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page eight ✓ TOE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON. S. C. / THURSDAY. JULY 20. 1933 100 MILUON DOLLARS WILL BE SENT OUT IN NEXT THREE WEEKS V - - Funds Win Be Speeded South Without Delay. Seven Hundred Thousand Farmers To Share In the Crop Fund. About S.500.000 Bales of Cotton Kept Off Market. Washinirton, July istrators put real 15.—Farm admin- speed into their Te^as, where they raise cotton hy the mile, producing about a third of WAIHUMnW In quired under voluntary agreements, which they are asked to plow up, to I has been enlarged ar. I w;:i a Want Authority bring th 193a crop down to ’inder ten What most manufacturefa . feel is j million bales. " , < ;neede<l>authority for their trade asso-1 The wheat processing tax nas gone ly^y “can’t count ’em all” and fifteen jciations to fix minimum prices and * millers are pass-i acts, including “Rusty” compel'all to adhere to them. If they more than the 30 cents a bushel j Qj.jg America’s greatest black- on to the bakers, who in turn are put-ij^^.^ comedians and late A1 G. Field ting up the price of bread by about l^i^gt^el star. Another big feature is ® ^®y probably will be| Ajo,.^^„ Hinkle, “The ‘ Whispering profit enough to carry the increased i Permitted to get by with that increase, cost of Droduction. the secretary of agriculture is on u. .. . ,, It is being freely predicted‘here that! ^0^ any '^"reasonable rise Washington, July 17. Experienced administration will do an about- prices and it will not politicians m W’ashington—and there ^f^ce on this point and authorize price-bakers to try to gouge ular show. The Billroy management j states they are carrying so many girls are going to be saddled with highar 'wages and shorter working hours, 'they w’ould like to feel assured of crop price-raising plan today in an i the crop.will get the biggest cut from effort to get the bulk of $100,000,000 the pa>Tnents to farmers, at least a into the hands of cotton farmers dur- third of it on the basis of preliminary! r .u i. .i -• • a y \ . . ' itb^ir r*iictnTripro 10.11.^. wu l*ire more of them here to the square^nxing in order to hasten the program customers before—are w'ondering of reemployment. mentators Rising prices of agricultural com- . , u 11 .u T J T> ■ modities far are held here to.be the .\bout 00 per cent of the farmers [ began to call the Liondon Economic ing the next three weeks. Originally it was estimated that it would take six weeks to two months to give this money to the ccrtton farm- estimates by administrators. The av-, erage payment per acre will be about. ever $9.50, they belie\e. ; [why newspapers ers in sixteen states. But that has been'who.se contract-offers have ^on tabu-' ^ “failure” before, it had cut in half since Secretarv Wallace lated so far elected to take their re- result of the fall “of the dollar more than to any other cause, lii^ the case [ . , , . really begun. As a.matter of fact, the of wheat, serious drought conditions Friday announced formal acc-ptance wa-d for plowing up growiog ^-ork »'educe the crop expecta- to the cotton program by Tdd.O K. m the form of 7“^; confrere 17^? a, Lhlv sue- tions. and that has helped put up the wHo to cut tHoil' ticvos oT>*ion ‘on hIkiuI 2,(M)0,()00 Hfllc'P oi'tne conicicncc so h. ^ y *■ . . ^ j-.*.* u* ■ • * ■ - . , a > )-overnment-held cotton equal to the cessful from the American point of obtains in j Keeping only the favorites and prin-1dancer. All in all, there timated pnKluetion of the land they'View. ^ cotton however, which has gone up pjay^rs, Billroy’s Comedians, , sixty-five people with the show Forty, per cent favored the' The French tried to stampede the P^’^POriionately more than wheat and Greatest Show on Earth for the whereas .space does'not permit us ' . . . . . whipn r*nmTnnnitv tnnro ig o Viiicrn BUlroy’s Comedians Coming Here On Tuesday, July 25th 25 to .50 per cent. These 700.000 farmers, in return for voluntary agreements . to destroy a part of their growing crop. will lease to the government the land on which the cotton was plowed under, or cut down. One hundred million dollars, or thereabouts, will be paid to them in rent for the leased land. The theory is that the 3,.500,000 .