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t PAGE EIGHT / "‘\' ' A- ri ■^E CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON. 8. C. Bulletin Reviews Rural Area Study Clemson, April 20. — With the j population of South Carolina pre dominantly rural the great majority j of the citizens of the state will con- | tinue to come from rural homes and: the future progress of the state will depend in a large measure on the preparation of its rural youth. These observations by Dr. Henry L. Fulmer, rural sociologist, explain the need and value of a series of recent studies made of selected ru ral .school arekas in South Carolina, These studies, made possible by a grant from the General Education Board, reveal some significant facts relative to ’ the family homes, and the scho*)ls of certain rural com munities. Washington Democrats Urged To Put Lil^hls On Their Ticket Roosevelt Likens Issues of This Campaign To Those of 1932 and 1936. Silent On 3rd Term. Issues Warning On Liquid Fw^flizers Clemson, April 20.—Caution ’a- gainst buying and paying excessive prices for liquid fertilizers is issued to South Carolina fanners and gar deners by Bruce D. Cloaninger, sec retary of the Board of Fertilizer ^ I Control of the Bouth Carolhia Ex- Warm Springs, Ga., April 20.—i Stati^ ' President Roosevelt urged again to- j “Liquid fertilizers are being sold under various trade names and car rying exaggerated claims,” says Mr. Cloaninger. “Yet a great many of these solutions contain less than 16 Special to The Chronicle. Washington, April 23.-The pur- ^at his own party choo^ a pose of the census is, primarily, to bheral pair of candidates and at decide how many members each state the ^*Tie time waded into ^e Re is entitled tp in the house of repre- opposition for “seeking to sentatives. That depends, of course, i country by declaring upon how many members there are, present administraUon is delib- in the house and how many inhabi-' , trying to put this nation in-j tants there are in each state. i While the Constitution provides for^ }} political the reapportionment of representa-; ^alk that Mr. Roosevelt made by ra- The second study of the series is tives after each ten year’s census, 1*^'° to a series of county-wide dm- reported in Bulletin 325 of the South it does not lay down any rules fpri”®*^ pf Ypung ^mpcrats clubs. And Carplina Experiment Station and, doing it. It is entirely up to congress ''^^ile it carried an obvi^s bid for entitled A Rural School Area in Cen- itself to decide how many members continuance of the New Deal, it of- tral South Carolina, gives findings shall^it in theJower house. . ^ cn 15 rural school districts in thej The number or senators is fixed by standt^ polrtoHl question of the day; western part of Lexington county, j the Constitution. There are two for j "'^1 the President .seek a third term, j Copies of the bulletin may be had each state, or &6 in all; and until j Asserting that America faces thisj from the publication departVhent at some new states are admitted there‘year much the same kind of cam- Clem.son. ' 'will be no need to learrange the seats paign as it did in 1932 and 1936, the Details are given through tables'^ ^be senate chamber. That has had chief executive added: and explanatory matter which throw be done a number of times in thCr “it .seems to me very obvious that much light on the economic and so-t house of representatives. if the Democratic party is to defeat t.al conditions of the families, the The number of members of the ^ the Republican party next Novem- conditions under which the schools j ^ower house, however, has stood fix-jber we must nominate a liberal pair operate, and the educational achieve- ^ 435 since 1910. Censuses since jof candidates, running on a liberal ment of the children. The study |^hen have sifted the apportionment and* forward-looking platform.” Not once did Mr. Roosevelt men tion names. He came closest to it. per cent of plant food, and any fer tilizer containing less than 16 per cent of plant food is prohibited from sale by we new South Carolina fer tilizer law. “Quite a few of these liquid fer tilizers are being sold at vciy high prices. One product is befang off4»«d at 50 cents per ounce vdii^ would be at the rate of |8 per pound or $16,000 per ton. The* equivalent plant food can be purchased in an ordinary commercial 'fertilizer con taining 20 per cent of plqnt food at 1 1-2 cents per pound, or $30 per ton.” TO SELL ’EM, TELL ’EM- With Ao A4 WALKER’S FUNERAL HOME Clinton, S. C. FOR COLORED PEOPLE ONLY Day 9230—Phonea—Night $10 Rev. H. W. Walker, Maaagiar therefore should be of interest to I the 435, but have not changed the all who are concerned with the fu-1 number. Delaware, for