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VOLUME XXIV
CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, *1924
NUMBER 49
CONGRESS OPENS
NEWSESSION
Opening Meeting Short and Snappy.
Memorial Service for Woodrow
Wilson To Be Held Dec. 15.
COOLIDGE SUBMITS
ANNUAL BUDGET
Washington, Dec. 1.—With an out
ward calm viewed gnerally as only
the. forerunner of storms that are to
come, the Sixty-eighth congress re
convened today for its final session.
It must give away next March to the
new congress elected last month.
The opening was brief and perfunc
tory. The senate was in session ex
actly 20 minutes and the house just
emJ&wmbm ^ itrt'
the usual opening routine was the
adoption by the house of a resolution
io'r congressional memorial services
for Woodrow Wilson December 15.
Each house adjourned until noon to
morrow out of respect to the memories
of members who have died recently
after it had adopted resolutions of re
gret. Before that, new members had
been sworn in and a joint commit
tee had been advised to notify. Presi
dent Coolidgc that congress was in
session. This the committee did later
in the Jay.
The executive informed the com
mittee that tomorrow he would trans-
nut the annual budget message and
Wednesday would send in his own an
nual message on the state of the
union. This will not be delivered in
person, thus obviating the necessity
for a joint session.
Facing the -necessity of passing
more than a dozen annual appropria
tion bills in three months, congress
will get down to business tomorrow.
The house will receive the interior
department supply measure and begin
its consideration Wednesday.
Whatever of increased bitterness
that may have come out of the recent
campaign is more apt to find expres
sion in the senate. The Republicans
there have read out of their party
councils those senators on their side
who actively opposed the election of
President Coolidge.
All four of these senators were
present today. Despite a rather se-
vete cold, Senator La Follette was in
his place in the front row when the
senate met. He arrived from Madi-
„ son in the morning and was greeted
at the senate chamber by a number of
his colleagues, including Senator
Wheeler (Democrat) of Montana, who
was his running mate on the inde
pendent presidential ticket.
Senator Wheeler received a hearty
welcome from many of his colleagues
on the Democratic side. Coincident
with his return, Senator Robinson of
Arkansas, the minority leader, said
there was no intention at this time
of reading Mr. Wheeler out of the
party because of his acceptance of a
place on the independent ticket.
Senator La Follette had no com
ment to offer on the action of the Re-
•>vblican conference. Likewise, it was
sa»d that he had not discussed proce
dure with members of the insurgent
bloc and consequently had formulated
no specific program of action. It was
added, however, t)r _t, as previously
announced, the senator would continue
his fight for what was characterize l
as progressive legislation.
When the gavels fell in the house
and senate promptly at noon today
there were the usual opening day
crowds in the gallaries. Mrs. Coolidge
and a party of friends occupied the
president’s row in the senate gallery.
There were three vacant seats in
tne senate because of the passing
from the stage of \ife of three of the
most familiar faces in that body—
Senators Henry Cabot Lodge, of Mas
sachusetts, Frank B. Brandegee, of
Connecticut, and I^ebaron B. Cblt, of
REbde Island. ,
Two of these seats later were fill
ed by the swearing in of new mejn-
bers, William M. Butler to succeed
Senator Lodge and Jesse H. Metcalf
to succeed Senator Colt. A third new
tenator, Rice W. Means of Colorado,
aiso took the oath of office, admin-
i-tered by Senator Cummings of
Icwa, the president pro tempore. Mr.
Means succeeds Alva B. Adams of
Colorado, who was defeated in the re
cent election.
After Ser^ators Curtis of Kansas,
the Republican leader, and Robinson
of Arkansas, the minority P-ader, had
been named to the joint committee on
notification of the president, the sen
ate adopted resolutions in the death
cf Senators Lodge, Colt and Brande
gee and then adjourned out of respect
to their memories.
With the one exception, in the adop
tion of the Wilson memorial resolu
tion, the house procedure was identi
cal. Four new members were install
ed, the Republican and Democratic
leaders, Longworth of Ohio, and Gar
rett of Tennessee were named the
notification commitec and resolutions
of respect to the dead members—
Representatives Greene of Massachu
setts; Little of Kansas, and Mudd of
Maryland, all Republicans. Adjourn
ment then was taken out of respect
to their memories.
