The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, October 12, 1933, Image 6
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THE CLINTON CHRONICl.E. CLINTON. S. C
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TliuRSDAY. OCTOBER 1?. 1933
CALLS ON LABOR
TO FACE FACTS
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^v'ontinued from pajro one>
froing: to reactivpte business without
{rivinjr the mass purchasinfr power so
heopssary to mass production. ^ ou
cannot squeeze blood out of a turnip.
“There is criticism also that there
is ‘chiselinpr’ behind the Blue Fagrle
and that our failure to hanp, draw and
qua"tr’* the<»e opportunists is reducing:
confidence in the whole plan.
“I think that this criticism is justi
fied. But the point has never for ope
[Prohibitionists, Are'
Not‘After’Wets
Sept. Honor Rolls
For Clinton Schools
walls look pretty
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I over.’’
high for me to get
Dr. Cromer, of Newberry, Ex
plains Status of I^rohibition-
ists and Their Aims.
Providence School
Third grade: Mildred Gu^t.
Fifth grade: Osc»r Harrison.
Pri^n Now Home
Of Bailey, Bates'
^ I ♦he ma*-hine gunner who was convictr
Two Desperadoes Sent To I>ea-|ed of plott!^.' the abduction oi Jr-
'7 was almost a home coming for
I
venworth Bv Plane From ^ , i.-
o ^ Eight miles away stands the Kan-
Tihoma For Life Sentences. I penitentiary, from which
{Bailey led 11 convicts in a spectacu-
Leavenworth, Kan., Oct. 8.—Feder-Mar break last Memorial day. He had
(From The Newberry Observer) ' _ Academy Str^ School
_ . Second grade: Lewis Bagwell, Char-
Jwo corrections: -- , jot^e Daniel, Martha Foster. prison doors clanged shut here to-[served 10 months there of a 10 to 50-
I 1. There is an impres.^ion .h tome Third grade: HaskelP Williamson, day behind Har\’ey Bailey and .Albert,^^ontence for a Fort Scott, Kan-
Washington, Oct. 9.—The adminis-jquarters that President''Wilson vo- Ray Fortner, Mary Ellen Fortner, Bates, .sentenced to life terms for!^^^* robberj’.
tration is beginning to do some amendment and thit -lahfies ^Lawson. John Wilson. Charles
ous worrying over the tendency of re- j
tail prices to outrun consumer pur
cha.sing power. How this canT be check- ^ mi.stake
Icongr^s.s pas.sed it over his veto. That
The constitution gives
Windsor. Doroihy M., G.in;^ Gr.«
moment been overlooked. The ques- ed is the problem which is receiving the
tion of enforcing compliance is corp- .serious attention from the “.best bill
plex. Taking away the Blue Eagle has minds’* in officialdom.
been proved to he a terrific ecam+mic Naturally, if farmers are to get
always, in the long run, the ulli-
punishment. We must have a method niore for their pr«>ducts, somebody
of justice and certainty.
“Organization for this involve.^ .'>th
er departments of goverhiuent. .Men uiate consumer,
have been working night.anti day to
prepare a national network tti handle
these problems and the re.sult will
shortly be forthcoming."
The administrator as'serted that
thei-e wa.s “a distinct movement tu
raise farmer antagonism to NKA on
the ground that anything done for
workers before farm prices, are raised
to their pre-war relation to other
jirices is unfavorable to agriculture."
Then he explained:
"The e.ssenlial purpose of the Presi-
dent's progTam~rs-4fT erastt, dispaj.'ities. I, n«ler this plan, no grocer will
It is a cohesive j)i'(>grain. It proposes alloweif to sell anything
something for every oppressed area, [irice tha**; 7^
We all recognize that the' greatest j he f»ays the whole.saler. \vhile the
disparity is the lowiu-.ss of farm pi ic- wholesaler in tjjrn must, place a mini
ms. But the' agriculttttlj«stjm*4rt. umm “inrtrwpr’^qf 2 V
^ict was given to the farmers just as cost to him on ,everything he sells.'
