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CLINTON, S. C., raUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1940
NUMBER 33
COUm CANDIDATES HEARD
IN OPENING AT CENTER POINT
Sn^ Crowd AUmds Opening Meetinf of Campaign. Aspirants
For Office Given Attentive Hearing In, Presenting Tlieir
Claims and Discussing Variety of Subjects. Rain Causes
Cancellation of Speeches of Several Groopa.
Inclement weather joined forc
es with natural appetites to breidc
19 the opening meeting of the
1940 county political campaign at
Center Point Tuesday More
about half of the candidates fenr
the “lesser” offices had a chance
to make their separate pleas for
electicm.
Intermittent showers delayed
the gathering of the crowd and
forced the candidates to select the
Center Point , school house porch
as their speaking point rather
than*the platform that had been
mrected in k nearby oak grove
that has bemi used for the open*!
hig Astingi for many years.
lUdn, Wbidi began over ^ week-
efid and contiihied through the
essly tMirt of (he week, also pre-
. I (Itid prometers of tte custom
ary bartiecue from completing
thih plana—leaving Uie majority
of Pie crowd wHh nothing to eat
wften the dinner hour came. Af
ter being shuttled inside and out
^of the school building every time
^Jupiter Pluvius and old King Sol
exchanged places during the
morning, the audience offered no
opposition when the candidates
for treasurer, county commission
er, coroner and game warden,
who had not been heard, voted to
call off the remainder of the pro
gram.
Although there was no great
amount of applause for any of
the candidates, the listeners show
ed an avid Interest in what the
speakers were saying and gave
each a respectful hearing.
After the appearance of> the
cleik of court and senatorial as
pirants, reported elaeadiere in this
paper, candidates for the house
of representatives, sheriff, and
supervisor appeared, in the order
limed, before the meeting was ad
journed about .one o'clock.
Soiator Burice.
Denies Bin WiU
Mean Dictatorsh^
&nan Gain Made
1
In Enrollment
County Club Rolls Show In
crease of 678 Over 1938. Lau
rens City Largest Box, Clin
ton City Second, and Clinton
Mins Third.
Peculation Of
South Carolina
Now 1,906,146
The S9 voting precincts of Laurens
South Carolina’s 1940 population
totaled 1,906,146 persons, a gain of
167,361 new residents over the 1930
census figure, it was shown by a
preliminary census figure released
Saturday by Lane L. Bonner, state
census director.
CANDIDATES FOR SENATE '
PRESENT CLAIM TO VOTERS
Washington, Aug. 12. — A predic
tion by Senator Norris, Independent,
of Nebraska, that peacetime con-
scriptkm would result in “dictator-
^ip” brought Senator Burice, Demo
crat, of Nebraska, to his feet today
to declare that, cm the contrary, it
wSs “the only democratic way to
provide an adequate national de
fense.”
“It recc^nizes the obligation of all
to serve, and to adequately train for
that service,” said Burice, a co
author of the pending bill. “Rich and
pocMT all classes, races and creeds are
treated with exact and equal justice.
Imdead of being contrary to the
princiides of American hbeity and
freedom, this proposal is implicit
wiUi the spirit of true Americanism.”
In exact contradiction of Burke’s
assertiems, Norris had previously
told tim senate with characteristic
fervor that “compulsory military
training in time of peace cannot long
prevail in a democratic form of gov
ernment without leading that gov-
enunent into* the realm of dictator
ship.”
He predicted a huge standing
army, militarism extending into the
years, and women eventually woric-
ing in the fields to support the men
in uniform, as consequences of the
passage of the bill.
The draft, Norris ^d, would
change America fimdamentally -
the finest sensibilities will disappear.
Only one thing will be predominant
... to know how to fifdit, and how
to kiU.”
Burke said that in Los Angeles
Communists were opposing the biU
“I would rather pay you for
yow suppori with woric than
promises,” Charles F. Bitxdcs,
farmer and former school teacher
and county superintendent of ed
ucation, declanMl in opening his
speech. He invited an inspection
of his private and public record,
including the years he spent as
superintendent of education, dur
ing which time, he sai^ “we lift
ed the schools practically out of
debt.”