On the roll call there were ten
absentees in the senate and Cl in the
house. One vacancy in the senate,
that caused by the death of Senator
Brandegee is yet to be filled while
one of the five members -electd to
fill vacancies in the house failed to
appear to take the oath of office. He
is John C. Allen, Republican, Illi
nois. -* *
With one vacant Republican seat
in the senate, the lineup there now
is: Republicans 51; Democrats 42:
and Farm-Labor two.
Shows Probable Cost of Federal Gov
ernment. Advises Delay in Tax
Reduction.
Washington, Dec. 2.—Carrying esti
mates of $3,729,519,846.48 as the
probable cost of operating the federal
government in the fiscal year, 1925
the annual budget was sent to con
gress today by President Coolidge
with the announcement that a sur
plus of $373,743,714 appeared likely
for that year.
Despite a probable surplus for the
current year of $67,844,489 and the
forecast surplus for next year, Mr.
Coolidge advised against attempting
further cuts in taxes until it has been
shown
will do in the production of revenue.
He urged also against the launching
of any program contemplating new
expenditures, saying the savings ac
complished will avail nothing if a
greater outgo from the treasury is
authorized.
In his special message transmitting
the budget Mr. Coolidge said the cal
culations as to results anticipated
from the new tax law had been borne
out and added:
“If we continue the campaign for
economy, we will pave the way for a
further reduction in taxes. This re
duction can not be effected immedia
tely. Before it fs undertaken, we
should know more definitely by ac
tual operations what our revenues
will be under the present law. But
the knowledge of our revenue under
the existing law will avail us nothing
if we embark on any new large expen
diture program.”
The budget shows estimates of
$116,286,587 for general functions of
the government including the legis
lative, judicial, executive and general
administrative operations, while $1,-
162,480,229, is provided for military
functions. This lather sum; must
meet the requirements of the national
defense, World war allowances, annui
ties, retirement pay and military pen
sions. Of the total for national de
fense, the Army is given $243,330,598,
and the Navy $282,158,604.
Civil functions of the government
call for appropriations under the bud
get of $441jQ21,838. From this sum
the budget bureau calculates the gov
ernment may carry on its foreign re
lations and protect American inter
ests abroad, enforce the laws, admin
ister Indian affairs and the public
domain, control banking and the cur
rency and do the other things for
which the departments of agriculture
and commerce, the federal trade com
mission, the patent office, the tariff
commission and shipping board were
created to administer.
Public works will cost under the es
timates about $160,180,702, of which
$81,000,000 will go for roads and $53,-
840,408 for river and harbor improve
ment. The remainder of this divi
sion has been allotted: $9,777,257 for
the reclamation service,.$8,735,366 for
the Panama canal, $2,000,000 for rail
roads in Alaska, and $4,829,689 for
other public improvements and gov
ernment plant additions.
In the list falling more or less in
the category of fixed charges the bud
get provides commitments of $1,372,-
355,186, of which $830,000,000 will go
for interest on the public debt. Re
duction in the public debt will use
$484,766,130 in the year to come.
Other items in this list include pro
vision for refunds and losses, for
which $33,088,000 is recommended,
and for disbursement of trust funds,
requiring $24,501,056.
Dividend on the percentage basis,
the budget shows that of each dollar
in revenue obtained by the govern
ment, 3.57 per cent is used in gen
eral functions of the government,
15.57 is for national defense, 18.39
for military pensions, retirement pay,
etc., 5.56 for public works, 2.25 for
promotion of marine transportation,
6.49 for civil functions, 3.4 for re
funds, 14.84 for public debt, 24.4 for
interest on the public debt and 4.53
for trust funds.
It also was shown that 46.96 per
cent of the government’s income is
derived from income and profit taxes,
24.87 per cent from miscellaneous in
ternal revenue sources, 14.69 per cent
from collection of customs duties, 5.43
per cent from interest, 1.16 per cent
from fees, fines, forfeitures and pen
alties, 1.58 from repayments of in
vestments, 2.41 per cent from trust
funds receipts, and 3.33 per cent from
miscellaneous receipts.
