmap uni- to have shown signs of improvement versity. Baptist institution in Green- but physicians said he is not yet out ville. of the danger period. i The city union .service next Sunday Cker’s unanimous electioA and hisj .A native of Laurens, S. C!, Admiral j evening will be held at St. John’s accepUnce was announced here by J. Mo^wan has been retired from the ^Lutheran chui^h. The pulpit w’ill be.mately $7,000 from the bequest. The J:-iawtoit'of-IIartavaier^dmirman o£. He- servod-aa,-pay- j (^acupled by Dr. D. J. Wpods^, pas tor j committee in charge of the estate has the board of Furman trua^ws. The master ^neral and chief of the bu-Jof the First Presbyterian church. A | notified the partietp^rn^ mstitutions counties and the vote tabulated was estimated at more than two-thirds of the total cast. ' , Thornwell Shares * Georgia Estate The Thornwell orphanage of thi.s city has 'been notified that an agree ment has be^n reached on a .settlement of the Dorothy Burpee e.state, of New- n*n> Ga. 'The Georgia Baptist orjihan- a^re at Hapeville, the Methodist or phanage at Decatur, and the Clinton institution will each receive approxi- trustees held a long executive session reau of ageoimts, and had been in the bem. since 18d4. cordial invitation is extended all con- that the expected .settlement will be gr^gations‘to unite in this'service, (made by the first of the year. NEW SERIAL “Awakened Woman,” the thrilling story hundred.*^ have been reading in The Chroniefe, comes to an end in this issue. Next week, a f:tscinating Western story-— ^mispermg Rock” will start. Don’t miss the opening installment. The Chronicle . Paper. F^yerybo^ wry im|><»riant that each fanufi; plow up thv exact number of acre'; agree 1 I upon in th(‘ contract since the county i will ho visited by inspectors from the ' agricjllural department. If a tanner ’has not plowed up the required acres, the inspector will report his findings to Washington and the check will be withhold. It is therefore very noce.s- sary, Mr. Cannon stated yesterday, that each fanner de.stroy exactly the amount of cotton agreed to in his con- itracL 1 100,000 WILL GO BACK TO WORK, SLOAN. SAYS New York, July 17. — George .A. Sloan, pre.sident of the Cotton Te.xtile 'institute, said today that the cotton textile indu.stry code, which became effective Monday, should result in put ting an additional 100,000 employee back to work. Frieadg of George R. Holland, ehiaf r, or ponce, will be soiry to knbW 'THB he is confined to his home on Mu»- s * J*