The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, February 29, 1940, Image 8
PAGE EIGHT
THE CUWTQN OBEONICLBL CUWTOW. a C
Monument To A Bed
COMMENTS ON MEN THINGS
Washington
To ^oose between the present sr-
j rangeraent nnd aystmn of stata-
[owned liquor stores is essy for us
jwiio remenAer tiiat in 1896, 1900, and
jon to 1910 a man oouid ihardly be
elected to eny office in South, Caro
lina if he did not dedare hhnself m
Hall’s iHeciproeky treaties end points
out that the South is vitadly interest
ed aiid thHt no eorioiis didoeaition has
rcBulted from 22 such treatiea now in
effect.
The oounoil is iSihtinv tiM pink boH
worm aiiioh is worse then the boll
Special to The Chronicle.
Item! It seems moredhle, but it is the
Washington, Feb. 28.—The presi--truth. Not that these men were them-
dential campaign <rf 1940 has begun. ‘selves corrupt; far from it: fcpt it
The preliminary stage setting was shows the power of ttw
completed when the Republican na-j We of the street ma^r cfhooee ’ and
itional committee decided to hold its compromise and,be puffed up/aiih our
supporter of the state dispensary sys-,^v«. Ws must not dehxle ourselves
T. LL ^ about the pM boll Irorm as we did
shout the boU weevil. Rhrerm are no
barrier; he ia travdMng this way. Of
oourae, Che council f|g^ iegisk-
tive barriers which have iieen raised
/
Columbia, S. C. ... This monu
ment, a ten-foot pillar surmounted
by a bed, draivs many curious
people to Spring Lake Lodge, the
country heme of Julius H. Walker,
wh. said he conceived the idea of
the unique tribute to the bed dur
ing some of his spare time. Mr.
Walker’s previous contribution to
the field *.f unusual monuments
was one erected some..time ago to
the memory of Adam, the first
-man. ■-—
wisdom and practicality^ but why
should the churoh choose betweeen
evils? How can the church Ix^d the
torch while grovelling in the muck ?
nomiiwrtang convention m Wiiladel-
phia, beginning June 24th, and the
Democrats picked Chicago as the
place and July 15th as the date upon
Which their party delegates will meet
and either renominfte Ifr. Roosevelt \ Now and t^n some politician, wish-
for a third term or sddet some Other ing to appear infornied and impor
tant, tells -us of a91 that Mir. Ro^-
THUB8BAT, FEBRUAET 19. 194A
■'""ii^asaissssssaaMi-aBai^pi
hava kft ^ cMsa adbart buniips
do not grow in die •tSMla.
Bane, in South OanoUag. tfisra is
unused land that would faiad niUfcms
if the miHknIa would conn to them
ahd plant potatoes and timiips on
The thossaant effOrt of govjwmmsnt
is to auppovt tbs populatiana in the
cities whm tlyy are, lest skyaerap*
era and atorea be vacated, iaat
real estate values collapse, lent the
cities “go broks.”
The people in the country, the
villages, tits small citi^ wrs carry
ing the Big.Toims on itheii^ shouldeta
i .andard-^bearer to oppose
kccted by tiie Republicans
Lsrlier. 'V'
le one se-
weeks
.■V
vek has done for us. According to re
cent reports here is the story. From
All the indications as of the present April 8, 1935, to Decembed 31, 1939,
I time^re that both conventions will be the govemm^ spent in the South
under the control of the well-died po- 358 per capita; but it spent |94 per
ilitical machines of the two paries.
j There are no signs dncenable of any
situation in either party whim
Year’s Spending
Already Past
Six Billions
Deficit and Debt Greater With
Four Months To Go; Grows
As Campaign Issue.
W^ashinglon, Fc-b. 26.—Govemment
.spending for this fiscal year rolled
past the $6,000,000,000 figure today
with four months to go ibefore the
period ends.
The treasury deficit has dimbed
might
bring about such a stampede of dele
gates as resulted, for example, in the
surprise nomination of Mr. Bryan in
1896.
