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/ 7 TAfiSEIGHf >N. COUNTY TREASURER’S ^OTICE - The books of the l^ourity Treasurer Hill be open fop the jpollection of taxe? for the fiscal year, 1934, alf the Treas- , utet’s office fyotn Oct<^rfl5th to De- ‘ ■ oember-St, 1934; AfteV Decem^ber 31j raEa£<TONCHROMCLE, CLINTON, J- 1 r f THURSDAY, OCTOBER I& 1934 Family On Faumi SfMnds But $958 one per cent will be added. After Jan uary Slst, two per cent will be added,]* ..and after February 29th, seven per cent will be added until the 15th day of Marcl^, 1935,’when/the books willj be closed, ii — I All persons-'Owning • property in more than'one school district are re-j , quested to call for receipts in each of| the se^veral school • districts in which books, these days’; but good bo^ks are ^ the property is located. This is impor-|ielling more than they did. There tant, as additional cost and penalty|_was a period of several y^ars in which may be attached. an^book wduld-^11 if it were only All able-bodied male citizens be-{ nasty enough, and w great numbeh" of tween the ages of twenty-one (21) prurient-minded would-be authors, and sixty (60) years of age are liable who never had mastered even th^ ru- ' ' to pay a poll tax of $1.00 Commuta-idiments 6T> writing, broke into print j V tion Road Tax $1.50 in lieu of ,road with' volumes which irresponsible pub- duty. All able-bodied men between tho,'lisher3 put out and which .seemed to ages of 21 and 55 are liable to road find a ready markef. duty except those in military service, school trustees, school teachers, min isters and students. Souths Carolina Eural llesident Buy 26 P^r Ceht of Food Each ^Year, Survey Discloses/ Clemson College, Oct. 13.—“The «v- r ' ^ erage value of family living for forty- six South Carolina families in six ag- •’'BOOKS—^The New^Deal ^ ricultural counties covered in our re- People are no); buying - so_ mahyj cent-survey ia^low compared with that Reported by similar studies in some ^tatr^ but ihe proportion of the total which^^ fakm-supplied is higher for the South Ci^olina families,” says Miss Mary\E. Wrayser, home econo mist of the Soutn Carolina experiment station. “The average value of living per yera forHhe forty-six families was $958,” Mis Frayser continues. “TKi% sum is made up of an average cash ■L- ' LOOK! tOOK! American Boy now $1.00 per year. $2.0(rfbr 3 years. k « W ■ « •' JAMES W. CALDWELL Attacks Stretch-Out In MilUi Anything in the way of Magazinea * ■ I - i Johnston To Demand /CleaU-Up’ Of Relief Situation fai This ^tate; v>- /' » Washington, Qct. IS.^Olin D. John- stpn of Spartanburg, who^ will become governor of South Cafolinh in Janu- ary,HomorrLOw will tell Relief Admin istrator Harry Hopkins that he wants the ;^blief situation in* hie state cleaned up.” )■«« Judge Stacy, and talk the situation oyer.'. • ■ . ... ^ - “I fed dee^lj^-iirt the issues 'in volved,'^ he /isaid^j laying the 'entire trouble at/the door of the “stretch out” system. I used to tend 26 looms,” he pointed out, “and now a nfan has to look after 50 to 70, and he has^ to wailk so much it wears him “The last reports I have,” Johnston .said while in Washington today, A f Present That .sort of “literature” is fading ). .u T I- „ „ i expenditure of $485, or 51 per cent, .roni the scene. In it.s place are se- ^ ^ j ’ rious di*«»s.»ions of'important and farm-aup- Proper attention will be given tho.se tal questions, which p^ple who are ^ , or 49 per ■ «- ' » jVjjss Fray.ser s survey is reported in Bulletin 299, A Study of Expenditures who wish to pay their taxes through oagef to know what all the economic the mail by check, money order, etc., troubles are about are rushing to buy. giving name of township and ntibibey^| To my ddsk come many books. In of school district. ^ jthe past ten days I have received not The tax levy is as follows: State Tax . 