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'^.,.,i...jiiiiyW)i| t I >*•••••••< • If You I>on*t Read • THE CHRONICLE • You Don’t Get I The News. the CHKONlttE • StriTca To Be a Clean Newo- • Complete, Newsf, and Reliable. JL VOLUME XXXIII CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1933 FARMERS CALL SYNOD CLOSES I COLLEGE FRESHMAN CUSS NUMBER 37 BUSINESS MEN f ^R^CTION MEEmHERE Cotton Growers In Mass Meeting Presbyterian Body Winds Up Ask for Minimum Price of 15^ Cents for Cotton and Expan sion of Currency. Resolutions Adopted To Be Presented President Monday. , W'ork After, Busy Session. Florence Selected As Meeting Place For Next Year. LARGER THAN LAST YEAR HEAR SULLIVAN NRA EAGLE TO USE TALONS Latest data last nijrht on resrisration Transactine a mass of business ati»^ Presbyterian Collejre for the new its final session, the Presb>nenan Syn session, showed 112 Freshmen already !od of South Carolina adjourned last, "matriculated with several other ad- More Than One Hundred New Men Already Enrolled With Others i Well Known Laurens Citizen Johnson Plans Vigorous Cam paign Against All Profiteering and Wjll Compel Compliance of Employers With National Recovery Program. Expected. Matriculation To Pass 300 Mark With All Dormitories Filled Columbia, Sept. 12.—A so"th-wide afternoon Florence with'^>tions expected to the list. The en* drive “immediately” to lift the pricePresbyterian church as host.,rollment will reach the 300 mark, with of cotton to a ‘minimum of 15 cenu> selected as the meeting’ place for dormitories filled, and a nuniber of iings to the young men fr6m Clinton the college auditorium with addresses by repre.sentatives from the various organizations of the city and college. The devotional exercise.s this morn ing will be attended by the pa.stora of the city who will bring cordial greet- at the Mary Musgrove Tea Room, was *:. . „ featured by an able address by the P^"^‘leenng and com- Hon. James H. Sullivan? well known’nr ,,, . , , , — „ ,—^ I V . • “ I^aurens attorney, who discussed the f ® more jobs for the per pound w'as launched here toda> ,<^3^ sessjon to open on October i states represented in the student body, churches. On .Saturday evening at the J federal public works prorram. unemployed was planned tonight by by Governor Blackwood, farmers and 1I The “new boys” are being most cor-j president’s home, the Y. M. C. A. and The mw^tin.- wm* n agricultural leaders. Makes Address Before Ckam-I her of Commerce and Stresses j Need of Individual Action. ! The 'September meeting of thej Chamber of Commerce held Tuesday i Washington. .Sent, 11. —Direct ac- extended by Dr. H. Tucker Graham, welcomed on the college campus College Dames will give a reception in The plan w’as to mobilize delegra- pastor of the church and unanimously j President MeSween, faculty mem-! honor of the student body, tions of members of congress, farm-* accepted. iL-'i- --j .l- xr »» .r. * i » — _<• _...j— bers, and members of the Y. M. C. A. Registration of students will coh- The meeting was presided over by President E. D. Craig and was largely attended. An . enjoyable piano.violin musical the directors of' the Roosevelt adminr istration’s emergency program. Hugh S. John.son, the NRA chief, pounded away at the soft coal corftro- ers and others in all the cotton states: ^ important matters|Tuesday eveningjtinue today as there will doubtlessrendered by Miss Jos.e hopeful of a substantial to move on Washington and “appeal transacted during the closing day ® college | be a number of late arrivals on the | Dorothy Haean midweek that would direct to the President save thel^,f jts se.«sion.s. After deciding to abol-program in the gym with sev- campus. ^ | members of the Clinton and GoldvillJ P'^"»"»»^tion of a code ** Wit rtfklir iTo iff i_ .t Southern cotton farmer.” The appeal*}^), jtj, general “work committee,” the addres.'ses from the pres to the President is to be made nextisj-jj^j voted to put each cause of ihe ’^^"*^ members of the college Monday. jchurch under a separate committee. 