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tHE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON, 8. C
THURSDAY, JITLY 15, 1937
Nobody’s Bu^ess
By Gee McGee I
Hail Survey For
■County" Made]
Storm Damage Dfita Shows 17A
Farmers Suffer Crop Losses
In Recent Storm.
Laurens, July 8,—Uurens county’s
farm ajrt'nt, C. B. Cannon, has com
piled a' report of the recent hail dam
age to cotton crops in Cross Hill and
Waterloo townships. The sur%’ey of!has a fox tail tied on its rady-fctor
the affwte<i areasJiad been complet-i cap..where fox tails could not be h;ad.
' Flat Hoick Now Seta the. Face
. our little town has all of a sudden
gone moilem. we act ahead of the^
county-.seat in sofne respects w’hen i
rail f)rogre»8 is considered, our social- [
ite.s are verry forward in evierUung,;
and-we can’t be called hicks no more. I
wami
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er of his party than any other man,
not excluding John Hamilton, chair
man of t^he Republican Da.t><>nal com
mittee. The real hope of the dye<l-in-
itfie-wool Republican •politicians, how
ever, is to bring about a coalition be
tween their i>arty and the conserva
tive wing of the Democratic party.
Therl is little chance of that, ob
servers- here say, so long as the Re
publican leadership leans in any de-
j gree toward the . New Deal. TTiere-
nearly ever otter-mobeel in flat rock p,v.u
; . , j ' —j.. wland has been effect
ive jn restoring
i harmonious ■relatibns between the ,con-
JUlU IlOl .lie ilau, I 111 ■ .1. r\ i'
. . t L . . 1 1 Ifressional leaders in the Deraociatic
ed by community committeeman and i rabbit taws and coon tails have benn " . . .,,1
representatives from the resettlement!used, a.s a matter of fact, the supply
office hero. ‘ - • j of fox tails ran out about 3 weeks ago.
The report shows that 173 famibh-Sj j- 'i
live. on”farms ip the territorj-, withr" yore corny sponden^W mike
70 listed as sharecromiers. The total; Lark, ifd. Could not get holt of a fcx
number of people dependent On thi.s.or squirrel or coon tail to tie on hi.s
.■ year’s crop i.-- given at 7H0. and total 1'-“‘.f "abTKin in order that he mought
planti
planli'd to l•'gume^
year’s crop i.- gi^v
number'of acre<
2,783, with acres
l>eing 1*48.
Fifty-eight people nei-d aid at oniM*.
the report indicated, and it wa.s shown
that $'*30 ])er month would .supply
this need. The' re|»ort has Iktd tifTned
over to C. R. Owing-*, resetllemeni ;
supervisor, who in turn w'ill make ap-
pHcaticn for assistance in this emer-j
party and the chief executive is still
uncertain; but the probability is that
much of the irritation between Capi
tol Hill and the White House ha.s been
alleviated.
Mr.' Roosevelt is a master of con
ciliation, anil w'hen he asked .every
Democratic senator and representa-
.ce fail off a caff and attached it toltive to come to the three-day outing
I to cotton.P'- modery and style, .«o he^ got him a
1!.S
little boss’s bridle.
it is a di-'-gracf -for annyhoddy in
our town not to have some, annimal’s
tail tied to his or her. vehickle.' this
hlTi* made tails advance fnjm 10c
upeace to .'lOc each, old man hezy-kiah
.-.kinner tied a bosses tail to the back
of hi.- hoover carl; he is recker-nized
Wa.«hington, July ..'V-Ju.st'how farlfor?, there'is a swing in progres* tO;
the presidential picnic on Jefferson ^be definitely conservative ele
ments of the party, such as Herbert
Hoover and O^den Mills. What may
come it is anybody’s guess.
Politicians of all stripes seem to be
just now waking up to the political
dynamite which is contained in
labor .situation. •
-It.s effects are both economic and
political, and extremely disturbing in
both fields. Open talk 'is heard from,
statesman who do not talk loosely, <
that a domination of the'entire na-
Ition .by organize*! labor i.s imminent
unless the .strike sit,nation,is handled
Ifrom Washington with a much firmer
! ham! than has been shown.
3-MOVING-PARTS
ROLLATOR* MECHANISM
a.s being „m)-to-date.
another big innovation that makes
! flat r.iK-k verry ritzy and ahead of the
gency.
