The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, September 13, 1934, Image 8
Disappointment Expres^Yo President By Secretary of Execu
tive Coundl Ai Number of Jobless and Bfost Needing Eederalj
I. ‘ I'i
Relief DeipliU^ Progress of New Deal.
W«8hin?ton,^S€^.^9. — Donald R.[-Se national resources board
Kiehb... in hi, finn. report on New.-^e
Deal recovery efforts tonight express- economic aspects of development!
ed disappointment that the number of-of the Mississippi basin. Technical re-|j
Jobless persons and those needing fed- porft for the entire country w|ll be
eral relief remained so high but assur-.before the board by November 1'5.
ed I^resident Roosevelt that the na
tion was cpming out of the depression.
Acknowledging a $6,129,000,000 in
crease in the public debt under the
Richberg is secretary of the execu- New Deal, Richberg remarked that
"tiye council. He combined in his final the treasury could borrow money I
report the last .|hree of seven reports more cheaplyjnow than it could whenjj
in which administration recovery ef- Mr. Roosevelt was inaugurate, indi-'
go^
forts were summarized. •'eating that gbvernment credit is bet-
Richberg said inilHoiis*!^ job appli- ten-
cants had been absorbed in permanent Richberg said there was urgent
‘or temporary work. * \ need for adequate co-ordinated ma-
“But it is natural,” he added, “to chinery to,deal with labor disputes,
feel disappointment that there,„have ; Touching on the internal dispute
not been greater reductions in the over NRA’s future, Richberg said leg-
numbers of the unemployed and those islation was being prepared to co-
dependent on federal relief.” ordinate NRA, federal trade commis-
Unfavorable factorjs in the various sion and justice department interpre-^
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Richberg reports include,d:
. 1. "Five nvillion families—23,000,000
persons — probably would need relief
this winter.
2. Relief costs had reached a high
of $128,000,000 a month for ^approxi
mately 17,000,000 persons.
3. The’ number of jpbless* was un-
tatidns of industry's rights under
NRA. He emphasized that the recov
ery act had forbidden monopolistic*
prices or oppression of small indus
tries. Administrator Hugh S. Johnson
has opposed continuing the trade com
mission authority over industry under
the anti-trust laws. Richberg believes
teown but the problem^as indicated,!these laws should ,be available for
although not measured by 16,000,000'such use as the government may de
job applications received in the last
12 nvonths by federal and state.agen
cies. • I ,
4. Demoralized international trade
was a heavy handicap to agricultural
recovery-.
sire to make of them.
.Om foreign, trade, Richberg said:
'‘Aside from the failure of the pur
chasing power of domestic consumers
to increase with sufficient rapidity to
absorb normal quantities of agricul-
;5. Trade negoitations with Covietltural products at fair pricp, the prin
Russia were suspended pending out
come, of debt funding efforts.
' €. Domestic purchasing power re
mained- subnormal,
• V Cheering Items •
1. More than 4,000,000 persons re
employed by private enterprise.
2. .More than 4,000,000 given tenri-
porary joh.s.
3. More than 657,000 employed dur
ing part of the year on permanent
public works. •
4. Farm income, increased • by niore
than $1,000,000,000. ^ ^
cipal liandicap to efforts toward a
greater degree of farm recovery is the
continued demoralization of interna
tional trade.^
“U would remove thi.s^ handicap if
foreign purchasing power in this
country’s markets Could be restored
by increasing ^import.s to the extent
necessary to pay for normal farm ex
ports.” '
POOLE REUNION
One of the happie.st occasions of the!
_ [summer was the gatnering last Sun-j
5. F'arm prices of’Seven basic com- day. Sept. 2, of the children and
modities raised within a year to 96fjfrandchildren of Mrs. Williarff Au-
per cent of pre*war parity with whatjgustus Poole and the late Mr. Poole,
the farmer bought <this partly due to for a family reunion at the old home
drought conditions). 'y ' place in the Long Branch community.
.j6. Loans and grants to relieve indi
vidual and~institukional financial dis-
A bountiful dinner was spr^d on
tables under Ihe large oaks bn the
tress exceeded $5,000,000,000, of which! lawn, with plenty of tea, coffee and
$2,000,000,000 had been repaid. i lemonade. Mason Poole, pastor of ' a
The banking system had been re- church in Waycross, Gaj, read a suit-f|
stored to health. laible passage from tfie Bible and
8. More than 1,000,000 farm and ^ Boyce Poole, of Laurens, led in a
city homes saved from foreclosure by:word of prayer..After which'all gath-
aid already extended or under way.- jered around the table and enjoyqd
“The nation has risen out of the the delicious food which each one had .
depths of its worst depression,” Rich-’shared in bringing. ' |
berg told Mr, Roosevelt, "and is mov-1 |n the afternoon sevi^ral gathered ^
ing steadily forward in the process of in the living room and enjoyed sing-1
,a defirvite economic recovery and is,mg the songs which We sang when!
building new defenses against a recur- we were children. !
rence of the economic ills from which
it bas been suffering.
