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4 rv V ■' f ■ j: ^ ‘m- J u ,(iiii|.!li|pi!ini! A HAPPY AISD PROSPEROUS mw YE;^ TO ALL OU^ READERS AND AE^TKERS If To« Dm*! Rend NUMBER 52 WORK RELIEF TO REPLACE DOLE Party Chiefs Strive To Forestall Treasury Raiders. Inflatkm Crowd Getting Together At Call of Senator Thomas. Washingtcb, Dac. 26.—President Roosevelt, approachipg the moment ■wrhen decisions of tremendous import are to be made public, worked today on a program which, among other things, is expected to mark a definite swing f|Om the “dole'* to woric relief. While the president labored on the message he will deliver—’perhaps in person—to Congress on January 3, Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill cocked a wary eye to what, for want of a better term, is Mnerally called “the left”. They strove to forestall any rising which might spell a major upset in the administration’s program, [nowing that suggestions whidh, fded togerther, would spell $30,000,- )0,000 more spending are in the air, some legislators are talking agsin of scrapping the famous'“145 nile’’ un der which that number of signatures on a petition can force a bill to the floor. The proposal is that a major ity—218-4>e required. Those leaders who want to leave money alone for the present are weighing the chances of inflation ists’ agreeing on aw expansion pro gram’at a round-table meeting called for January 16. Senator Thomas of Oklahoma, other legiriators. Father Charles E. Coughlin of Detroit, rep resentatives .of the Sound Money League. Ihe committee for the Nation and of farm groups are listed among those to attend. The aim, Thomas said, is an accord on a “rational” inflation plan. ^ould they all agree, moat obser vers feel, their opponents will have some bad moments in the coming con- greM. As one leader, who did not wish be qttphMl'bT 9W<S9» put it: “Inflationists of one kind or anoth er constitute about two-thirds ‘of the house and senate. In the past they have never been able to agree, so the reasaiaiag one-third had control. But if the two-thirds ever get control, then FrankHn RooeeveK's program goea oot'the window.” The question what the budget will be and how soon it will balance is attraoUng wide interest. Though the reported plan to lay more stress on work relief indicates to most obser vers that the budget will not be balan ced in the immediate future, the word is expected to go out that income and hfai. A. T. Jamison Taken By Miss Janie Simpson ^ Claimed By Death Wife of Omnie Maxwell Or| age Superintendent Dies^of Heart Attack At Greenwo^. S? Greenwood, Dec. 23.—Mrs. Maegar- et Wallace Jamison, wife of the Rev. A. T. Jamison, D. D., superintendent of Connie Maxell Orphanage, died at her home here early today of a heart attack following-a long illness. She had bebn' in declining health for two years and had been oonfiiied to the home since Thanksgiving Day. Mrs.* Jamison wa:^ a native of Co lumbim, the daughter of Col. William Wallace and his first wife, Victoria McLemore of Newberry county, and was 68 years of age. She was pre pared for college at the famous school conducted by Miss Isabel Martin in t^olunubia and was among the first graduates of Winthrop. In early life she was married to the late Rev. Wit- Ham A. ^aldwell, pastor of the Pres byterian Church of Union. For sev eral years she was a member of the faculty of the college'ftr women ait Columbia under ihe presidency of Miss Euphemia McClintock., Dr. and Mrs. Jamison were mar ried in 1904, four years after he was elected superintendent of the orpha nage here, and she at once became ac tively identified wHh the intenesla of the children in an un-official ca pacity. She was the first to introduce amusements, athletics and ptxy. end instituted social’ entertainments for the older boys and girls for the pror motion of their cultural develbpmdot. She continued these activities un^ Iter health failed, and she was greatly ^ beloved by the orphanage family. She was deeply interested in the or phanage <AunA and Sunday School, having taught a class for many years. She also was* identified with literary and social clUbs of Greenwood and was especially intarosted in the local gitfdon dub. Mrs. Jamison was the last member of her family. Besides her husband, she is survived by a step-daughter, Mrs. Joel Bailey of Greenwood. '%k J. .vv .