1 ^^^aff. Yesterday morning the first de- Emergency measures, including cur-jRecennng of reports, election of trus-1exercises w’ere held, and last rency inflation, suspension of the cot- tees of several schoeJs and other sig-< P “ tow prwessmgTix'ahcf siting oTa 15-'nificanT action was taken during the cent price by the government and Urn-‘day. iting the 1934 crop to 9,000,000 bales, committee on piAlicity w’as cre- / were urg'd in a resolution adopted at ated by the synod with the’Rev. G. G. _ a farmer mass meeting here. Mayes, of Winnsbom, as chairman. Approximately 2,000 South Carolina Reports on evangelism for, the past farmers, official representatives from year revealed that there had been, Alabama, Georgia and North Caro- admissions to the church than lina. United States Senator E. D. jj, recent yeai^s. Plans were made for j Smith, chairman of'the senate agncul- a concerted evangelistic campaign ' tural committee, state legislators and during the coming year details of thej Q„ite a large number of girls and} Uurens. Sept. 11. —The Laurens others participated in the program being left with the standing boys from Clinton and this cominunity .County Limestone College chapter was Aftewards Governor Blackwood committee heading this work. will be in college this fall. The list i repre.senteil at the funeral today of telegraphed govern^ of the 10 other The bsiard of trustees of Columbia includes students who were previously Mrs. Jane Craig Gary, the oldest principal cotton producing states re:^i'j|eological seminary, Atlanta, report- matriculated in the state’s colleges, | alumna of Limestone college, who died Sunday at her home near Kinards. The last rites were held from the Gary home at 10:.30 a. m^ conducted by her pastor, the Rey. C. C. Vaughan, of Kinards, and the Rev. John W. Speakc, the president of I.ander college. The Rev. The upiKT ela^men will begin riving to<lay with regular college work scheduled to get started as soon as the matriculation and other details are confftleteiL , iiL< Boys And Girls jMemory Of Mrs. Off To College Gary Honored Large Contingent of Clinton Stu*| Laurens County Limestone Unit dents To Attend Institutions,' Attend Funeral At Kinards of In State and Elsewhere. i Oldest Alumna. without its being “imposed” by the government. While concentrating on this trouble- Mr. Sullivan, iiLopening his address, stated that the people are looking too : much to the government for relief. | situation, however, he told news- Thcrc ore frontCng this country, and the ques- would announce plans by en<l- tion, he said, is whether we will be:codes ami agree- will^g to adapt ourselves to these new, employers who display the conditions, whether as a nation we will! i-agle. be willing to fight on, courageously ^ke agricultural adjustment ad- m.nist-alion, meanwhile, George N. questing them to call mass meetings ^ that Dr. W. M. MePheeters had besides a number who are entering Saturday to adopt sirnilar resolutions, bee^ retired from the faculty at his college for the first time, and the lo- He al.so asked thern to name delega- ^^n request because of advancing age, ^al girls and boys who are to attend tions composed United States bad been made a profe.ssor emeri- p,.pj,byterian college. Many of the stu- senator, at least lOTg^ere and others Alexander Sprunt, of Charle.s-j have already left for their work, to meet in W ashingt^ Monday »nd ^..^ed to be relieved as a member | while the others will leave within m^ke the plea to the Pr|;^ent. ^be board of trustees of the semi-jnext few days. Their names, together govenvbf Wfcs JUAed by llw after 3Z veaii of seri-Tce, explaitt-fwith the colleges they' will attend, olution adopted at the mass meeting heavy duties necessitated his aC"j follow to take these steps. tion. Dr. Sprunt also Rendered his res- He also telegraphed Secretary of ijirnution as a member of several other Agriculture Wallace informing him of boards and sUnding committees, the resolution adopted here and ask-. o’clock in the morning, synod ing him to attend the Washington con- recessed to hear an address by Dr. C. ference and arrange for the delega- Hurts, ^executive secretary of the tions to see President Roosevelt. Federated Force* for Prohibition'^ in Governor Blackwood's telegram to . ^ bis state. the cotton state executives went to. discussion on the matter. Governors B. M. Miller, Alabama; i- voted overwhelmingly to con- M. Futrell, Arkansas; Eugene Tal-tyjbup ^be work of Col. J. H. Cudlipp How'ze Dillard, Lidie Leake, Sadie madge, Georgia; Oscar K. Allen, Ixiu-'^^j, jjiector of religious education. 