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* f ' X ! , ■ n / ' If You Don’t Read : THE CHRONICLE • You Don’t Get 1 The News. w i *r ■■ •••« »•••••% •mmmmmi ; THE CHRONICLE S StriTes To Be a Clean News* • • I paper, Complete, Newijr, S and Reliable. • VOLUME XXXIII CLINTON, S. C. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1933 NEW CONTRACT AID^ENANT Control Plan To Include Rental and Benefit Payments for Grower of 1934 Crop. Washington, Nov. 2t.—Clauaes have been written into the farm adminis trations cotton contracts for 1934 A which officials feel will give protec tion to tenants and assure them an equitable division of government rent al and benefit payments. The administration aim^i at the re duction of cotton acreage next year to 25,000,000. In return for the agree ment to curtail planting on land taken ! out of cultivation and a guarantee that a part of the yield will be sold at parity prices. The ^principal points in the discus sions of the cotton contract have been in the division of the payments and w'hat measures shouHd be taken to protect tenants who otherwi.se might be forceJl)ffTarms. Approximately 15,000,000 acres of land ordinarily planted to cotton will be given over to other usse next year if the farm administration’s Campaign succeeds. Thousands of tenants who would othwise cultivate the staple faced the prospect that landlords would have no use for their services. I^andowners who sign the cotton contract will agree to keep the num ber of tenants they had last year, if that i.s po-ssible. If not, the government will obligate the landlord to permit tenants, who are living on his place and unable to find land elsewhere, to remain in the house they occupy. The government—since it is paying rent for land taken out of cotton cul tivation—may turn this over to for mer tenants ^Arho find themselves with a house bjiit no land. The contract is worded so that the landlord ts to fur nish equipment so sharecroppers may raise food for their own subsistence. The landowner also is obligated to make other supplies, wood for exam ple, available to the former tenants for whom he has no cotton land. In return, the tenant must agree not to make a nuisance, of himself. If NUMBER 48 CITY OBSERVES DAY OFTHANKS Schools, Stores, Banks, and Of* . fices Will Close For Da>'. (Tnicn Thanksgiving Service This Morning At 10 O’clock. N2unes Workers For Seal Sale County Chairman For Rural Communities Makes Appeal For Sale of Seals. Mrs. L. C. Taylor of the Brew'erton community, who is serving this year as chairman of the Christmas Seal sale in the county outside of Laurens and Clinton, has announced the follow ing chairmen of the committees in various sections of the county: I.anford, Miss Edith Hellams; Cr^ss Hill, J. H, Shealy; Waterloo, Mrs. Carl Wharton; Hurricane, Miss Rosa Sum- erel; Mountville, R. W. Boland; Hick ory Tavern, C. D. Williams; Trinity- Ridge, Mrs. S. M. Mellette; Prospect, .Mrs. Sam Reid; Barks^ale-Narnie, Miss Martha I.»omas^; Copeland, Miss Annie Kate Childress; Fleming, Mrs. Miller Brown; Oak Grove, Miss Mary Goodwin; Bethany, Miss Bessie Sea- wright; Grays, Mrs. Madge Wilson; Central, Mrs. Marvin Rhodes; Youngs, ^rs. Rhett Martin; W'^arrior Creek, Miss Irene Wallace; Greenpond, Miss Josie -Williams; Eden, Mrs. Alma Pitts; Gray Cqurt, S. C. Gambrell; Pfinceton, Mrs. George Taylor; Mt. Bethel, Mrs. H. 0. Walker; Poplar Springs, Mrs. Karl Jeffcoat; Brewer- ton, Miss Alga Carter; Mt. Gallagher, he doaa the landowner may force himiMiss Myrtle Hill; B^hel Grove, Mrs. to move. Methodists To Meet Dec. 4-7 Many From This State To At tend Education Conference At Nashville. Columbia, Nov. 27.—The Rev. G. Way. of Orangeburg, will head a IVk^ delegation from this state to the an nual meeting of the Educational Coun cil of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, at Nashville, Tenn., Decem ber 4-7. ( The Rev. Mr.