LOOK HERE, KIDDIES!
Santa Claus has asked for letters from you telling what you want
him to bring in his bag o’ goodness Christmas eve night. These
letters, he has asked, are to be very, very brief, and sent, to THE
♦ CLINTON CHRONICLE Santa Claus Editor with your name and
address signed in full at the bottom. State briefly in fifty or sixty
words, the letters must not be longer than that, what you want him
to bring you.
These will be printed in THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Santa Claus
Column some time before Christmas. Mail your’s today for our
Christmas Edition next week.
Remember—keep them less than sixty words and tell old Santa
what you are expecting. He is now slipping around every day shop
ping with Clinton merchants and getting ready for his annual visit.
We will print your letters and send the message along to him.
GOLDV’LE GROWING
INTO REAL CITY
Extensive Enlargement and Improve
ments at Joanna Cotton Mills
Well Under Way.
Goldville, one of Clinton’s most de
sirable suburbs, is now enjoying un
precedented prosperity. To the visit
or, there are signs of progress every
where and the hum of the saw and
sound of the hammer are in evidence
on all sides. In another year, the vil
lage will present a new appearance,
pieasing to the eye, and more and
more is becoming a delightful place
in which to live.
The development of Goldville is due
to the owners of the Joanna Cotton
. Mills, with W. A. Moorhead as the
‘ c-'.mpany’s local "manager. The cum*
ptny has just completed extensive en
largements to the plant. When the
property was purchased in May by
Northern interests, the name of Ban-
na Manufacturing Company was im
mediately changed to Joanna Cotton
Mills, with a capacity of 14,224 spind
les and 352 looms. Today, the plant
has been more than doubled with a
total of 30,000 spindles and 702
looms.
The new village has fifty beautiful
bungalbw homes of three, four and
five rooms. Each home is equipped
with • modern sewerage of the best
type, and electric lights. The streets
being graded and curbing laid. The
homes in both the old and new vil
lage have been thoroughly worked
ever with the installation of sewer
age and made entirely comfortable
and convenient for the occupants.
Effective next Monday, the mill ex
BIENNIAL BILL
F1NALLYPASSES
Election Canvassers Announce Re
sults. Four Year Tenure
Also Carried.
Columbia, Nov. 29.—Although re
turns from several counties were out
standing on the vote for presidential •
electors and on the constitutional
amendments, the state board of can
vassers Jeday took advantage of the t
authority given them under the law
and announced the officials results of
the general Election.
This was the last day allowed by
law. on which,4he~.board- could an
nounce resultff, dating exactin^- 3 ***
twenty-five days from November 4th,
the day on which the election was
belli. '
While all proposed constitutional
amendments of a local nature were
found to have been defeated, the
board of canvassers, in its report, de
clared various state-wide amendments
carried. Among . these were the
amendments for biennial sessions of
the general assembly, four year terms
foi; governor, attorney general and
certain state officers.
State-wide constitutional changes
found to have been defeated were the
measures for abolishing the three-
mill constitutional school tax giving
two-thirds of the members of the gen
eral assembly power to call an extra
session, changing the fiscal year to
begin on July 1, instead of January
1, relating to the area pf school dis
tricts, pertaining to the bonded in- •
pects to begin night and day opera- debte i ness of 0 ver l.-OOO populati
tions
The Southern Power Company has
recently extended its trunk line from
Nwberry to Clinton, coming through
Goldville and connecting with the
Joanna Mills, which is to be electri
zed throughout.
providing for the levy of an
tax biennially, and changing the term
of stato superintendent of education
from two to four years. All local
amendments were defeated. The ten
million dollars bond issue for state
educational, penal and charitable in-
The Joanna plant manufactures , titution! was defeated nearly three
CLUB TO HEAR
DR. D. W. DANIEL
BILLY SUNDAY
MEETING TONIGHT
Well Known Educator and Speaker To
Be Commercial Club's Guest Next
Tuesday Evening.
Dr. D. W. Daniel, head of the Eng
lish department of Clemson College,
will be the guest of the Corftmercial
Club next Tuesday evening, Decem
ber 9th, and will deliver an address
on town building and’ the general
work of civic organizations. For sev
eral months President Witherspoon
has been endeavoring to secure Dr.
