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'F'- • - •■• \.. IPAGlt^tX ■/ .1. : 'S f/". . ,1 ''~*~r ■•' ‘ (■ j THE CqWTQtt‘CHRONICLE,' CLtfrrON, S."C. J-i I’^RSPAYrFEMUAOT^ 1»87 OBdbns A Record Fm* Inf uguran ,y • Laurens, 4fn. .29,—R. H. Dorwldson, 77-year- -year-old Laurens resident, hiui at tainted more presidential inaugura tions than any citiien of this city, ITiis fact was diecloeed during a con- yeraation with him upon hi8_ret»rn yesterday from Washington, where lie had'-witneased the induction last week of President'PrankMn D. Roose- Telt for his' second term. Mr. Donaldson is a native of Wash ington, which fsct in great part ex plains his almost uidxroken record of being present at a majority of the inaugurals since the beginning of Grant's second term March 4, 1878. As a lad of 14, DPtuUdson attended the Grant induction, .this being- the y^esto^Fpr Drunkenness Increase At Ram Rate In Soutii i Anti-Saloon League Leader Finds statistics shows that the risd has tak en place without‘any perceptible set- j back, or slowing down—an up ward singe toswrd bad conditions. At 1933 . IQOS ' , Average for the years, 122., 1932 1:. ...L Soperintendent Pickett Resents Figures Gatliered Recently From ' Pi^ce Chiefs and Come Inferences From Tim. A Cities Show Increases, Sohie As Much As SOO^JSOO Pct Cent. ~ Some Qualifying Factors Cbn^ered. v To the'Editor of The Chronicle: Through the courtesy of the city governments, a survey has recently been made of many South Carolina cities and the larger towns to ascer tain whether the piteaent liquor laws are decreasipg or increasing drunken ness. The - information gained indicates iving while we were running up our inks. rate of increase in population in So^ Carolina from 1910 to 1920 (by goviamment printing office sta tistical amraet) was 11.1 per cent in the ten-ybfr period. Allowance for the rate^is movement is going for ward, coitions will be as bad in five yeari as mkter 20 years of bid-time conditione, m^ss abatement occurs. T Hodges of Greenwood, when shown the figures, said: “Well, that’s food fbr.tboight. It looks like the human race will Itever team wis dom.’’ D. W. Cuttino, Sumter, said, “Anybody that keeps his eyes open can see that the present situation is much worse.”, C. B. B<^, Laurens, said, “It’s serious business.” What will the- legislature, do ? Will they pass their changes in the laws 124 ~t 200 404 1934 1,471 1935 1,977 1936 ‘ 2,607 All material rise began repeal j^ear. ' Spartanburg - Dmiiks 1932 ........A 479 1933 — 792 1934 •-j........wa................. M........a.... 1,206 1936 d..... i-V-: l,iT4 i936 2,001 fost that he can recall. Before conv- thi. percentni. of iwrc^K doe, notify benefit of tfce le* th»n 6M greatly itffect\he result, for thell'''®”',’*®''*:?'*, m tlw eute, or will 1934 463 1935 682 1936 (11 months) 778 Annual rate being 848, 600 p^ cent increase... ^ Anderson . Drunks 1926 266 1938 ... ..“id. 810 1934 : : : 1,046 1935 1,215 1936 ;T::ddl......;.. 1,818 ^ .. \ - i 500 per cent increase. ‘ Greenwood . 1926 : 1927 1932 ; 1933 Drankn 131 an alarming increase;* running to as ... i v i mueh.as 600. or, 600 per cent in many four, five, or t^year comparisons hear the appeal of the la«ge|2934 _ of the towns and showing an increase —.i- ’ \ number of communities that do not! to South Carolina about 36 years ago and soon thereafter becoming a in all, where the comparison is made over a period of several yearn back It was recognized that mat^ quali- of ly^ wy Owu might enter irrto ,uch •*" ^vertieution. Mch M the depre.