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^ ~ . ■;--- i'- I ' ' i 4- PACK THE CLOrtON CHltoNICm CLINTON. 8. C -t. k ■. .--J ‘ THURSDAY, lUNETW^ tm/ S (Eiuitott BtUbUsM 1909 W' p'*’ '■'■ ViLSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Poblkhor ■I I'l^Mishod Erery Thufiday By . ' . THE chronicle'PUBLISHING COMI^ANY \^ - ' - j _ -- _■ - - Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance)': ■One Year $1.50; Six Months 75 cents; Three Months 50 cents Entered asBecond Class Mail Matter at the Post Offic^it CKntotf^S. G. The Chrohicle 8<eeks the cooperation of its subs^in^ers and readers-^the publisher will at all times appreciate ^ise suggestions and khidly ad vice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when thej) are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will hot be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the viewe or opinions of its correspondents. lere before a well busts loose and drowns my friend in oil. Of* course I haven’t found afiyhody 3^ that will make me a $100 or a $200 loan. Naturally if I can borrow the monney without security, I pre fer to send $200, to Texas rather than $100. , Already big wells only a few ■ miles away, possibly over 250' ,miles have come in.^aiHl one man has inadej {$350,000,000 or something. -j To Labor Bdard Union Men Hnii Asked President Bring: • StHke {Settiement. Senate Probe Sought. \ , - Washington, June ~ 7.—-President Roosevelt referred an appeal for f*— - :—e- r“ in congress for an investigation. ate postofTice committee. ■ /Representative White (Republican, From Jesse M.' Donaldson, depu lepu^ me^,^' first asaistant postmaster gene^ came a statement defending the poetr- " office department’s right to accept 0hio), asked the house'to order Post master '^General Farley to report whethe^ the postal eervice has re- _ , fused to deliver to Ohio miUs ^apyj^9*’ delivery only mail matter twnally type or class of mail that compfies j delnrei^ under nornml wi^^ with the established provisions of *‘The department never has taken eligibility.” ' , I'wdes In labor disputes,” he declared. Senator Bridges (Repul>lican7"New not intend to do so Hkmpsihire) asked the senate to in-1 So ^ far sa di^artment officiate Pl'^idential intervention ..in the Steel I vestigate *‘all cases of alleged in-i^now, Donaldson, added, normal marl ' * ef mail:-«rv!f® strike-bound irfants is en- in prog-i<^>untering no interference. a chance! This Texas manjgtr^ke today to the national Ubor rf‘ ter^«rence” .with the delivery i wants me to hurry! The land teji^tions board, whcih'liter announced where strikes are ir What - ”, .lacions ooara, wncin later announceuf liable to be Withdrawn from sale anyi ...... vlyess. 'moment! Think of me and you los-!*^ no basis fqr action at present.[ ' ing an opportunity to make millions! Representatives of eighty local If these reports ar^ true,” be de This cond: CLINTQt^. S. C., THURSDAY. JUNE 10, 1937 IT WOULD HELP If the federal government would devote more time to the balancing of its own budget and less to the inters ference with private business all , -If I can raise the money to buy a few acres of t^s Texas oil land, I intend to make the foU<wing do- ngtions from my fortune, which I women are going to learn is thatj®*^ there is no easy or safe road to sue-hands -within t cess in life^_ Many of .them, because 2 or 3 months, or sooner. ing an opponimiiy w maxe muuon«_^ - Calumet i^'on of In accounts, "This cond:- out of (practically nothyig. affilteted^^S Jo^L Uwis’^t’^n is a disgrace to the United States very generous, perhaps. I don’t, witn Jonn L. Lewis : - * j » t' Se< think h,', trying to .ell.any o( thi5|'?'»miltM^ induetnal orgam^-llWf"' | land at all to homefolks He’s only askedHUr. Roosevelt by tele-lt , land at all to homeroiks. ties only urged him to have “joint wage agreements * five-inan committee ^ fd investigate alleged ..interference SPECTAL - ComopoHfan Magaxiae, 15 Mmiths, wanting to help rank strangers. Sec me for other special offers. JAMES W. CALDWBLL Call 38 at 12:30 P. M. they have diplomas, may have gptj To Harvard .... 5 Million ICIvdVV TVlCII |/l*v cauv. •••• » would ultimately be in better shape I them a living, a false belief that hast wiie s^ than we are’'liable to be under any form of socialism. fore they can claim themselves. There are too many peo-, pic in the world already looking for* something for nothing, and expecting 01 R NEW THEORY - The concern which the national gov-- ernment manifests in the interest of organized labor i.s beginning to have dther comic'on tragic features. It is comic in that labor .seems to be amply, able to look after it.s own interests, *evcji to the extent of seizing the prop erty of' those for whom it refuses to labor, apd it is tragic to the extent that i)ix)ptMT^ liwners have^ b^ re ceiving very little protwetion. Mil I 1^1 I ■—' ' ■ THE <;host ACJ.ATN Two years ago the NRA was in validated. N|# great cry of horror was heard for the simple reason that NRA had discredite<l it.self with the public^ A''Ti‘W predicted disaster, but they turned out to be bad prophets. !