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FACE SIX THE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON. 8. C 1 I THLUSDAY , JUlV 28. 1938 Back To The 01’ Swimniin’ Hole Economists See Better Business Twenty Leaders Predict Better Tines Ahead Bat Forecast No Boom. New Yoric, July 123. —Better busi- MM, improved economic well beingf aeems on the way in the remaining iBonths of 1^38, injChc sweepinjr ma jority opinion oi more than a score of leading economiats. Of 23 who answered an inquiry as to their opinion qn the prospect^f business recovery, all but three pre dicted improvement by the end of the year, some with reservations. ' Sxich near unanimity was regarded in economic circles as unu.sual, if not unprecedented. It was thought partic ularly significant, in that opinions were sought from a hrood cros.s‘sec tion of men holding varie<l and con flicting economic and social philoso phies, from the extreme right to th • far l^t, and scattered geographically across the continent. But several of the optimista care fully qualifiid their opinions as 'to the nearness of arrival, degree of rise, and length of the recovery move ment. If the majority are correct, it will not be a “boom.” Only one used the term “boom.” A\Tiile nearly all predicted a brisk pick-up in the con.sumer goods fields, wholesale and retaij, many qualified their optimism as to heavy industries. Some other leading economic ques tions of the day on which views were expressed are shown briefly in the following analyses of answers: 1— Will thcpre be general business recovery during the remainder of 1938? Definitely yes, 11. Probably yes, 9. No, 1. No opinion expressed, 2. 2— Opinion was fairly well divuled ^ Farming is a busines.s of endless* could have gotten ii or could get it. as to the imme«liate future, as con- tribulations. Nothing is ever just So <lismiss that. Don’t let confident tra.sttsl with the later months of ('otton calls for dry weather or boastful talk mislead you. Hut we year. .Xnswers couhi lx* classifiinl corn ^rc'^iuires considerable mois- eould easily lose something by de- follow's to the business outlook for ^he then, the farmer is hard put feating Senator .Smith. As long as the immediate future: contemplate this: We’ve Ib-moci-ats c<»btrol the senate, Cotton IukI (as 1 write this) .some hot wea- Kd will lx* chairman of the .senate then, steaming, broiling wc*ather. It committee on agriculture. That makes A tODAy PEOPLE — Popilatibn There are about 130 million people living in the United States today. By 1980 there will be 158 ihUlions. From then on the number of Americans will not incre.,0 unlo.5 thw. out^ofnioors, and the 1. a ne. tide <rf f^«n .mm«r^ | » , ^ j ; ,y, Our populatHin will remain fiaed ways, faster cars, even family air- period of vocational education may be much longer. Today few qualify to practice medidne under 30; few be come masters of radio and airplane engineering much younger. W’ith the increasing' complexity of industry., more young folk need longer training. FORECAST — Progreea I have greater confidence in science, technology and ediication for the building of the brave new world of 1980 than I have in any of the Utop ian schemes of pcditicians. 'As I fore cast it, with the statistics of the Committee on Population before me, it will be primarily an urban world. Many will live in the country because about 158 millions. Those are conclusions reached by ^ , .. • ..^ planes. But the worlds work will the Committee on Population of the * ..i i. . • ^ 'mostly be done in the cities. Even today it takes few’er than 10 National Resource Committee in a re- | cent report to the president. Theyj ^ ^ i *• * «n * per cent of the population to raise all came to that conclusion by studying [7^ . the statistics of deaths and births over many years past. The time is rapidly approaching when the number of persons who die each year will just about eqijal the number of babies the food they and the other 90 per cent of us consume, and that propor tion will become smaller by 1980. The cities of 1980 will be more nu merous and smaller, with more trees and open spaces than in the great COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By Spectator men of our state. The cotton mills pay more than 20 per cent of the taxes in this state, : including both state and county taxes. | older. .South Carolina is second only toj Less than 100 THE CHRONICLED WANT AD RATES bom, and the population figures will* . . n u i * ♦V.,.. ! cities of today. Life will be pleasanter thus remain stationary. . . . , .. . .. n • • I j .1 u j for everybody—and that, after all, is Already there are about one and a . .. . . j. half time. a. many per«.n. ever 20 ‘h'. <*)'«■''' •» >><>"«» years old than there are under that [ progress. tiP^. The average American is grow ing^ older. LIFE — Increase One reason for the increase in the average age is that more of the ba bies bom live to grow up. Another reason is that grown-ups live longer than they used to. A few hundred years ago the average “expectation of life” for new-born babies was less than twenty years. Now it is nearer forty. And the man or woman who lives to forty can rea-’^onably expect, barring accdent.8, to live to .sixty or Ic par word for flnt tion; fivo iasartloM for price of fov. Miaiaai charge 25e. Card of thanks aad tribatao of respect, Ic a word, payablo in advance. Miniaaai SOe. North Carolina as a textile state. WANTED — Your wiring, plumbing, repairing and floor sanding. Large or small jobs, we appreciate your years ago men of Patronage. Radips, tubes, and guaran- 30 were regarde<l as mid<lle-age<l; at teed radio service. E. M. TIMMER- 50 they were almost senile. Grand- City El^rk and Plumbing Co. Phone 30. E.stimates Free. or irregular, H. Better, 12. About the same Worse, nt)ne. No opinion, 3. . 3 — A majority expressing opinion thought the recovery would last thniugh next spring or longer. As to duration of the rtcovery, the rppli<*a could be divifltnl a.s follows: For a while; or at least until Christ mas, K. Fairly long; or at least until Spring, 4. I/ong; or b<*yond next spring, 7. No opinion, 3. No real recovery expected for an indefinite perifnl, 1. 4—Most gave governmental spoixl- ing art<l fi.scal ixilicie.s as a recovery factor. The answeis might be clu.ssi- fi»il as follows: Help rewvery, 1»». Hinder recovery, 2. No gn-at importance, 2. No opinion expressed, 3. Many factors favoring n'covery were cit«‘d. Among the most com monly listed «*mitting government fis cal |H>licie.s (already noted) were: Improvement in retail tiade. Kise in comnuMlity prices, whole sale and I'etail. Recent stt»ck market treml. Ke«luction of inventories. S«»lvency of hanks, and extent available cretlit. Sentiment. Among unfavorable factors men- tionrsi, as retarding the ncovery, or as pritentially shortening it.s length: Taxation. <tovei'nment “interference.” ('.omiition t)f capital gotnls imlus- tries. Stagnation of building indu.stries. IVice ligidity in important indus- tries. Wage cutting. Rivsistance to wage cutting. “fires” the corn, though the cotton j him a power. No other man from may yell for joy. Then comes rain..South Carolina can become a com- The farmers d<x*s not know' whether mittee chairman except by long ser- to rejoice for the Com because he • vice. Even Senator Byrnes, long a may be drt'ading the boll-weevil. Then congressman and now eight yiwrs in conies a scalding day and the boll- the senate, will not l»e chairman of a weevil staggers along like a sailor on bi)^h committee until time removes a spree. Hut can the farmer pack up those who have serveil longer than his troubles and laugh with his he. All business of the senate is han- ifriends? Not a bit of it; he wonders dle<l through committees, and the With the Press 1^ 1^ ^ m ^ ^ ^ HOW THEY BRAG! The general assembly holds the purse-strings. The general assembly makes the laws, levies the taxes and votes the appropriations. The gover nor can veto an appropriation—and seldom does—but governor after gov; ernor in speeches 'talks about how "my administration paid deficits.” Even a governor like Mr. Johnston, who from the beginning faced a hos tile majority in the general assembly mothers of 45 were considere<l to have [passed their earthly usefulness. The