5 mills Ordinary County Tax .yr... 514 mills Road Bonds 7'/a mills Past Indebtedness 3 milks Weak Schools . .. 1 mill Constitutional School .... 3 mills Total 25 mills Lauren.s School Districts " • No. 1, Trinity-Ridge 12 mills No. 2, Pro.speot ;. ' 12 mills No. 3, Barksdale-Narnie .... 16*4 mills No. 4, Bailey [ 7 mills No. 5, Copelagd-Flejiimg ' 8 mills No. 6, Oak Grove'^ 6 mills No. 7, Watts Mills ...^^ 8 mills all .sensible-minded less than six books' discussing- the New Deal from different angles, all of them worth reading, although I don’t agree with all of the authors. for Family Living by 46 South Caro lina Rural Families,” which is ready for free distribution by the publica tions department at Clemson college. Some striking facts and figures ‘were that at least two million dollars f®*"the situation, a month is being spent in the state for relief. Mt^iy are getting relief *wh‘o are not entitled to it, and many ^are being neglected. I want the situatib adjusted before I make the appoint ment of a relief administrator, and/to this end wjll request that investi^- tors 1^ sent to the state to unrarth the facts. ^I-have received many let- -ters- of complaint and feel tha^ many are true. Moreover, I do not Want re lief cut..-eff_^rom the deservmg, and will ask be continu^ until an equitable ai^^umane plan/that is fair -to__»ll ii.evolVed.” / Johnston, ^o was accompanied to the capital b3r**BeiT-Jr. / I^eppard, of Greenville, • democratic/chairman. will lie . • wu u 11 ..L j confer here with ot/her government brought out m the bullet,p are these: regarding in,litions in the eaS'f'r r 1?o “’'"‘‘"litate of which he i/to take the helm. M83 a family a year, 39 per cent of ^he offieiala’ wiia are accompany, the total value of family living; shel-jj^^ them ' HOOVER—His Ideas Liberals,, whether they call them selves^ Democrats or Republicans, ought to read Herbert Hoover’s book, “The Challenge to Liberty.” -Mr. .... , . . _ He 1 i No, H, LautenS^ 20 mills Youngs Sch<M)l Districts' • - Hoover' is not a literary stylist, writes plainly, directly and often bluntly. It is hardly necessary to say that he doesn’t apjirove of the New Deal. Many of its objectives, he agrees, as men agree, are ter $168 IS Kr cent; clothing $76 8, - Wedneaday the governor,elect will per cent; fuel $28, 3 per cent; other |„|| „„ Rooaevelt to pledge operating expense $64, 7 pcc.^nt; unqualified support of the admiV naL only worthy but pecessary. What Mr. Hoover fears is that, in trying to No. 4, Bethany 12 mills arrive at economic security, by a short No. 5, Grays 17 mills i cut, the Amej ican people may be .sac- No. 6, Central No. 7, Youngs . No. 8, Warrior Creek No. 10. Lanfoitl No. 3-B, p-duntain Inn . Dials School District!^ No. 1, Gi'eenpond 10 nii^ls •No. 2, Eden . 12 mills No. 5, Gray Court-Owings . 25 mills No. 3-jR, Fountain Inn 24 milD Sullivan School Districts cent; savings and investments-$$5, 41 ^he two South Carolinians were per cent; general expenditures $179,|^„„,, ,hi/„uon at .the Monday iun per cen . jeheon of ‘/South Carolinians in Wash- An. average of $99, or 26 per centij^ , of the total value of fond, was sp^tit I hriefly ington',” / and afterward conferre<i nth , Secretary of Commerce i 12V4 mill.sj rificing liberties which they can never J714 mills regain. ^ 15 mills What Mr. Hoover has to say about 18 mills I the tendency of bureaucracy to per- 24 miIlS|petuate itselCand expand its functions arises from his own .experiente and observation. And what he says about the control of business by Government and what its conseijuences may be pro vides food for deej) thought. for food purcha.sed; $284, or 74 per cent, represented food supplied by the farm, -The recQrd.s. indicate that^thel^ dietary needs of some of the familiesj studied were probably not adequately ; , f I nr I Sawyer, chairman,'“is going out. The homckeepew supplied 25 pcT 7 ^ penny appro- cent of the family income by ul,l,xmg|Z,.