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.-••■-rs. ■ ■/! I •»V r- f.-r- PAGE EIGHT' .Ji THE'CUNTON CHRONICLE, CUNTON. 8. C THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 198« Dr|vm Ignore Rqad Stop Signs State Traffic Surye; torists Cut Speed Night "^Drl ving.™ Shows Mo» Little In GOVERNMENT SENDS coni *0P ESTIMATE IN PRICE SOARING Drought I^amage'To This jDfRcial Fore; east of Crop of 11421*000 Bales* Big Reduction •' ' -T-v-.- r. TJTortTAuguM Figure. Washington, Sept. 8.—Drought dam age to this year’s cotton crop, re- Columbim*. Sept. 4; —The average South * Carolina motorist travels at approximately thirty-eighl miles an hour through fairly heavy traffic. He | Elected in an official government es- or she slows down only a mile or twojtimate of an 11,121,000 bale produc- an hour after nightfall, and is morCj^iQj^^ today sent prices for the South’s than likely to disregard a ^op signj , oAprino- • ' u- . i i v * * - or li?ht, and to sp»*d up insteKl , d.oatod production by stalos was an rtowing down on approachin* bridtos. And weather in the western ir.d^nonnced as: > -Be will mWt relatively 6(1 percent I of the cotton belt caused the federal Virginia, condition 74, and indicat- truckN and buses at night, icrop reporting board to reduce itsl^d production, 29,000 baJes; North per cent, but above the ten-year av erage at 57,7^- * , abandonment of fields planted July 1 wa.s listed at 2.9 p<^r cent, with’29,- 720,000 acres left for harvest. TODAY md was liaving great difficulty in |illing jobs which it ha^ open for skilled workers. / most of , It Seems to me that inost of the fdlksr who claim they cannot find work are not really looking for work •butHpvIgoklng' pay them for not working. "UNIONS — Then I carried a working card in the ty pographical tpiion more years ago than I like to remember. I have watched the development of org^n- isied labor for fifty years and I am 10 Years Ago Items of Interest From The Chronida September 9, 1926 more FRIENDS — Mark Bennitt Nearly 45 y«rs ago I walked into jVtisfkd' uraV, ■on"the'whorei-it' his The condition September 1 and in-1 the office of a Buffalo newspaper and ^^^n beneficial to both the employetc, icated oroduction bv states'was an- as)ted the managing editor for a job. j employees ' He put: me to work, and I have been, j confess, however, that I don’t un a newspaper manner wnce. Also,, ^ersUnd the bitter anUgonism which Mark Bennitt and I have kept up th? ^ oftea-expresaed^^’'* Misr Marion Leake left Friday for rr, Waatmipstw wbara she- will taaeh^^ this winter. 1-, Miss Essie Davidson has gone to Great Fall* to teach this winter. ,' Misses Rosanna Vance and ’Chris tine Peake %ft yesterday for Ran dolph Macon college where they will be students.. ^ • * Miss Rose' Cornelson of New Or leans,,is the guest of relatives here. Miss Clemmie Jamison has gone to Queens college, Charlotte, where She though all night traffic decreases sharply. He is more likely to cut around other vehicles outside his traf fic lane than truck drivers, but less! forecast of this season’s yield l,360,-('558,000; South Caro-jfri^endship which began back there l^i^oward so-called “company unions. OOoVunning bales below its August Ijlina, 04 and <05,000; Georgia, 64 and estimate.^ 982,000; Florida, 72 and 30,000; Mis- The 11,121,000' balee-^timate for souri, 56'and 204,000; Tennessee, 60 likely to do so than bus drivers. 11936 was still above the .short crops He is most likely to have an acci-' <'f the last two years — 10,638,000 dent between the ages of* thirty and bales in 1936 and 9,636,000 bales in thirty-nine. 1934—^^but well below the five-year These conclusions were reached in .average of 14,667,000 bales, 1928-32. a report of a state-wide traffic sur- The sharp reduction .apparently and 381,000; Alabama, 72 and 1,093,- 000; Mississippi, 74 and 1,061,000; Louisiana, 67 and 656,000; Texas, 52 and 3,046,0000; Oklahoma, 24 and 239,000; Arkansas, 52 and 917,000; New .Mexico, 88 and 100,000; Arizona, 1891. Mark, stilF active at 77, came East last week on a motor tour from his home in Olkland, Cal. He happened If the workers in fk particular busi-. ness prefer to organize tbemselvee on a basis which lets in nobody but em ployees of that particular company, I vey by the state highway department, FERA, and federal bureau of roads. Some 295 ^ workers checked move ments of 950,000 vehicles in making it. .... ..—Tirr"Tep5Tr'Tewmmended a"ttv€- point program to reduce traffic haz ards, since, it said, “the widespread <lisregard of traffic asgulations and control devices revealed by the survey cannot be dealt with by an onS'simple remedy.’’ The engineers found that slow- changing traffic lights and twenty- mile speed limits in small rural towns bred violation of light .signals and speed limits. * vThey discovered that a’l, instead of some, highways should be twenty feet wide, with eight-foot shoulders, for the best traffic results. They advocated mechanical inspec tion of vehicles, stricter drivers’ li cense requirements, and a law to limit working hours of truck drivers. The five-point program called for improved highways, improved traffic surprised the cotton trade and in New;90 and 154,000; California, 97 and Orleans all options shot up to the 12-1‘^^'^»900; all other states, 58 and 11,- options shot up 10 me iz-\ ... cent a pound mark or more in one j 900; Lower California (Old Mexico), jump, advancing from $3 to $il.60 ai95 and 69,000 (latter not included in jjgjg I United States nor California totals)’. jjg ) uniieu riiaies nor Y^aiiiornia loiais;. jnMeau oi upon me past., marx uen-i pj.j^g objective of every intelligent ftm- tieihrery -m ••eciobeitl- '-^Ariiona..4526-.<irop -iBG4ud«*-2M00- mU-wa#^^f^^^^ which had been selling for 11.43, when the market had closed for the report, reached a peak of 12.29. De cember climbed to 12.21, March to 12.26. The market later sold off a little, but gains ranged to $3 a bale. " Traders on the New York Cotton exchange termed the bullish govern ment report “sensational’’ as cotton spurted 75 point-s, or about $3.75 a bale. A stream of buying orders with both domestic and foreign trade re ported represented, sent the New York list above 12 cents. October cot ton reached 12.22, December 12.35, March 12.31, »May 12.35. The market later sold off a few points from the peak, but closed steady. “Very drastic deterioration’’ of cot ton was said by the federal board to control devices, stronger traffic laws, have occurred in the area “from Mis better road law enforcement, and \ sissippi and Tennessee to western bales of Pima Egyptian long staple cotton). Ginnings prior to September 1 in cluded 9,267 round bales, counted as half bales, and 181 bales of American- Egyptian, compared with 7,162 and 14 a year ago, and 19,216 and 203 two years ago. Ginnings by states follow: Alabama, 137,348; Arizona, 4,913; Arkansas, 77,853; California, 524; Florida, 10,260; Georgia, 194,839; Louisiana, 181,092; Mississippi, 247,- 191; Missouri, 13,463; OklahiiiDia, 14,- 541; South Carolini^, Texas, 460,168; all other states, 3, Relief Work To Be Enlarg highway safety education. A. A. Muckenfuss headed the staff of state and federal employes which made the survey. CARD OF THANKS __ For the loyal support of my friends in my race for county commissioner Just ended, I want to express my sin cere thanks. Especially do I appre ciate and highly prize the handsome vote received in/the immediate sec tion where the greater part of my life has been spent, and I am best Texa.s and Oklahoma’’ with most seri ous damage in the latter two .states, “where many^fielda are almost a com plete failure.’’ President Promises DrouKht- ^trickeif Farmers Further /Aid In Radio Address. to catch me tn New York and nearly i why anybody else should wore my feet out showing him the'^g^j aggrieved sights of the town. The older I grow, the more valuable old friend.ships become. Any man is fortunate who still has contacts with loyal friends of his youth, after he Of course, the oppositiol^ ii; baie^d ppon the belief that some copipany unions are controlled by the manage ment for the purpose of keeping wag es down. The ones I know most al^ut work just the other way. It is my ob- has pa.ssed 60, especially if they still have-their eyes turn^ to the future f ggVvation anV’fixed "berief' that”a instead of upon the past. Mark Ben- a student this year. Miss Ada* Holmes Davis has re sumed her college work at Winthrop. Miss Agatha. Bailey has gone to Chester where she will teach !ii the city schoohi this winter. Prof, and Mrs. Marshall BroWn of Chattanooga, Tenn., have returned to the city after spending the summer in Europe. Miss Mercer Vance has gone to Fairfax to accept a teaching posi tion. Mr. and Mrs. George H. Ellis and son, Dillard, are at home after spend ing the suimper in ‘ Hendersonville* irrigation project in which he is just j^ys is to distribute to the workers embarking—at 77! Years mean noth- ing so long as enthusiasms remain. AGE — Questioned When I hear men in the 40’^rcom- plain that they can’t find work be cause they are so old that nobody will hire them, 1 am inclined to .be skep tical. The oth^ day a friend who is 62 dropped in at my office. He was just back from a trip which took him into' in wages and salaries the largest proportion of the company’s income that the business will stand. Prof, and Mrs. G. W. Gignilliat of Seneca, arrived in the city this week. Prof. Gignilliat will be a member qf the Presbyterian college faculty the coming year. ' (^LASSES — Developing I hope that we~in America are not approaching any such condition of class conflict as exists in Europe. 