'Chandler. isiana; M. S. Conner, Mississippi; Guy! Sessions of the synod, attended by Clemson: ‘Bobbie Steer, Clyde Ram- B. Park, Missouri; C. B. Ehringhaus.■ 200 ministers and elders, were'pey, Bill Dobbins, Robert I^esesne. North .Carolina; W. H. Murray, Okla- b^j^ Presbyterian college .nstead of; Queens-Chicora: Mary Wilson, homa; Hill McAlister, Tennes-see, *nd ^be Thomwell Memorial church es* Florida State College for Women: Miriam A. Ferguson, Texas. planned, on account of the weather. Harriett Foster. f facing the work that remains to be done. Continuing, Mr. Sullivan said if we believe the government is going to do something miraculous to save the country, we are going to be disap pointed. Unless .we act on our own initiative, there will be no New Deal. The government is offering to assist leek, the director, gave emphatic warning that he intended to “safe guard the farm recovery program from being jeopardized by unreason able prices to the consumer.” Referring specifically to charges of profiteering within the textile indus try, the first group to come under an Mr. Speake read a tribute that had • • •»*» * » *.1 Been~WTlTTgff'WhPH stfg wgy^ renaming..IP..ptE.m o? W>d Converse college: Medora Browning. Lees-McRae, Banner Elk, N. C., Thomas DuBose. Lander college; Evelyn Chambers, Mary Glynn Chambers, lone Von Hol- len, Elizabeth Nelson, Mary Emma Speake, Eloise Von Hollen, Clara Bobo. University of South Carolina: Maryi services were concluded at the grave side in the Bush River Baptist church cemetery. A wealth of flowers was placed on the new-made grave, many of the handsome pieces coming from friends living at a distance and from church and civic organizations, includ ing Limestone college chapters. ' ■ Because she was a native of Lau rens county, the I.aurens Limestone club ha<l at ^different times honored Mrs. Gary with flowers and gifts, not ably on the occasion of the celebra tion of her 100th birthday, April 12, 1932, and at her last birthday anniver- those who are attempting to help|NRA code. Peek said in a statement themselves, he said, through emer-lthat he and his associate's had token gency relief first, and now through* a keen n«ter«t in wirching out and the public works administration. The (preventing upjustifiable increases on government is offering an opportunity | manufactured producte." to build on ^und and n^«ry pro-, xhi* dndmtioiL bj Peek ms suit and will farnish *0 per cent of p|eme„ted by Fred & Howe, eonsoi the cost of the public works protriwm, era’ CDmnd for the acricnltiinl *d- -nad- ■s.; ... TL J I . * s Ifor the people to get this idea out of .sary this year. The de cfation to ^ tend the funeral of .Mrs. (.ary compo.sed of Mrs. C. K. Wright, presi- by the ^rty seekinr the loan. •Hiis ■ d„Uera who repement an imjiistifUble policy will apply to the road building!,hare of iBCreased prices for cotton program, he said, and in this county g„ods as doe to the cotton processing at the prwnt statm will iKlude thejux are eaponng themselves to prose- Calhoun highway from Clinton toicu^jon, Whitmire, a section from Cold Point | . , . to Cross Hill, and the widening of a! bridge on rouU *21 near Uurens. I *“ '•■ ”7" foonlmat- Roads to be improved must be in the Pn^rnms as closely as po State system listed for federal aid. no ind.eat.ona The g.rvernment will not spend »>''<her the present moves to obtain compliance with the spirit of the agreements by employers were p!an- nofl jointly. . At the White Hoii'e during the day President Roosevelt and hi*? financial advisors canvassed earefu!!y the credit (situation of industly and agriculture money where it is not m*eded. Mr. Sul livan .stated, and people without work must stop looking entirely to the gov ernment for employment. It is time Cgovernor Blackwoml at once went R,-j,^,iutions were adopted at the clos-1 Muntreat Normal: Evelyn Fergu- ‘ • . j " , chanter- government is offering >out selecting menybers of the Southsession thanking the college and ,son, Inez Tucker, Annie Uu Dill. Graves L. Knight Mrs Irouis'^'**’ *‘“"***^ Thcr arolina committee, and Herman Ue couite.ries and tn-i Er>kine: Jean McKee, Mary Ander- Miss Ma.v Anderson. ' P^ernment must come from the indi- n Ppriorp nf Hoiist.nn. Oa.