^j^j Roper,/himself a South Carolinian, and then made the appointment ’for cow/sxon fere net* with Hopkins, ked about his plans for the state I highway commission, Johnston said opportunities the farm offered No. 1^’rinceton No.Y^, .Mt. Bethel No. 3, Poplar Springs .. No. 7, Browerton No. 17, Hickory Tavern Railroad Taxs.,^^ Palmletto Crops Keep First PWee ^Waterloo School DistrictH . 22 mills WALLA('E^An Honest Thought •. 10 mills I have long- maintained that the 25 mills most perfectly-functioning grain, in 16 mills!the Roosevelt Administration is that" 24 mills'af Henry Wallace, Secretary of Agri- 3 mills culture. B(Ir. Wallace is capable of Yield of 122.4 Per Cent 0/ Ten Year^eM^ Ti Indicated In ;. Survey By Statjsticiai islature to reorganize the ^highway commi.ssion by reducing the number from 14 to 5, and I projmse tO" nomi nate men who will distribute road money equitably.” .Johnston said he'will go to the Bu reau of Pu^)lic, Roads tomorrow and ask cooperation in the intere.st of the greatest number of people In the state. A “graduate” of the cotton mills, Johnsto,n i.s deeply interested in the work of th^ textile labor relations board, he said, and its study of the situation during the “truce.” During vnm .situ r. Johnston said he will call a ence of the state’s educators arly in December to work out ari edu-j cational program 'with a view to in creasing the school term to seven months, by the stat?~and in the hope the local communities will add anoth er month. ^ After this he wiTT call various con ferences in connection with prepara tion of his, message to the legislature. : ^ NOTICE OF SALE We will sell at public auction on sales day in November, 19$4 (the same b^ng the 5th day of November, 1934) Un front of the courthouse door in the city of Laurens, County of Lau ren.s, State of South .Carolina, during the legal ho^rs of sale, on the terms specified below, the following describ ed, real estate to wit: ! “All that tract of land situate -4n Laurens County in said Istate, (Tontaining. sixty acres, more or less, and known as a part of the Mrs. Charles A. Pulley place, bounded on the north by lands of J. W. Donnan, On the east by lands of T. P. Pool, on,the south 'by lands of George F. Pulley, an^ on'the west by lands of Mrs. An“ nie Davis and Mrs,. Mag Little.” . I Terms of sale: Cash. Purchaser to: pay“fo4' stamps, papers and recording, .TA NIE* DONNAN, CORRIE BEIxL DONNAN, As Executrices of the Estate of J. W’. Donnan, Deceased. Dated October 12, 1934.;—ll-l-3tco. Radios & Tubes Smith’s Pharmacy t ■ l- • D. E. Tribble Co. X FUNERAL DIRECTORS , and EMB^LMERS Licensed^ Eml^Imer, Complete Modem Equipment a Day Phone 94 . Night Phones 24, 253 or 255 Clinton - • - S. C. ■i CRIOMUISION No. 1, Mt. Gallagher No. 2, Bethel Grove No. 4, Center Point . Columbia, Oct. 11.—^^FranJe 0. Black, cuiiure. flur. Wallace is capaoie oi i agriculfqral statistician of the United «'^uanon during me 'iruce. uurmg seeing both .sides of any subject and i agriculture, an-’^^^ will call on Dn Mullen:: f\v ^ n 1 w Lr I n fv 4 n i n €9 u 4- n f v f Mn 4 f\ 4ViXiiv*i ~ ^ ^ * ** ^ ^ ^ ^ ** ** m ^ r\.f 4 V* a m n .‘iVT^ ..thinking things through to^their g / mrlks logical conclusions. 