•ales of cotton thus kept off the mar ket .will raise the price of the remain ing lO.OiKMKKt. Several new taxes are being levied, effective .August 1, to provide the nec essary money. They are: .A 4.2 cents processing tax on each pound of cotton lint, payable at mill where it is turned from its raw cash” plan calling for a higher scale]British and American delegations into .Money,” which plays here Tuesday,'^" the attractions with the of cash payments based on estimated yields per acre. Farmers whose contracts are ac cepted calling for options can take them up at any time and stand to real ize from $40,000,000 to $.50,000,000 on , them, bringing the total which farm-}^^**"^ Roosevelts message ers of the cotton states may realize to abo-t $150,000,000. The program provided that these options be issued representing cotton at 6 cents a pound and market prices are now alxiut 11 cents, an increase fh( iof about two cents since the jilan was drafted. If 2.000,000 hales for optfons agreeing to an immediate stabiliza-‘ surplus and the prospect, j^iy 20, bring to Clinton the greatest we are sincere in our belief that - . 1.1 n IQ rcr^i* f Viq n ovQr nn ]ooc t V»q ‘ L>:11 «%m tion of the dollar and the pound in » larger crop than ever unless the ^^ray of musical comedy talent that who attend Billroy’s Comedians terms of gold, declaring that the con-’P/^n for plowing under a quarter of wonderful show ha.s'ever carried. Itheatre here Tuesday, ference could not go on until that was'^he 1933 crop before picking time be. playing a week’s engage-delightfully surprised done. The British stood firmly with ca»’»'ied out. ^.jjj ^ight the Americans against this, and Presi-j Making Progress only and have combined a full week’sladies accompanied by one paid foimi into c!«»lh and thread. The spin- are finally re(juirod and farmers gain ner can add the tax to the price of his four cents a pound, their return from pr(t<liK‘t. tht‘se will he $-l(),00(l,IK)0. A siniiiar levy on competing pro-* George .N’. Peek, chief administrator duct- al.-o levied at ^eslahlishInents of the farm act. Friday night descrih- where they undergo their primar.v ed the rysiionse of cotton growers to tian-^ition from the raw to a’finished the acreage reduction campaign as j product. j marking “an i-poch in .American agri- .A floor tax,, levietl on part or fully culture.” ' finished cotton gm»ds which are held, lie said growers who .signed con-1 by mills, manufacturers or wholesal- tract> provided “an answer to critics ers. “Thrst- goodv^^re.-vlxi. be weighed i \yh()_said farmer's are too fndividual- and a tax apfdied at the rate of 4.41K4 istic and tbat fariiH*r.s w ill Hot cy-; rent- a |K»und. t»i .5.2 per cent higher operate.” than the raw cotton tax. w'ith deduc-1 Fully .A. ( ohh, cotton production ^jon.- for weiglit of buttons and other chief, who directed 22,000 extension -AND NOVZ-COMES T/1 ahirvoTunla 1 y fieT? workers in a cam-, . ^^Tg^rf through «} Xte^ ^.n.<gitLoiLJTraterials. ' Retail dealers with colttin, goods han.i have thirty days t<* 'disjiose of than two weeks. sai<l farmers had in- them without paying a tax. .After that, 1 (licaled their willingness “to launch it will apply t<» tht-m at the same rate upon a program of planned produe- as to w hulesaler.s. !tion.” ( omjH-n-atory imjHU t taxes will he j He sai<l “this program will bring levied. great benefit tp the entire South and bluntly putj A permanent rise in cotton prices an end to the P’rench effort. 