NR'K was given the \v<.rkers. 1; goes The theory is that this will put a stop
to the ulrimate limit to cure the ills to what are known in retail trade as
of agiicuhuie. "loss leaders," meaning goods offered
"Theic are much more dra-tie pow- below cost to lure huyinS into the
ers in tlia! act ami they are being ably store, where they a'-e expected to buy
and vigorinisly administi-red. But ^-riough profitable merchandi.se to
then- can he nothing in our new so- make up the loss on the “U-aders."
Meadors.
Fourth grade: James Stevenson,
president the power to veto a Lois Unford, Kathleen Howard, .Mary
a proposed amenrii. ent Lou Pace, Ruby .Arrington.
constitution. Whenever tvo- ’ ^
Florida Street School
Second grade: Peggy Johnson.
to the
thirds of both hou.ses of congres.s shall
propo.sc an amendment to the consti-
niu. t jiay more; and the one who pays propo.sed amendment goes John Agnew, Anita
to the states for ratificatren. Wood-
row Wilson had nothing to- do with
•More than that, there ys what ap- the iSth amendment,
pears to be, a very definite policy be- 2. We prohibitionists are not fight-
,.ig worked into various trade ccKles. ing the wets, even if they do call u.s
which would pre-veru any grocer from hard name.s. We are fighting an cut-
offdring the .sort of “bargain" prices law.
ttj which mo.«t folks in towns where There is a dangerous outlaw at
there are chain grweries or highly la,^e in this country. The federal gov-
competitive -store.s have become arcus- ernment .says that he is not fit to be
tomed. Thi.s policy i.s for the prolec-
lion of .storekee|M‘rs against unfair
conihetition.
! Eliminating "Los.s Uaders”
.. he
a 11 o vve(FTo~st^
a citizen of the I’nited States. The
state government says that he i.s not
fit to be a citizen of South Carolina.
The supreme court 6f South. Caro
lina says that he is “dangerous to the
or a
'.i per cent above what
ty of the people." His name is John
Barleycorn. He is an outlaw.
Ihe drys say outlaw him for all
lime. The,wets say: He has money in
hts pockei, Ixh’s adopt him as a ritt-
zon. He nuiv help__lo sup|»orl our
schools.
"Choose you thi.s day whom ye will!
.serve." '
(iEORGi: ii. CROMER. ’
Cassanova. Pringle Copeland, Martha
Jene .Satterwhite.
Third grade: Marcja Galloway. .Ali
nes Hipp, Rufus Sadier. .Ame Jacobs,
Jean Uyton. Carolyn Henry.
Fourth grade: Jane Utile, Belly
Hunter, Mary ^^ley Owens, Virginia
.Sumerel, Virginia Wier, James Na.son,
John .Sloan.
Fifth grade: Jeane Holman. Eve
lyn Stowe. Noland Suddeth. Mildred
Windsor, Frances Edwards. I.'ula Gray
Harris, Catherine Parkman. Carolyn
MeSween, Elizabeth Wysor. Florence
Ella Blakely, Miriam Coleman. Jean
Copeland, Uura Foster. Emily Mar-
tin. .John OdioTTfe7T*r»iifes Williams,’
Lizzie Hell Wilbanks. '
Sixth grade: F*hyllis Holman. Eu
gene Pinson, Virginia Sadler. Fran-
ce.s .Speake. ’ *'■
Seventh grade: Margaret Brice.;
Ujui.se Jacobs. Louise Coe. F*ances
Evelyn ilenry Itelty Spruit.
ing ^f Charles F. Urschel.
Guarded by 10 heavily armed offi
cers. the de.speradoes -were flown from
Oklahoma City in a tri-motored cabin
plane and rushed by armored car
from the Fort Leavenworth miUary
flying field to the prison annex.