16 millsfi Nbw Mr. Wallace SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLE has ith Caroliijia prospects of baehi in the absence of the chairman, “The Paper Everybody Keads" TRIAL AND ERROR Not at safe procedure in buying insurance. Thgsonly safe way is the sure way. . Buy only the BEST. H. D. HENRY & CO. H..D. Henry F. M. Boland' * I crops maintained the Mxx r, noLx.iiix. u n x • u 1 X xi 1 being first in the nati(in in, yield per No. 5^ Oakville 8 mills to write a book, entitled New h ron- No, 3, Rock Bridge' No. 4, Wadsworth . .. No. 5, Clinton No. 6, Goldville No. K-19, .Kinards. , _ No. R-42, Re<‘derville No. 16, Mountville . Jacks School No. 1, No white school No. 2, Shady Grove No. 2, Renno , Nn?^i Mount Pleasant 8 mills tiers.” It is not a' compilation of No. 7, Mt. Olive 21 mills .speeches and public statements, 'but No. 14, Waterloo 8 mills^a fresh record of events and issues Cross Hill School District as they have ajjpeared to him as a No. 13, Cross Hill ^ D^ui'lD member of the Roosevelt Cabinet. Hunter School Districts - i " Mr. Wallace, n^aturally, apiiroaches 6 fnills his subject from a different angle lO mills^from that -from which Mr. Hbover 18'-a mills views the Washington .scene. 1 get the X3 iwlli:^-impression^ thaC he is not entirely uiillsI'satisfied with the way things have 13 mills worked out for the farmer, and if he ID had the shaping of a new Agricultu-! Districts jal Adjustment .\ct.it would l)e quite! 4 mills j a different, piece of work. — 13 mills '■ , 10 miilsj IMPARTIAL — I^on-partisan 3 mills, Another Wallace—Profes.sor Schuy- acre for all crops com The agricultural lead bined establi.shedi in but litftle No. 4, No white school .. 111111.-1 No. 5 ....-v..,- 2 mills Wallace, who holds the chair of No. 6, O Dell s 10 mills 1 pu[)lic law at Columbia No. Garlington 5 milN|ha No. 15, Hurricane Scuffletown School No. 1. Ixohg Branch . No. 2, Musgrove 6 mill o ! university written a book which gives to thejiQ^^j^ j average reader a clearer and more un-, August, Black said/ was changed (^ ing September and placed the outlo<)T for state crops at 122.4 per cent of the tej^ year average yield and compared with ,78.2 per cent fpr.i the entire nation^ The total out-turn of all crops com bined wa>< al>ou^r> j)er cent below*'av- erage, tha- statistician explained, due largely to curtailed cotton and tobac co acreage. The corn oZ-oj) at 21,324,000 bushels' i.s 7 pel- c/*nt below la.st year hutj, .slightly ab^ve average. I The tobkeco crop, estimated at 57,-1 7*20,000 pounds,' is 35 per cent. les« than the 1933 crop and about 31 per cent belpw average. 4,^ ^ In taihie hay. Black said, the out- for 206,600' tons compared : iiiotrirte 1. '- ^ “ ' ; - Iwun i95,000 la.st year. Sweet potato! 8 the New Deal produbtion is estimated at 4,617,OQQ' 10 mills. than any single volume'I have seen . bushels or about at the 1933 figure, Nn 3 Ijinaaton ''i milk i ^ M allacc, while sympathetic, j was 9 per cent above average. iNo. J, i^ngsion .) niiiis ^ have preserved a non-par-1 No. 4, Sandy Springs 6 mills. impartial point of view. To the No. 12, Ora* ........ .x.. ... 12 mills,(hg various phases of the Persons .sending in lists of names of the administration he adds to be taken off are requested to •'^‘^nd comments and interpretations, them early and give the township and' which I would hesitate to indorse as % school di.Htnct of each as the Tr^as-1 which are plainly and fair- urer is very ^usy during the mtonth MeSween Addresses Anderson Teachers December tf D. ROY SIMPSON, County Treas.. - YOUR LAST YEAR’S SUIT... - LET US MAKE IT READY FOR THIS FALL’S WEAR —SO YOU WON’T KN^W IT. Imagine your la,st year's suit looking like a brand new—model ^om the. hfesL man|s shop in town. Our high - grade workmanship, both cleaning and pre.ssing, will* do the trick for you, und yop can j;x)cket the mon^y you save. Anderson, Oct. 15.