- who reD- . ^ a L.r ar\n 1on^£*a Qlrtan " . • . viHiml ritizpn. \lr_ Kullivan statpfL > hut no .statement ri.sult.- was about Carolina Ia Periere, of Houston. Ga., who rep- extended by them during son, James Sloan resented Governor Talmadge at meeting. University of Virgihia; Violette meeting, said he would urge Talmadge ' Trustees Elated ‘ |W'heeler. Bothwell Graham, Richard to act at once. Two changes wc’-c mnde in the per-' B. Ferguson. The resolution carrying the sweep- the board ofVt -wtees of the! Darlington School: Bill MeSween, Mrs. Garv was born in vidual citizen. Mr. Sullivan stated. Imurens come hark if the “New The.re were in<l;ea‘‘.ons that Mr. elt was alt<:np;irrg to eooiili- nate tht- policies of ^he agencies whicli Trustees l-J^rea Two changes we-c lynde in the i sweep- board oflt -wtees of ing program was ,drafted by a steer- xhornwell orphana„^ of thi.« city. Ja.s.i Bailey Williams, William Jacob.s. ing committee named at the meeting pj xj,ornwell. superintendent of the! .South t'arolina Medical college: presided over by Dr. W. W. Hartsville city schools, was elected a | Dudley Jones, James O’Daniel, state director of the extension service. of the boaiijd. succeeding Dr, i Limestone: Mary Ella Bailey, Fran- It said cotton farmers and those 1 Alexander Sprunt, resigned. The Rev. ^ces Bailey. Annie Lee Jackson, pendent upon them are “faced with ut- j g Gamer of Bennettsville,* whose ^ Bailey Military academy; I-Amar ter ruin” becau.se of low prices, had expired, was succeeded by Nelson, Jeff Boland, continuance of present prices will j Ellisor JTimpsc.n, pastor Georgia Tech; Billy Owens. " “jeopardize the entire national recov- Presbyterian church of Emory Medical school: Charles An- ery program,” and that immediate ac- ' Darlington. j derson. tion is demanded. Columbia Seminwy Winthrop: Elsie Little, Rosa Bailey county in the vicinity of the old brick j is to be a sorress. and Presiilent'dollars of fe.i- church, a disappearing landmark, Rcjosevelt has this plan and hopi* in about seven miles northeast of the oral rrt*dit available 'to that the ni-f-ds town of Clinton. Her parents worship- jied at Duncan's Creek church. She at- , . rr * V - * 1 i. b * *u recoverv prog.-am might he met. his effort to bring values back to the*,, , , , , . , ... J . ,, i He b us taken cognizam-e i>revjoii>tlv tp stabilized condition where they werel . ^ ^ ! , • ,' r . , ... , 'the stringent crtMlit'=>tuat:on which of-; before the crash came. The thing fori.. . , . , , I tended school in l.nurans, was a mem-.u, he said, In If'"*'* *>»» pevented some ber of the first class to p-aduate (roni|„„,k ^ tfoublc f '•“’P'-'*''- Limestone college, in 1K52., She had|i„ •„ the f,et that.'"'' "‘f'’ f’.* adm.n.stot.on also attended a special school for | enjoyinn more than we j taming unis. girls at Charleston, and it was in that city in 1K47 she heard Jenny Lind sing. are able to have or buy In cloifing. Mr. Sullivan turned his attention to present educational prob- Khe was a very remarkable woman, Education is on a trying experi- ( —tuUured Md experienced in agricul-1^,1^^, ho saiiL and is now undergoingfi n 4 MA t M M A 4 AA aI 4Ww/\ll#Vr« m a. a ' Principal recommendations were: p n ^ Telford pa.stor of the Little, Ella Little McCrary, Copie Mc-j^ure, a training she adapted through ^ parents of college boys - revs X .1 wa _ •* A • i: -*• . a.. ^ .. a. Q inncF wHAwhrwwf in A farm. Snp I t _• i a* I I County Voters Are Registering la the ^iden ■ First Presbyterian church of Abbe-ICrary, Caroline Martin, ate steps for inflation or expan.sion of named as a member of the Coker: .Margaret Moorhead, the currency to raise the prices of t,.uj,tees of Columbia Theo- cotton and farm lands and to “some peminary. He succeeds Dr. degree restore the buying^yower of ^jp^^nder Sprunt, of Charleston, re- -the f&riueXa. —— ligncd. —^— ...... 