- chief nwgiatrate of Umt^ Stat^. the possible better enforcenient ‘ men said that the chief freq^wtly Sin« then he to .urr,^ p^rtiap, »n ftiereate | reTeaeed dnmiM who lad been « made. One Of the larger tOi^s ivas found to be an exception to the above find ings. The chief in this town said that they sent home one or two orunks ey,- ery night without arrest. Qn^of the 1935 99 183 242 280 274 want to continue these conditions, and! JggJ " provide a possible exit for these thou- sandfs of voters? Time will tell. back home to fit in with an ihaugu- in population. led, when he found them locked up mrion. He wib at Theodore Roo depression might not distort I the morning. For obvious reasons this'l velt’s only t regular inauguration in | , uepre.^iun uibluh,! ' 1905 Then followed William Howard comparison was car-1 town is not named with the others. ^mw Wils^ ^h a skin back- of- 1930, wherever, possible, j It was also learned that convictior ’ ’ ■ and this was done in most eases, for all causes had ri.sen during rthe Survey of larger South Carolina towns: (Convictions through the po lice courts). Chester Wmikn 1927 928 ...\ Nearly 500 per cent increase. Laprens _ — DmPks 1926 : 66 1927 c; ei 1928 ~ 441 ri92r' ■■ 37] Prior figures,not atwluble. 420 per cent increi^. Coiuabia . - - Druaku 1926 —.. ..L:. * 1,199 1933 2,602 1934 ........ 3,337 1935 i............................ 3,166 1986 3,426 Nearly 300 per cent increase over 1926. CharlertOB Two classifications are recorded, drunks, and *drunk and disorderly. Druidcs were, not arrested in large numbers in 1936, the drunk find dis orderly column held ka own. Drunk and* Drank L. . disorderly I to Hoover and then F, first term. D. R. for his ^ * ThornWell Alumni Chaptei* Meets None of the statistic# showed a de crease in drunkenness^during the de pression, although one town, Lancas ter, did show a smsdl drop in convic tions for all causes for the two low years of the depression, but-not for same period that drunkenness had. This is sufficient to cau.se much hea vier pressure on our police dockets. Examination of these figures shows certain other interesting things, such the fact that mpuy towns, at least. 1934 1935 19.36 AnnuaT 1926 1927 mrnO 491 ' 91* Average for the six years, 50 per j j®®-" 172* year. - 1931) 583 -On Friday night in the KlcCall _ buildihg - bn the" orphanage campus, the Clinton-Laurens chapter of the Thomwell Alumni as.sociation held its 'annual dinner. The meal was excel lently prepared under the supervision of Miss Catherine Wilson and the girls 4n her domestic science claaa.__„ Following the dinner the group held a business session and elected officers fot thc'c’nsuing year, as fol lows: ^ Mrs, Charlton Bennjamin, presi dent. , Mrs. J. R. Murff, vice-president. Han-y C. Layton, vice-president. F. M. Stutts, secretary^ Mias Gene .McKee, Treasurer. drunkenness. The great increase men-j of which Greenville, Chester, Laurens tioned above is an increase over con victed drunks in previous prosperous years. are samples, did not show a rise of drunkenness during the* period inves tigated under .rthe T8th amendment. f — .-^te being over cpnt increaseX ^ Lancaster 1928 ~ ^ 1929 1930 1931 500 Various police chiefs were asked if they were enforcing the law more strongly now. Ndne said this was The ri.se did not begin exactly with legalization, but rather with repeal 1933 1934 31911932 .r~"81 423 1933 149 416; 1934 : ; .;.fe 156 per 11935 ; 1936 396,per cent Increase. ^ .