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T PAGE Ft>lTR THE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON, S. C. THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1933 (EUnton (Clyrnnirlp mmMAti ifM WILSON W. HA&RIS, Editor and PablialMr Poblished Every Thursday By THE CHROiOOLE PUBLISHING COMPANY - Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): Ore year $1 50; Six Month* 75 cents; Three'Months 50 cents Fnrered a* Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Cliirton, S. C. The Chri*nicle .^eeks the cooperation of its subscrihera and »eaders—the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suKRCstioni and kindly ad vice. The Chronicle will publish letters of ireneral interest when they are not of a. defamatory nature. Anonsonous comnannirations will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for tbe views or opinioss of its correspondents. , ♦ - ( LINTON. S. (\. THCRSDAY. AUC.IJST17. f - G>mproini8e On I j30 serving as the minimum below j which transactions in futures were not. piavs Tlh Pair minimufns are sched- a icui a U 1 €Xy | uJed to lie] removed at the close of trading tomorrow*. . To Get Partial Pay-1 Administrat ors expect to distribute; CLERK MAKES ONE SALE Clerk of Cpurt Thos. W. Bennett made one legal sale in front of the court house last Monday morning, salesday for August. In the case of Liberty Building & Loan association Farmers - —. •avaiiiitiiswi Aiut d tU Ul^bl lUU^^ * ments On CoHon and Wheat, nearly $200,000,000 to cotton and''* A. Neville, two lots in Chn Government To Retire I.»oans. farmers in the..next six weeks were sold to R. E. Babb, * " * for reducing acreage. Of this, more lone for $750 and the other for $150. Washington,-Aug. 14. — A compro- $lO0,000,000 will be to cotton Both lot.s are located along the S. A. L. mise plan under which part of the growers w’ho agreed to plow, up f»-om benefit payments to cottorv and wheat, 25 to 50 per cent of their railway at Clinton. farmers who are indebted to the gov 'WAGES einment would be withheld in the dis- The wage levels fixed by the differ- tri^ution of rewards for curtailing ’ent indu.stries as they file thtFir codes production was worked out today by With the Industrial Rt*covery .Admin- a snecial committee: istration .are giving many people a The group, con.sisting of Secretary- new idea of what indu-stnal workers Wallace, Henry Morgenthau, .Ir., gov- actually earn. ernor of the farm credit administra- Thore has been so much talk of the tion, and Chairman Jones of the Re- ,high wages in the building trades and construction f'inance corporation, will, other “seasonable” workei-s. who are submit their recommendations tomor- ‘ unemployed part of each year anyV row to President Roosevelt’s cabinet ' way, that $15 a week st'em.s like very advi.sory .board. i jsmall pay in comparison. But that is Details were not disclo.sed, but it per cent 01 ineir growing .. „ . . .v n _ '^ition to wheat grow-ers this fall in re- crop thrs .summer. Approximately = ♦yj.j, f^jj. agreement to*" curtail their $90,000,000 is .scheduled for distribu- ac^^'eage for harvest in 1934 and 1935. THE OIi.lE(T OF NRA Th^re is still much cuiifu.sion misunderstanding in the 4to control the overproduction of wine'^®’’ ‘'j'®" average wage in was learned that a proposal of de- and Jrrape.s; and t<KJay France actually be‘.st of times in a gr^at many partment of agriculture officials- to minds of' acreage and imports ^*1?^**^ ustnes. j distribute the benefits without off.set when we hear of $12 a day wages amounts due the govjprnmeni wa.s to thti reni nurnose of Presi-! that the French farmer now gets' amounts aue many as to the real pu»|ose of Ire. , _ ..ouivalent of abtiut a bushel forget Iha; that is abandoned. The same fate was encoun dent Roosevelt .s emergency recovery tquivalent of about $- a bu.shel i dav.s tbev work, and the tereH hv nrni drive 'as set forth under the the NR.A Blue Flagle. The object of the code is' to make more jobs in order to put unemployed men and women hack to work and to rai.sp the wages of the country’s low- e.st paid workers who are already at banner for his wheat. w’ork. This will mean increased buying oot only the major industry hut power and the restoration of business.' ^he most unifonnly profitable one, the I only for the days