|^w Senator Black and l^‘P*‘®?®^*ithHt there is no ready-made ojiportu- tative Connery are asking Congress to consider another tihe impression that the world owes|T©. Yftle 4 Million f tha(t has i To my wife s^ Alma' Mater 8 Million become all too common in this coun-jTo my home college 3 Million try in recent years.i If they have anjr j M>*'c®JIaneou3 9 Million such id^a, they are dead wrong. The ! written and sign.ed” by their employ ers and the hteel workers organizing committee. The labor board issued a state ment •saying “no. formal action has been instituted before the board in' matters referred to in the telegram to the president.” Well infomfed persons pointed'out that the telegram to the pi^i^ident involved an isi^ue on.which the labor board does not have jurrsdiction. The Wagner labor act empow*ers with..^the mails and any agreements with poatal authorities to curtail the | mall service, was iwferred to the sen-1 WHAT DO . . , P. S. Jeanes DOT world doe., not owe them one thing.: Th)* wont leave but about 250.j^he board to eompel an employer to They are due to diseover very | M.lllon dollar.,, J>ut what do I care? ,bargain collectively w.th a major- that the obligation i, TCe'other way > along acme. ,ty of h-,a worker,, but not to eom- around. They have to . prove them-1 “'“y “y I I><-l him to accept the wage agree- iielve, useful meTnber, of society be-'lof y"- rimdera, a.aummg jPyoPoae. I consideration for'**® ^ borrow any money, A board official recalled, however, ‘up to 500 thou.sand dollars, after'the j that ats investigatbrs have begun} oil hMws, ju.st send me yoiw plain l a study of union charges that’ithe; note of hand, for what you want," and t Republic .steel corporation has violat- ril semi it at once, parcel jxist. If led the Wagner act. The board itself! Santa (’lau.s to come every da.v. i , ,, , , .1 r i i • . i . , , , • 1 hhe well (loi;.s not come in, and I don t' may act later on the.se complaints. holds that It i.s the duty of the n^ind ord^T to provide opjiortunitics for- all of these eager'.young, [leople. Those who hold'that view are prone, to de clare that Artierica i.s no longer the land vf opportunity,'and that chances for .success today are rare. Tht* pllin_lruth, w'hich these young gracjwAUKs w’ill learn soon enough, is (iee McGee. bill reviving all the-v principles of ”the NRA. Before .None of the Public’s ^Business! Aubrey Williams, acting adminis- nitj? for anybody. ^There never hasUrator of the PWA, bt*ars out what been, under apy .scheme sfwaT^r-|The New.s and t/oxTrier bas said, that Roosevelt said he referred the strikers’ appeal to the labor board aruT to Secretary Perkins as “a matter of information.” .Miss Perki^ns declined immediate comment. ‘ ~ Meantime reports that the post-./ office had refused to deliver food packages to non-strikers in - strike bound mills at Young.stown, Dhio, j and other cities brought demands | ganization. But for men and women breathing lifo-into ghost^ let .s look ^ y,£ initiative, courage, industry and at the record.-The New Yotk Timesthere are prsrbably greater sums' il up this way: "jopportunities than there ever were “It is now elear that there was no before. Each, however, must find hi.s foundation in fact for the early "fear that the Supreme "Court verdict in the case of the NRA had dealt a death blow to the whole recovery movement. Precisely the oppoisite happened. The government’s own'index of industrial production, compiled ^ the Federal by straight living and hard work. Ilj*.;jerve Board, stood at S5 when NRA was <leclared ^unconstitutional. It now .stan<ls' at iTir. The'governinicnt’s in dex of factory payrolls stood at (18.5. It now stands at 104.9^ But the poipt ~of most significance isf that the per- ceiitage^ of increase in payrolls has Iiia'h eyt'n larger tha4».the increasc»in pixidiictioh. Freni from the controls ,ahd re.'t taints imposetl by NRA, busi- ne-s lias not acliieved its subsc<juent in the viewpoimiT"of bereaucrats their ^spendings are none of the public’s business albeit the public .supplies the funds which are scatteri^, llere is Mr. William’s answer to own opportunity, must map out his] a United State.s senator, Rush Holt, own coyrse and stand on-his dwn feet, of Wyst Virginia: The world today, as unsettled