^umter ‘ , 0 Drunks 193^ .....rr. .t :n:. ...... 34 . 814 . 977 ....: . 826 . 683 979 1,245 1,038 .150)1935 1,348 271 ^636 371 (Nov. 11, 1936 opl^) 1932 1933/ 1934 527 362 .. 506 . 452 . 344 . 337 . 585 .660 1,408 . 890 1,142 Annual rate of drunk and disorder ly pro-rated is 1,320. Average nuin- 136 (Seven months only—beginning ofj^®*' from 1926-1931, inclusive, 17fl i: — .i. _x_? M « ! /WAV* fWv* A%Ma«*- 1932 V:... 210 rate 58.) iincumbency present chief, itself, with the suggestion that drink-11935 1933 1934 1935 annual I^rease in 1936 over this aver age is over 300 per cent. (Rev) J. Lowry Pickett, Superintendent, South Carolina Anti- Saloon League. ) trtie. (fhief McDonald of Greenwood j ing was nowall riglrt. It has shown a 1936 (9 months) .\.521 said: “We could run our drunks up;steady climb ever since them. This Annual'rates being 694, over to twice what they are and hold them [climb is a great deal larger than the per cent increa.se. there. If a man is staggering and • steady growth pf^ bad conditions in headed for home we let him go.” Thesaloon and dispen.sary days. It can 102 168 311 i Rock Hill 1933 Drunks ... 463 nn - • 384|suBsS|tIBE TO THE CHRONICLE 00 Nearly 600 per cent increa.se. Prior j ' figures not available. Laurens re.sult for 1936 .showe<l 271;! only be properly descriWd as a large 1934 Chief Crews .-mid, “We could make it penduluni swing towards bad liquor 1935 600 or 700.” Chief West pf Spartan- re.sults. From 1900 to 1915 the growth burg said there is “no special drive of beer drinking in the United States against drunks.” Speaking of drunk-1 was 25 per ,cent. This upiy^rd swing en driving, he .said he did not expect 1 is approximately four times that 11926 elimination-or decteate m" "brurikeTi r^rend. A' further- study t>f the iTewf+y27 1936 (9 months) Annual rate being 1,3.53. Union T “The Paper Everybody Reads” (Irecnrtlle me (Oct. ’25.pet. ’26) 5-Oct. 724,19^ (Oct. ’26- Drunks 828 995:1928 1,015 1929 j 1930 Druriks.1931 ,... 65^932 _ , 4 7 71193^ 27) ’27-Oct. ’28) t. ’28.0ct. ’29) 212 BALES ON 212 ACRES J. E. BRIM, of Dawson, Oa., has had 35 years of experience in farming. This has taught him that good fertiliser and good seed are essential to successful cotton pro- duetkm. He produced 251 bales on 225 acres m 1^34, 178 bales on 198jacret in 1935, and 212 bales on 212 acres in 1936. He blame^his low yield in 1935 on a long drought. \ He uses 400 pouids of 3-9-5 NPK fer tilizer per acre at planting and top- dresses with 200 pounds of 14-0-12 after his cotton is chopped out. Mr. Brim says: Potash in my top-leaser prevents Rust and gives me better maurity, better lint turn-out and better matured seed. I sell over 3,000 bushels of Wilt-resistant Seed annually. The cost of potash is low and: I find high-potash ferUliscr^Nprofitable for all farm crops ” N FEWER BOLLS MAKE A CONTROLS WILT B. F. CALHOUN, orBufSMila.^Ate^ says: “CottoOf wdl-fed with Potash, weighs 10 to IS pousdi more per bssketihl than cottoo with juBt ipy fertiltoffw llie fUants look healUiier and fruit closer. Wtoe 1 had NV Potash 1 had .\. nqJifUt but lots of stalks died udMCf 1 bad 0 only my regular fertiliaer.' f*Loak at that top crop, ”Mys H. J. JOHNSON, of Wligciier, B. C. “That’s where extra potaiA gets in its best with large, fully matured bcdls right up to the top stalk. It takes fewer of these bolls to make a , Plenty of potaah makes the cotton p^ better proves the staple. “ttnoe 1034 1 have been ^ving my cotton three times as much potaili'wa 1 did bdbre and have been making more cotton. Rust has been stopped In roost ofmy Adte but soom spots need still more potash. 