- ti'The mOhey expended in these great
constructive' efforts is, of course, far
One .sad. thought which crossed our'l
minds *wa1< that six years ago, on the
same date, our father, William Au-I
gustus Poole, Svas.laid to rest, in the!^|
less than the cost of one year of par-[old Langston cemetery. May we each!
ticipation m^the World war with its ^ make ah effort to meet him on the I
vast'destructibn of life and property, [other side and have a re union *1,liere
It has been a small price to pay for;which will last forever.
such a gain,” >
Tonight’s report dealt with": "Ad
vance in public services,” through
creation of various regulatory or ad-
■ vi^ory agencies, such as the securities
and exchange commission" and the na
tional power policy committee; "ad
ministrative .services," by various gov
ernment department.s and emergency
The following is a list of tho.se who
were pre.tent: Mrs. W. A. Poole, moth-1
er, step-mother and grandmother of I
this large family; Mr. and Mrs. Boyce!
Poole, I^aurens; Mr. and- Mrs. Mfck
Poole and children, Mary, Floyd,]!
Odetta, Ida Bell, Clara Mae and Alice,^
Clinton* Mr. jind Mrs. James A. Poole |
^and children, Helen and William,,
apneies* and with “imomotion of for-1 Dunn, N. C.; Mr. and Mrs, Willie m!'
eign trade.^’ ij Poole, Woodruff; Mr. and Mrs. Earli
Richberg_revealed that the federal| Alexander, Laurens; Mr. and Mrs. El-1
co-ordinatpr of transportation had Poo’le and daughter, Frances, Clin-
completed a report! on the handling of
the. carriers from $50,000,000 to $100,-.
000,000 a year. Studies are being
ton; Mr. and Mrs. W'alter E. Poole
merchandise traffic calculated to 8ave.>and children; Waltef, Jr.. Vivian and
Elva, Elberton, Ga.; Mr. and Mrs.*
Jphn Henry Poole and daughter, Ii^is
made of carload and .passenger traf- Lee, Cross Anchor; Mr. and .Mrs. Jo-
'fic and other phasw of rail operations ^^ph Poole, Laurens; Allen Poole, j
,. iD.,,an efioil .,tO- . eliminate waste. A Miss-Annie Belle-Poole, Marvin Poole-
jbomprehensive legislation - program and Miss Sarah Nell Poole, XSlinton.; |
will be presented to congress.
BUCK-DRAUGHT
*8«dli a Good Laxatlvak** Says Nnrsa
Writing from her home In Fea-
tui, Mo., Mra. Anna LaPlante aiiys:.
-*1 am a practical nurse and I xec-
ommend. to aome of my patlenta
that they taka Black-Draughty for
tt la such a good laxatim X took
It for conatlpatloo, headache and n
dun feeling that I had eo much. A
few doat$ of-Black*Diau|Jit—•and
X felt just fine.”
hatlaf I
11 teat eiMk-,
<■ a faai, fONiy wfalabla laxa-
al U an
Mason Poole, Wayceoss, Ga. Others,]
I in addition to members of the family,!]
Avere: Mrs. L. T. Benjamin, Fort V,|il-!
ley, Ga.;'Mr. and Mrs. Charlton Ben-j
jamin and Chariton^ Jr., Clinton; John!
Todd, Mr. and' Mr.s. Edgar Todd and j|
Hugh Todd, Clinton; Miss Carrie i
Knight and Mrs. Marjorie * Stevens, [
Gray.Court; Mr. and Mrs.’I. E.^Park-
er, Mt. JDbra, Fla.; Mrs. J. W. Goss I
and daughter.s,'Jimmy and Mayo, El-J]
berton, Ga.
Lee Add l^lakely
f Gets Five Years
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Greenville, Sept. 5.—Lee Add Blake
ly, former Laurens county commis
sioner, was sentenced to five years at
hard labor in the state penitentiary
today aftef pleading guilty in general
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‘'Carolina State bank, at Fountaiq Inn.
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of the law so that he may be allowed.
30 days in which to clear ub his
ness affairs, Blakely served notice of ij
appeal. ^tl
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Judge IVilliam^H, Grimball, the for
mer county commissioner will be
freed under $1,500 bond abd afte’.’.30
, days the ffill be automatically^,
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