“Well." .>;aid Bailey, surveying the
mass of concrete and steel, “those
Bates, one of the tw'o men who kid
naped Urschel, w’ealthy Oklahoma
City oil operator from his home the
night of July 22, wa.s an escaped
.Michigan convict.
WHAT DO
P. S. Jeanes
DO?
GET READY FOR FALL AND
WINTER LET US
Dry Clean
YOUR COMPLETE FALL
“— WARDROBEr
<ild volume and rapidity, and foinl
cial ci'mi>act that says that one c’ass .\utuially, the small independent price.s can be piit up to a figure that
must wait for any benefit at all for grocer is the omi.„\vho can least afford , will give the fui nier a fair return for
the maxinuun l<eTief:t to another class, tliis "loss leader” sy.stein, especially i his capital anil laboi.
The aim is to raise the condition of where he is carrying most of his cus-l Probably no one jierson in the gov-
all together. ” lomers on credit, and the government i erniiu nt undeistooil this whole cham
— — policy is aimed primarily at the cash!of cause and effect three months ago.
¥ I stores ami the big chains, to keep I Everybody in the administration un-
XxO|J6 a O iiluoii froiii unfairly tn»mpt4ingvwrt4v-derstands- it now.^ ,And-Ji»al. under
Frozen Credits
the little fellow.
'trf:
anding* or ' fhv liHikirtinm*
still' rericy stabilization on some basis
’ High School
! Eleventh grade; Eliza^'eth Buz-
hardl, Irene Dillard. Helen Eliz
abeth Harri.'.
Tenth grade: I.«»ui<e Chambers,
.Sara Fiances Baldwin. Madeline C as-
sanova, Catharine Grah:<m. l.aetitia
Jone.s, ( hristina Sowers. Marion TihW,
ilizaheth Nichojson. Mildred Brown.
Ninth grade: Peggy Sprunt, Re-
I hecca Speake, .Adelaule Roberts. Ixe-
reine R uin ph, lleibn ~ “
Adniinistrafuiri Officials' F'ndea-
\(tr T() Release Deposits In
('lij.‘<ed Ranks of Nation.
to a ^dtrisiorPas
money.
T'he best guess
at this moment i.s
Wii'^hirigton, Get. 9. Under spurt
(f the President, administratit>n (tffi
nals Tirtay drove toward the releasej
of frozen deposits in hanks that elos-
('d in the national hanking holiday.
T' easui y (officials, heads of gov
ernment ( 'edit corporations and Ilen
ry Broi r<C president of the Boweiy
Savings hiiTrk of NF\v Vork. iiroiTgtit
to V •i-l-,i;’>’'ton as a do!Iar-a-year man
to act as liaison officer for the Presi
dent. worked on ttu“ detail- of a pr<»-
po-ed new eori o-at-on designed to
make, luo'iey a', aihihje to r«‘eeivers
and eoTue'vatois to l>e pa-seil on to
depos.tois.
.\t 'I.' >: me time, tile eoinpl roller
of 'll' eti' t'. riey v.av workuur on an-,
other piopoval to enable i tiism viilor'-
to o.bt.iin 'money for their bank.s by
exrhatig'ttg ♦ fcttzetr d+o; -lumw!-
loan bond.".
Bi'Ui u lield a ^e' ics. of c'nfi'roMces
wuh t‘ta ir.\ (d'f.iiaU. among them
See'! la v Vvoo.i n, U.o.cinoi' B'aek id'.
Between the farmers, who are
getting only I {kt cent as iimch for]otiicr, J)ut in any event" quickly
t heir average products as they did
U-fore the war, and the retailers, who
must raise prices nut only to pay
more^ the farmers but to .suppress
unfair competition, the consumer
seems to 1h* betwt-en the upper and
nethei millstones.
