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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1931
Page
5
The piece argues the current system forces politics before a president begins, proposing a seven year nonrenewable term or speeding the transition by moving inauguration earlier. It notes Congress dynamics and historic travel and campaign length, urging reform to reduce election turmoil.
The article explains how March marked the year start in early calendars. It notes the Vernal Equinox on March 21 and days lengthening until late September. It cites the old Anglo-Saxon name Lenden Monath meaning lengthening month and mentions borrowing days in England and Scotland.
The article notes Easter is set from the Vernal Equinox and full moon after March 21, and discusses spring life, snow, and farming as people prepare for the yearly struggle with the soil across regions from snowbound north to Virginia’s early plantings.
The Houston Chronicle editorial lauds James Francis Byrnes a Charleston-born attorney and former seven-term congressman as a rising, steady force in the Senate. It contrasts him with demagogic rhetoric and calls his selection a boost for the Palmetto State and for national leadership from the South.
Ellenton reelects Mayor J A Stokes by a four vote margin in the town's first runoff. He defeated J F Eubanks who advanced after a three cornered campaign that saw E J Stapleton eliminated.
A. Hill, owner of Hill's Café, has bought the former Lenz Drug Store on Broad Street and started a new cafeteria. After ten days, the business is reported to be performing well.
A New York City feature notes the poor shun stylish clothes at charity lines, a blood donor system aims to curb malpractices with licenses and professional donors, and reports on bath houses, stock exchange graft humor, and a novel car horn keyboard in radio studios.
Aiken County Post 26 hosted a Dutch supper at the Commercial Hotel ballroom featuring state commander A. Stanley Llewelyn and state adjutant Dr. Felix W. Goudelock. Also present were Lt. Governor James Sheppard, Solomon Blatt, and Boy Scout representatives from Aiken Troop 27.
Figures from the South Carolina College show the state imports over 100 million dollars’ worth of food annually that could be produced locally. The Greenville and Columbia exhibits aim to showcase home grown products and persuade merchants to stock South Carolina goods. Women’s live-at-home groups urge written merchant pledges to carry local items. The college data also notes large in-state demand for out-of-state meat, hay, butter, wheat, corn, eggs, and fowl.
John A. May of Aiken will represent Wofford College in May at the state oratorical contest in Rock Hill. May earned the honor by defeating several competitors with his topic The True Democracy.
An election will be held at the Belvedere voting place on March 31 1931 to elect a trustee for the expired Mathis term. Polls open 8 am to 4 pm. Candidates must file pledges by noon March 27 1931 in the Superintendent of Education office. Act of 1929 governs the election.
An election will be held at Earle School District No 13 in Aiken County on Tuesday March 31 1931 to fill the expired term of Hiram C Cooke. Polls open from 8 a m.
The pledge must be filed in the Office of the Superintendent of Education by 12 noon this Friday. The election is conducted under the Act of 1927. E. D. Smith.
Voters in Monetta are directed to the proper polling place to fill the expired term of McCane Sawyer. Polls will open at a time set by the Superintendent of Education no later than March 27, 1981.
Arthur Young of New York and Aiken winter resident becomes the first donor to the Salvation Army post drive sending a 100 dollar check.
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