FOR KENT — Three-room upstairs I average age of Americans, babies an<l apartment. Hardwood floors, pri- graylx*ards, is now more than thirty vate bath, porch and garage. W. M. years; it i^as 23 years twenty years McCrary, Calvert Ave. Phone 171. Ip ago. By 1980, the committee figures, there will be about exactly the same number of people of every age from if the sun will “fire” or .scald the chairman virtually controls his com-1 ■•^‘1 the stump two years later to cause the election of a Johnston legislative majority prates about what “his administration” has corn. mittee. Senator Smith is ranking •After days of blazing sun mules Democrat on two powerful commit- aixl men come home aggiHl out. A tws—agriculture 'ami interstate corn- gentle breeze plays over the land; thejmeixe, both vitally impoilant to us. farmer sleeps ix-stfiilly and the mules If tlx* senate continues Democratic, are refreshtsl. Then — What? The. even though the house were Repuhli- lie<* .saji the strength of the cotton can. Smith wouM he a tow’er of plant and the leaves w’ilt. j.strength to us. I must be fair to you .^) let’s eat a watermelon. Rut my, and so I admit that this is not )x*causej*‘''f'*'**l*h*s and filling a f<*w vacancies, melons this yi'ar are small and under- C<rtton Ed is a superlative genius, but has Ix'en for the nvist part a fig- ELECTRICAL REPAIRING — Bring me' your Electric Fans, Hot Plates, V'acuum Cleaners, Curling Irons and . cn J u u- u - All Electrical Appliances that need on, to 60 .nd . much higher propor-, iHin over 60. ^ ^ CHANGES .Modes [Blakely Brothers Seed Store. Tele- The shift in the balance between old Phone 188.. !• and young people will result in many! SEED irisH POTATOES. We have cihanges of ways of living and looking! Green Mountain and Spaulding’s at life. Two-thirds and more of the I Rose Potatoes ready for planting, people living at any one time will I Also Beans, Rutabaga and Other have passed the adolescent age and Seafionable Seeds and Insecticides, will have more mature Ustes and hab-' Blakely Brothers Seed Store. Tele- , , . .... . , ..its and a more mature outlook on the xihone 188. Ic .lone to mprovc th. fin.nci.l comli- Ipiivno ■ ;:r. Tho«. con,i.lcnition. will bu..it.c.. .nd induMiy. There will be •*"" a dcclirie in the baby-carriage trade, for example, and an increasing de- tion of the state. The plain truth is, ('rtizens, Gover nor Johnston has ha<i no “administra tion.” Except in the appointment of urt>-head in government. His prep<>s- terous effort to put down an “insurrec- Ibility of the Baldwin piano. 70 years of experience and research behind m.mf for e.,yuih.itw. There will be SPi"‘t-AcroMnte (True- tone). Baby Grands and Bungalow fewer children in the schools but a larger pro|x>rtion of them a'ill prob ably go to high schools and colleges nmnishtsl. The rain wasn’t right. ;)»ecause it is the plan of the senate's You U»wn felUiws who talk about |nxx'«sluie. A faet and a most impor- ^ the peaeeiil life of the farmer; and taut fact to us. tion’ of the highway ilepartment (•f' ’phj’, ^jn rixlu^ the number of teach- you “undei privileged, underpaid" iwo-^ |f Mr. Smith wore defeat»*.l, instead * citizen w^s (t.,*. hut that should he compensate<l j.le on steady .salary — just think a of .South Carolina being in the saddle>«»>*?»•»■». to call out the arme<L qualifunl teachers, minute about the heartaches of the .^he would U* at the fm>l in agricul-considerable expense, and' On the whole, I in»agine the Ameri- Uprights. Special prices. See them at pri^. J. Bril home of Mrs. D. J. Brimm, BaJdwin Piano representative, St. Phone 349-J. 120 S. Broad 22 Qualify In Magistrate Races .Senator .Smith has serve<l in Ithe senate thirty year^i. He has been a ivspecttMl figure all the time True,! Guiding the’sal^ of ® us? No! Why, , have forcixl through congress a law from hull’s foot. In this is nothing new. Many a for mer governor' besidea Mr. Johnston he has biH*n regardinl as a ci-ank be-^j^ government hospitals. What is cause he insisttHl on talking about, Gutter made from cotton and the n^ton farmer; and he cottonseerl oil and a-s wholesome as , ha.s denounce! Wall street and cotton butter. The Western butter inter-1 speculators in season and out of sea-'^.