Where Tfiihur) Went Wrong
The theory was that the NR-\ would volume.
put all the unemployeil back to work j
at once, with a higher average wage
or
Eighth grade:"TeT»ch Owens, touise
^ FUIiutle, i'>ohbin4^ EliliXbflt**
, . j.u- Barnett, .Marion Stokes .Adair, Rv>v
driving loree behind the effort to come ... ... ■
» . . J.. L .Johnson, James hreeman. Rol»erl Wv-
to w hJrt t<r do about 1- _ _ *
. .sor, Grace Bozaru. May incus, Pauf
I^-ague, Dorothy Workman.
that there will Ih* no paper-money in
flation, that the gold dollar will be-
devaluated, and that silver dollars wiP
he ^drfetl to tbe eurveney- 4» Targe
WHAT DO
P. S. Jeanes
DO?
( old weather is a;ii>roachin". Have all tht)se last year
Dresses, Suits. Fur ('oats, and Overcoats (a^o Drapes,
('tmfort.s, Riankets and Rujcs) put in readiness for any
mcment's call of service.
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Our Expert Dry Cleaning Doubles
the Life of Clothing
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LET rs .MAKE THAT LAST YEAR’S
FELT HAT 4JKE^^
THOROrOHLY CI.EANED AND REBLOCKED
DRY CLEANERS & LAUNDRY
level, .so that by. the time ivtail prices'
began to rise there would be plenty of ;
momy in circulation ami nobody^
wduhi complam much aUtut the in-j
creasi'. But it hasn’tworked mil that’
way. There are still, accoiding to gov-
U
t he 1
troll
out
who."
:i! B( SCI .(‘ biVactl. limT r
'»< mitim ; purpmlcilly to work
!ic iic';ti!s of the corporation
Cleat ion was exnccti'il to he
nnnoumed -hoiilv by liui Bresidmvt.
Ride Safe and
Save Money
—put on new
GOODYEARS
Now!
• Slippery roads, colder
w eat tier, more uriviiig on
dark roads Fall and
N' inter make smooth,
thin tires mure danger
ous, (,el safe-gripping -
new (.uod>ears while
prices are low. enjoy
their protection all
Winter they'll still he
almost new nest Spring
. . . Niore people prefer
Goodyear Tires than llie
next three largest^ellin^ ^
makes combined hiofe '
people buy Goodyear
Tires than any oihcr-
kiiid — you,
too, will find
Goodyears
best in val
ue. Bffy and
see!
I
ernmenl estimates, about eight tnil-
Hon unemployed w ho w ill Itave U* be i
housed and fed at public expense ftu'
the next few mmiths. So a very slight'
itu ''case in tlu‘ cost living is likely
III prove ."c: ions to ih* gn‘a: ma."s of I
Wft* k' IS. '
hr. I’red < . H«»we. “lonsumers’
eb\ihsV'l"' T»T~rhV' ba> taatrlata’d
tlie inereyses in retail te^nf pricc^ for
the whole eoiuiiiy. Tlie^e incri'a^es
rjinge from 1.7 pet c<*nt foi hens to
11)0.,") jtei cent for flour. Potatoes
are 12d per rent higher lliaii they
wete last February; lard. 27 per cent,
eggs i;>.2 per cent, and so on <lown|
the line. .And it is entirely clear that j
if the price the farmer gets is to be
boosted anoth*‘r od |H*r cent, w hich |
would Just a1X)ul luang'his vnoome up*
to the llHd-ll average, the retail j
prices to consumers will go up much |
more than that. I
The Payroll Problem
The only way out is to fiiui some
way t.o get everylmdy back on pay-
rolks. ('reilil'expan.sion, to enable the
banks to lend more money to Tnanu-
TIuTuTt* rs an«l imu'ctiaiils. 'WfiTfhP'dTr'Tf'
the hai.ks could he a."sured ef the re-f
CO. cry ot business fast enough tt» en
able ihi* ntw loans to he paid when;
due/ But hanks can lend safely oiilyj
on short-time paper; and what most i
business enterprises need is h»ng-time
fumU ad<litional working capital.