-Way i.s .secretary- treasurer of the local chjOrch section of the council. In addition to him, the following are expected to attend the meeting: Miss Elizabeth Wqrkmkn, Spartan burg; Miss Bruce McDonald, Miss Farmers Must Pay Processing Tax Slaughtered Hogs Sold By Own- ers Must Be Reported Under Internal Revenue Act. Esteemed Farmer Laid To Rest The State, Nov. 24lh. Collector Robert M. Cooper, Jr., yesterday made public a communica tion from Commissioner Guy T. Hel vering saying that it has been brought to the attention of the bureau of in ternal revenue that in many instances Win. J. Henry Passes After Ex tended Illness. A Life-lxmg and Honored TO^en of^This Community. Thanksgiving day in Clinton will ibe observed in orthodox fashion today. Stores, banks, business places, schools, the orphanage and college will be clo.sed with hundreds of em ployees and young peonie at liberty jto follow the dictates of-their fancie.s. . With the exception of indusrtial ’ plant.s, the celebration in the city will he virtually unanimous. Early this morning hundred.^ of Clintonians, armed with shooting par aphernalia of all shorts and descrip tions, will sally forth to try their skill at marksmanship. Others will leave the city to visit friends and relatives back home and to view once again the .scenes of their childhood. Others away from home much of the year will return to spend the day with their William J. Henry, Sr., die<l at his residence Saturday afternoon shortly after five o’clock after being in de- morning at 10 o’clock when Dr. L. R families. Chief among the plans ft>r the cele bration of the event here is the union Thanksgiving service which is to he held, at the F'irst Bai)‘ti.st church this dining health for several months pa.st. His death, although not unex pected, brought sorrow to many farmers and others are slaughtering j friends and relatives, hogs and selling the products to con-j TTip funeral services were held from sumers without payment of the pro- the home Sunday afternoi)n at three cessing tax. This is a violation of the ^nd were conducted by (Dr. D. agricultural actJusCment act and regu- j_ Woods, as.sisted by Rev. E<!ward lations promulgated thereunder, which provide that any person who slaugh- Marie McDonald/ Columbia; Miss market must file appro- Mary Lemmon, Lynchburg; Miss Eve lyn Albright, Skluda; the Rev. J. E. Brown, Greenyille; Sam ' O. Cantey, Officials said today that the con- tiact wa.s flexible enough to take care of unusual situations and that adjust ments could be made by local commit tees named to assist in carrying- out the campaign. The share croppers, or those who A. J. Allen; Center Point, Miss Julia Henderson;, Mt. Olive, Mis.s Mary Bowles; Wadsworth, Mrs. J. A. Davis; Goldville, G. N. Foyj Shady Grove, Miss‘V'iolet Crisp; Rerino, Mrs. J./D. Copeland; Garlington, Mrs. Sara/W. Pitts; Long Branch, Mrs. Marjorie Stevens; Musgrove, Mrs. W'dliaih Bai- cultivate the land for crop after the landowner furnishes all I *" necessary tools, .stock, fee<l and seed, | are probably the only grou;) that will ie(iuire tools, stock and seed. Renters and managing tenants, a share of the, , . , y n* In announcing her committ^^es, Mrs. made the following ai)peal for iipori in making the- seal sale a i I succe.-is: / “The South C'aroiina A'uberculosis j . • u ass(>f-fat1«n reports that Xhe number of' those who furnish their own stock and . .. r* r am deaths resisting from lu- Orangehurg; Francis T. Cunningham, Greenville; the Rev. Bryce R. Her bert, Bisho[iville; Harold M. Patrick, Aynor; the Rev. J. 0. Smith, Clemaon College; Mrs. J, B. Hendrix, Colum- biaj Dr. J. C. Guilds, president of Co lumbia college, Columbia. The Rev. T. C. Cannon, New Brook- land; the Rev. Peter Stokes, Marion; Dr, H. N. Snyder, president of Wof ford college, Spartanburg; the Kev. J. Emerson Ford, Orangeburg; the Rev, H, C, Ritter, Greenville; F. M. Williamson, Spartanburg; R. O. I.<aw. | ton, Columbia; John P. Patton, Miss Carrie Porter Lander, Greenwood;! A. M. Trawick, Spartanburg; Dr, J W. Speake, president of I^inder col lege, Greenwood, and the Rev, R. B Burgess, president of Textile insti tute, Spartanburg. * priate returns and pay the processing tax thereon. The tax applies even in the case of the producer who slaughters his own hogs and sells or otherwise disposes of aJl or any. part of the products.. Heavy penalties are provided for violation of the law or evasion of the tax and any person who slaughters hogs and sells all or any part thereof should confer with the collector of in ternal revenue for his district who will assist in preparing and filing the retuijlis. County-Wide