^^., ^hat through congress with! ^he general assembly son all these yeai-s. Sonie of our ^he help of our Northern Democrats. ' Northern friends have thought of i i Ki.,n* arTwiot;.....- v...* i I “administration.’ — The News and PLANTS NOW’ READY. W’e have „ ^ , V,.. .... , several varieties of Cabbage, Col- l>ati«‘Mt tiller who is the “forgotten ture ami comme rce and some Western <^uurts ami the general assembly! can i>eople of 1980 will not only be [lard, Tomato, Pepper and Eggplants man,'[ in spite rtf all that i.s said. No }»tate would have the chairman. And up<>n him flat. The people but better-educated and wiser, ready to set out. Also Baby Chicks, man is praistsl so much f«.r effecC- that wouhl mean everything for thei*" ly-b* eltxted a now general a.s8em- ^nd Chick Supplies. Blakely ami so cmjitily, but u|Hm hi.s .shoulders wheal and corn farmer and the dairy “‘y unfriemlly to him. rt'piMiiating his WORKERS — Training .Brothers Seed Store. Telephone 188 fljits the whole worhl. 'interests and the skimmings and the P*‘*ucipaJ p«>licy. That is the record. It »« -*-«- * » » •» n If the farmer were paid fairly for|(]r(>);8 for us cotton people. I'* * word of failure, his work all farm pixHhK*'tH would | i>o y-ou ix*Iieve that? Surely you' ctmimon for politicians to take have to be sold at prices 300 per cent'^on’t think that our Northern pixiple^^^ stupids. They roar alxive the prevailing market. will take care of us. Have they chang-' what “I «Kme” (their grammar e<l a single.'law that works against ** always so bad as that) aMum- the <Uiry interests. that Dick, Tom and Harry who vote in the primaries cannot see be- levies the Cotton Ed as a l«le of cotton with legs and a voice. Like Cato of ancient R I I may be blunt sometimes, hut I am; convinctxl that we Southern people j , ai-e condemnesl in the house of ouri Courier. WORKERS — Training With the continual lengfthening of the average age of all the people, j PRICES ADVANCING — there is hound to come a hight'r per- i Let re-roof your house now with centage of i*mployment of older work-, Ford s Copper-Bound Shingles. This ers. There won’t be enough young 1roofing is backed by seventy- people to do all the work required tolt’bree years manufacturing experience, supply the needs of the whole popu-; Add to this the skill in application ac- lation. jquired through our twenty years aa Along w’Hh the greater opportunity South Carolina’s leading roofing con fer continued earnings in j^-ancing! tractors and the result is extra years years there is certain to be more em- > of roofing service and satisfaction, phasis upon old age pensions in one:Three years to pay. No down pay- fonn or another. The committee an-.^^^nL Free estimates, ^mseur Roof- tici^tes an increase of 69 per cent in the employment of persons be tween 45 and 64. At the same time, greater attention can be given to the development of Twenty-two candidates arc offering for the office of magi'«trate in the nine town.ships of the county in this summer’s primal^. The two magis trates serving Hunter township. C. H. ome. he has hanunl on one thing so fiends. Wo must look out for our-1 S400.00 A YEAR 'technical skills among the young, so long that the ver>’ thought of the jbe national Democratic party 1 At a meeting in the Greenville 1 that their opportunity for well-paid (Senator has conjured up cotton and bas not nnluced the tariff; rt has, on bouse recently, sponsored by the I employment will be broadened. The' the contrary, made common cause'^*^*‘***^*^’' Middle Classes, the: main question that appeared to bother Ih.- southern farmer piilliiiK a bell oemrary, ma.le common cause cml over . mule. Obi <ato-not my, i,h „.estern elairyiun interests. Northern Negroes, Communists and what-not and we would do well to ing Co., Inc. Clinton Representative Phone 290. 