Daniel and the announcement that he
has accepted the invitation and will he
uhe city’s guest nc * Tuesday evening,
is one of more than usual interest.
Dr. Daniel ranks as one ef the lead
ing speakers in the South and is con
stantly in demand. He has addreise i
commercihl organizations in many
parts of the country and has a mes
sage that every business arid profes
sional man should hear. It is hoped
that the entire membership of the
club will be present next Tuesday •
evening to greet the distinguished |
visitor.
Local Club To Hold Banquet And
Anniversary Meting At
Clinton Hotel.
The Clinton Billy Sunday Club will
bold a joint social and inspirational
meeting at the Clinton Hotel tonight
with Dr. T. L. W. Bailey, president,
presiding. The dinner will be served
at 7:30, after which there will be a
program of music and seVeral inspira
tional addresses. All members of th.>
club are expected to attend, and th<
active pastors of the city have also
been invited. The occasion promise*
to be one of interest to all who are
present.
Three speakers are to appear on
.he program, Dr. A. E. Spencer of
this city, and Messrs. Geo. R. Koes-
tcr and E. C. Buchanan, of Green
ville.
FIRE DEPARTMENT
MEETING TONIGHT
A meeting of the members of the
Clinton fire department will be held
tonight at the city police station at
7:00 o’clock. A number of matters
will come up for consideration and
Fire Chief V. P. Azlair asks that all
members of the force be present
promptly at 7 o’clock.
MASONIC LODGE TO
ELECT OFFICERS
The regular meeting of Campbell
Lodge No. 44, A. F. M., will be held
Friday night at 7:30 in the lodge
room of the Masonic Temple. The an
nual election of officers will be held,
and all the members are urgently re
quested to be present.
Father and Son
Form Partnership
Dr. E. Mood Smith and Dr. Felder
Smith Consolidate Optical
Business.
Dr. E. Mood Smith and son, Dr
Felder Smith, have formed a part
nership as pharmacists and optome
trists and will be associated in busi
ness under the firm name of Smith's
Pharmacy, continuing at their pres
ent location on West Main street.
Dr. Felder Smith, pharmacist and
optometrist, has closed his office in
the Jacobs & Company building and
will be associated with his father as
part owner in the business. Ih their
optical department, new equipment is
being added and this concern will be
prepared to render an unsurpassed
service in the treatment of the eye.
Dr. J. D. Bair, who has been con
nected with Smith’s Pharmacy for the
past year as prescriptionist, has left
Clinton and gone to Greenville to ac
cept a similar position.
shade cloth. The entire output is tak
er by the Oswego Shade Cloth Com
pany of Oswego, N. Y
to one. The vote on ^he measure was •
for 8,765, against *>?> 10°
There were few surprises in the of-
ex ^ ensi ® n of t . he "V 11 k®. 8 been f ic ^| results, as previous unofficial
handled by the engineering firm of
Lockwood, Greene and Company.
Hand Work Display
Here Next Week
State Training School To Exhibit
Work of Inmates. -Christmas
Operetta To Be Presented.
The State Training School announc
es that beginning next week it wih
have on exhibition a nice display of
hand work, including baskets, rugs,
and embroidered pieces in various
styles. The institution will offer
these things for sale, the proceeds of
which will be used to purchase new
supplies to be used in the future.
consolidations were boroe out. Sup
plementary returns received from
Georgetown county reversed the stand
ing of the propoefd constitutional
amendment to change the terms of
certain state officers passing it by 29
votes.
Although the returns from Kershaw
county as yet had not come in, the
members of the board of canvassers
decided to avail themselves of the au
thority given them under the law, to
make the amendment of the results,
without the returns from this county.
An opinion, reassuring-the commis
sioners as the legality of this course,
was rendered recently by Assistant
Attorney General Daniel.
” The report of the boarcT confirmed
the defeat of the ten million dollar
The institution has begun work on
a Christmas operetta entitled, “Christ- bond issue for state, educational, pen-
mas With Cinderella and Her Cat.”