2. Immediate suspension of Abe cot- ton processing tsfx “since we believe it is being paid by the farmers.** 3. “We call upon the federal govern ment to immediately establish a mini mum^ price for cotton of 15 cents per pound on the farms, subject to in-t S. C. Cotton Crop Loses 100,000 Bales Flora Macdonald, Red Springs, N. C.: Agnes Milling. Oak Ridge institute, Greensboro, N. C,: Thurston Giles. _ -Virginia Intermont, Bristol Va,: Fa- tricia Giles. Tulane; William Moorhead. Davidson: Robert Vance, a long widowhood to a large farm. She I girls puttine- a misconception on! Registration lm<»k,s in the county had lived in the .'‘ame hou.se, built by lier husband a year after their mar riage in 1H55, and here she reared a family of two sons and three daugh ters. One son. Will D. Gary, and two itgTighters,—Misses •Annie and—Kate Col^umbia. .Sept. 8.g Blakely, ■weather and weeiSI damage played f,.„ its purpose. The true test of the value I are now open to a.v.si.st voters who de- of education is whether as men ami {sire to obtain certificate.s-of regi.'itra- women we are willing to give up the lion to vote in the rep'*al referendum .school Of college training we-have re-jon Nov. 7th. The bo<»ks will remain ceived. The United States is offering (open through Saturday of this week. anHiippo^r^^ the hudget, raird wganrvnR be Ripened on the first Gary, had continued to make their back on a cash ba.sis and rely’Monday in October which will close home with the aged mother. Another ourselves and les.s on the’the time for s^ecuring certificates. government. ' Members of the county board .spent We must be willing to take a chance, | Monday and Tuesday in Clinton, yes- he said. Confidence i.s the thing that terday at Goldville. will go to Cross fthe business world needs today, it is Hill tmlay, and Gray ('ourt Friday to crease in accordance with require ments of a parity price.” weather and weevil damage pjayea y-ir^finia Sp'*att, Frances Spratt. Eliz- 4. That the tentative production con- havoc with the South Uarobna cotton Blakely, Catherine Blakely, Sara 'f trol program for 1934 and 1935 be crop last month, government x’opeland, Margaret Jones. Dolly Mill- changed from an acreage to a bale announced today indicated. Jamie Uttle, Mary Ellen Work- basis and that the number of bales Frank O. Bl^k, statistician for Middy Cook, Sara Cannon, Beat- farmers be licensed to produce in 1934 state, said the mdic.*itea yield ,.,ce Highsmith, Mai-y Pauline I^wson, be limited to 9,000,000 and the num- 101,000 bales during the month, more Workman, Frances Butler. ber in I935'“as‘may be determined lat- than in any other cotton state. ! Chalmers Daniel, Dill Ellis, daughter, Mrs. Hettie Gary Kennerly, Columbia’ unWe‘i4ity’"william Bla- lives at Newberrj*. Craig Crary. the j other son. died about six years ago. ,, . Presbyterian college: A^es Shealy, 1 •; Unfavorawe V, • R^mie Adair, |p a 'T' |the channel through which the ave,nuos accommodate the resju'ctivc communi- 1 081 10 riCaJ - busine.ss may be opened and then ties. A fairly steady nundier of men * nation and as individuals we will'and women applied to the board for sfr Voicr ^ forward to do our part certificates during its two-day session without looking to governmental agen- here. Tue.sday night at 8 o’clock the local cies to .solve the many and perplexing! Menibers of the registration board American Legion post meet.s to elect, problems confronting u.s. ““ J- C* McMillan of this city,' A- its new officers for the coming year. | Mr. Sullivan was heard with keen' Wright Sims of Waterloo, and Thomas er by the secretary of agriculture. This wa.