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■^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.”
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FUNERAL HOME
Clinton, S. C.
FOR COLORED PEOPLE ONLY
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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
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ipirant for the presidency who tells
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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
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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'
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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
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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!
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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.
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We shall be glad to furnish estimates oh all body and
fender work, including wrecked cars.
OLDSMOBILE
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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
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