they work, and the tered by prOpo.sals that the full . ... ones on that scale never do have amount of sums owed bv farmers be If thrs allotment plan works it will . withheld. he b<*cause our a riders are intelligent j ^^ink that if every worker in the Instead, the plan contemplates that an ed enough to make >t States could l>e a.ssured of $15 farmers who are able to pay off « work. If the majority of t^hem do not ^ year around it would bring part of the sums due the government cooperate in the effort to ring Amer- ^ degree of prosperity .such as will have amounts deducted from their ■can agriculture upto it.s proper place | enjoyed. •And then, after .p»*ople have been put. of the Adniini^raUon plan failure to work ahJ Ivigher . idmimw their fault and nobody’s else (iREEIV payments. Meanwhile it was made known thatj' Lintemsive effort'^ are being made to back wages are a natutn-wide reality*, we must create Ciindi lions which will make prosperity u permanent thing. This will mean a big dent made in unemployment., u fight in earnest iigainst the foe of depressipii.' Each indfvidual must do his duty to niakt till Dlue Eagle a success. j The man who wonT work at any-j >nduce the farm adj'ustment adminis-, (thing unless he can get his old .scalejtration to stabilize prices of wheat,f I of union wages i.s entitled to no sym.l<’otton, and other farm produces by A HEALTH rRECALTION ' pathy and certainly not to any contri- minimum prices for the fall j .Several citizens have, asked The hutions from charity or relief funds, marketing season. ' ('hronicle to say .something about the But there are a lot of them. Numerous requests fqr a program practice on tlK> part of some of keep-I A friends told me of one typical in-i^'f this.kind are being received but ad- ing hog« in the city during the sum-'Stance. One of his tenants had paid |'i''^'‘''Dators were holding their reply* iiier month.s. These complaints are jus-1 no rent for several months. He called abeyance pending a full study, tiriable, for as everyone must know, at the hoyse and told the man, a car hogs in r(>nge.st«‘d residential centers are a health meriace-and ohiectionahle TIME TO m V Now IS a good time to buy in ortler for many reasons, to save money and help revive husi- 'Tbe city ordinance prtdiibits the ne.sy. Tlu'ie must he a restoration of keeping of hogs in the corporate lirii- the buying vW public-which tts of -the town. Ou** etty axithorilie.s means that (..nsumers must do their will render a real .service. .■> well as part by mc:*'ased buying if the Riuise- set up a health precaution against v»“I; recovery program is to succiH'd. fever and other disi'ases, if they will j'*^^dirig for him Its success depends on what we hnv wngc v c*i*iif)aign to remove all hogs am’ ’ ‘ A large number of applications ha.e nentor. had been out of work for near- received from farmers with grain iy a year. He was a healthy, able- ''oheduled for early marketing asking bodied young man. ami my friend administrators to require continuance spoke to the owners of a large gar- f>f minmium iirk-es al the grain ex age about him. The garage man ne«'d- changes. efl someone and offered to employ the Exchangee have recently been oj^ei- man at $20 a week. My friend sent “ting with the closing prices of July word to his tenant that the job was ~ pioycr lTr A month later he thought it was PS-rCIltS NotlCC have and use, TliJti uppbee to em- eiiyirritt- -tlnve wa.s g*(4t»»g-s,Hin^thmg-+m *c-- f-htMren whdie^e^-eK hne been OH- employ ee consumer. nance is enforced, wiIhimt excep'itms count of rent. He calleil again, and was der our care and those parents »,ho UTgllrf'g that or special pnvilt*gi-s to anyone. i lec-eTlt jxnrtTTtmrt" the public mq,st hu.v^ow. (leneral JohrisPii saul: “It must buy under the Biui- I'.agie and it must buy to the full <>f It- reasuriabU* and prudent ni'eds. To suppoil inctea-ef) wa'’*ev tlu-re must tie incieased busines.-. To get in- <-rea.sed business must be in creased buying." 