'and all other farnj commodity priceji From the point of view of France, |mast depend ur>on reduce production, it seems necessary to the political fu ture of the pre-sent" government to keep the French currency on a gold basis. The h'rench people are still grieving over- their capital losses when the franc was debased from a value.yf 20 cents gold to about four! cents. Any further change in their i currency system, it is feared, would n'sult in a s(K-ial revolution, probably W'ith a Socialist government coming ^ into power. j ' I.ike a (’on vent ion j “The London conference is just like any political convention in America,” said one shrewd coniinentator here. “Evmyhody knows that most of the didegat.es don’t know what’s going on. The real work is done in c<*mmitt(*eS f iwhose concliisiofTS are raij^Hsl by thu-t convention. Ixindon hs^s now got iUs j committees set u|>. and they are at and whatever the conference the administration holds. As this i.s one, never offered here before and all written it .seems probable that enough the vaudeville acts are newh Bob Fi^h- cotton grow’ers w’ill accejit the govern-i er and his Palais Royale Band. “The ment’s offer to lease the acreage ^ Hottest Music since Nero Fiddled.” entertainment into one nieht of grand,! ^'^ket , will be admitted ab.so- glorious fun and beautiful girls, girls,; girls! The play itself is a brand new WHAT DO P. S. Jeanes DO? TilE GREATEST ^.ON EARTH FOR THE MONEY INCUR BIG,BEAUTIFUL, POSITIVELY WATER PROOF the resdit of therr d^ih-h' OW YOl/VE BEEN WAITING ^ 65-PEOPLE-65 GLORIOUS GIRLS M W£ FLESH AND BLOOLH^r CAAWfl) 6VAUD^ILLE-I5 ACTS OMSlGIRtS?. GIRIS!!! singV DANCE!! nillHY!!l ! er’aTTohiJr. Investment Priced SHIRTS FINAL SHIPMENT OF SHIRTS AT OLD PRICES—50 Dozen To Go t Riegel Shirts... $1.00 All Sleeve Lengths Piedmont (Irregulars) ^ Sizes 131/2 to 19 — 3 for S2.00 Boys’ Shirts 50c Sizes 12 to 141/2 Men’s Neckband Shirts and $1.00 HIPP & ADAIR The, major victory thus far has l>een w'on by the* Amt'rican delegatiLin, through the general acceptance of the American proposal to reduce the gold re.serve percentage behind curnmeies and to permit the use of twenty t er cent of silver in such reserves. The ad ministration s(*ems firmly committed to the remonetization of .silver, and the outlook now is favorable for com- 'Iplete cooperation of all the great sil- ' ver-using and silver-producing ^na- r-4ionH. _ — I PVesidenjl Roosevelt’s program for 'higher commodity prices all over the ^ world has also been accepted in prin- ciph* by the chief delegations at Lon don. I 'I'he Ibillar’s Level ^ Th»‘re is a decidL-d belief here that, ])eihaps within a couple of months, perhaps not until the end of the y<*ar, i whenever th<‘ commodity price level : reaches a point compai uhle with 192<»k| I the dollar will h«* stahili'/L'il at a point' probably aliout <>0 per cent of its pres-1 ent gold value. In the meantime, the [dollar will he permitted to “run loose” jand find its own level, in foreign 'trade. [ I’riees g«*nerally are rising, hut the ■ average of 'basic eomnuxlities is .still I more than 30 per cent below the 1926 f average. Every ri.se in price has re sulted .so far in starting up factory wheels and putting men back to work. Every jwssible effort is being made by the Industrial Recovery adminis tration to bring industries into line ■W,ithJt.hri» of fhir practice, mini mum wages and maximum work hours. A good many industrial leaders are beginning to show that they do not like the idea of being compelled to co* j f-i with others in their respecr! || i uAwes|-Ktt™*^ HJ.OHPAN{ED8tOM£ f¥UO ADULT IKKET BLUE^o TENT THEATRE EMPHATICALLY, THE WORLD’S AND MOST BEAUTIFUL TENT SHOW: REMEMBER! WEHERE BUT ONE NIGHT ONLY ^ , Never’in'the history of ONE NIGHT STAND SHOWS-HAVE LADIES' BEEN ADMITTED FREE! BUT WE ARE DIFFERENT - THEREFORE LM)t£S FREE'f CLINTON, TUESDAY, JULY 25 — One Night Only WEJ?