example, had ture citizenship of the state. [two members of congress at one timej^ben he said: "The educational achievement pf these rural youth, the improvement of their home life, and the general uplift of the community is a respon sibility that rests i largely on the land Vermont had three, but each of' “i am not speaking tonight of (those states has only one now. (world affairs. Your government is Their populations have not de-,keeping a cool head and a steady creased but the populations of other states have increased to the point «hooW- conciJdeVDr.Tulmer This responsibility creates a challenge to « Asm, but I do not sub^nbe to both the educational leader and the representation, I the preachment of a Repubhean as- hand. “We are keeping out of the wars that are going on in Ekirope and t<lueBtioR«l-istatesmt»i leader a . FIniidii .Ootthted. RLBBER STA.MrS .\U Sizes — Quick Service CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. T- ipirant for the presidency who tells Florida’s you, irTelle^’lSb^^^e United States and the people of the United States should do nothing to try to bring about a better order, a more secure order, of world peace when the time We Finance AUTOMOBILES S. W. SUMEREL Jacobs Building: ASK' ROY Thus, in recent years, [growth in population has doubled its representation in congress, and Cali fornia has nearly three times as many members as it did forty years ago. No matter how small the popu- i comes.” lation of a state it is entitled to at! Of the campaign itself, the Presi- least one representative. jdent said he was sorry, speaking as Nevada has never had a.s many as I an American, that a campaign -which one hundred thousand inhabitants j should be pitched on “a level of in- but they have the right to represen-i telligent argument,” had “fallen into tation, although in most other states [such low estate as early as this.” there are 300,000 or more represent ed by a single congressman. This congress has already decided that And, speaking as a partisan, Mr. Roosevelt voiced confidence that the i average voter was somewhat tired' Gray Funeral Home Clinton, S. C. FI NERAL DIRECTORS •••flnd.,* EMBALMERS .Ambulance Service ^ Phones,41 and 399-J L. RUSSELL GRAY and V. P.ARKS ADAIR,' Gen. .Mgrs. there will be no change in the num-|of what he called the “view-with- tber of members of the lower house, j alarm” outcries of Republican can- The senate passed a bill to that ef- > didates. feet last year. The house has just Sitting before a battery of micro- passed a similar bill with the excep- phones in Georgia Hall at the Geor- |tion of one point vJlhich the senate gia Warm Springs Infantile Paraly- I included. jsis foundation, the president ana- ! The senate bill provides for thejlyzed the pre-convention campaign appiortionment of representatives ac- and said it had fallen into three parts D A I - c I D G ^ PROTECT r VOUR CROPS PIITH > BARl-CIDE EFFECTIUE- ECONOniCRL For Mm Control Qmp* S«U hf R«lwU« DmUts A froAvet RARIUM REDUCTION CORP'N. MMTH CHAtUSTON. W VA. ^PRAY OR DUer none of which appealed greaUy to his intelligence. “First,” he declared, “our oppon ents are seeking to frighten the country—by telling people that the present administration is deliberately trying to put this nation into war or that it is inevitably drifting into war. You know better than that. “Second, they are telling you that many of the measures of the past seven years are good, but that they would carry them out with greater efficiency if they were in power. “I do not think that we can swal low that assertion because . . .. prac tically- -eveiy--serious governmmt scandal since the Civil war has oc curred under a Republican adminis tration, and . . . the underlying Re publican leadership—the groups and cliques which have always owned the Republican party are still just as much in the saddle of ownership as they were in the old days. “Finally, they tell you that they will perform an amazing miracle— that they will give everybody jobs— that they will maintain relief—that it, but elect all their members byj^®y will give work to the unem- the entire vote of the state. ! ployed—that they will meet the need There is nothing in the Constitu-1 national defense—that they tion that requires the division of will reduce your taxes—and, that states into congressional districts, with all, the total of the expendi- and there is no law requiring a man- tures of the federal government will ber of congress to be a resident of 18® down so much that they will have the district which he represents. For a surplus in the treasury, in theory he does not represent any “And you and I know, from long particular section of the population experience, when we ask them how of his state but the