Neith|r is there much likelihood, as
experienced political observers in
Washington see the situation, of either
convention getting into such a dead
lock that some dark horse will have
to be picked by he party leaders and
offered to the delegAies as a com
promise candidate. Except in a situ
ation where the victory of one party
or the other w a foregone concision
that sort of la;k miniife bbin^rbmise
capita in the Oentral states, and flOO
per capita in the Eastern states
(New York, Pensisylvania, New Jer
sey) ■
I attended tite National Oottog
Council convention in New Orieam
recently. Others from South Carolina
were: Wyndham M. Manning of Sum
ter, J. Wade Drake of .^iderson,
Thomas N. Durst of Columbia, C. N.
GigndUiat, Jr., of Greenvivlle, J. B.
Caldwell of S^rtanbuig, C. R. Sprobt,
Jr., of Columbia, J. C. Miller of Jef-
feraon, W. T. Mikell of Columbia, J.
B. Muiphy of Columbia.
This Cotton councH ’is not jpst a lot
againat cotton by-produete which both
oongrees and many states have erect
ed.
Ihis is a day of trade' promotion.
We are using every fadiity of great
laboratories, aa well aa oooperMtive
merchancttiring.
With The Press
GULUBLB AND GULLBD
Ehrery day one reads about ’Granger
in the midst of plenty” and the ’’ne
cessity for the redistriwtkm of
weadth.”
The
tiM redis-
manifeet need is
tribution of population.
To the over-crowded cities the food
now carried. Why do not the
u
hungry come to the food?
The United^ States the last seven
years has been supporting the hungry
in the cities and at the same tinae
hiring people in the country not to
produce fo^.
If goverament had ’’let nature take
its course,” millions on millions Would
MMy 4oo’t know It, tiwy dm*t
belitfaa it •
Iha'eraab of 1929 was a Great CMgr
crash—Hquidaition’* in Soath
Carolina and other -SoiattMrn |tatia
began in tiM Autumn of 1921 and find
vktuaily been completed.
Had tha,South been left to Itailf,
it wodM be on its f^ now, ngavd-
less of governments. It is a gdliUe
and gidled South.—The Newa agd *
Courier.
President RoouayeH is off on a fMh-
ing cruise. He.neads vto raot up after
watching the missus tear arou^ dur
ing tiM past few weeks.
PROTECT YOUR ENERGY
WALK ON SMART NEW SOLES.
We will make your old shoes look like new for the firae>
tion of the cost of a new pair.
.EXPERT DYEING SERVICE.
WE CALL FOR AND DBUVER.
CITY SHOE SHOP
J. B. Dailey, Owner Phone 9283 *S. D; Dawkins, Mgr.
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of ballyhoo; nor is it grand gathering
of men who want to talk. Most gath
erings are afflicted with orators, real
and would-be; ti>^ orate and declaim
on aH occaaipns,. io hear the music of
their own words; this Cotion council
is a working body, and a group of
individualists w<ho tiidnk for them-
a mounts to a confession of weakness
and so every experienced politician
tries to avoid them.
No Decisive Advantage.,^,..,
Neither party has such a decisive
' advantage over the other this year
beyond, $2,500,000,000 and the nation-jto encourage either convention to v ,• • u, *
al debt is in'excess.of $42,300,000,000.'nominate^ any but Jthfc.iiian who aeegi&
Both items have been pegged ^jto haw such a preponderant popuJar|“
republicans as >. major presidential' following that his chances of election
campaign isjsues. They are so ohar-japp®av to be better than those of has
aoterized regardless of the outcome' rivals.
of tl>e democratic anti-third term 'It is considered, .therefore, a. prac-
dispute or the p<»sihility that demo-1 tical political certainty that the Re-
-erats might nominate a conservative j pubHcan party leaders will throw
this time and give him an economy. their strength in the convention to
platform. I whichever of the three outstanding
Last night, the national economy Republican contenders has made the
league proposed a plan to ’ balance best showing of popular suppiMt in
the budget with a cut of $830,000,000 j the presidentiad primaries which are
in the 1941 relief estimate and im- soon to be 'held in thirteen states,
position of $431,000,000 in new taxes, j ^ present, ibefore the first of these
The league would peg federal ex- primaries, that to be held in New
penditures at 37,282,000,000 instead of Hampshire on March 12, Washington
the $9,027,000,000 recoihmended by politicaJ dopesters give Mr. Dewey
COMMUNITY
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Cliiitoii, 8. C.