'I’his IS the big program to business reco I'ly. There must be a steady in- «lease 111 etinsunu'i luiyiiig if the re- «-()very drive in its job-ereating and \\ age-i a'sing arm is to go over the lop. I told the man wa.s still oti; of Work. ^-wgnt ,Tis to examine |hWr clltrdreh'’<r my friend eyes, before they enter info this, year’s phone u.s for 10 Years Ago Items of laterest From The Chronicle of uri. J.’But I got him a .fob. prote-^ted. The man and his wife were school work will plea.se indignant. “Call lliat a job. only twen- appointment or bring the children lie- ly a week? I won’t work f»»r tlian fore the rush dr school opening. $S a day!” the man repliv*»l ‘ \Se are equipped in eve-y modern Honest men anri men with a sense way to render the Iwst in the scien- of personal pride aren’t quiliblers (ific examination of children’s about the size of th«‘ir pay envelope.s and prescribing glasses. ev€‘s Jack H. Young and IL D. Henry aie in Atlanta attending the national cot ton conference organized to wage a warfare on the boH weevil. these day*s. - ^ N R A Emillems Imprinted On Your Stationery AND OTHER PWNTED .MATERIAI. AT NO EXTRA COST! These ^emblent.s imprinted on your present supply cf stationery or other printed matter at small cost. IDENTIFY YOUR BUSINESS AS A SUPPORTER OF THE NRA_ (jhronicle Publishing Dr*. Smith & Smith One HOOVER citizim who i.sn’t saying any- OPIOIVIKTRISTS Clinton, .S. C. Company ‘All Kinds of Printing—Except Bad” NOW OPERATING ON NRA CODE it t 'V>r ■- ■ ' 4 thing these days but is enjoying a Well-earned recreation |>eruKl is named |•R()F1T IS NKCK.SS.\RV If under th*- new roc«>v«*ry plan fon-’ ' jsuu s the nation i> to he fiueed into thinking for a wliile in t»*rms of hu manity rather than in terms I'f dollars iiiui of profits, that will go pretty ban) with many iialividuais hut it will t>» of lasting benefit t(> the masses. l’>ut it mii.'t be kept in mtjul that th«* driving wluei of busines- is profit not only piofit to th** ow ru*r of the business, l)ut Iix^^is employes in added wages. In these difficult time'; the first Mis.ses Nan and K. f'oiHdand of Chi- cora college, spent the we»'k-end with Herbert Hoover. 1 heard the other day their parents. (from a friend who ha.s rewntly vi.sited Mr. H oover at his home in I’alo .Alto Dr. and Mrs. D. J. Woods are in' that .Mr. Hoover is just having a gtHwl Charlotte attending the l*reshyterian time, making no plans for the future. 1 l^aymen’s conference. trying to do what he can to help his —• old Stanford university, and going (leorge W. Young has returned fishing whenever he feels like it. from a two week’s stay in Florida. i “You ought to hear Mr IbHiver ' 1— I laugh!” my friend w rites. “He is the Mrs. Ralph Blakely is al home from happiest man 1 have ever kmovn. Not a two weeks’ visit to relaLives in Wil- a caie in the world.” mington, N. Eventually, my friend thitiks. Mr. Hoover will engage in sr»me sort of Mrs. W. H. iihands ha-s returned business enterprise, |>erhaps in his old consu ••••*• ••• • • ww ■•V • «vwiia«\a^ j f f ^ . leratioii mu.'t l»e the welfare of Rome, Ga., where she visited her 1 activity of mining, but he has no defi-1 M. S. Bailey and daughter, .Miss (’onnie, left yesterday for a six weeks’ .stay in Cuba. th«* people, and other things must give , Mrs, Roger Cot', way. if nect'ssary. to that consider ation. But that «lo**s not and should not fueclude the idea of money-mak ing. There must be tbe accumulation of capital, the making of porfits, if any business is to go forward. U ages eanimt b»'. raised, cretlit can not I'e aiisaaeed by a business.or in dividual that IS in pv*or financial con dition. .\ man cannot win a horse race without owning horse. I rih‘ss hu'imes is soon |)ut oil a fan I !ofn buns ihiough the NU.A code of fai! eoiiipetitmn. inaivy will not be able to ".-tay ill business” and eco- lu .i;;e puraly n.'^ wlil be inevitable. M. B. liipp and John Holland Hun ter are attending the l*r;*sbyterian laiymen’s conference' in Cha. lotte. iiite plans easy. ahead except to lake life TRANSMITATION—i;OLIb The. ancient alchemists .sd the ‘‘‘philosophers’ stone” which' had the power of transmuting base metals intci gold. le (Ii.scovery thaT urahuim chang- — ies into ladium, and that lead can he Mis.ses Myra l.^'aman aii(< .M.nrlha made Irom radium emanations was I’ltts were wtH*k-end visit«jrs m Rock made in 1913 by Frofes-ior Snidy of Hill. '* .Manchester. Since tlien great discov- YOUR LAST CHANCE TO BUY HOOSIER CABINETS Without Paying a Big Advance A Shipment Received This Week, While They Last They Go At SPECIAL LOW PRICES! 4 , erii's have In'en made by other scien- rr.S l !