<» in face of an increase in Robert McLees, Fred Oxley, Ned To this production control plan the states west of the Mississippi river, g Hays, Allen Dominick, Allan meeting pledged its “utmost support.” which MeSween, Robert Miller, Fred Gar- The government was “urged** to mate of 12,414,000 bales or *00,000 JesU Jordan, Walter Williams, adopt a policy of lending to the farm- more than e.stimat^ a month ag^ ^ g Jacobs, Jeff Prather, Glenn Bee- ers the parity price of cotton in ex- The indicated yield in Uaro- , Roswell Porter, Carol White to 1933 Immediate payment br the amounts for destroying a crop” was asked. The cooperation of farmer*, allied intere.sts and credit sources was sought in the move to bring cotton to ^ f.«>rab!e wrather in i^ion» McCaikill, Lawranw Mnhaffey. the farmers *ml weevil damage in others, horne- :ment to the fanners weevil ^mage m o^rs. oui...- they were “promised thing just happen^, ^ said, and Leiand Young, Robert Hardin portion of this year’s crop went to pieces. jCobb, W. Maxwell Fergu.son, Freder- KIWANlAaNS ^HET TODAY i ick Williaip Frowein, Allen Guerard, '..Samuel Mason Hughes, Dillard Milam, ! Sloan Todd, ReX Wilbanks. The regular KiwMiis clidi meeting! 15 cents a pound and seed to $25 a will be held this evening at Hotel I rriaifiAir* at* ton. ^Clinton at 7:30, with a special pro- HUML-LUMlWGi Al “We respectfully submit,** the >wso. gram arranged and a number of; HOPEWELL SUNDAY lution concluded, “that in the event or guests expected- The program will be I failure of the ’program outlined above qI ^ educational nature, with special j Home-coming day will be observed to ^mediately raise the price of cot- -emphasis placed on the city school i at Hoj^well church Sunday, Sept. 17. .ton to at least 16 cents, our only re- system and with the respective princi-iEverybody is invited for the day. (Continued on page two) 'pals as special guests. |Dinner will be nerved on the grounds. Judge Miller Foster, of Spartanburg, [interest by the club and extended a S. I.angston of Maddens. former national vice-commander .and hearty vote of thanks for his timely) recently elected to fill out the unex- ^nd altogether sound and instructive j q s |y» « pired term of th«-late state command- address. 111 er, Kirk Hilton, will meet with the ■ — post at that time and deliver the Pur- Q ■ uu W liUrfaa*lr I pie Heart to R. C. .Adair, Charles j iD©Pa« J.0 IS wwOTK Alexander and Claude Revels, theiW New Location the Day Fm* Epworih Annopneement is made in today's paper ^ S. P. Sumerel, owner of jSumerel's Department store, popular men having been grounded on Western front. } After the meeting the legionnaires j Saturday. Sept. 1«. is being observ-VsUblishment' of this city that liis will be served a fish stew. ed as'Work Day for EpworUi orphanr f,rm has moved into the iore room The post officers ^urgently request age throughout the .state. Members of adjoining Young’s Pharmacy and for- all member* to turn out. as Judge all .Methodist churches are expected to merly occupied by Kreisberg’s. The Foster is an unusually fine' Legion give one day’s earnings to t^is cause t)uilding has been worked over, painted speaker. All ex-service men are invited , on Sunday, Sept! 17. The Broad Str^t and remodeled for the new occupants, to attend. [Methodist c^hurch. of this city, is join-^and now presents a very attractive imr in th« mnniial cu.stom. and inviting appearance. Sumerel’s will celebrate their re- Tnoval by many big specials for Friday * and Saturday as their advertisement The following officers of the 10th | indicates. In their new location Mr. grade of the Clintoa high school have!Sumerel states that his floor space been elected: iwill be doubled, giving better facili ties for displaying goods and taking care of the rapidly growing businesA his con'em ii now enjoying. CLASS OFFICER^ NAMED The eleventh gmi^ of the Thornwell high school has elated the following officer*: President, M'alter Beeman. . Vice-president, Grace Smith. Secretary-treasurer, Allene Rook. Historian, Clyde Conrad. ing in this annual cu.stom. OFFICERS NAMED Sara Fraape* Baldwin, president. John W. Ffaney, viee-preiddent. Mary^Stoac, aecretauy-ti z4^n’i 1 9^ I- k •JSXSSarm- rwaan-iTTisarii^. i y. -■ \' r 'ipsi' ' i).,(5ar« 4 J •• A N / ’J 1 . ^ a'