4. Every attempt in the past to or ganize a “working class’’ or labor party in politics has failed. Now, as a result of the depression, just that 29 cities. After three years without a .kind of movement is under way. __ job he had landed one at $100 a week. Class antigqniem is based upon the He looked ten years younger than I theory that in some way or other one when I had last seen him. j group or class of people is depriving Age ^ so far as it touches a man’s j Enother class or group of its rightful earning capacity, i.s too often ^ fic-'share of the nation’s wealth. I have ion created in one’s own mind. ! been watching the world go by for a long time. I have seen a few individ- Say— — -I SAW IT IN THE CHRONICLB* Thank Ton! - SQME SPECIALS Better Bones and Gardena — 15 montha, $1.00. CoamopoKtan—2 years* $3.50. American Magazino—2 yearn, $3.50. Before placing your orders for your favorite magazines, see— JAMES W. CALDWELL Call 38 at 6:30 P. M. JOBS — To Be Had ual instances of injustice and rob- ..-Comni.liting on tho v.ri.tojn in tho Washington Sopt. -9 - Coupling t!5 government estimate, only "''"‘’'T’; I President Roosevelt tonight allocated $2,500,000 to stimulate absorption of relief workers by private industry. Th^^Ute of New York has had to I perpetrators always got suspendNvork on one of its new state l^^***" punishment in one way or an- prisons because the contractor cannot whole, I have seen find enougnScapable bricklayers,-car- known of very few instancei in penters and bther building workers j or group got either who' are willing to work for union than his or, their ability, month apart, the board said “cotto plants were in excellent growing co ditibn and gave promise of setting a heavy crop’’ August 1 but that ^rid condition had followed. High temperatures and lack of moisture were said to have “baused excessive shedding of squares and known. You have my lasting grati-1 bolls, prevented dev^opment lude for your expression of confi-1 ®^ caused them to Open pre- dence at the polls, and I hope that I maturely. Weevil damage v/as report may always be worthy of your con fidence and friendship. Though de feated, I have no ill will towards «ny one. E. FRANK ANDERSON, Why not kefip yofur money Et home l>j_ giving~~yottr mriweriptiona^ither new or renewal—to JAMES W. CALDWELL The Magazine Man ed light in most of the /cotton belt but excessive in south T^xas. Conlcaisting with these/drought con ditions was general ii^iprovement in the cotton crop from/Alabama east ward, except for Florida, where pros* /Uni and turning to the drought-burned re gions, asserted “we are goihg to con serve soil, conserve water. End con serve life.” In E radio address, repoi:ting on his 5,000 mile~per8onal/survey of the arid West, the president spoke first -Ad pects were listed as /Unchanged. of providing work fo^/'droughi strick en farmers. The goyemment, he as serted, would provi^ both immediate work relief and a l^i aid. Then, into a niicrophone in the firit floor oval roont)/ of the White House,! j he appealed to'“employers, large and' iger time plan of Souf wages. A friend brought er day from the Georgia builders are ly difficult to hire He was in the Nort workers at high wages ing job. An automobile ^mp; told me recently that industry and honesty warranted. e word the oth- that down in FINAL SETTLEMENT The board estinvated the average yield per acre woi^d be 179.2 pounds* less than the 186^3 average last year, but above the /ten-year average of small’’ to use the help of the federal and state.employment services “when ever in th^ genera) pick-up of busi ness they Require more workers.” He announced then that the United - -jmtjaa that nn tVip 9.Kth day rtf I Condition of the crop September, 193(), I will render a ^hal^was placed at 59.1 pei 169.9 pounds iiy the 1923-32 period. / , 1:4: -^'.1.. ^ Seotembei; employment service would re- account of rriy acts and doings as Ex ecutrix of the estate of Dr. E. Mood Sftiith, tleceased, in the office of~the Judge of Probate of Laurens county, at 11 o’clock a. m., and on the same day will apply for a final discharge from my trust as Executrix. ~ Any person indebted to said estate is notified and required to make pay- per ce'nt, which YA-’iuu,uuu "to maxe an eVen was under last year’s estFmate of 64.6 Ij"®**® mtensive search than it has yet ' been b<iuipped to make to find oppor- Spain Givw tjrS. Owners Pledge Lundies _in