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^—V VOLUME xxxvn ClilNTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 25,1937 NUMBER 12 Baseball Season Begins Presbyterian and Emoty and Henry To Meet Here Friday, , Davidson On Saturday. Vith their openings game, against Emory ahd Henry in Clinton, sched uled for Friday afternoon, the Pres byterian college baseball men are get ting a taste of whiit big league train- The Reckless Driver By Mary Harris Armor There appeal^ in Collier’s Weekly hot long ago a most thought provok ing article: “Fools on Wheels.” Since there are strict rules and regulations for the.mep -who joperate public con veyances— trains, basses, etc.— why should irresponsible drivers be al- ambunt of money been donated Farm Detaiohstration Notes under the smpecvisibn of the exten- C. B. Camum, County Agent ing is like, as their coach, Chick lowed to use their own cars in such low^y, former Philadelphia ^Athletics shortstop, is putting them through gruelling paces. Following the opening game with Emory and Henry on Friday, the Blue Stockings’ will play Davidson here Saturday. Chick has invited all the ladies of the community to bel'br else -^guests of the college at the games Friday and Saturday. On ^UTsday, April 1, the Presby- ■1 . f 1. teriana will meet Newberry for the third hbme game of the sea^n. With good men out for every posi tion and a hard fight going on for each bag,. Chick is well pleased with the spirit his men are showing. At present he is toying with an in reekiess fashion as to make our high ways red with blood and black with grief ? As ong^jvatches the steadily^mount- ing slau^ter his heart dies within him and he is tempt.ed to think that people'-feel that nothing can be done that they have become so hardened to human suffering that they no longer care. The latter cannot be true, for witness the prompt and generous response to the appeals of the Red Cross during the recent floods. The floods killed hundreds, while the ’automobiles kill many thousands every year.-. Dr. Morris Fishbcin, speaking of the deaths from motor accidents in 1935, said; “More k!tl Five-Acre Cotton Demonstration Wallace L. Martin, Gray Court, led the five-acre cotton staple improve ment demonstration in Laurens coun ty in 1936. Nine farmers conducted demonstrations last year. Mlrtin^ produced 4,760 pounds of lint onvfive acres, and Ford Miller, colored, Lau rens, second, produced 3,942 pounds on five acres, according to records kept by them and turned in to this of fice. The total cost of production of Mr. Martin’s cotton was $279.68, and Miller's cost was $203.00. Included in expenses were rent on land, labor, sion department. The contest is open to any farmer. , South Carolina has taken‘the lead in improving the staple of cotton, for 91 per cent^f*,the coUftn ginned in South Carolina^ to DecemWr first was 15-16 inch or^lo^ger, and 69 per cent of the^innings graded white mM-. dlingv ®fty-two per Cent of the cot ton ran T 1-32 inches jn staple length as compared with 36^ per cent for the same period in 1935. In comparing the figures for all states in the cottofb belt, it is found that South Carolina continues to hold very favorable position, leading all have their cotton seed tested for ger mination this year before planting, djiK to the unfavorable-'season last y^r. Any farmer who wishes may mail to J. Roy ^nes, commissioner otf agriculture, ^lumbia, about a pint of cotton seed, asking for germina tion test, which is free to any farmer. for those products of General Motors. NE^FRIGrOAiftES ARB -—MECHANICALMARVELS seed and fertilizer. Mr. Martin ,used field that probably wUl consist of Bill j boys and girls were killed la.st year Blackwell, veteran from last^year, on I by automobiles than died of diph- first; “Shorty” Home, brother of theria, scarlet fever or typhoid.” The last year’s star, at second; “Piggy” Tsorii, sophomore rookie, at' third, and vctei-an Hick Harvin on the hot cor ner. Batchelor, a sophomore, may latest reports show-^that “1936 tops Wannamaker Dixie Wonderwilt No. 6, and Miller used Coker’s Farm Relief No. 2 seed. Other farmers conducting demon strations were: H. H. Bryson, Foun tain Inn; R. M. Langston, Barksdale- Narnie; H.^0. Abercrombie, Mt. Beth el; J. Roy*^ White, near Harmony church; L. L. Templeton, Owings; T. Roy DeShields, Lanford; Herbert Bums, Mountville. The purpose of these demonstra’^^ tions is not to increase production in the true sense, but to t^upply suffi- apl states east of the Mississippi river in the production of desirable staple cot-, ton, according to Harry A. White, as sistant agriculturrfl economist. . The following farmers have listed their names with the county agent for the five-acr^ cotton contest for 1937: John C. I.«ngston, J. S. George and Ford Miller (colored), I.aurens; J, Frank Mitchell and C. D. Warn Shoals; C. S. Pinson,^ Cross Hill; J. M.. Whitaker, Woodruff; T. Frank Gambrell, Honea I^th. There are perhaps few people among the rank and file of American citizens who are not familiar with the fact that the modem type of au- tomobih", deveteped within the last three or four years, is equipped with an engine that is vastly superior to any of its predecessors, with relation to its speed, power and itmoothness. On the other hand, there are not many people who are familiar with all records” for highway deaths andjC'ent planting seed of desirable statile throughout the county for farmers who*arc not in a position to order take third, with Jlarvin being moved'"cnpi^les for life. to short. The outfield probably will consist/liearted public is demanding that of last year's league batting leader. Hawk Evans, with