Out of a grand total of 2,783 cot
ton acres planted, a total of 2,470
were found to have suffered hail dam-
age. - , jtime.H' is shorts, miss Jennie veeve
Out "Of a total of 173 farms In the | smith, and her twin .sister, miss sallie
two districts, O') per reported ij^s hav-j veeve, play tennis, and soft balls and! have always found it difficult to stand
ing sustained l()sses, with 04 white-eroifuett and all . .set in the fruotlo^j ^jj-ainst .Mr. Roosevelt’s personal
peoph* and 31 .Negroes as farm hands [piazza with shorts on. our poleesman! p^-rKuasive chann. It is not stretching
at the .Jefferson I.«lanil club, it'was
a foregone conclusion »hat many of
those who went, would come back
with less resistance to White House
jioliries than tv^hiL'n they went.’
Not everyone invited accepted.
.Many .members of both houses do not
want to he reconciled, and those di.s-
covered jirevious engagement-s which
prevented them from going to Jeffer
son island.
. President’s I’erKuasive ('harm
Even» tho.>*e who totally ili.sagr«e
with the president on major issues
TKXAN Tl RNS
ON COI RT BILL
affected^
The 8ur\M*y report also shows that
farmers of the area have 125 cows,
243 head of work stock, 230 bushels
of cow peas and l,14y bushel* of
wheat. In the district there are 1,2<’)7
idle acres 0/ farm iland.
lays the citty coun.sell ought to pass
a law against folks going nearly
naked, he’s verr.y old-timey.
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the facts to saV that no occupant of
the White House in half a century, at
leasL has enjoyed such enormous per-
, t n sopal popularity, a.s distinguished
..wlhar Ihmg th.a our younK folk, political- po,,ularity, a, <loea
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The fact that great masses of the
pisiple feel a per.sonal affection for
hii;.,*even though they have never
seen him except in the rnovie.s, or
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have took up lately in keeping with
the times is :they drive up in front
of the drug stoar and toot their horn.s
for .soft drinks anspforth. heretofoar
they weVit irrside for same; now they
are fetched out on a tray by the sody-1
watter jerker. nope, you can’t keej)
flat rock down verry long at a time,
if annything else turns up new, i will
rite, or foam you.
(Continued from page one)
in blind,” ('opeland declared, .“that
they, not the opjionents of the bill,
are marked for qiolitical destinjction.”
The senator, warming up tp his ad-i
dress, called upon “those here who'
prefer to be Democrats’’ to, “stand up ^
and declare' the faith.” He asked those
of his colleagues who have the presi
dent’s ear to urge that he “not press
loo heavily upon the" patience, the
good will and the readiness to serve
of. a very considerable group in this
iKidy ■who are Demixrrats in ‘ every
scn.'ie'of the word.”
The ^iresident still has it in his
power tb retain the friendship and re-
sptH*t of good Democrats' who are on
the way to being grieved in spirit and '
heard him -^peak over the radio, gives j jiermanently estranged from him.
him a tremendous advantage in deal-j “Ix*t the president drop the court
ing with n-calcitrant legislators, who | proposal, leave Jt to the congress to
however,' '
with the
,\ Challenge
deer mr. edditor:
plese try to arrange a
betwixt joe louis and snowball
of flat rock, snowball says that if joe
louis had of picked on a young man.
he winilil of got licked in the secont
ending.
snowball Ls collored, just like joe
louis, and it will lie a case of collor
meet collor. snowball has fought ‘23
fights and has never lienn knocked to
his knees.j. much less all of the w^v
(Idwn to tne count of 10. he thinks he
is a rail match for lewis.
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this frghrrmgfit to be arranged be-
foar max smelling comes over from
'germanny "and knocks joe into apother
jag. this would give ^snowliall the
champeenship for a few weeks, if he
.can’t fight joe bi'foar smelling fights
him, he will he out of the ring for
gooil, as he is a-skeereil to fight a
white genterman in the south anso-
forth.
are acutely conscious that,
.-^hariily they .may disagree
! presi(lenl’.s policies, their constituents
! hack home love him. ' ^
prize-fight I Not for mnay years has there been
black !u jiresi(|ent whom so many every-day
citizen- wanted to see in person and
shake hamls with, if possible. Accord
ing to figures comiiiled by the <>ffi-
cial usher of ths* White House, Presi
dent anil .Mrs, UiKisevelt shimk hands
with Di,»J.50 fiersons at the White
House last year. -
In addition, however, to tb? oner
who had the opportunity of shaking
the presidential hand, there were
more than f)5(»,(l00 sightseers who got
a l(M)k at the inside of the White
House during the year. About a third
of them called on their congressmen
for cards of introduction, which are
always fre<-!y granted to visitors from
“back home,” but the other two-thirds
just w^alktsd in and strolle.il about the
public rooms of the executTve man
sion. '
‘ The present White. IJouse family,
theit'fore, ha-; had les< private life
than any of its pteiiece-^ors. Besides
new - tei-k-! neniTy 2.(Kt<i uninvited guests strolling
has a left i through the White lliqjse parlors ev-
s.tops ! eiy 'day,. Mr. and .Mrs. Roosevelt in
vear have served tea or other re
formulate legislation, and filace upon
this equal responsibility -with
himself In e.stahlishing a fiscal poUcy
for the apeedv solution of what other-
wise may la-come an impossible prob
lem.”