• Beloved Matron of Thornwell Oif- phanage Passes At Home of Sister In Starr, \ 4 The * Thormvell orphanage family was shocked and saddened Sunday n|orning by the unexpected announce ment of the death of one of its em- plqyee.8. Miss Janic^. Simpson, which occur|-ed at the home of her sister, Mrs. W^e Pi uilt, at Starr. v. ^Funerabv services were hdd from fhe home Momiay afternoon at two o’clock with DK L. R. Lynn, of this cHy,. officiating. Intemient followed in the Cross RoadsScemetery in the family burial ground. DISCUSS PLANS Middle Ground l.«gislation To Be Proposed To Congress, IC ~ Is Thought By Leaders.' Relief Program G^s Attention. r" Washington, Dec. 26. — President Roosevelt today ci^lled a significant gathering 6f his aides tomorijow _ or Friday to review an already drafted legislative program, described by some as maifily middle ground.’’" While Mr. Rbo.^evelt at first pro- posed definitely to counsel with his cabinet and emergency council tomor row, he indicated that Jhe rtieeting might have to be put off until _the following day. Thousands View Bedilehon Rites Pageant Given At the Famous Charch of Nativity Seen By Worshippers In Palestine. honored and efficient matrons and her^ sister. Miss Lina, dividing their time as matron of the Harriett, home. On the cUmpua Miss Simpson was loved by the children and staff workers, airholding her in the highest esteem. She was a member of the lomwell Memorial ehurch and a de- Christian^ possessing many ad- miraSblji traits of character. Her death I broughV^nuin^ sorrow not only to Prominent Retired Laurens Bus- her friendlyt the orphanage, but to Mi vs STimpson was in hm’ 64th year. She w’as a native of this county, a daughter of the late Alex and Mary Glenn Sinupson. For the past twenty- , five year.s .she had been connect^ j with the orphanage here as one of its \ No general conference with con- ' s, she J^«»h)nal leaders is contemplated at Final Rites For C H. Roper Held The meeting is to be a forerunner to a series of talks with individual advisors and congressional chieftain.s at which problems on the program, dealing largely with .social security and relief .steps, will be di.scussed. vot iness Man Passes After Long!™*ny the >t^y who knew and loved Illness. Funeral Held Friday. outgo will be equalized as possible. soon as Crook’s Chances Change Made In Schoed Faculty Miss Alice Gaines, of Greenwood, an honor graduate of Winthrop college, has been elected a member of the high ... L./Hudgens Roper [which American travelers .and »nd Caroline Mahaf^ R^r and wasother structure in the sdhdd faculty, succeeding Miss Anile-Palestine had their Tbe'vJ^^]^®*^^the fan^near^bun b^ihg damaged.-The -floor Kirven, resigned, whose marriage will occur, in the First Presbyterian churchi^f*^ Were-Considerably Igss than in fpr of Sumter on heict Saturday. Miss Gaines will enter upon her work in ; the department of English and French at the close of the Christmas holidays, fj D D ' i^**^®*^ has been a member of IaUTi 1 StperSithe high school faculty for the past five years. The board in accepting her Three Editors Agree Press Aides In Making Life Harder for Criminal Classes. New York, Dec. 24.—Crime news doesn’t make the criminal, three of America’s editors have agreed—it of ten unmakes him. ’ Factual reporting of the outlaw’s ways and byways is needed, they hoW, to Awaken the pidDlic to the point where it stamps but criminals. The views are those of Grove Pat terson, editor of the Toledo Blade and president of the American Society of * Newspaper Editors; Paul Bellamy, editor (rf the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and Stanley Walker, city editor of the New^Yo/k Herald-Tribune. " They Vere expressed before the at torney general’s recent Washington conference on crime prevention, and, circulated in the cilrrent publication of the society. i resignation expressed general regret since sjhe was an unusually efficient teacher, and has made a .splendid rec ord during the time she has served as a member of tihe faculty. ' %*■ cm, Dec. 25.—Jubilant bells of iBeGl|ehem and “hallelujahs” of thottsandk^of wor8hH>pers hailed the advent of kgother CXiriaimM Day this morning in traditional ealobra- tion of Ghrist’k^ birth at the famona Church of ihe Festivity. Built oa the moet sacred spot in Christendom, where ^ Christ child it believed to have brehfiM Ms fhet more than nineteen centimes ago, the ehurch was the scene of iq>. iniposinv pageant around the midnigl^l^r. It was the climax fo a dky and a night of rites in both BetM^m and Jerusalem, eight miles awa^,,^in Laurens, Dec. 21.