Pitchers Lefty Sliggs, Coon Weldon and J'oe Com mander holding down the other quar- -tprs when they are not tossing the horsehide. Pitt Bird, veteran .si^ior, seems to have the catching ^sigrnment sewed up, _ though third baseman Giles Batchelor is m^ing a stab at thlA berth. Suggs and Weldon/ both veterans, will carry the' burden of , the season’s pitching^ being »relieved by Joe Com mander, Louis Anderson, and Bill Cox. . _ --7'C’hiok is grinning from ear to ear Over his prospects despite the short time that he had to get his men ready for their first- game of the season. ‘ that in Addition nearly a million peo ple wi're maimed many iff them- An outraged, indignant, broken- somCthing be done about it. We have been promised that a good highway law will be enacteil at the pre.sent .session of -4JM? Georgia legis- laure. What is^a gowl law No law CM be called a good law • unless- calculated to takiL__the. incompetent a purebred .«eed from broodeis each year. Mr. Martin’s entire stock of. seed were spoken for at a veix satis-f factory price before he had finished harvesting. _ ~ Ink, pints and qaarta. Cico Paste, Mu cilage, , Rubber Bands, Adding Ma* chine Paper. Everything needed ' to CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. ’ Phone 74 umw THE BnSA or A $S4*7S K perfect fit assured! Chom the models *114 fabric you want —and yrour suit, made ior you, will be tailored to your individual liking! A, GBNTkY mMde^to-tneM^' MOT9 suit coats no more than ordinary clothes! PENNEI’S and reckless drivers off the highways. It must not only forbid speeding, reckless driving, drunken driving, etc. It must also say: “If you drive don’t drink; if you drink don’t drive.” It is not the drunken driver that is the greatest menace on our highways. It i.S the driver who has taken jast enough alcohol—a bottle of beer, one cocktail—a dose of alcohol considered even extremely niderete^^r all medi cal and social purposes, who is a po tential killer when driving a car. Sci ence has proven that it takes very lit tle alcohol to .so depress the nervous system as to dangerously slow a per son’s reaction ,^time. .A car running 60 miles an hour is running 88 feet in one second; seventeen and 'three- fifths feet in one-fiftir‘*6f a setond^ Normally a person reacts to what he secs or hears in one-fifth of a soc- onifc Under the influence,of moderate doses of alcohol that time is increased to two or even three-fifths of a sec ond. On tl^bjgliway life or death is decreed In^pllt seconds. So no per- ' son can say it is my private business if I drink. That may be, if h? does not also drive.. But driving is a very pub lic busin^S-and it i.s essential to pub lic ^safety that he does not drink and drive. Facing the.se facts it is tragic to sell liquor and gasoline at the same station. “ It is obvious that the public will not much longer tolerate the killings, maimings, destruction of happiness, property and life on our highways of reckless and incompetent motorists, often made by alcohol. Like the flood waters that rose till they swept All before them, the tide of public indig nation is mounting, at .first Slowly, but more and more rapidly, And one day it will sweep all the lies and sophistry with which a devouring tr^e- has beclouded the r^l issue, and demand that since liquor refuses to be controlled it .ippiSt be abolished. The five-acre cottop ,work .sponsored by the South Carolina ('ot- ton Manufacturers association for several year's, as they realize thcnecd of South raroTma farmers producing desihable staple length for. the mills. The spon.sors _ have donated $2,000 as prize money each year. The same Cooperative Seed Order Placed Through the county agent’s office 7,000 pounds of purebriKl cotton seed has been ordered in a cooperative or der from a plant breeder and distrib uted among 18 farmers. These seed are scattered over Laurens ^.county and should produce a considerable amount of seed for planting in 1938. Ihe fact that in the refrigeration in dustry similar forward etepa have been taken. Thy old noipy, power consuming units of half a dozen years ago have given way to new, quiet, smooth-running mechanisms which some of the early users would not even recognize alt*refrigerator units. An outstanding example of this 'trend is to be found in, the new F^igi- daire line of products for 193'?,. ac cording to W. C. Baldwin, dealer here “For several years,” stated Mr, Baldwin, “our research laboratories have been engaged with th e task of developing a cornpTete refrigerator that would completely eclipse any thing that Was' termed ah automatic refrigerator a feW years ago. That their efforts have been crowned with e^plAte success is evident by a cas ual examination of the new 1937 line. “First fruits of this .engineerinjr campaign were available last year when the new Frigidaire meter-miser was offered to the buying public. Since that time additional- improve ment have been made even in new unit, with tlie result that 1937 sees a unit so efficient that it sur passes even that for which the en gineers had hoped when they start- d,” Mr. Baldwin stated. ^ , These new Frigidaire machine are on display at Baldwin’s Grocery, and the public is invited to-view them. FOR THE NEW YEAR LEDGERS CHRONICLE PUB. CO. (iuvornmcnt Benefit ('hecks To. date iheie Tia.s been received 2548 S(‘>Vernmenl benefit cheeky to taling $186,965; There are several check.s yet' to arrive .Notices will be -mailed^as soon ias checkA.^_arriyii.at thi.s office., ' - -N Testa For (termination It is advisable for all farmers . FRYERS! - FRYERS! milk-fed’ /rYERS ready Tills WEEK-END ..at. 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