109 W. Main St. tf PIANOS - Standard makes direct from factory. A. O’DanieL friemls from .Aiken and ^^Iu<la—but' the Roman senator, said at the close of every speech, whatever hatl Wen McC^rary at Clinttm, and J. L. Dickertithe subject, “and, moreover, Carthago at Mountville, are wilh<iut opposition., must he destn'^ tsl” (Delenda est t'ar- The complete list follows: Ithago). Cotton K<1, likewise, rose on I>aurens township: R. -M. Brownlee, every (K'casion to talk aWut cotton A. Homer .Moore. and the cotton farmer and the miser- SulliN’an township: Archie C. Ow- able .scoundrels who gambltMi on cot ings, W. Frt*d Hellams, D. Todd Knight. * Waterloo: H. C. Sims, ('arl Y. Cul bertson. cus Cross Hill: J. B. Pinson, L. E. Mar- as “the Censor,” vs-as a tin, H. M. Turner, J. H. Br>’son, J. W. farmer who wrote about e TI. « U that we South Carolina farmers do Scuffletown: W . P. Abercrombie,; .Smith admires ( aU>, though they are get fair and equiUble treatment D. Davis, E. C. Wingo. ;spintual brethren. Hear old Cato: j gprt^e with him. But who, pray, al, I “The owner of a farm must be a sell- j^ts this money? The national admin- er and not a purchaser. But he tj^tration which Mr. Browm is defend- strikes even more fire when he say.s'jng ^.jth all his eloquence, of us farmers; “Farming makes the ♦ . ■ hrave.st men and the sturdiest sol- Rijjht here in .South Carolina Jacks: A. I. Dixon. Hunter at Clinton: C. H. McCrary. Hunter at Mountville: J. L. Dick- Dials: Z. C. Vaughn, R. A. Hellanvs, W. H. Henderson. Youngs: J. H. Abercrombie. 666 ligdd, TnblaU ■telrt, N«m Draps Try **Bdh.My*Tla enrea MALARIA in 7 daya. Rettavea GOLDS first day HEADACHE. M ■iaates ■**—WarUTa BmI the session was "What shall we do to gt‘t first class men to announce for] the house during the coming pri- i mary?” Proponilerance of opinion; seemed to be that the answer lay in, better pay. ’One man was quoted as saying that if the pay was doiA>led from $400 to $800 “first dass men would announce for offices and would do more and better work for Greenville county in less time.” Disregarding the fact that the leg islators are now getting id>out'~ as much or more than $800 now (with extra pay and travel allowance thrown in), past records indicate that more money may not be the solution, although we favor it. - Don't we get “first ckss men” on the present pay? We got Olin D. Johnston on $400. Isn^ Sen. Brown “first dass,” or Candidate Manning, diers; and of all sources of gain is have a great manufacturing interest Speaker Blatt, or Senator Lej^[>aTd, the surest, the most natural, and the which we should jealously guard or Lieut. Gov. Hariey or any one of least invidious; and those who are against the predatory politician who a myriad of others? They all are or busy with it have the fewest had.w'ould ignorantly or maliciously de- were members of the legislature—at thoughts.” And I think Cotton Ed will stroy our industries in order to gain endorse this 100 per cent, the votes of some who are uninform-, ' ♦ ed and easily swayed. 1 j • Our people are being told day after' In 193T the cotton mills of South A couple in England have just cele- day. that we are* not getting “all that I Carolina paid in wages $71,962,910 [bnrted their 75th'wedding anniver- is coming to us,” etc. This is true, , and employed 99,173 <H>eratives. With- ““T- They attribute their tuccesg to hold to .such positions of power arc now in our hamls. The Southern Deniocix^ay must fight for its interests. Edgar A. Brown says that the 700-, 000 farmers of Kansas receive $120,- ton at the expense of us horny-handed (hiO.OOO in farm btmefits, while the .801^ of the soil, etc. 950,000 farmers of South Carolina re- This lato I'm talking abouC-Mar- e,,5ve only $22,000,000. s Pontius Cato known in history Qf course farm benefits are not farmer, a acre, etc. But his crops, Friend Edgar is trying to prove Solves your INK PROBLEMS A SMART CARTER CUBE FILLED WITH FBCST FOUH. TAIN PEN B«. we $400 a year, tiser. The Laurens Adver- I think, but it overlooks the high rank that Senator Byrnes has with the New Deal. If Jiimmie couldn’t get it, we may be sure tb«t nobody else in the limits of our cotton mill vil lages more thsui 190,000 people live, whose buying power contributes to Mie support bf 500,000 men and wo- having got used to H. 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