and up-j “We have not made it a practice to side-down as it is, .still offers oppor-'give out information concerning the tiinities to those who take courage in | individual .salaries and address of their hands and go'forth to .seek them employes except tho.se in a |K)siti(Ht to formulate policy or dir^t major.. W. J. BENJAMIN SERVICE STATION Standard Products Cars Wash and Greaaed Your Business Appreciated FREE! A bcAvctfol Artificial ,» GaidenU jcanted with Palmer*! ~ lilffiOtta ''XsAlDBlflA**^ 1^ " I purchase pf a |1 Bottle of tfak exquisite FexfumA A R D E N, I A Ahp P»Wt“Oiiwn*''Toll« W- ilvdir M lIpteA wMi dM mm wifhinrlm MlwMt-jlMMf fnsnaM SADLEROWENS PHARMACY “At Union Station” Telephone 40(1 Nobody’s Business By Oec/MeGee » 9 Mr, Lark Aslw A Small Favor deei' mr. edditor:--- plese use yore influence with of agger-culture to of ' labor, measured in tvims of payrolls has more than kept | juice with the increased (>ul.put of fac-j, tnrie- and mills.” the get the rec overy at the expense of labor.' i<\)k department tiu' leward of ' lubor, measured in |.seiidd lark, back iinto I c.. c. c. camp , i*^ the lower part of | the state, he wa.s excused for some-j thing he done and has ifever benn i portions of the operations. We have felt that the publiic"should have no legitimate intere.st in such informa tion and that its release would very; jirobably result in those persons be-| ing subjected to .solicitatloh from' .salesmen_ and the gossip of neigh- Iws.” “ ■ . Federal bureaucrats in.sist upon knowing all about private financial affairs.* They have expo'sed to the public the .salaries of American citi zens any- "very probably” subjected them ^‘tep .solicitation from salesmen -Eri- — # J The Direct Reduction Plan v , f ^ Modern Way fo Finance Your F.VR.M TENANTS Wllile much is being .said and writ- called back. he nevver meant to take the sup- jand the gossij) of neighbors, I vate citizens must have no secrets ■jdlrom lederal bureaucrats, in the of-j jficiu] viewpoint, but the public rec-! ten about farm tenancy, nobody as yet A' onl.v thou^,lrt hi would public’s business! i knows the exact facts about the jiVob-1 ** hours, and when | . u lik.Uv that Senator Holt 1cm Fveiw effoil thmefore shoud 1 *1® teliygrilm jmst, it , . f liktly that .Senator Holt urn. TAirj inoM,. imuioii, ."noum 1 ^ ^ ^ | ^Y,jj take this impertinent answer sitting down. He is~a young man with jMilitical courage'. He speaks planly when he chooses.' He has ah oj>j)ortunity to .speak plain about the insolence of Aubrey Williams in lie miyle to’get at the precise fact.s j"hi^ fault, as the tellyfoani rather than ^eal in general terms! P'“i‘lde PUt it in the ground too close which may be lioth misleading andj^‘’ highway, they ought to-*4)e inaccurate. ' nialpractice anjmforth. The latest study has been made by he was not out of camp iHit i\.ine -44H^--^»^+imak--A4is4>ciatHm of Manufac- hour.sr and had" thc/i^H not-of -iwi J^diineubin^that ^hii record of spynd- t.uiers, which'rejiorts that the 800,000 ,,^^0 the aforesaid post, he wim^not ing by 'a federal agency is none of Southern fanners listed as tenants really .'Jhare-crdi>|H‘rs, and that an the North and West are young men renting family farms from relatives. The net -result of this analysis "“trould indicate fth^t tenant' ojH'rators ’ in the true-sense ihr-not account for any more than 21 jut cent of all farmers; that about ofH»-third of these are closely related to. the land owner, .•<0 that not more than 15 jier cent are — indojiendei.l tenants, —. This jrroujvin turn diviiles naturally into three siib-groujis- -a small group, W’hich may ^jiiunint to '5 jier cent of the total, w’ho yre tenant.s through choice; a .second .small group, which may represent 5^iifcr cent of the total. another group of. tenant farmers in ought hot -to be bad enough to .have of Inmn out of ithc camp without''leaf* I hls'-.ibusiness. One shall be-disap- of absence but ohly'14 hours, that' pninteifif Senator Holt does not press E*W0pyxor*r»w*>x- t«> t'^4 a.,fine young feller turned off about; sciiud^s a nice boy'except w’hen he has benn forced to look ujion the cup when it is red ansoforth, i as to the monney which was hiiss- !ng by his bunk.pardner in the camp: he knows-nothirvg about it. .that guy owed scudil 3$ for cash loanU4 weeks befoar, but he did not colle'ct it be- Jiis advantage. There is no question that~Aubrey Williams is right in his opinion that “relase’’ of the names and addresses of federal .salary beneficiaries would result in gossip by neighbors. Mr. Williams probably understands that this gossip would be in the public intere.st, for it would give the pub lic an opportunity to decide for it self whether