Soil Survey Planned Lynn^will deliver the annual Thanks giving service to a united audience of the churches of the city. The service will have Thanksgiving music and an offering will be taken for the Thorn- well orphanage as a community gift. A cordial invitation has been extend- of people. The floral tributes were hand.some and in great nunrYbers. Active pallbearers were: Irby' S. Hipp, F. M. Boland, George Little, T. D. Gopeland, George R. Rollandiind^ Henry M. Young. Honorary: George W. Bailey, W. J. Bailey, G. F. Buford, Jack H. Davis, C. W. Stone, John B. Ferguson, John H. Young, Dr. J. liCe Young, Dr. Jack H. Young, George A* Copeland, Guy *Ij. Copeland and J. Will liCake. - - Uejni:yi_ who was 72 years of age, Was born in this communVty where he spent his entire life. He was a son of the late Dr. W. H. Henry and Elizabeth Young Henry, the old est brother of five children, and a half-brother of the late G. C. Young. Laurens, Ndv. 25. It was announc-i As a young lad Mr. Henry attended ed today at the office of'the county; Prof. Wm. S. Lee’s private school con farm agent that a farm-to-farm, ed to the people of the city to unite in Long and Rev. H-^D. Chambers. The this service and it is expected that interment was in the family plot in ] there will he a large congregation, the Presbyterian cemetery. The fun-1 There will he no football magnet to^ eral was attended by a great company | draw a crowd to the city, since Pres byterian college closed its season Fr . day with a victory over Catawba. All in all, the ,day promises to is* an enjoyable one and Clintonians a't* prepared to lake advantage of foe various o-pportunities for worship, recreation and diversion which it o‘‘- fers. With the celebration of Thanksgi,- ing over—the community wdl turn it-> attention to the approaching Yuleti,le season, evidences of which are already beginning to be .seen in the city. Bolick Elected Blue Hose Pilot Cross Hill-Laurens Road Paving Begun case tooKs but cultiva-te the land for a por tion of the crop, will have facilities for land cultivation in the event they , are unable to find a jilace for next ' year. The government would be able , to furnish land. The division of benefit payments, officials said, was not finally decided until late today. berculosis had been Considerably de-' VV’ork in preparation for surfajce- erea.sed in our statfeduring'the past j treating the Cross Hill-Laurens high- 20 years. Howevei, this last year’s j way i.s in progress. The construction records show an increase — probably on this road will be under the dirwt 'due to economic conditions. This fact management of the state highway i should cause us to renew the fight commission and the surface treatment thi.s dreaded disease with! will include the town of Ooss Hill, more vigor than ever. .. ,, land will extend to Cold Point, where “In I..auieh.s county over a period j it joins the Laiujens-VVat^rloo high- Tho.se ho rent land for ,)f fjyp years there have been approxi-: way. It is expected that farmers and receive-from the /lately 30() ca.es and 31 deaths. others along the line may find e,n- liayments ranging from $3 to $11 an, ^ I „„ ,^0 projont. Harry Bolicl;:., 21, of ( hai ’.eson, was .eleetd by the footl>:tll squad at a “ducted in this community. At ; nieeting pij, M<>fiday to cuotain th'* age he united with^the I’J | }‘feHbyterian,- college Plur .Stacking team next year. He is a f un-lettv‘'‘ tt'rian church of this city of which he wa.s a life-long member and a dea man, majoring in IS a football. baseha " itville, con. His father and grandfather pre-: iq o v... i group iceded him a.s officers In this ‘-hurch,;,sco-er ir ;ii. -st' . quai'te;’- alterna:** bv ( t-a.'*\ with the chairman of their acre, and also any further benefit pay- ^ •ounty worthy cause. the rental payments and then will .share in the benefit payments in pro- pariioa .to the amount of cotton they are to receive. For example, if a tenant is to re- ceive two thiids of the cotton yield, he will receive two-third.s of the total benefit payment.s on the stajile. i _ .Share-cr(q>i>ets will not receive any, Congressman Denounces Smith’s of the rental payment.s but their bene-^ Op|)ositinn In-«-T«4e4?ram fit payiponts as in the ca.