—^Funeral services for C. H. Roper, prominent Laurens businee man and banker for many yetwe, who died last night after a long period of illnees, wore held Friday af ternoon at 8 o’clock from the home of his eldest son, Robert H. Roper, West Main street. The rites were comduct- ed'by Me pastor, the Afv. William D. The d^eased Issurvived by two sis ters, Miss Una Simpson of this city'. the pre.sent time, since hou.se Demo crats have yet to select their new •party chieftains. This will be done at a-caucus a week from today. A nieeiting of the senate Democratic steering and ^oolicy commUteo has been called forvMonday by Senator Robinson of Arkan^, the Democratic leader, to prepare w the opening of congress a week from tomorrow.^ Administration plans \to givo much work as possible t^ the unem ployed and to curb outright\dole8 to the needy have been evidencemJately. While purely unofficial estimatM for a pubUc works appropriation have ranged as high as $5,000,000,000, of^ iicials and some congressional leaders Mrs. Pruitt of ’StarriSind two broth- said off the record they would era, L. F. Simpeon of 'R^edmont; and Glenn D. Simpson of Stai Fure Damages Baldwin’s fipinx, of the Flr^ Baptist chure^ and the Rev. Esia D. pastor the fink Pnehptsiiesl ehurch, aad Jor a waalbtt eit yeara a eloee personal friend of the Roper family.' llie ser- vioee were concluded at th/ graveside in Che Laurens cemeter)^ Charles Houston Roiper was the eld- Fire of unknown origin Wednesday morning about four o’clock dami«ed the stock and fixtures of Baldwin’s Grocery store. As The Chronicle went to press this mondng no plans for re opening had been announ^ by W. C. Baldwin, owner. The fire was confined to the store numbers of overseas pilgrims, howev- l^ptist church, ui the western part in be surprised if the president asked for more than three to four billions of dollars. They base this idea on an ex pected improvement in busmess, which they say would allow industry to haul in some ^ the unemployment slack. Estimates that the budget for ordi- lary expenses of the government ariU limited to around $3,000,000,000 made today by Chairman Buch- anank Democrat, Texas, of the h<ms« approih^ions committee. This is ex clusive oS^he $1,300,000,000 necessary to meet tne interest requirements of the public deM and its sinking fund. At the presSmt rate of outlay of around $145,000^0 a month for di rect and work relief it wa.s estimated in an official sourc^hat unless more Quiet Christmas (M>served Here Christmas day was observed here in the usual quiet manner. The city rest ed with the mills, stores, ^fices, banks, postoffice and other estabtish- ments'closed for the day. The spirit of Chriatmas was in evi dence everywhere with many on the streets carrying gifts to loved ones and friends, receiving in turn other appreciations of love and friendship, Many spent tbe day out of the city visiting relatives, while others gave the day over to hunting and other rec reations. > mer years Rainy weather disappointed the hopes of many who commonly asso ciate the Holy City at Yuletide with clear, criep weather, recalling the conditions traditionally linked with the miracle that Christendom cele- brates today. Sharply at midnight, (5 p. m., De cember 24, Eastern Standard Time) an electric star of Bethlehem burst into light above the altar . in Church of the Convent and the i ing of a curtain in the Church of Nativity-revealed a superb-effigy of the’’Holy Babe. Earlier in the evening th^ actnig Latin patriarch had gone / to the Church of the Convent tor vespers during which was held/the pictur esque ceremony of iW robing and disrobing with garm^ts of - price less value Close upon midnighi, after a long mass had been /celebrated in the the county. /In 1887 he came to esman with a clothing stroyed practically the entire stock of IS as a l^neral furnishing store. Later he and the late D. A. Davis organized the DavisNknd Roper company, a firm! that con/iae,l in bu»in<-». for many ,/f''' '» ‘•’o ownor of years / ^ building. In /^901 th< org^ized wi anq C. H. Roper, d went to the was promoted Cu the presiden cy. He was continued imthis capacity after a consolidation had b^n effect- the rear the building, where the of- people could be givenNwork, it might fice was situated, suffered the prin- he necessary for the prei^ent to,call cipal damage. Smoke and water de-ifor at least $l,r)0(),()()0,0fW for this \ ^ th<' xEnterpnse ^ rith B. Dial, wAfl president,; Improvemenf Seen shier. After Mr.i is ^ i* • s. snnato, Mr. I In Boyo s ConditioH «d with the old Peoples Lqan and Exchange bank. A few yeai\ later. purpose. . In addition, demands are pnmg up in congress for other big outlayk» in cluding cash paymenfkof the bonirn^o cost .