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'K’■ ' -"7*7 / \ . -/ ■• / THE CHSONICLB StrlTW T» B« a CIma N«va- paper, CeapWta, N«inp» J % Ym D«it SmI B CHRONICUI Tm Doa^ G«t TIm Ntwa. VOLUME XXXVIII CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1938 NUMBER 11 VOTE PLEASES AAA OFFICIALS Agriculture Department Heads Jubilant Over Referenda of Farmers. Prepare To Put Into Effect Control Provision ofj New Federal Act. Washin^on, March 13. — Agrricul- tv.re department officials, jubilant over results of Saturday’s referenda among farmers, prepared today to j put marketing control provisions of. the new farm law into operation to limit sale's of three 1938 crops. 1 Authority ’ to impose marketing quotas on all growers of cotton and, flue-cured and dark types of tobac-j CO was gi-anted by top-heavy majori- ^ ties of farmers who voted in elec tions conducted under terms of the new act. Federal control of sales will start “^en the 193S crops start to market 1 in August. Farmers marketing in ex cess of their ftnlerally-allotted^shares of the national quotas will be subject to heavy penalty taxe.s. Unofficial but nearly complete re turns from the three referenda: Cotton:; For marketing quotas, 1,- 189,828; against, 98,144. These re turns were from a majority of ap proximately 1,050 cotton-pro<lucing counties in 20 states. The total num ber of growers eligible to vote was estimated at 2,360,000. Of those vot ing, the percentage in favor was 92.4. MbaTof^the^ Aunties fF6fh~wRlch re- HITLER TAKES OVER AUSmt Nazis Assume Charge of AH Functions of the Absorbed Nation. Million Viennese Form Mightiest Military Parade In Their City’s History. ' Vienna, March 15. — With the im perial palace of the llapsburgs as* a background, Adolf Hitler twlay pro claimed the end of .Austrian indepen- ience an l "the entrance of my native land into the (m vman reich.” Madly cheere^l by hundreds of thou- .sands of admirers, the Fuehrer rode j into Heroes’ .square ()utsi«le the palace j through the great stone arch of the i emperor which bears the inscription, "Justice is the foundation of govern- ! ment.” • -While -Hitler the" rhoto by NlcboU Ptctuwl «bove w a fr«itp-«f CHn<«Hv-and Uaurens buHinea.H men aaHembl«4 here last week at 4be betel fof the annual inter-city'meeting of the turns were delayed had only a small I Clinton Chamber of Commerce and l.aurens Husinesa League. On this occasion the laurens leaguers were guests of the local organization. The guest number of growers. ' Flue-cured tobacco; For quotas, 213,487; against, 33,806. Five states produce the crop. Alx)ut 300,000 farm ers were eligible to vote. Of those voting, the percentage in favor was 86.4. Dark tobacco: For quotas, 38,346; against, 8,259. Four states produce the crop. Farmers eligible to vote totaled about 100,000. Of those vot ing, the percentage in favor was 82.2. <In each of the referenda, approval of two-thirds of those voting was re quired to put the quota system into effect. Officials were pleased particularly by the overwhelming majorities in favor of cottdn quotas. Returns in dicated more than half of all far mers who grow the staple approved invocation of the sales restrictions. —They said such a vast majority should avert criticism that might have resulted had those voting in favor of quotas been a minority of all growers. The “Old South” turned in the largest margins for the control pro gram. Smallest majorities were re corded in Texas, Oklahoma and California, states which send the bulk of their production into foreign markets. Officials said opposition in this regrion was based largely on fears that the quotas would result in loes of export markets. South To Try Again Atlanta, March 13.—The land of cotton heard today that its farmers had voted a second time to'Control the crop. speaker was Representative J. ti. Britton of Sumter county, who is seated third on the first row at the right. A number of those present who were seated at the extreme left in the dining room are not shown in the picture. greatest triumph of his metc'oric ca reer, his lieutenants took over all functions of the .Austrian government. The Austriar^ treasury was absorb- t^l hy the German treasury. Hitler’s foreign minister took over all Aus tria’s foreign relations with the out side world. *• Austria^bt'came merely a gau—dis- trez—of the Gennan realm, Vienna a j |)rovinciaI Gennan city, Chancellor pArthui; Seysz-Impiart merely “gover- ■ uur of .Austria’’- -so addressed signifi cantly by the Fuehrer himself. The new government announced that Jews no longer cap vote. _ Seysz-Inquart, introducing Hitler to the throng in Heroes’ square, solemn- Denny Opposes United Church Hisbbp TVarhs Soutliern Metho dists Against Unification At Laymen’s Meet. LAURENS COUNH FARMERS VOTE OVERWHELBUNaY FOR QUOTAS! Laurens county farmers went to|at the county agent’s office Monday the polls Saturday and voted almost solidly in favor of cotton-marketing quotas for tTie 1938 crop as provided Columbia, March 14.