Mr. Brooks described himself as
“personally and politically dry”
but pointed out that he was a be
liever in the democratic form of
government and, if elected, would
follow the wishes of the pe<9le
with reference to the liquor prob
lem.
“I’m ag’in liquor and I’m ag’in
new taxes, too,” he declared, “but
county have a 1940 enrollm«it ofT This figure placed the state’s rate
12,347, according to figures released | of growth at 9.62 per cent in the
by the county chairman, Ralph T.|past 10 years.
Wilson of Laurens.^ T)m enrollment j Greenville Helis Lead
represents an increase of 678 over. Greenville retained its pmition as
the 11,669 total of two years ago. !the most populous county in South
Twenty-eight of the boxes showed | Carolina in the 1940 census. Its fig-
increases and eleven decreases. ure totaled 136,289 persons.
The Laurens city box, the largest; Spartanburg county came second
Senator Croner Reriews His Record and Relates Prosjess of
CoQMty Daring His Administration. Long Warns Opfionents’^
He Wifl Disenss Tlieir PnbHe Records. Nance Tells of Influ
ence With Highway Department, Defends His Democcacy.
Candidates For
Heard
in the county, showed a decrease of
10 votes as compared to two years
ago. Clinton City, the second largest,
showed an incerase of 48. The third
largest precinct is the Clinton Cotton
Mills, the fourth Watts Mills, and
with 128,442
Charleston was third with 121,006,
and Richland county stood fourth
with 112,881.
“There has been no ‘inflation’ of
figures,” Bonner commented in re-
the fifth GoldviUe. Shady Grove is viewing the toUls.
the smallest precinct in the list. LasreiM Shews Gain
Following is the enrollment for population for Lauiem
all boxes in the county, with that for ^y is jdven ^ .44,271 ^^inst 42,094
this year and 1938 indicated: * ***” 2,177.
Farma Shew Deereaac
There has been ' a decrease of
21,976 farms in South Carolina in
the ten-year period since ^930, the
census director reports. The' itate
has 135,955 farms this year against
157,931 in 1930.
Tliere are 3,300 farms in Laurens
county against 4,460 in 1940, a de
crease of 1,160.
There was a d^rease in farms to
be expected for %veral factors,” Mr.
Bonner said.
“Reasons for the decline included
the better wage scale offered by the
WPA; consolidation of farms under
AAA, because tenant farms were re
duced and wage hands employed,
by which means owners of land re
ceived the allotment checks.
“Large tracts of land were taken
over by two hydro-electric projecti
(Santee-Cooper at Charleston and
ware Shoals at Columbia).
“Hundreds of thousands of acres
were taken over by the national park
system.
Solicitor Hugh Beasley of Green
wood, seeking re-election as solicitor
of the Eighth Judicial district, and
his opponent, W. T. B<Ht of Laurens,
were heard by a small ’ Audience in
the Clinton high school last Friday
morning when they presented their
aw/i diftrihtrttng irtarankr «^**»»*
and that whUfer Ife '*l>y no means
meant to*say that all opponents were
Communists, It could be said “with
equal certainty . . . that every Com-
niunist is opposed to iL
The senate’s second day of debate
on the subject produced a charge by
Senator Wheeler, Democrat, of Mon
tana,. that Henry L. Stimson is “un
fit” to serve as secretary of war, an
assertion by Senator Vandenberg,
Republican, of Michigan, that volun
tary enlistments should be given a
further trial before resorting to con
scription, and a statement by Sena
tor Clark, Democrat, of Missouri,
that the army favors the bill be
cause it would mean swift promo
tions for the present officer per
sonnel.
In the house, meanwhile, the mili
tary Committee was at work on leg
islation designed to provide debt re
f
1940
1938
Barksdale-Narnie .
