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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! -
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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-
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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
/
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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. &
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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. SiiWMi
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