FOR COLORED PEOPLE ONLY
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Rav. H. W. Walkw, Maaagar
proposal.
T^e council is trying to create a
greater demand for cotton. There are
many avenues of approadh and the
council is studying and working on
all of titem. For example, engineers
are experimenting with cotton for a
road base. Months of study and ex
perimentation do not guarantee suc
cess; at the moment we appear to be
losing in tiiat quest; but the study
will continue. <Let me point out
that tile council is not a body of uni
formed propagandists; nor is it a lot
of visionaries; It is.a grbup of clear-1
minded, 'hard-headed business men'
who are seeking substantial results
Mr. Roosevelt in his “bed-rock” bud- approximately 180 delegates already f, employed
get. Other proposed cute included M«ired, Gentor Taft about 170, sad ^ ^ *nduatnal giarita, each
8414,000,000 in public works; $361,-Senator Vandenfeerg about 150. That
000,000 in farm'benefit payments;'totals up to 500, or exactly half the
$40,000,00 in funds for credit agen-jtotiil number of delegates,
ties, and $100,000,000 in departments,! Some of the aUte primaries oper-
tax refunds and suippiemental re-.Ate to put a definite party mandate
quests. I behind the delegations chosen at these
President Roosevelt, who has per-ipreliminary elections; others amount
mitted himself to be entered in preai-i merely to registering -the preaidential
dential preference primaries in half a | P*^®reiices of the party voters,
dozen states, evidently is aware that There is nothing actiwMy in .the pri-
the public debt is an inviting cam- j mary results which binds any delegate
paign target. He has discussed the tightly that he cannot shift his
matter seveial times recently. His
most complete statement on the rela
tionship of debt to recovery and na
tional economy was made February
10 before the American Youth con
gress
vote to some-other candidate.
But the net effeq^ of 'these primary
choices is to provide a gatge whereby
to measure the popular voting
strength of the different candidates,
{and that is bound to influence.' the
“Finally, I said last Monday,” Mr.
Roosev^t told the youth congress
“—and this was the part that was
moat seriously -mangled and garbled
by certain types of papers and certain
types of politicians—.that the total
Suites—.private debt, state and local
undecided and uninstructed members
of- the convention.
How It Works
(Ef, for example, Mr. Dewey should
get fifty or 100 more votes on the
first ballot <in the convention tiian
any other, and on the second ballot
debt of all the people of the United
government debt, and the debt of the
federal government was less in 1939
than it was in 1932. That is a
simple fact—somewhere around $2,-
000,000,000 less—in a nation which
has six or seven million peopie more
in it than eight years ago.
aa Ford, iDdPont, and othen.
Under appropriate committees the
councH ta ti^ng to stimulate the use
of cotton m styles, etc., having cot-
Um festivals, usings Cotton sacks, etc.
It also seeks to break down dtscrimi-
nations against cotton by-prodbets.
Fpr example, many states and the
national government have laws dis-
crinrinating against cottonseed I oil
products. This .is their fight to pro
tect the dairy interests against our
competition.
Undooftkedly we can consume ten
mlUkm bales of cotton within the
United States if we cotton people, if
we Southern' .people, for we^ are all
cotton 'peoide, - wilT woric as peraiat-
entiy for cotton as the Florid and
California people work for fruit mar
kets, or the pork Interests are now
working to promote sales of pork,
lard, etc. This can bs done; let’s get
busy in our o!wn interest.