This wiU be givap sometime during
Christmas week aiid all people in
Clinton and other communities also
will be invited to attend the play.
Dr. B. O. Whitten, the superintend
ent, announced yesterday that work
on the three new cottages is near
ing completion. One of the cottages
will be ready for occupancy next
week and the other two before Christ
mas. Each cottage will have a capa-
al and charitable institutions by a
vote of nearly three to one. The vote
was: for 8,765, against 25,192. Local
or county-wide proposed amendments
to the state constitution were defeat
ed without exception by from 2,000 to
3,000 votes.
The official totals on the state-wide
amendments follow:
To change term of office of govern
or; for 12,667, against 12.558.
To change term of office of attor-
city of 32 and this will mean an in-j nev general; for 12,358,against 12,163.
creased population of nearly one Hun-! To change term of certain state of-
dred children. The superintendent fivers; for 12,452, against 12,402.
states that children a*-e already con.-j To change the fiscal year to begin
ing in for the new buildings and when.! July-1, instead of January 1; for 11,-
they are filled the institution
have a population of over 300.
will
New Management
For Filling Station
The Clinton Filling Station, here
j tofore operated by McDaniel Bros.,
of Laurens, has changed hands,
Messrs. Geo. W. Copeland and J. V
Edwards taking over the management
and ownership. The business will be
conducted at the same location on
Our Christmas Edition Next Week
•
THE CHRONICLE, following an established custom, will issue its
special CHRISTMAS EDITION next week. It will be presented as
before, filled with interesting and appropriate Christmas reading
matter, something that will appeal to the little tots, those in their
kens, the grown-ups, and the old folks. .
It will also contain valuable and interesting “store news” from
the live merchants of the community and will serve as a “shopping
guide” to the buying public. Merchants desiring space in this edi
tion are asked to make their reservations at once and let us have
their copy not later than Tuesday since such an effort requires an
extra amount of hard work. We will strive to make this edition
interesting from start to finish—the best we have evr presented, and
we hope our readers will enjoy it.
For you, it wull solve the perplexing problem: “What to Give, and
Where to Shop.”
Catch the Christmas spirit through THE CHRONICLE.
52U, against 12,158i
Providing for biennial sessions; for
13,102, against 11,757.
Providing a method for calling ex
tra sessions; for 11,241, against 11,-
6S0.
Abolishing the three mill school
tax; for 10,201, against 12,834.
Increasing limit of bonded indebted
ness of cities; for 8,646, against 10,-
718.
Providing for the levy of the an
nual state tax biennially; for 9,6'2,
against 11,138.
Changing the term of state super-
East Carolina Avenue, carryin K “l inU , ndent of education, tor 12,2C:,
complete line of auto accessories, • t ioooq
ods etc. Messrs. B. M. Blakely and * The offidal returns on the presi-
D W. Copeland are actively in charge dentia| election announced todav bv
of the business and are now reauy the state board of canV a a sers here,
a. serve the pub ic. The owners, [ f()llows . Davis> 49.008; Cool-
Messrs. Geo. W. Copeland and J. \.| idf?e U2 3; LaFollette 620; Andrew
Gump (1).
I Edwards, are well known business
j men of the city, the former being)
; vice-president and cashier of the First |
j National Bank, and the latter the pro FoCcti C'CRCGm
I prietor of a handsome new filling str-'
] lion and garage on West Main street.
Gets Contract
'Sr
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WORKS BOTH WAYS
To get trade, advertise. To
k.ep trade, advertise. It’s the
best melicine you can give busi
ness. Keeps it fit. Old custom
ers die off or move away. New
customers are won more easily
and cheaply through advertising.
The world’s most successful mer
chants know this.
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The Parrott-Electric of this city,
has secured the lighting contract for
.he college Gymnasium at the-Pres
b’yteriun College, and the Baby Cot
tage;: at the Thornwell Orphanage.
Plans and specifications have been
passed upon by expert engineers in
eonm.cion with Mr. Parrott, and the
lighting will be as nearly perfect as.
is possible.
Miss Lillian Quinn and R. L. Plaxl*
vo, of Blacksburg viaited the former’s
sister, Mrs. Blakely Tribble, for the
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