• • •
204
130
Croas Hill
.... 365
353
Clinton City
.1,424
147t
Clinton MiU
....1,039
952'
Cook’s Store
.... 125
95
Daniel’s Store ....
.... 161
143
Dials
.... 88
83
£)coin .... .... .... ....
.... 182
188
GoldviUe
L...
.... 718
588
Gray’s
.... 92-
68
Gray Court
.... 460
412
Hickory Tavern ....
.... 324
343
Hopewell ....
J(mes’ Store
.... 102
97
• •••
.... 205
194
Lanford
.... 131
112
Laurens Mills ....
.... 663
589
Laurens City .... ....
• •••
...2,231
2441
Long Branch
.... 90
121
Lydia Mill
.... 416
396
Lauigston t. ....
.... 119
139
Mount Pleasant ....
.... 94
no
Mountville
....
.... 140
148
Mt. Olive
.... 101
123
Merna
.... 68
63
Ora
.... 108
106
Owings
.... 174
182
Peasant Mound ....
• •••
.... no
133
PrtDCCton
.._ 169
150
jBgplar %)riitgs ...,
■i^BSReR^^7 »••• —•••
Stewart’s Store
326
299
•••«
.... 191
fli
.... 108
104
Shady Grove
... 56
53
ShUito
• •••
.... 113
no
Tip Top
.... 96
88
Trinity Ridge
.... 124
118
Waterloo
.... 133
132
Watts Mills .... ....
788
~ 660
Woodville
.... 243
255
Youngs
.... 158
140
Totals
...12447
11,669
lief for those compelled to enter the
if-the-people vote ^t liquor, that] service, incliiding.. jaatioaaL.,guarda-:
may mean new taxes. I don’t men and reserves. It would provide
know anything else that can be a moratorium on taxes and on in-
taxed, but something will showjsurance premiums involving policies
up at the proper time. Where
there’s a will, there’s a way.”
families of those inducted into ser
vice.
Other defense developments:
The United States housing author-
ity made $13,773,000 available to
four TocaTDbiudng authoritSM^ahd lb
Pointing to the fact that he
would be only one of the 124 leg
islators in the house of represen
tatives, Mr. Broc^ said that he
realized the_ accon^Miia^-ts qf
an individual could not be great,
but asserted that he would vote
a free and unfettered ballot on all
issues and promised to be on the
job, honest and sober, and strive
to complete the work of the gen
eral assembly in the constitutional
40 days.
Mr. Brooks said tljat through
his college training and experi
ence as a teacher, farmer, mer
Preliminary jockying for posi
tion and hints of firewirks to fol
low marked the first meeting* of
senatorial candidates Tuesday at
_ ,. j . fnu Center Point when the three seek
Bolt and Beasley Present Their .e,
Chums Before Small Aodienee
At Hiifh SdhooL
ers after senatorial honors led off
in the speaking in the first meet*^
ing of the county Democratic cam-
paiisn itinerary which is to contin
ue this week and next week. ^
The State ^highway department,
county bond issues, county expen
ditures and .adherence., to the New
Deal were all in turn mentioned by
the three candidates, with, inferen-*
tial notice from Candidate O. L.
claims for the office. The meeting
was presided over by B. R. Fuller, Long that he proposed to open up
local chairman of the Democratic j the records of his opponents, Chas.
club. ' , I A. Cromer, incumbmt, and Car-
roll D. Nance, former senator.
Sen. Cromer, the first to speak,
apparently foresaw an attack on
Mr. Batt Speaks
Mr. Bolt said he was bom at Lau
rens in 1908 and earned his way
through school by working from the | the bond issue question. During the
time he was 16 years old, and pmdu-1 course of his speech he told of the
ated from the University of Squth' expansion of the road system iu
the county by means of the bondi^
stating that a road bond issue of
$260,000 was sold by the county
eommissoners instead of by the de-
Carolina in 1932. As to his official
record he said he was elected to the
general assembly from Laurens
county over eight other candidates
on the first ballot. He welcomed an , .
inquiry into his private and public **** ®'' re^n of an amend-
jment inserted by himself in the
/u . number of the general ea- •"
sembly, Mr. Bolt said he favored
changes in the workmen’s compen
sation law, for amending the wine
and beer law and he sponsored a
bill to provide sewerage connections
in textile communities outside city
limits. He advocated stricter ctmtrol
of road house and tourist campus.