—The hifch'place V -For tho average roador, this ;• th* theme hapx the moxt generally useful book pr. John of the lot on my i^ak. /MeSweeh, Presbyterian co^ege presi- __ - ident, at the first 1934-.35rses.sjon of , ( ONTIKIV ERSIAIx—From Ranks 'the Anderson County Teachers’ Asso- James P. Warburg, who was one of elation, held at the girls’ high school President Roosevelt’s, economic ach'is- jand attended by several hundred An- ers until thtpr parted company over^derson county teachers, jthe administVation’.s monetary poHcy,) After paying Uihute to the ni^m- ! has writ^n “It’s Up to Us,^a highly'bers of the teaching profession, which entertaining book on a little under- he described as “the most important .stood subject — money and hanking. j:roup in American life,” ’ Dr. Mc- Jim Warburg knows his-subject. He'sweerv said, “the fate of America’s says that the New Deal is like a calf fom^of government lies in the hands With five legs, but that Ss because the of 'tlje teachers of beys and girls.” American people wanted a five-legged He said the firxSt objective is. to teach <^alf- , I boys and giris how to live more fully, Frank. R. Kent, keenest and most adding that the nrtoel important things lienetratihg of political observers in in school life are not taught.in books, Wia.shington, is out with/a book called but are tho^' character-building ‘Wtihout, Gloves.” Anyone who wants things which* a child instinctively CLEANER Dm Hoiiia, MaamgercOperator 77 ty Reifiit’* to read the inside of the Washington learns from the thoroughly conScien- developments as they occurred, ‘ and tious instructor. get a pen-picture of many of the por-j .onalities involved, written~in a racy,| ppp A 11/ 'I ' ireezy style, would do well to read ^ f llilvr\ VllVCS W01*K his book. n j|, ^ David Law'rens, as profound a|. lO V^AlUpUS hinker as there is in the r^anks of' *' - journalism, in his ‘ Beyond the New Thirty-four students are now work- Oeal," tries to follow through to Emergency «e. ultimate consequences of the an-e' important efforts that are being made to achieve recovery. MASONS TO MEET FRIDAY Campbell Lodge No. 44, A; 'F.'M., lief Administratio^n on the Presbyte rian college campus. Seventeen of these are old ^students and seventeen are new. This is a considerable in- crease over the number employed dur- ing the latter part of the past school Will hold a regular communication Friday night, Oct. 19, at 7:30 o’clock. ,/.^*?" , ’ , j • $ All membeVs urged to be presiint, Students aijp eniployed m various Work in F. C. degree. ' , . By order of W. M. • V. Adair, S^retary. types of work—aa library and faculty assistants, and in general campus cleaning and beautifying. ■ iiiljausi : I I I '*«£, COMPLETE FALL SHOWING Dress Pants Yoling Men’s Slacks , $3.95 and $4.95 \ Blue Serge $2.98 and $4.95 .Heavy Weight Moleskin ^ By H^p. -Bovs’ Knickers Wool and‘Corduroy $1.95 and $2.49 Sizes 12 to 20 iJ ALL WOOL BELTED BACK In the New Checks As Low As $12.95 Blue Cheviot $9.95 All Wool Blue Serge 16 Oz. $14.95 Top Coats ~ By Curlee and Merit $12.50 to $22.50 New Deal # Sanforiz^ 98c each SHIRTS By Rieg^l * ’ Outing PAJAMAS Broadcloth PAJAMAS $1.50 - 3 for $4.00 98c each $1.49, $1.95, $2.50 DRESS OXFORDS By Freenian — $3.95, $5.00, $6.00 ‘ “T)thers ll.SfS and-12.98 BOYS’ OXFORDS Skyrider Brand $2.98 each 4WEN’S UNION SUITS 89c Heavy 12 lb. Udton ' - Allen-A Union Suits Light and Medium Weight $1.35 and $1.50 SHORTS AND SHIRTS "" As Low As 19c each , OTHERS BY RIEGEL 35c and 50c each Interwoven Socks 75c value NbiirSSc MEN’S RAINCOATS In Suede and T^ill ^^^$3:49 to $6.95 Men*8 and Bosrs’ > LEATHER BOQTS $3.95, $4.49, $550 HIPP & ADAIR STORE FOR MEN^ CLINTON, S.^. ¥ . A- 1 . t' 9