$2,200,(M)0,00(), expansion Of U Tenhes.see Valley authority by $250.^ 000,000, a $500,000,000 land and wa- teiway improvement program, and an increase by $1,000,000,000 in the C.*pi-/ tal of the Home Loan Owners’ corpor ation. H. L. Boyd, young Glintop business4- -n. j • • . # i. I The administration thus far has in- man, who has been ill foe the past sev-, ... . . oral day, with blood poi.omn* at th* j P'^' .rw aw,, jwaa.m ..vw., Iinont of thc bonus. Whether congres- S[^?[tireVfrora'[^iv^“wo;■k’^^^,^^ip'•"“''"*"Siti/.tat^dbymomber. ofi*'""^^ a<^ocat«. of cash payment per retired from active work of sjiny i, . My j could , muster enough votes to over- kind. He hftd spent part/>f his tirH* ^ , — ride u presidential veto—they claim with his daughters gt Portsmouth,i HoyJ- a building contractor and Va., but in recent months had beenj^^®'’firm of Clinton Build- unable to go about very much. Go., suffered an injury to j speculali At the age of 14':Mr. Roper befcameseveral weeks ago and devel- ft nMmber_fif..Babun Creek church, andj^P®'* h[ood {loisoning a few days ago. His friends will be interested more than two-thirds of both the ^en- ate and house—remained a matte; of lion. when he came to the city he trahs- to ferred his membership to the First know thaKhis ^conditior is improving Mr. and Mrs. E, Galloway ami Marcia Galloway .spent Tuesday and Church of the ^ativity, a slow pro-1 Duptist Church.' For 30 years he had'.and hope tlm he soon wilbhc.able to cession of jijrjwts led by Jhe act-!|erved on the board of deacons, as}be out again. ^ ^ Wednesday in Columbia with Galloway’s parents, Mr. and Mr.4. Mi.s. South Candina.Farmm WiU R®9t 482,000 Coton Acres In 1935 Und«r Pkoviri<m 0( New Year’s Contri ing patriar^ moved slowly with swinging wnsers to the transept. There, b^ore a curtained chamber, their .stand. Ju.st at mid night,/the acting patriarch drew back the /Curtain and revealed the figure of /the Holy Child reclining upon rich cloths of the Near East South Carolina prodjucera cooperat ing in the 1935 cotton production ad justment program will rent 48^,0(W cotton acres to the secretary of agri- cultnre under the 1936 provisions of ihe cotton contracts,, it is 'estimted by tlw AAA. w. : / ^ •Esthnated renUl and parity pay- meiita to South CaroUha cotton pro ducers under the 1935 program total $6,674,210, of which it is estunated that rental pajrments will amount to $8,610,180 and parity paymenU 12,- In addition to the '1,004,UOU con tracts covering approximate^ 88,210,- 000 acres, now in ^feot, n^ one-year contraets wiM be offeiM produe^s who did not sign the ^two-year con tracts; It is estima of new eontraots base aeiwage by Cantata Smrvice '^Lovely Occasion acres. An awua^ redaction of ap proxnaateiy 4l0/^99r cent was aocom- piMhod in While the^ maximum reductionJthatl The Choirs of the First Presbyterian church and State Traininig school pre sented a lovely prognm of Ctirittmas music at the First Presbyterian timt the offer j church Sunday afternoon at fWe 11 increase the j o’clock as an enjoyable and fitting in least one' million t^^uction to the celebration of Christ mas. It was heard by an andienee which filled tbe auditqpttm and gal lery of Che church. “The Babe of Bethlehem” was sung may be ashed for . 1985 under the con-1 by the Training school choir under the .864,^. Coi^ot*signers will be paid j tract i8 /28 per cent, contract signers!direction of Miss Ellen Copeland, mu^fpiign are those under one year old for their rented acres at the rate of j will have the option of reducing theirjsical instructor at the institution. 