Mr. Bolt said he had had eight
were sold at the lowest rate in the
history of the county.
In his address, Mr. Long pro
mised to discuss the records of hia
opponents.
In addition to his reference to
bonds, Mr. Long said he considered
it proper to discuss men who go
N, J. Anderson
Af Honle
Well Kjmwh Fanicr Was Broili-
er of Mn, G. W. Bailey and
J. W. Anderson of This City.
years experience as a trial lawyer
“One of the main duties of a so
licitor is that of a trial lawyer,” Mr.
Bolt said. It also is his duty to assist
law enforcement officers and he _ . . , . ,
pMod hi, hot coopcratloi, in Ihi.
‘up and down the highways and
byways calling our great presi
dent namca.”
Mr. Nance also made a stirring
reference to national politics and
that on Nov. 2 he propoood la go
to the poBs and vuto a bidlot tup-
rnpect. Another duty. he. said, is to
coOnerato with Vbe MMtsl sssdmblv
in drawing up bills and he believed j Porting the aonhiees of the party
his experience of the past two years “both state and national.”
would add to his qualifications in
this respect.
Mr. Bolt said that during Solicitor
Sea. Crosaer
When he first went to Colum
bia in 1936, Sen. C. A. Cromer said
^asley’s first ywjnjoffice he^^ opening hia remarks, he had
Kiwanians Host
To Farma* Grotq>
The Clinton Kiwanis club was host
to a large number of farmers of this
section on last Thursday evening at
Hotel Clinton when it held its annual
Nichols J. Anderson, 54, well
known farmer, died unexpectedly
last Thursday night at his home in
the Rocky Springs section, after a
brief illness.
Funeral services were held Friday
afternocm from Rocky Springs Pres
byterian church, with the pastor.
Rev. J. E. Ratchford of 'Cross Hill,
officiating. Burial followed in the
church cemetery with a large con
course of friends' and relatives pr<fs-
ent.
Mr. Anderson was a. life-long res-
promised an honest and decent ad-
minstration and he had tried to
give it. “I told you I would carry
eighth in the percentage of convic
tions, 12 from January, 1937, to July
1, 1938, eighth in the number of
cases handled in 1938-1939 and . . ... ^ ^ ■
eleventh in the percentage of con-1®^*™*^^**" there and bring
victions and acquittals. | character back, and that is what
Mr Brsslcj i ^ done.” Dollato, he said,
L had no appeal for him, but service
Solicitor Beasley said that he was •
not going “to talk about the other w, . .i .i u* u »
feHow because my opponent is one* . made ms honie at a
of my best friends.” Mr. Beasley hotel, he said, one he could
said he was 36 years of age and a home and could always be
native of Georgia. He worked his found there when he was not at
farmers night” meeting. A fried | late John Wade Anderwn and Agnes
chicken dinner was served. Ray Anderson. He was a faithful
-The program was in riiarge-of^tite
committee on agriculture composed
way jyhrough high school and Fur- work in the legislative halls. He
ident of Laurens county, a son of the! university and during his last was always on the job, he said, and
two years in law school he worked hadn’t missed but three roll calls
in the office of one of the leading during his entire term,
member and officer of Rocky' Springsr law-firmsr He-first-opened » 4aw-«f The senator then begatr a re-
church, and had served as a school
fice in Abbeville and then located m
of B. H. Boyd, Dr. W. T. Martin and [trustee in his district for a number
of or anH ^ of years. Formerly he was connected
of $5,000 or le„ and would erect | „„„ k. n r ^AA or
. . . . ... ... .presided over by the president, F. C.
safeguards agamst eviction of the pujgon
thesarmy and navy to construct 3,601
homes for workers in six naval sta
tions and two army posts.