whole citizenry are you going to do it, that their of the commonwealth. lonly answer is the vague assertion More frequent is the custom of!that they will repeal all of the hor- providing for additional members by rid and nerve-racking restrictions on cording to the number of “citizens living in each state. That is not what the Constitution calls for. The-Con stitution specifically provides for the apportionment of members of the house in proportion to “the whole I number of free persons,” hot “citi- 1 zens.” 1 Indians not taxed are still omitted j in apportioned representatives amftng. jthe states. The house has passed.»this J,Kensus reapportionment bill, chang ing the senate’s attempt to require only citizens to be included in each members constituency. The purpose of that effort was to keep New York state's representa tion from becoming too large, since New York has a larger number of non-citizens than any other state. The basic law, however, contemplates that even aliens living in this coun- Itry are entitled to be represented at ! Washington, even though they cannot ; vote for their- representatives. I State Decides ; How the congressional districts are divided is a matter for each state to decide. Some of them never decide Announcement! We wish to announce we have opened an Oldsmobile Agency in Laurens. Also an up-to-date service depart ment and body and fender shop. Our service depart ment will be under the management of Mr. C. C. Turner, former operator of Clinton Body and Fender Shop. All repair, work will have his personal supervision and guarantee. A * 4 We shall be glad to furnish estimates oh all body and fender work, including wrecked cars. OLDSMOBILE SALES — SERVICE Timmerman Motor Company PHONE 119 E. M. TIMMERMAN, Owner Clinton, s. c. r ORANGE and GRAPE KIST DelightfeOy Different, DeUei- only Sweet, ARpettefaMT and HeaKhfaL CAN*T IIE BEAT. AIM DB; HUUUNG‘8 GINGER ALE Seld iB CliBtMi At * AU Drink Stands electing them at large. Any state may do as it pleases in the way of select ing its representatives in congress, so long as it sends to Washington no more and no fewer than the number to which it will be entitled when the figures of the 1940 census have been tabulated and each state’s propor tionate share of the total population has been computed. It would be entirely within the rights of the legislature of any state to enact a law providing thaft the state’s representatives in congress shall be chosen by the legislatiune, in stead of directly by the people. That was the way senators were selected for the first 125 years nf our exist ence as a nation. Counted In IMS It was changed in 1913 to, provide for direct election of soiators by the pet^le of the ^iriiole state. It took a Constitutkmal amendment to do that. Washington is stiu of two minds whether the change has brought about an in^Hrovement in the quali ty of the senate. There is a general feeling that k great deal of senatorial prestige and dignity has been lost, since senators now have to play to the galleries .and look forward to their own reeleetioa by the peottlm. While the census act passed Qds year merely fixes the total number of representatives, there may be a fight in the next sascion ova: the number to whidi each state is en titled. The cemus figures will show aroidid 13S,000JM0 populatton. IMvid- ed by 4S5 that wotdd givt about one congressmeii to ceeh tbam hundrad tbousuid inhabitanli. Il,‘ie going to private business and let private busi ness do the rest.” In other words, the chief executive went on, all that is being promised the nation is a return to the days of 1929, when, he said, “America went speculation mad, when half the fam ilies of the land were sucked in to an orgy of overproduction, of stock gambling,” at a time when unem- ployrment was expanding, farm prices dropping and “we were riding for the worsjt social and economkf fall the country had ever known.” Yet, Mr. Roosevelt asserted, the Democratic campaign should hot be restricted to “just pointing with jMide.” While voicing a belief that much had been achiavati In the last saven years, additional aecompUdunants remained to’be reaOaed. The next administratioD, he said, will have to deviM ways and means, in a “lib eral and progressive spirit,” to meet difficulties now being subjected tp appredatidn and analysis.” be a bard jbb to arrange it so Uiat each state gets the exact munber of representatives it thinks it dKMild have. S(»ne will get too many, some too few. W. J. BESN JAMIN S»VICE BTAIKHf Standard Predocti H The quality and of Coca-Cola havi pla^ in America’s tors. Family and £e enjoy its clean ^ hap^ sdter^sense ment it brings. Your dealer has the handy home package—dbe six-boctle carton <tfO>ca*Cphi.