I happen to be a member of the
should increase his lead, that would iCo*"™***®* scaentiCc research. My
be evidence to a large proportion of
the delegates that he is regarded as
eyes have been opened by the labora
tory technicians; they are studying
being aoceptsbie to many -who did not ®pti;on, from st^k to huUs. The coun
vote for hdm on the first ballot; and
that in turn would probably result in
swinging a larger niunber of votes
to him on the third and succeeding
The dtbt-deficrt issue is wedged ■ ballots, until he had a majority. Or
firmly into the 1940 campaign and
all Republican candidates and some
Demociats are talking economy at
evei y opportunity. . Eight years ago
if Mr. Vandenberg or Mr. Taft made
cil ds cooperating with many great
research foundations which are study
ing cotton. The Cotton iResearch
Foundation and the Mellon Institute
are hard at w(M*k on cotton; univer
sity laboratories are at work on cot-
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CUnton, S. C.
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Other One Way Parea
Atlanta ...... $2.70 Jadmoavilla $4AS
Charleston.. $2.30 Rirkaioad .. $4.9#
Savannah .. $3JiO Rhleigh $1.9#
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a similar showing he would ibe most!^”* seed, oils and hul'ls. The
likely to be .the party nominee.
Naturally, the mechanics of nomi-
the Roosevelt-Gamer ticket was' nating a presidential camidate is not
<*lected on a platform which includ-’ quite aS simple as thqt, for account
ed a pledge to cut government ex-lniust be taken of all of the under-
penditures by 26 per cent. The Glenn cover manoeuvering carried on by
Frank committee report on program
submitted last week to the Republican
national committee .proposed a 20 per
cent cut in spending and a balanced
budget two years tihereaftec.
'In ,the Democratic party the near
est thing to a pre-convention ref-
erehdum on administrative spending
politicians throughout the proceed
ings, in the effort to swing votes
away from some ^ndidates and to
others. But, in effect, that is how tiM
1940 Republcan can<idate for presi
dent will he nominated.
Democratic* ProUeiia
The Democratic nomination is Uke-
policies will come in the presidential Ily uot to be quite such a simple pro
preference primaries of such states j cess. It will be greatly simplified, if,
as Oregon, 'Wisconsin and Illinois, before ■the Democrats meet in Chi-
where slat^ of Rooseveit delegates > cago on July 15, Mr. 'Roosevelt baa
will be opposed by slates endorsinf l given aoroe straightforwi^ ckar-cut
Vice President John N. Gamer. -- ^
Mellon Institute has assigned eight
technicians to the study of cotton. I
wish Candkia would study cotton.
Cotton is not a dead king; nor is
he deposed; cotton ■will come back.
DonMstic oonsumption of cotton
was more than a million bales gireater
in 1939 than in 1938. That is particu-
lariy significant and full of promise.
The promotional activities of the Na
tional Cotton council contributed to
that happy resuH. The oounoil puUi-
eixed cotton as never before and en-
Uated the effective cooperation of
many gt«at roenehondixing chains, as
well as independent unite. The oouneiT
used eighteen nnllion agate Unes of
pdblidty to fufther tiM uae of <ootloa
last year. Twenty-five miUkm people
Russia reports unUdd hotrors to
expreaslon of his wMms in reapeot of i<l«!>«wl ^ P*^ •*» cotton—
a renomination. a great oonswning market In iteelf.
WlhkJhever way be decides, the "Dm oounefl has sodorned Secretary
which Red prisoners are being sub- Democratic inational convention may liv
i Vi o .....M-.. iw. 4^.1 with tiM odds favoring mr. uarnsr.
jeoted by the Finns. The Soviet cap-.easily pro>ve to be “the bottle of the
tivea are being bathed. jeentury.” If he arics tor a third term
he may find unemiMeted <^>poaition.
If that oppoaltiqit ahoold take tha
form of a vuklk-oat by Viee-Prssidsnt
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