BLALOCK TO CAMP
Dr. George R. Blalock left Satur
day for Mississippi to join the Lau
ren* medical detachment of the 178th
, field artillery^ South Carolina na-
chant and public servant, he was-tion^l guard, of which he Is a cap-
famlliar unth the view^int of tain. Dr. Blalock, on account of iU-
both the laMmg and prof^^nal ^eas, was unable to leave with the
man and, thus, “quahfi^ to know «,mpany on August 4 for their three
what the people need. weeks’ training period.
Pfiil D. Boll Thurston Giles, also a member of
the Laurens unit, accompanied Dr.
Blalock.
“I am not going to make this
cair\paign with a hammer because
I know that another man’s (de
merits is not to my cririit,” PMi
D. Huff, Laurens attorney and
forpier house member, commoit-
ed in his (^ning addr^.
Turning to the queatkm oi
roadie he asserted that “during
the past four years practically
ixme of the gas tax numey tnm
this county has been returned.”
.He said that he favored a cqui-
t^le and fair administration of
tlie assistance to the aged and
then criticized the recent sessions
of the general assmbly v lasting
too long and costing too much
money.
“On (me occai^ the governor
had to declare July 3 a hsdiday
and on another he had to threat
en to veto the bill providing for
extra pay to get rid of the legis
lature,” Mr. Huff declared, and
pointed out that toe time in ex
cess of 40 days that the general
assembly was in sesMon had cost
the state about $270,000. “Thai
would be a nice sum to add to the
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The guest speaker was C. B. Can
non, county agent, who is always a
welcomed guest with the club. Mr.
Caimon gave an ‘interesting talk on
^-^vernment farm program as it^passing.
ganization as a county committee
man, and also for about 25 years had
served as a substitute rural letter
carrier in his community. His many
friends will regret to learn of his
Greenwood. He recalled the fact that
capitulation of his record of the
before he was elected solicitor he
past four years. Some roads sche-
pertains to Laurens county, and a
detailed explanation of the enormous
amount of work* being done through
He is survived by his Vidow, Mrs.
Lena Cunningham Anderson; two
handled one-third of the paid cases be built had ,fiven away
in court with 23 lawyers practising^® oth*:n, he said, when .people
at the Greenwood bar. .living along former roa«is had gi-
“I promised you four years ago,” ;V«h their consent when they realiz-
Mr. Beasley said, “that I would givet*?fi that other roads were more im-
my best efforts to the office and Important. He went to the citizens
am proud of that record
and 11 and aske<l them, he said, and had
' g61lpn~cbffserTt'~iTr eVery-'VErse ex=-'
"wouldni: want iT'changed.
Mr. Beasley then reviewed hLs rec-j^^pt that of two persons.
daughters, Mrs. George Penland and^ord ,taken from the files in the of-; necessary to iro into
Ande^n,^of ifu- five of clerks of court in the four.^j,^ program, he said, because
riculture and diveroified and im
proved farming in tlfe county. At the
conclusion of the program Mr. Can
non was heartily thanked by the
Kiwanians and their farmer friends
for his informative talk.
Twelve Vole In
City Electicm
In the city general election held
Tuesday to confirm the nominees ofi
rens; four brothers, the Rev. Ray counties of the circuit. , i # .u i »
Anderson of Laurens, the Rev. Rich-' He said that from January. 1937.t,J*’.'' /■" themMlves."
