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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^.
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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.
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Beloved Matron of Thornwell Oif-
phanage Passes At Home of
Sister In Starr,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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(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
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