1 use a fOM ooni^cte fertiliser at planting and extra potadi as with ray nitrogen. The Use of 3-8-t fertiliaer at {^anting is grow^ in our sectioDi** \ \ in kb pat pntdi wUdi in tfeto aatf. 1,000 BIC, PRETTY BOLLS •/ W. A. ROBINETT, of Enterprise, Ala., says: “In 1936 I had 30 acres in cotton and used 400 pounds of 3-8-5 NPK guano per acre. 1 top-dressed two acres with 100 pounds of-Soda per acre and on one of these I put an additional 100 pounds of NV Muriate of Potash. On the entire 30 acres I made nine bales of cotton. The acre top-dressed only with Soda made 570 pounds of teed cotton. The acre top-dressed with Soda and NV Potash made 919 pounds—a gaia of 349 pounds of teed cotton. Allowing fix' the coat of potash this is a profit of $16.54 per acre. You could tell the potash cotton by walking through it. It stayed vigorous and healthy and kept middng the biggest, prettiest bolls 1 ever saw.” STOP RUS DOUBLED HIS YIELD H. F. STRENGTH, of Daleville, Ala., says: “In 1936 I top-dressed 7 H acres with 100 pounds of NVMuriate of Potash per acre and mwie seven 500-pound bales -pound and 138potmdvoifHnt.That'ftguresabidetotheacre as compared with 1,000 poun^ of seed cotton per^ acre in 1935, vriien only part of my cottoti was top-" dressed with NV Pota^ half a bale to the acre in 1934, whenJL didn’t use any extra potash. "In 1934 my cotton rust^ badly, like most cotton in this section. % decided to try potash top-dresdng and I have been well pleased with the results. This year my cotton stayed healthy and kept-girowinc while my neighbor’s, acUoinipg me, rusted badly aM died. I am going to top-dress every acre of cotton 1 h W Potash.” plant this year with' START PROF t, AVHEN you buy your fertiliser and tpp-dreser, your fertiliser tiian~ you want more NV POTASH. Plan how to top-dress with 100 pounds of NV" MURIATE or 200 pounds of NV KAINIT per acre, or use a nitrogen- potash, mixed-goods t^-dresser containing 10 to 2S% IIV_POTASH. If you prefer to use your extra potash at planting, select a fertiliser containing 8 to 10% NV POTASH. Where Rust has been very^evere you may ne^ both high-potash fertiliser at planting and potash top-dressing to STOP RUST and START PROFITS. ’ Thousands of fanhers have found that it pays to i^ve cotton a loi morp potash than the average ferdliser contains. NV POTASH keeps cotton strong knd healtl^, maturing fruit until a full crop is made (including a good top crop). It PREVENTS RUST, helps control Wit and produces strong, vig- brous plants vdth less shedding, l^er bolls that are easier to pidr\aiid better 3^dd8 of unifonn, high-quality lint. NV POTASH PAYS! '} \ ■ 4- N. V. POTASH EXPORT MY., Inc., Hurt Bld«., ATLANTA Royster RMs., NORVOLK MtESONSMIKS TOP DRESS i . • A M. U O’CAm.of Orangeliiii|iL8.C., uya:*^ my aycrage cotton crop Irat year I used 4% potash in the fertUteer at jdanting Mid 200 pounds per acre of Aop-drmjinf consisting of NV Muriate of RHd Nitrate of Soda In aqrad parts. 1 no Rutt. except on a three-aert hlo^frfaere I didn’t ura the extra, potash. The pbotogiaphs tdl the story. “On pm bk^ of 9Haoaerss which 1 ifrtllteed rather heavily.iMhg 160 **“^IMlV*<*«»* * W bates and a remnant. On PP® SeW'ffeere immaanfefcl^ bats, whidi had r^ved only nitrogen, I > tett ^ hay cropTBarih AAher Add where the oata got 60 pouoda of NV ' * ®s<fe s too of pai-vine hay per ncre.” POT NV MURIATE OR NV KAIMT \ \ 1^ \ • -''S'- .'ds i • . , ■ •'.vy'-'.v .Vi xv-.- .as V . Nv .