—Eight hun- dred members of the Methodist for in an elective section of the new Episcopal church. South, in South Ci^lina, assembled in the Washing ton Street Methodist church "Sunday and unanimously adopted a resolution “unalterably” opposing the unifica tion of the Northern, Southern and Methodist Protestant factions of the church. Alabama’s P. 0. Davis, head of the state agricultural extension service, said the vote was “a positive expres sion farmers want cotton to be their servant rather than their master.” For cotton is king in Dixie, has been for , generations. “King Cot ton” has ^en harsh kt times, break ing rich men and poor men; benevo lent at others. Whether nature smiles or frowns on the cotton farmer, he always has had to contend with the law ^ eco nomies—the rule of supply and de» mand. And most often, when the crop boomed, the price ssLgged. Cot ton now is selling at around 9 cents a pound and farmers say they can’t msdee money at that. Several years ago the cotton states voted on another cotton ’ control measure—the Bankhead act. They voted "for it overwhelmingly: 1,361,- 347 for, 160,540 against. Incomplete and unofficial returns from 735 of the 1,050 cotton producing counties last night showed 1,136,296 votes for quotas to 88,521 against. In W’ashington, Senator John H. ~ (Continued on page eight) Thomwell Family Holiday Monday was observed at TTiomwell orphanage as a full holiday in honor of the birthday of the institution’s founder. Dr. William Plumer Jacobs, who was bom March 15, 1842. The holiday was given on Monday instead of Tuesday because of the special ex ercises in connection with the open ing of the new Georgia-Beatie home. The orj^nage first opened for the admission of children in 1875. Since then, for sixty-three years, March 15th, or as close thereto as conven ient, has been celebrated as a holiday for the children in commemoration of its founder and president until his death in 1917. . The highlight of the one-day ses sion was an address by the Rev. Dr. Collins Denny, retired bishop of the church, in which he opposed the plan and referred to the issue as the “most momentous question arisen in Meth- odi.sm since 1844.” Unification of the factions, he de clared, would mean the extinction of the Methodist church and said that if opposed with an organized front, the plan would not be adopted. “It won’t come if our laymen rise up and say it shall not come,” the bishop told the congregation. “It is the most momentous question arisen in Methodism since 1844.” The speaker said he was not fa miliar with the plan or its meaning. “I do not know what the plan of unification means,” he said. “You can’t find two bishops that agree on what the plan means. I haven’t found anyone who is willing to explain it to me. Whose church is it?” he asked. “Does it belong to the bishops or to the membership?” He concluded his address by issuing a warning against a world church. “We don’t want a world church if we want a rel^ous church,” he as serted. The bishop recalled previous visits to the state and declared that he^beld nothing but pleasant memories of South Carolina and South' Carolinians. The resolution opposing unification was introduced to the convention by Dr. F. H. McLeod of Florence and read as follows: “Resolved: That we Methodists of South Carolina assembled on this oc casion express our unalterable objec tion to the proposed plan of unifica tion of the churches and beg ^ out delegates to the general conferehce to do all in their power to defeat it.” The resolution was unanimous ly adopited. Two other resolutions, one thank ing Doctor Denny for attending the convention, the other expressing the gathering’s gratitude to Dr. J. W. ShacklefofS^ pastor of Washington! Street Methodist church, for use ofj the institution’s auditorium for thej meeting, were proposed and adopt- i ed. Ben W. Crouch of Saluda pre-i sided over the session. The spe^er* wa.s introduced by the Rev. George ' A. 