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I , snowball has sevverajr
jiiiques m his ring work, hi
i.'Spank to the hart that usually
I it from heating, it is laid on with the 10m
ihack-side of his gloveil hand; he allso j freshments to 22.'{5d persons, dinners
has. a nose-dive left that flattens a [or formal luneheons to more than
feller's nostrils so flat till they look, 4,0(U» others, and have had 31i* {>er-
toaUi6R&
I like a duhblesbarrel shot -gun end.
' snowball went into training "last
!month with a mule, he stood behind
jl-ht* mule And ever lime he would kick
at snowball, he would land a fa.«t
! right to his, sturnmick. he. kniH'ked the
^inilo out in the third ending 4 times
straight, he splits curd-wood in sea
son, hut he m-vver u-es a maul to hit
I’the \ve?lge with; he biffs it with his
lliear hands.
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I House. ^ ■ -+
1 ' Third-Term Talk^
One result of the growing realira-..
, taon that the personal popularity of
I Mr. H oosevelt among the rank, arid
file of the voters has been in no way
! diminished is a lively recurrence of
j gossip centering on the possibility of
I his renomination in P.MO for a third
• term. That suggi-stion has hesn put
fonvard publicly- by more or less ir-
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with joe’s .sifonts and'let fhe under-j ho open approval fnmi the White
.signed have his ancer at an early j House. On the othir hand, there have’
date. kimUy'bave joe Wis make his'been no expression.s of disapproval,
will ami everthing befoar he meets] Some members of the cabinet have
'snowball, his wife will .save monney been putting out “feelers” among
by not’ havying to add-minister on his
gate reseats.
sno^wball figgers that if it ^took jbe
8 ending.s to knock out an old man
like mr. braddock who had quit ex
pecting to fight, he can fetth him'to comes
uncon.sciou.sne«« in at least 3 endings,
and certainly not more than 4. all the
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blackrlouis bout will be appreciated informed obseirvers poin^ to signs in-
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concerning the chance of such a re-
nomination, provided ,the president
were receptive, (kissip/has it that
they are generaJly reporting that the
chance 4s—slight unless the- world be-
ihvOlved in another general
war. Nevertheless, the third-term talk
persists.
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ARMIES FIGHT
IN CHINA AREA
(Continued from page one)
Both were armed with official in
fo,nnation from their foreign offices
Saito set'^forth that it was Japan’s copgressionaJ elections of
dicating in their opinion, that the *d-
nwnistration is grooming (Governor
Earle of PennsyKiania as* its 1940
choice, while Postmaster General Far
ley has lately come to the point as a
receptf\*e candidate.
It is taken for'granted here that
the presidential election of 1940 will
be almost as overwhelmingly Demo
cratic Tiswa-s That of 1938i There is
less feeling of certainty aboift the
1938. The
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Japanese clashes in North China!has been formulated, is t6 put up the
would be Itxralized. The Chinese em-, strongest possible fight for every con-
bassy is.sued a strongly wonled state-Igressional seat not firmly held, and to
ment ch.argmg that Japanese, soldiers cooperate with disgruntled and con-
had increased in the area of dispute jservative Democrats in the effort to
despite an a^reement_th*( both sides]put two Democratic camlidates — one
: were to withdraw troops. 'regular and one Nev^ Deal-—- in the
i An official communique said that [field in districts where it seeiVis pos-
|the two envoys were given ah expies-1 sible to split the Democratic vote by
! sion of the view that “an armed con-■ thi^ means. . .
[flict between Japan and China would! Vandenberg the Leader
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The copimunique was unsigned. It
came aftef^ a press conference at
which Hull indicated that “future de
velopments” may determine iw^bther
the United States will invok« its neu
trality law against the two nations.
forts of various kinds are being made
to bring about a reorganization of the
Republican ptarty and set up a na
tional leadership under^ which 1 party
members can*be rallied. Senator Ar
thur Vandenberg of Michigan, comes
nearer today to being the actual lead-
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