The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, July 20, 1933, Image 8
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