'Teasley of Ridgeville following! invocation by the Rev. J. R. T. Ma-j jor of Columbia. ! federal farm program. Returns from the ten township pre cincts showed that 2,284 farmers vot ed in tha raferandum in favor of the quotas and 75 against. «The majority in favor of the quotas was 97 per cent of those voting. There were eight challengM and three mutilated votes. or a total vote cast of 2,370. The county committee on AAA work consisting of Jack H. Davis, Sr., Clinton; E. A. Adams, Cross Hill, and Wallace L. Martin, Gray Court, met morning at 10 o’clock to make the official check of the results. The fol lowing is the tabulation by townships of the election as announced by the committee: Yes Cross Hill township (white) 62 Cross Hill (colored) 64 Dials 626 Hunter 256 Jacks 68 Laurens 440 Scuffletown 100 No 13 A 1 14 3 16 Orphanage Opens New Cottage Special Exercises Held In Chap el, Followed By Reception At Georgia-Beatie Home. Sullivan 220 Waterloo 173 Youngs 377 2 3 21 Total 2284 76 Anglins Forced ! Baptists To Hold To Leave China | Spring Meeting News has been received by local friends from Chicago, that Rev.'and Mrs. L. M. Anglin have arrived in America from Taian, Shantung, China, where an orphanage they head is under the guns of Japan. Upon their arrival in Chicago the Anglins were given a welcome service in the gospel tabernacle by several churches and societies of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Anglin, until they are able to return to China, plan to visit a num ber of churches in the United States and Canada, and it is probable that they will include Clinton on their itinerary. Mrs, Anglin before marriage was Miss Ava Patton. She was reared and The spring meeting of the Laurens Baptist association has been called by the executive committee for March 24 at the First Baptist church of Laurens. It will be a one-day session and will be presided over by Dr. A. B. I.ang8ton, moderator of the regu lar association. All churches in the association are expected to send dele gates, and pastors are invited to at tend. The note of the session will be inspirational, an outlook for the cur rent year. The meeting will open at 10:30 a. m. with devotional services conducted by the Rev. E. J. Ingle. This will be followed at 10:45 with sohg and praise services , ,, . The balance of the program fol- educated in the Thomwell orphanage and is pleasantly remembered here by a number of friends in the city. P. O. EX. AT LAURENS The United States Civil Service commission has called an examination for the office of postmaster for the city of Laurens. The position pays an ,/innual salary of |2,6()0, with the time for filing applications expiring March 22. Frank H. Caine has been serving as acting postmaster since the expir ation in February of the term of C. A. -Power. ~ TENNIS COACH RETURNS William C. Lufler, coach of tennis at Presbyterian college, returned this week from Miami, Fla., where he has been working as tennis professional for the past four months. Spring racquet practice, under his direction, will get under way at once. DRIVE CAREFULLY. SAVE A LIFE! So Far This Year There Have Been 3 FATALITIES from AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS in LAURENS COUNTY Let’s Strive To Make 1938 a Safe Year On I the Highways. Thb date last year, f. 11:00 a. m.—Financing the Kingdom; Scriptural Plan by the Rev. J. H. Byrd.’ Man’s Financisd (^ligation by the Rev. W. N. Long. 12:30—-Dinner. 1:15—Devotional by the Rev. J. L. Bobo. 1:30—Address by Dr. J. W. Beagle. 2:00—Address by the Rev. W. S. Brooke. 2:30—Fixing goals for the year. Special exercises commemorating the opening of the new Gborgla- Beatie home at the orphanage, were held Monday evening in the Thom well Memorial church attended by the orphanage family and a number of friends from the city. The exercises were .presided over by W. W^ Harris, secretary of the lyproclaimed to the world Hitler had come in this significant hour as ‘‘Fuehrer and Reichschancellor in the Hofburg (palace) of the old imperial capital, the lUadian of the crown.” Some of his hearers took this as a hint that Hitler one day might aa-_. sume that crown. Hitler, who reached Vienna yester day for the climax of his triumphal journey from Berlin, announced for Austria, “the most thoroughly Ger man outpost of the German people’ —its “npw mission” to be henceforth Field Day Events H«re April Ist Laurens county field dky exercises will be held in Clinton on April 1st, under the auspices of the county teachers’ association. The day will be observed as a holiday for all school children of the county. Declamation, speaking and spelling contests will be held for grammar and high school students. Track events will be held on Johnson field at 10 o’clock in the morning and at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, with both boys and girls competing. NEW TEACHER ADDED AT LYDIA SCHOOL Mrs. Carroll Spencer of this ^ity, has been added by the board of trus tees as a first grade teacher fn the Providence (Lydia Mills) school. Mrs. Spencer before marriage was Miss J^ia QuatUebaum of Columbia, and has ma!