private employment fori ment on or before that date; a^d all persons having claims against said Property Owners Are Told They Will Npt Lose. Radical Adhe/- ents Named To Cabinet; workers registered with it.” A /hiis sum will be in addition tO' 1,500,000 allocated to the same agfn-i y on August 25. | ”^‘This does not mean,” the president' said, “that there will be any lessen-! ing of our efforts under our WpA and PWA ami other work relief programs until all workers have decent jobs in estate will present them on or before 1/ , | untu worxers nave ueceni joos in eaid date, duly proven, or be forever]/ ‘ J-1 •, priva e employment at decent w^ges. barred ’ ’ , /ernment, consolidating its radical ad- Re-employment in industry “is pro- 'ceeding rapidly,” he said, adding that government spending “w'as in large part responsible for k^ping industry Aug. 25, 1936.—9-17-4C8. MINNIE F. SMITH, Execu^x. herents in a new cabinet charged with bringing speedy end to Fascist rebel lion, assured American in^tors to- RUBBER STAMPS — Any kind, tn fit «»y business. 24-bour ser vice. Reasonable prices. Telephone/74. The Chronicle Publishing Co. Printers • Stationers night their property in ^ain would ipr. be given every protectio "TTOhough two ~13bn^unists,'’'-^'tli^ first ever to gain posts in a Spanish cabinet, were membei*s of the new going and putting it/in a position to make this* reemployment popssible/’ Government h^lhg speht wTieTy to save it,” ai^ed, “private indus try begins .to tkke workers off the government. Socialist Minister of the rolls of the government relief pro / EL E. Tribble Co. FUHSBAL directors A ...and... . EMRALMER^ Liecnaed bubalaiiria, Complete Modern EqdipmoBt Night 24, ISA hr !M CliiltOB. Treasury Juan Negrin said: “We are particularly interested in letting the "UhiL^d Staites know it need have no /ear Spain-will turn Communist ai^ renege on her obli gations.” i The government has taken over “every available factory in every in dustry in/the land,” Negrin contin ued, to ^^eed war against rebels. “Any/other nation facing such an emeri^ncy as Spain faced during pri mary stages of the insurrection would have done the same.- But at the close of/the present conflict the govern- nrent will do all inlts power to right . M any wrongs which may have been grram Describing his Western trip as a "journey df^ husbandry,” Mr. Roose velt asserted not only that work^re- lief for d^rought victims i^ould con tinue, bpt also that a long-rgnge pro gram of water-nnd soil conservation and better land use would be put intoj effe^ in cooperation with local and stajke governments. “Spending like this is not waste,” be said, referring to the. thousands of farmers,now building farm to market roads aod employed on other projects. “It would spell futurd waste, if we did not spend for such things now.” caused.” , The new cabinet, headed by Ex tremist Francisco Largo Caballero, MAGAZINES Mr., Mrs. and Mias Sch^ Teacher, why not place your tiubscriptHm I who was a p6werful leader ip the rev- j through ne^-either time ih: straight olution that ousted former King Al-^ subscriptions. JAMES W. CALDWELL fonso in 1931, sought fijit to unify military operations un^r one high command. Criticism of conduc) of the war by Communists and Aiiarchist.^ yester day led'Premier Jose Giral Pereira to resign. He remained in the cabinet as minister without/jportfolio. The war ministry reported new vic tories in Toledo province, asserted Fascist advance toward the capital had been halted, and said government troops were en^nched strongly west ^Talavera de la Reina, forty miles northwest of Tqledo Call 38 at 6:30 P. M. V Renewed bombardment of the To- * jo\ Ie^\ Alcazar, in which rebels have witimtpod siege for more than six waa reported. , ^ How Cardin Helps Women To Bn3d Up Oardul sUmulatea the appetite and Improm dlgeatioo, bripteg wonMA to sst lEort straoctE tma Um IMS tb«F Mt As DourtohasDt Is tiaproTsS. stosectE Is belli on esrtola tunfiWMul ewer sad woomb pretos CardW for hripnia ttWHi bMk to tood bseltb. . . . Mrs. C. & Jtoinsi. e( niEtoa. w. y*-, vtitos Mto Mria sC aw tost feete* X dM net to Ml aw streaftti beek. I iMh C eaeto sad ees aooa soead aad wm. t gsas It to anr daanhton aad leseaMto di CARD OF THANKS I wish to express my sincere thanks and appreciation to my frienjjs for the kindness and sympuLhjr shown in my recent bereavement in the loss of my wife. May God’S richest blessings rest upon elch of you. W. R. ANPERSON, JR, The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U. S. - 75 years of helping peo ple plan their lives more securely. Six Billions of Insurance In Force. MrSr^W. N. 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