Hard liiues h.v\e depleted their caju-
fal so that most concerns cannot fi-
'lur.ce the purchase of new’ maebinery.
the improvements and a«ldit:ons gen
et ally necessary' to enable them to
pnaluce a" ec«>iu»mica!l>’ as ihe:r com-1
peiitors, and to carry on until new'
imtney begins ti> eome ih'frmn new[
pi txiuction.
The wav
^rteh financing is ilone »>r-
GOODYEAR
PATHFINDER
5u*ttrtwin C^ora Tire*
ateppeU up .M'
tread 1»% thi< kor
with Full Outer’I'riu;-.
tion.
Other eizaa In
proportion.
Btp ertIy
■Bountedfree
•ad Ufetim*
PiHwantccd.
FULi.
OlcISlZE
FIICE
%in
tin
lauT
$s.ss
4.75-IF
a.f7
6*70
S.M-IS
7*10
S.M-H
f.4«
W.40
H’DANIEL
liinarily is through bond issues, hnt
ve have a new Securities .Net which
makes it extremely difficult to float
a new hoiiil issue of any kin<l, coupled
with an unwillingness of capital to in
vest in hon»ls with money at it.s pres
ent value, when there is the strong
chanev that money will be a lot cheap
er before iong, and that they w ill have
[i olake aU-cent dollars in rep *yaier.l
of luu-cent dollars loaned now.
Stahili/i-il Hollar
In' dther vvordr, tht» ability of t'ne
oxdinury ht>u>ehoiiK“’r to”" buy[ U'.e rc-
ce.ss.iLies of life in the face of .’i.si.ig
, prices depends u|K)n a speedy .set..v
ment of the monetary >ystei.i. Or^c
the tiollai is stabilizt*d, .‘■o tha. every
body will have full notice as to wiuU
it i.s going to be worth next y‘ar uj’
!fi\e year.s from now, credit \ h<o..-
!tn up. industry and business c.-'n fet
financed, long-time pioduction ;.iU.is
!can safely be adopted, more men can
. be put back to work, wage-money will
An Announcement of Importance
To All Motor Vehicle Owners—
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New Motor Vehicle Licenses
Purchased Before
TO AVOID DELAY AND PENALTY
The license year has been chanjred
by law to be from Nov. 1st of each
year To
year, instearf of from Jan. 1 to
Dec. :nst.
NOW to avoid unnecessarv delay and
penalty. NKW LICENSES MUST BE
New licenses should be applied for
the simple rules and help your Hiprh-
way Deinirtment i*ender to you the,
best,and most economical license
service possible.
Pei sonal Checks
Not Accepted
Kemitt.Hiuv must 1h? madt* by
i*itht r ivrtifu^I check. Post Otlice
or Express money order. Personal
checks will lie returned to the
sender and currency stuit throui?h
the mail will Ih* at .sender’s risk.
Observe These Rules!
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A\oid Trouble and Penalty I
Read the instructions on iHe
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applicat hiti foiTn carefully,
ami follow them.
Is
ur Name
chased dll r-
> previously
ame, get a
our dealer,
d it to this
remittance.
Don't send checks ui
certificil. Cash sent i<
your own risk. Money
ders are siifest.
To avoid loiig waiting in line
ar.d other delays, it is pref
erable to mail your applica
tions rather than came in
person.
Full Co-operation
Means Prompt Service
Proper filling out of applications
and prompt return to this office
means prompt and efficient ser
vice; To save time, trouble and to
avoid the risk of penalties mail
your application now.
New plates Must Be
Displayed Nov. 1, 1933
.New’license plates (l)oth front
and rear) must be displayed not
later than Nov. 1, 1933, and they
are good for the succeeding 12
months. There is no extra expense
to vou under the new law.
Motrn* Vehicle Division
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Columbia, S. C.
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