ard S. Anderson, missionary in Cen-'when he assumed the duties of * bridge had been built for
tral America, Louis Anderson oft fice, to June, 1940, in Laurens years prior to his admin-
Laurens, and Jack W. Anderson ofity there had been 269 cases before'; he said, but during his
Clinton, and by one sister, Mrs. Geo.jtha court, of which 183 pleaded guTl- '»dmjnstratMm money h«4 been-i»ro>
W. Bailey, also of this city. ity, and two directed verdicts were.vided for bridges all over the coub>
I given. Of the 94 cases going to a ty. The - delegation, he said, had
FO ADA jjdry, only 35 not guilty verdicts w'erejmade it possible for the county to
llCOTiy <P^yWV [returned. For the circuit as a whole.laave a lot of money by manufset-
IVaI* R#s|Ia^ luring it.s own concrete pipea. In
iveiiek penod 810 cases of which 568 plead' j program uoasible
ffiiiltv lonvinff 0A9 roau program poHMDie.
though, he said, it was necessary to
Nearly $2,000 was raised by the
guilty, leaving 242, Directed verdicts
were ordered in 14 of these, 228 were
toe June primaiy,"only tweVve"vote^| L»urens county chapter of the Amer- tried by ji^ies and only W
.. ^ 'i«o« . of not guilty were returned. lexpiaineu im
were cast
Mayor P. S. Bailey received 12
votes. Aldermen Hujto C. Ray in
ward (me, three; P. B. Adair in ward
two, three; J. F. Jacobs in ward
three, two; F. M. Boland in ward
four, one; Theodore Queen in ward
five, two; and J. W. Hedspeth in
ward, six, one.
The mayor and six aldermen will
lean Red Cross for European war re
lief, according to Chas. F. Fleming,
of Laurens, county chairman. The
actual amount rai^. he said, was
$i;960 of which aU was remitted to
national headquarters except 15 per
cent or $294, the amount left by
agreement in the local treasury. The
minimum quota for the county was
$1,600.
issue of bonds sold
Mr. Beasley said his ^opponent had I by the board of county commisa-
criticized his record as compared |'oners. “The county ought to be
with that of other solicitors in thf; proud of the money brought into
state, but he* wished to call attention it during the past four years,” re
enter upon a new two-year term ofl The entire amount was raised by
office September first. [voluntary subscriptions, said Chair
man Fleming, without a persimal
canvas. Acting on instructions from
Leo J. Burrdl'
Wins Scludarshv
Highway Patrolman Leo J. Bur
rell, who is stationed ip Clinton, has
been (me of 12 applicants to be se
lected for a $1^200 fellowship to
study traffic control and accident
prevention at toe traffic institute of
Northwestern university, Evanston,
Illinois.
Seventy-two officert from 19 states
•euitot to fain toe ariK^Mhips.
national headquartors, be said, toe
fund has been cloaed for the present
AT GOLDVELLE TONIGHT
The ccamty candidates will speak
to the fact that Mr. Bolt’s figures
were based on the report of the at
torney general’s office in which he
had noted a number of typographi
cal errors. He cited as one instance
that Newberry county was printed as
being in the ninth instead of the
eighth circuit. His own figures, Mr.
Beasley contended, were correct.
ferring to the federal money made
available by the bonds.
Claiming a record for economy,
the senator challenged any taxpay
er to compare his tax receipts for
the last three years with those of
the years before. “See bow mack
lower they are," he exclaimed.
The senator then recited bis co-
since they were taken from the rec
ords of the clerks of court, and toe j peration with federal agencies wito
attorney general’s report does not (Be roiults that had been-obtained.
Homes of 1,400 people previously
fiva all the details.
— , — — H# spoke of his interest in young lighted by oil lamps, he said, now
in GoldviUe toni^t. The meeting offenders and'in those without [^1^^^ privile^ of electricity
in the ban park begin- privUei^ who ye brought intom^ ^ ^
sion of sentences.
ning at 7:30.
MOORE JOINS DETROIT
June Moore, gridiron ace tor the
Presbyterian college Blue Stockings
for the past season, left Mimday to
enter upon a professional football
career with the Detroit Liens.
“I believe you will take my ex
perience of the past four years into
consideration and I will be grateful
to you for your support on August
27th.”
days the money wa.s alloted. Other
accomplishments made poesible by
his cooperation, he said, were the
new chto market building, the new
library building and circuletiag R-
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