^MAIN STREET—NEXT TO CLINTON MOTOR CO. '•ALAiTRO^Aa -'^7:45RM. PERFORMANCE STARTS AT 0./5. "Operate five lines. There probably is more bark ' than bite in their jirotests, and there] !certainly is a bite behind the General Hugh .Johnson, w'ho has power ! under the law to reLjuire every indus try to take out a federal license to do business and conform to regulations for more onerous than would he re- ^P=*i='i='i='r=‘F=‘»='i=*i='f='t=iF=^=tf=lr=ip=ii=j|=ir=Jr=jr=if=li=li=li=nS 14 0 1 a 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 materially aid the nation in its surg- ; ing march toward economic recovery.” Peek said that in joining in the plan for reducing acreage, farmers “have taken a long .dep on this new’ trail rthat leads to _p^i;^tjcal and sensible planning for agriculture. ' “Even though we are greatly en couraged, this is not the hour for jubilee,” he-said. “Practical consider- atiorhv lead us to sober reflections. , The cotton producers have achieved only a partial victory. The main job is yet to he acciimplished. I “The cotton farmers have voted to adopt this plan to adjust the produc tion of this year’s crop. That adjust ment has yet to be made. (Tf^^s that meet the legal requiremenLs will be 'accepted. Individual acceptances will I be }>pnt to the farmers and upon suf- jficient evidence thaFthey have com- , plied with the terms of the contract, ;the cash payments will be made. “We have confidence that the pro ducers will faithfully and diligently perform the ternis of their offers, which become valid and binding con tracts only w'hen they have been cepted by Secretary W’allace. E>^ thopgh we all have cause for gratifi cation over the response, it will: thelfaithful. mance on the part of"ever^ ducer who has entered into a tract” ^ FORD... Thirty Years of 0 0 0 I 0 1 0 This marks the thirtieth anniversary of (he FORD MOTOR COMPANY. Thirty years a^olTi^e was born, in a little frame shed, the company that revolutionized the car industry and placed the automobile within reach of the pocketbooks of the masses. FORI) has never failed to improve where chance of improvement has been shown. TODAY, as in the beginninj?, FORD builds the finest automobile in its price class to be found. This has always been the policy of the FORI) MOTOR COMPANY. Becau.se of this policy, and because FORD CARS are built on a principle. Ford can point with pride to the foUowna statistics: ' • , - IN THIRTY YEARS FORD HAS BUILT OVER (The entire industry has built approximately 57 per-cent of the. cars jnanufactured)., ^ 21^000^000 Cars i' .37,000,000 cars—F'ord accountinii! for In Thirty Years (fi^^ured on the of 365 days) there are basis 15,768,000 Minutes THIS SHOW’S AN APPROXIMATE SALE OF ONE FORD CAR FOR EVERY 41 <5Fr ONDS ON EVERY DAY FOR THIRTY YEARS. SHOW A RECORD OF SALES SUCH AS NO OTHER CAR MANUFACTURER CAN THIS. There is a reason for this popularity of the new V-S FORD. We can demonstrate the reason. CLINTON MOTOR Authorized Ford Dealers —jinivnT—uKijiriu "ireaseesssswuw Clinton, S. C. /• Troubadour,” known to practically all radio fans. Johnny Finch, buck and wing dancer, a girl harmony singing act,, musical acts, novel,ty acts, danc ing ads and the famous Billroy Beau ty chorus are all w’ith the show’ this year, also the two leading favorites, M iss Marion Roberts and handsome Wayne Bartlett. A valuable new’ ad dition to the show this season is Jim- I my Stone. Broadway musical comedy • star. Miss Pat.sy Lyons, “The Queen I of Blue.s Singers,” is also with the f.show’, as is Kitty Watkips, last year’s