• K) I HE FARMER 'ffn*—rt*gtttaturr. of ct;tton He’man Hunter, William ('lapp, tists about the. nature of matter and Dudley Steer, Delmar Rliaine and < the composition of the atom. And the M'alker Bailey of (Tlem.son college, are other day Lonl Hutherfortl, one of the j ■spending several days at home. ; world’s greate&t men^f science*, told a scientific meeting that “the dreams cigar t ybaeco..aLop--> try and-* -Mrs* Andrew Ntekies ami children, of the old alchemists may rh*^ ioLLdtarleaton. are the riK?.sts of .Mrs, actually come true.’ <ome day goveiMiunt IS now in effect. The reg- Virginia Neville. wlati*>n of vh.'at production is pfac- —^ tically 111 Opel alien. Next to l>e regu- RoIh'i I Dugan,- 'formerly laled will corn and hogs, so Wash- lers Drug store, has accepted a ington announce.-.. Milk pimlucers are tion with the .Southern Btdl felephoiu' under Ucctim' in several important dis- company. •Not that it would do much ginnl to he able to produce gold’ from lead, wit^h Kel-' however. Once gold were as plentiful posi- as leail, it would have m* more value. tncts. We have stai’t.-d oUt. a.-, a nation, on^ (From 'ile.H of the largest experiment in histoiy m l*eh. 22, *9210. .'-this h.u£:jjiiiia_ uf >yj\at Assistant Sec-^ retarx' Rrxford G. Tugwell caiD "a ♦sensible working policy for our land.” 'llie <'hronicle for Mrs. Hollingsworth Loses Her Father Whelhei ^his policy will work or not depends, nuturally, upon individual farmers. Government has no power '’ — iinde” the law. as we undei-slantl it, to Friends of Mrs: Gus W, Hollings- force any farmer to keep land ojl of worth of this city, will sympathize' cultivation or to reduce crops; it can- w*ith her in the death of her fatjier,| *0 n - i_ • Ffo i_ J not ciiciate to him w hether he shall |’Sam P. McCrackin, 7K, plant cotton, sow* wheat 01 corn, raise away at his home near Newbei*ry on hogs or sheep. But it can and does last Thursday. He was a highly es- offer to make it more profitable to.teemed farmer of his communUy and, him to comply with a general program deaves a host of friends who regret j adua* of adjusting agricultural production; his pas.sing. ,Utory. The Grail, which Galahad in the, to demand. : •• F’uneral services were held Friday ^*^^*1*1* of King Arthur and Parsifal TTiis is not the first time in .Ameri-> afternoon at 5 o’clock at the residence I Wagner’s opera, devoted their lives RELIES—OF HOLY N ATURE 'I hcre is a g’.’eat revival of interest evei ywhere, not only m religum ilself hut in relics and traditions ass«i»cjated with religion. In Tner,^ lierniany. one of the most precious relics of the Eatliolic •*church been e>xhibited lately fOi the fir.si lime s:nce iNiU. It i.s the seamless coat said to have been I worn by Christ himself on his way to ('alvary. .At the ('hicago World, fair there is j being shown a gold cup which is: who passed known only as the “.Antioch Chalice.” It certainly is very old. and was made i to hold a common clay drinking cup which many people believe to be thei Holy Grail” of legend and) H can histoiy that there has been an at- with inUrment in Rooemont cemetery, t® rescuing from the heathens, was tempt to control production. In the [services being conducted by Rev. K. I). which Christ drank at 0Mr)y 1700’s Maryland and Virginia, Kerr. " (the La.st Supper. * wete producing more tobacco than the He leaves his aridow, who was Miss 1 I have personally never believed in! market would take, *0 their colonial, Ida Barnes, two soaa and four daugh- (authenticity of such relics, aor of; jfovenunenta ordered that no planter ^ ters, J. Ihad MoCraddn of New'berry, miracles said to have been worked ahonld plant more tobacco that 6.000,Dr. Furman B.'McCrackin of Bam- planta for each Negro slave between j Lerg, Mrs. Otia iSiiber and Mrs. George tha agea of 16 and 60! As Professor > Young of Whitasira^ Mrs. G. W. Hol- Tufwell pointed out the other day. jlingsworth of Cliiitmi, and Mrs. Claude Ftufiet attempted about the same time A. Murphy of Chaclotta. by other holy ohjects. But 1 have only the* deepest”respect for the faith of | those who do believe in them. t ^ I I SUBSCRIBE TO'tHE CMRONKXB . e Beautiful Hoosier Cabinets, several iii Qn styles to select from, with prices ’r j r/l— ranging from • t S. M. & E. H. Wilkes Ik). CLINTON.— TWO STORED — LAUREN^ •f *♦ •tt % •$ , J \#