^ her h(Hne here for the past several months. bbirT^^ trustees of the institution, and opened with the singing of a hymn by the congregation. Prayer was. offered by Dr. I). J. Woods, pastor of the First PreAyterian church, with an appropriate scripture reading by Rev. W. N. Long, pastor of the First Baptist church. Two anthems by the church choir added to the interesting program. A brief address was made by Dr. L. Ross Lynn, prseident of the in stitution for the past twenty years. It was pointed out that since the orphanage was founded sixty-three years ago it has been served only by two presidents, its founder. Dr. William P. Jacobs for forty-three years, and by its pre.sent head since 1918. Dr. Lynn in his address traced the growth and development of the^qi;- phanage and told of the erection of the homes on the campus which over a long period of years have been provided largely through the interest and generosity of friends in this state and elsewhere, and especially by the McCormick interests of Chi cago. He spoke in the highest tenms of the ideals of the institution's founder and of his marvelous wisdom in planning and building a Christian home for orphan children. . It was called to the attention of the audience, that Dr. H. B. Stewart of Fountain Inn, was present and he was asked to stand. Dr. Stewart, a life-long and devoted friend of the institution, was present when the first building—the Home oi Peeace, was opened in 1875. Later in speaking of the marvelous changes made in transportation facilities. Dr. Stew art 8^ that “it took us ei|ri>^ hours that day to come down to Clinton from OUT home for the opening ex ercises. Tonight we drove down in 45 minutes.” Telegrams of congratulations from the Brotherhood class of Cehtnd Presbyterian church, and the Wom- “the newest bulwark of the German nation and therefore of the German reich.” "Through centuries in troubled time's of the past,” he declared, “storms of the east have broken on the border of the old eastern outpost (Ostmark, the old name for Austria). “In centuries to'come,"Tbr" all tiihc^ there shall be an iron guarantee for the seeufifty and freedom of the Ger man Reich and therewith a guarantee for the happiness and peace of our great people.” Many saw in this a hint of revival of the pre-war German “drang nach osten”—march to the ea.st. Hitler concluded: "In this hour I report to the Ger man people the greatest achievement of my life. As leader and chancellor of the great German nation, I declare to history the entrance of my native land into the German Reich.” Hitler spoke from the spot from which Engelbert Dollfus and Kurt i>chuschnigg often spoke in exhorta tion to the Austrians to cling to their independence. He spoke within sight of the chan cellery at Ballhousplaz where Dollfus, trying to save his .Austrian country men from Hitler, was assassinated in 1934. > But when these .Austrian country men today heard Hitler they cheered him as a redeemer. Hitler referred to neither Dollfuss nor the recently ousted -Schusschnigg by name, but spoke of the previous regime as one whose object was '"‘to prevent the formation of a great Ger man people and thus was a barricade to the path of the German people into the future.” ' The great roar which greeted this assertion could be heard half a mile away in Belvedere palace, where Sebusschnigg was held captive by the new masters of his country. As Hitler told his 7,090,000 new Austrian subjects to meet their new responsibilities, his officials expung ed the Austrian national government. Collie Finals Speakers Named Announcement is made that the an’s Bible class of Druid Hills church,' Rev. Peter Marshall, pastor of New Atlanta, were read. A message of regret in not being able to be pres ent for the occasion was read from Dr. Thomwell Jacobs of Atlanta, who York Avenue Presbyterian churcl’, Washington, D. C., will deliver t j baccal|iureate sermon before tio Presbyterian college graduating clasi raised funds in 1905 in the Synod of i in the First Presbyterian church on Georgia for the erection of the old!Sunday morning. May 29th. Georgia home destroyed last year by fire. Members of the executive com mittee were seated on the rostrum, Mr. Marshall is one of the promi nent young ministers of the Presby terian church. Before accepting Ws together with Joel S. -Morse of Ab-i present pastorate a few months ago beville, a member of the board of I he was pastor of Westminster Pres- trustees. ib3rtcrian church, Atlanta. Two years At the conclusion of the chapel exercises, the friends present were in vited to go to the new Georgia- Beatie home for an inspection. The handsome two-story granite build ing to be oeenpied by eighteen small boys, was made possible throogb a (Continued on page eight) ^ ago he conducted a series of specia/ reli^ous services at the college here. The annual Y.M.C.A. address at the night service on the same day will be delivered by Sampel S. Howie, di rector of public relations at South west e r n PWsbyterian university, Memphis, Tenn. \