0th- 8 1-t ceata per pound on the average:baMyieieaga m mach^as 30 per rentier appropriate srfections were sung yield of lint cotton per acre for tbejan^r arill receive payments according-' by th^church ehoir‘with Mrs. Willi years 1928-82 with a maximum rent-i^ The optional reduction of an addi-, Jacobs, Birt. D. J. Brimm and . Mrs. al $18 per acre. They will also re-|tional five per cent is to ] Gedrge T. Bame.s. luperintendent of the Sunday school X- ^—* '•—^ upon Nation years before retiring from the two. latter activities three years ago. He. had also served as maatei of the Ma-* sonic lodges here, had been a leading^ Washington, Dec. 24—In\a Christ-,times by a chivalrous meeting of piol)- member of the Laurens Buijiness mas'message to the nation, iS^esident and difficulties that attended It Xalls Upon Nation Jhei^Face Life'With New Hope the^Uwenii.RoUry club, and'propoaed that\’cou-j*''“ *“'''?'• “ .f*"* i" ao?!'!* chairman of the city school board of , trustees. Parmits Urged . „ , , , , and a profound love for them. rage...and Unity be^made the spirit of patriotism was unstained and jthe occasion. / ■ - unafraid. Carved into that- monu- X “It is the tVay to greater happiness ihent is hi.s expression of the necessity ‘ jand well being,he .said. . . .. “This foX union. That me.s.sage grows in To List Births we are entitled-'to hew importance with the years. hbpfts and new anticipations.” I “In\^ese days it me^s to me a " • / _—■ . I . — .1 H®*Jde the monunntent of Andrew.union nolonly of^the/states but a Declaring that field representatives | Jackson across from the White Hou-se union of tn^ ^'^nris and minds of the In tha “Register Your Btkby” c*ni-rground«, Mr, l^boseveit lighted the na- peo'ple m ail-the st^s and their many paign heve completed their work,. Dr. jtion's OhristWias tree and spoke his interests and pui^ses, devoted with JamM A. Hayne, state health officer,.Christmas eVe message. unity to the hu/ian welfare of Inui issued a stateiinent from Colum- - “This is the second year,” he said,' country.-^ bin nrgiQg parents to register their | “that I have joined with you on this “Just acr^ the strict the house bebies before the campaign is finally i happj^ occasion. Then, ts^ now, with the people^ the counthjr gave to this closed. millions of others we celebrate the man of Babies being registered in the cam- hamy observance of Christmas.. to -me r/ eeivt p»rity paylnante of 11-4 per pound on the farm alio wMdi is equivalent to 40 per ^ iarmers’ kverags prodi ' thaliMC period of the farm reaents that percentage of wWeli oriHaarily moves urage. It is an inspiration it should be to all Americans. ..| /^JPie year toward which we looked v-.“Ar^..so let u.s make the spirit of Pnrmts who have not received the i/hel^with anticipation and hope has the'/fhristma.s of 1934 that of ebprage Mnaua cards sent out .several montlpi! passed. We have seen fulfilled many ami unity. It is the wajr to gn^er ago by the health department in co-things that a year ago were only^ppiness and well-being. That is/I operation with the FEflUA are advis^'hopes and new anti<;ipationH. "^^belicve. 'an important pai-t of what\ permit more I Frank Reliers, Jr,, taking the leadingUhat the cards may be secured byi “For all those who can hear the maker of Christmas would have it latitnde hi amngeneat of the farm! parts. TVi church was beautifid.^^ Srriting the board of health office in'not see this gathering let me eirolain mean, pla^ of individual producers. graceful and dignified decoratons, CUnmbla. ,/ —j that here Iwfore'ps an the ptivk in “In this sen^e, the Scriptures ad- If a total of approximately 5,000,- with num«arou«eJtfhted candlqa ad#(|g “Theiw- are 13 reaspr^ why your front of the White House is t^monu- monjsh us to be strong au<l. of good 000 actwi is pMated by non-contract to the affect/Wovwr through the ep- child should be. registered,” said Dp. ment <rf a man who will lite forever courage, to fear not, to dwMl togsth- total planted cotton acre-|tire program was a message of gr^at Hayne. “Don't T^peXMn^ tiy failing as the embodiment of cojt age in 1936 iatexpeitod to be approxi- truths connected with the birth knd to Mnd in a census import. 895^ day drew Jackapn. minirtgy of Christ aa Ha Saviour of |MoMrth certificate might mean much “Ws was ajlo^, the wotldr am^ 84408409 aerea. The planted in 2884 ■i:. (rage—An ^Fin'unity. ^ j “I wish, you'one and all, here and public .servic^'- diati life in the evei-ywhere. iiibed at all Christmas.” a jrery, very nwrry \ V A A N; ■'4->