^e of manag- MeSwain Backs Chief On Money Owings Bank county-wide soil survey is to he made as one of the activities of the PWA * •> set-u|» here. Preston M. Motes, of Mount has been appointed to head the of men selected for the work. His as-i Mr. Henry was One of the coimnu- jj^. j^. ^ huokfidd man. sistants will he \V. H. Fleming of nity’s well known 'and suceessful oq (,f n l4anford, Robert .A. Yeargin and J. A.'farnu'rs and always manifested an | year, was elected Gurry of Gray Gourt,-and Joe V'ance interest in the affairs of his county. (i.m,tain. of Owings. The five men composing | A faithful husband, a loyal father,] letteis wc-e i-isuc<! the survey unit are Glemson college :son, brother and friepd, and an “p-j players; Captain It • > nri^n. Th(?y are to operaU* under the i right citizen, he had the respect and sims,»I’errin, Holick, Highv, Forehai, 30-hour week imhlic works regulation honor of all who knew him, and the Tidheid, (’orrell, Hoggs. Kceder. Ve;v- for a six-month period. ,community sustains a lo.ss in his'^^^q^ .\icGulloch, Tisdale. HoirKhiv, In addition to making soil tests of death. j poliinson. Horne. Wilbanks, Lee Qua'-- .Surviving are his widow, before Redmond. Shinniek. Hard n, marriage. Miss Ada Henry of this |»(>t;(.rson, Denny anti Waldrop. |dace; one daughter, Mrs. H. L. Bald-^ win, and four stms, Df. H. H. Henry, Alex Henry, William J. Henry, Jr., Dr. Fayette Henry; by one sister, .Mrsi li. H. Davidson, and seven graml- children, all of this city. type and acidity, a complete individ ual farm etiuIphTenl census“wni he assembled in the reports. ity Of Laurens I Wants Hosnital State’s Banks In Better Condition The Hank of (Jwings in the upper - T4h*- e i.ty-.<$f— the public worlCgS admini.stration in part of the county, wa.s opened during' f’olumhia for a loan of $12(»,(l(M) to fi-/• the past week without restriction by nance a two-story, 35-hed city hos- j th<s state board of, hank control. The pital, aceoiding to ,a news dispaltli hank, which has been in the hands ofifroni (’(duinhia last Friday, its president as conservator since I Death Claims- ' Mrs. J. B. Speake .Mrs. .1. B. Speake, a re.sidenl of the The appl'cation was transmitted to Kinards section, dii'd at tin* local hos ing tenants will he ha.-ed on the. To Preside^Roosevelt. amount of cotton they are ! Greenville. Nov. 25.—The monetary Ofticials .■*ai< an< ownii.*! - poliev of IVesident Roosevelt was en- niohat V wish to cultivate most ol ' • i i dnrsed and A1 .Smith was denounced the and taken out of cotton produc- . . , .• ine itto.i la opposition to that policy in a toin and con. equentiy would need the i • u i i Loiii ttuu i J ulegram which ( nngressmun J. J. services of the tenant.s who otheiWi-se would rai.«e the staple. The government will stipulate, how ever, that the land which formerly grew cotton must not -be useil for anyf^"**" '/'"'//Vj Vv, $v, grew LULLuii iiiu -./mental and held that it .separates the of the basic commodities named m . « , oi Tne vuii I . , . debv-ridden masses from the money the faim act i t e >ie i is to e » .changers’. In-reference to A1 Smith, hejance of Thanksgiving day. commeicia, y. ^ ' said: “OurJ long suffering people now! The president expressed hi.s grate March, has been declared solvent by the state advisory public works hoard pital la t Wednesday night after an were remoM-d ,hy the hnaid of Gnluinhia, .\’ov. 25. Along with an nouncement that state hank,< had st I engt hened -Thefr imsh per cent since the fii.s't of the year, hanking officials today authorized two more institutions to resume unre stricted operation.*-'. o '1 he two from which ' re-it' ictior.s harik the hoard and is now in operation un- by Dr. J. 11. Teague, chairimm of the der the direction of its original hoard ' board of governors of the proposed of directors. | hospital. <)\v;ng< an Mc.S'wain sent yesterday to the chief I executive at Warm Sjirings, Ga. ^ In the communieaLion''the congress-1 ,,nian defined the money test a*^ funda- THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION Warm isprings, Ga., Novt 22. Pres-| “May -we ask guidance in miu'c ident Roosevelt issued a proclama-, surely learnincr thi- ancU-hl'd ruth that. | w hich .-he was held, tion to,lay .-n-lliny .V.>y. 30 fnr oLaorv-^an,I -^triyinK for marriUKo, «a« i . . . . . .a- . l.Mi.