the bureaucrats should foar using the car of the super, and be supported by government, be.sides that, his pardner didden’t Senator Holt has failed where the News and Courier has failed, for this have no monney to be stole, he stayed broke mought night all of the time. have rote our congressman and who aetrrtenants through misfortunte or limited capacity, and a third group. who fnay represent the remaining 5 per cent, who are tenants because of youth nad who in the natural course of events have an opportunity by hard work to become land owners. In the light of such facts, it would seem that congress would study these con ditions intelligently before making large appropriations for relief of ten ant farm’ers, not nearly so'large in number «s we have been told from Washington by those who picture ten ancy as a depression phenomenon. THE FUTURE FOR YOUTH Throughout the country, commence ment has come and gone. From the nation's Universities, colleges and high schools hundreds of thousands of boys and girls have received their dipipmas and now are ready to seek JJi^ir places in the vKirld of reality. Their formal education is finished. Their real education is just beginning. They have, if they have been dili gent and receptive students, learned a great deal jd>Ottt the fundamental 1 have asked tfie postmaster here to rite hon. jim farley, and the county farm deipon-strator to rite the seek er-terry of agger-culture, all in be- haff of our son, scudd, so , if >011 will touch up his character favvbr- ably thru, yore columns, i believe he will be''replaced back again. you have a fine little newspaper, and if you get our darling boy back in the c. c. c. camp where he can be hell down and forced to behave his- self, yore corry spondeht, mr. mike Lark, rfdi will sell the streets in the future free of charge -^and allso get some subscrip tions for you. yore paper is' a dar ling in our househole. rite or foam, yores trulie, mike^ Lark, rfd, *' corry spondent. Opportunity ia Knocking at My Door I have just received a circular-letter from'ni man in Texas that makes my 4xloo(L4inge and my heart beat fast er. He’s got some oil acreage to adl! Never heard of ouch a wondet* principles pf life. Now they'arg ^about prospect to get-rkh-qukk. !t‘/> ■ ■.. to try iSieif .hands at the practical ap pUcation of those principles, and the rtibbing of elbows agminM; the worid* tliey maj not realixe ^it now, hnt thing theae young men and He doesn’t Mk for much pioney, only $100, or $200. Take your dboicie. If you care to lose $200, instead of $100, why, that’s your butinMa." I am afraid thar my chock wonH get 1. newspaper has declared itself ready and willing to publish the names and addres.ses of salary receivers who are given $100 a 'month and up-j ward. It is the fault of the Ameri-I can'congress i^that a senator slmuldp receive^so impertinent an answer from a creatuye of government, for the cor^ress_waived' its own powers in the eStablfiriiment of the WPA, the PWA and other speeding agen cies. The creature thinks itself greater than its creator. When Aubrey Williams tells a sen ator 'that a bureau does not have to tell the public how the public’s funds are, being disbursed, 'he is teUiog yore papera on ^bat .i^nator to crawl into a hole and to clos^^e Imle .after he enters. He is telling the senator that a pidilic servant is not required to account to the public which should be the mast er. ^ Of such stuff are bureaucrats made. • . •Senator Holt has been challenged to do^his worst. If his colleagues in the senate choose to put patroimge of their own supplying before their unquestioned right to know about spendings to the last item. Senator Holt will be baited—and humiliteted. With its itch for investigation] the senate should proceed to investigate the spending bureaus it has, created. There being no polities in the apenli-^ ings the bureaucrats, including Au brey W<ilUanM, should court a seardi- ing investigation.—Newt'and Cooriar. /I Every faolUy is happiier . .. every woman better protected . . . every child has sT better chance to grow up with an active ^ial life . . . every father feels he has fulfilled his* responsibility to his family—when they own their own home! The Citixens Federal Savings and Loan Association makes it possible tor every head of a family—out of earnings large or small—to buy a home, paying for it in small, monthly amounts, just like rent. This aasociation's facilities are open to you—may we give you fur ther details? i ’* . IF INTERESTED IN BUILDING OR RE FINANCING YOUR ^ HOME — SEE US TODAY. - FEDERAL SAVINGS B LOAN ASSOCIATION NEW DOWN-STAIRS LOCATION — NATIONAL BANK BLDG. CLINTON, S.C. I PHONE Na 6 . • 1 ~ -l5.?l