-^s Elizabeth Horton of illness of only a few dass*. The news control were the Bank u! of here passing came as u great shock (he Itank of Williston. to ihe ‘family and her friends, and Figures announced hy !' B M: , cau.-ncil w iilc.opread sorrow. chief examiner of the i)(>a! .l, howed The funeral service wa.s lu*ld Ilmrs- ^he “cash position” i>f ta’i' 'liik'. on day affernoon at the Hojiewell .Meth- the ptio of liquid a*^set^ to dcr-osit li- odist church, with interment follow- ahiUtios was 3S.71 per cer ■ on (icto’-er ingin the churchyard. A large gather- of), and a large increa e evei the 27 ing attended the last riles with many pt-,- j.j.nt of lariuaiy i. floral offerings placed on the grave j (’j^sh in the hank> inc. . attesting the devotion and love in; 7:55 during this pened. Binning- -J- ham, -Ala. She was a sincere Ghri.s- LftUlTdTS Pl^riS j ..^tat/building and his magazine called 117 1 Qarzfa * ' street’s fVClCOinC rOl OttlUttjeQjj Inlook.” We now recognize a ^ wolf in .sheep’s clothing.” I^urens, Nov. 25.At a meeting Congre.ssman MeSwain clo.sed his la-t n’ght’ of the bu.siness men and,telegram with thi.s appeal: merchant.s of the city, plans werej “I beg you go on the natiof-wide mapped for the annual advent of San- ' radio hook-up once a week in Decem- ta Claus, to be attended by the turn- her and warn the people against false of the Christmas lights oa the friend.s.” The celebration will innings Show Small Decrease undue riches can never bring fasting ^know that Wall siieet hankers have ajfulness for “the pas.sing of the ,iark j 'iian woman, endowi'd wi*h many vic- Imortgage on A1 Smith and bis Empire days" in his pi-oclamation, which read:!neighbors. tues, kind and gentle, and loved by “I, Franklin 1). Roo»yvell, „r..si,lent!. ''r , , (•niton jiSni-.- „ I . ■ of the Unitcil .States of America, ''■‘J’’’- <"■ rl’H it | Speake is survive,I l,y her hiVs- prior to Nov. I ':h on ii’N i, set aside and appoint Thursday, the 1and one daughter, .Miss, Eliza- as compared with 21,5','.i ginned ing on public square. take place on the afternoon and night| POSTAL EXAM CALLED of Deceniber^'?7^ A -maaunoth parade will be staged in the afternoon at 4; 'The civil service commission—haa o’clock. Schools of the county are to 1 called an examination on December be invited to take part by providing suitable floats, and prize* will be of iMst. exhibits. 12th to fill the pcjlsition of postmaster at Laurens. J. E. Minter is the incum- fw the first, aeeoiid thifd .hiyinjgjihftld .thfi fftr ,tfw. past four years. 30th day of Novennher, 1933, to be a day of thanKsgiving for all our i>eople. “May We on this day in our church es, thanks for the ble.ssing bestowed up on us. during the year by Almighty God. * “May we recall the courage of those who settled a wilderness, th^ vision of those who founded the nation, the steadfastaeaa of titmo who in every generation have fought to keep pure the ideal of equality of opportunity, and hold clear the goal of mutual help in time of ‘prosperity as in time of up land; for the greater friemlship be tween employers and those who toil; and in our homes give humble • ^ *'y ; that we seek no concfue.sts and ask; only hqnorable engagements hy all 1 people to respect the lands and rights | of their neighbor.s; for the brighter | iH'th Sjieake, who is a member of the to the same qei iixT la.'t senior ciu.ss at I’ieshyterian college. City Schools advenlty. T 'ing to tht* official figiee' ue l .Mo day. Thi.s is u decrease of .* 5 bales fn ithis year’s cro|) -ginnetl to ilate. I —! Get Holiday School Enrollment Continues To Gain day to which we can win through by, u 1 u 1 seekinif the help of Go,l and a morel. Thf Cl.ntone.ty .schools w,II obaerve unselfish striving for the common bet-1 '' "" Thank.sgivmg j tering of mankind. holiday.s, regular work being resumed | , , v. . Monday morning. ^^chools at the end of the third month The enrollment of the* Clinton city “In.witness whereof, 1 have here unto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. The trustees have announced that!of the term, has reached a total of the Christmas holiday period will be-! 1,737. In the four white schools there gin on December 22nd and continue!are 1276 pupils matriculated, and 461 pf ;■ i