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i J '.f ■,- A' •'.:. ■ '■<-^'*‘'-r#'E-‘ If Ton Don't Read THE CHRONICLE Yon Don’t Get The News (Ehi OIltnt0ti €lfnmirb : THE CHRONICLE j • • Strirea To Be a Clean Newa* * S paper, Complete, Neway, « : and ReUable 1 VOLUME XXIX. CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 4,1929 NUMBER 27 CHILD HEALTH MEET CALLED Hoover To Assemble Child Wel fare Leaders for a Conference To Study Present and Future Needs of This Field. Washington, July 2.—Believing the health of the nation’s children is the first requisite of equality of opportu nity, Phresident Hoover has decided to assemble child welfare leaders from all sections of the country in Washing ton for a conference within a year. The purpose, the president said to day in announcing the project, will be to determine the present progress and future needs of this field. The meeting . will be preceeded by an exhaustive survey by committees identified with various phases of child welfare vfbtk. The project is to be financed by $600,- Odft which Ho<Wefr-bim- received Troih private sbiirces “I have decided to call a White. House conference on the health and protection of children,” the president said. “This conference will be com prised of representatives of the great voluntary associations, together with the federal and state and municipal authorities interested in these ques tions. Its purpose will be to determine the facts as to our present progress and our future needs in this great field and to make recommendations for such measures for more effective official and voluntary action and their coordination as will further develop the care and protection of children. “The conference will not be assem bled for another nine months or a year in order that there may be time for complete and exhaustive advance study of the facts and forces in pro gress, of'the experience with the dif ferent measures and the work of the organizations both in voluntary and official fields. “In order that these determinations may be effectively made and intelli gent presentation given at the confer ence, a series of committees will be appointed from the leaders in differ ent national organizations and will be assisted by experts. “The subjects to be covered embrace problems of dependent children; regu lar medical examination; School or public clinics for children; hospitali zation; adequate milk supplies; com munity nurses; maternity instruction and nurses; teaching of health in the schools; facilities for playgrrounds and recreation; voluntary organization of children; child labor and scores of al lied subjects. “To cover the expenses of the pre liminary committees and the confer ence and follow-up work which will be required to carry out the conclusions of the conference a sum of $500,000 has been placed at my disposal from private sources.” ' S. J. M’SWAIN TO OFFER AGAIN MISS WOFFORD SPEAKS TO N. E. A. Thinks Elementary Teacher Import ant As High School Instructor. Makes Plea For Equality. Atlanta, July 1.—The teacher in the elementary school should be placed more nearly on a par with the high school teacher in salary and education, Miss Kate V. Wofford, county super intendent of schools of Laurens coxin- ty. South Carolina, told the National Education association in an address before the department of superintend ence. She had for her subject, “Is the Ele mentary School Getting a Fair Share of Public Money?” — “Public Money is appropriated for the education of all the children of all the people. Miss Wofford said, Our public school system is founded on that principle and happily no politi- Htitutft—Juab-As g(^y~for rh 'fTir-eie^v^T^y" local-mewrhanTsT mentary school’s share in the public money is every dollar necessary to meet the best possible educational needs of all children. At present the elementary school is the only school that attempts to serve all the chil dren of all the people. The high school does not do it and the colleges make no pretense at meeting the needs of any but the selected and elected few. “Before the advent of Horace Mann, elementary schools were known as common schools and they were ex pected to do no more than to serve the common needs of children. Any thing beyond those common needs were supplied by individual parents. The elementary school of today if it is to serve the democracy that created it should be the common school of oth er days. It should be literally the school of the people. Not only is the elementary school a place where chil dren are taught the fundamentals of education but because it serves all the children it should be widened and deepened to include the whole life of the community. Historically and sentimentally the elementary school is the only school for which the people are solely re sponsible. The high school designated as such is only a hundred years old. We have been pleased to refer to it as the people’s college and t^ugh this term was given in affection it may in time become a rebuke. “TheM is no denying the fact that professionalists have been busy pro moting a public school aristocracy.” CITY TO HAVE QUIET FOURTH No Celebration Planned In Gty and AH Business Will Suspendi. Big Gala Day At Lydia. Clinton will take an “off day” to day in celebration of Independence Day. With all stores, banks, cotton mills, postoffice, etc., closed, there will be a general cessation from business, and many citizens wlil seek repreation and amusement out of the .pity. In the city proper, no celebration has been planned. At Lydia Cotton Mills, however, a big gala day pro gram has been arranged and there will be the usual entertainment for which this South Clinton section‘has become famous. The curtain will rise at 8:30 with twelve athletic events for men, women, boys and girls on the 'program. In each of these events. pnsfis to the winners haveJ>eaB,offer»-wie ,qf Icrtsi GIVES UP PLACE AT ORPHANAGE Congressman From This District To Seek Re-election. First Candi date To Announce. ' After serving nine years as repre sentative from* the Fourth South Car olina district, Congressman John J. MeSwain will be a candidate for re- election to the house next year, ac cording to an announcement made in Greenville Friday. There had been some uncertainty as to whether the congressman from this district would again enter the race and his announce ment throws some light on the politi cal situation, although the campaign will not take place for more than a year. Although voters of "this district are familiar with Mr. MeSwain’s stand on the principal issues, he will announce his platform later. He is the first can didate for this position although it has been rumored that two or three others may enter the race. Congressman MeSwain was elected to congress in 1920 and has served continuously since that time. He is a member of the committee on military affairs. The group handles more than 60 per cent of the bills brought be fore congress and also has charge of army matters, hospitals, purchase of land, discharges and other affairs. A. M. Copeland Resigns Position At Thornwell After Fifty-Three Years Relationship. A. M. Copeland of this city, for the past 13 years a member of the 'Thorn- well orphanagq staff, has tendered his resignation effective August first, on account of advancing years. As he re tires from active work, he holds in an unusually large degree, the apprecia tion and high esteem of the entire or phanage family and governing board. FoFr fifty-three years Mr., Copeland has had an official relationship to this institution. In the pioneer days when its ownership and control was in the hands of the First Presbyterian church of this city, he was elected a member of its board of trustees and held that position for forty yea^s. When he became a member off the workers’ staff in 1916 he tendered his resigr ition after faithfully serving in J this capacity for such a long period. Sport lovers of^the Mid-State loop have a double-header on the menu for today. This morning at 10 o’clock, Lydia Cotton Mills will meet the Clinton Cotton Mjlls aggregation at the Lydia ball park. In the afternoon at 3:30, the scene will shift to the Clinton mill park where the same two teams will meet again. Big crowds for both games, and the morning exercis es are expected. The Lydia mills athletic association will donate cakes, pies and lemonade to all of its employees and their fami lies. At Mountville a big barbecue is on the program with an address by Ira C. Blackwood of Spartanburg. At Stomp Springs an old-fashioned picnic dinner will occur on the grounds with dancing at the pavilion afternoon and night. A number of local citizens left yes terday for the mountains and the beach. The Glorious Fourth will be quiet, yet an enjoyable day of rest with the entire community entering into its observance. Young Corn Champ . Wins Scholarship ROUTINE MATTERS BEFORE COUNCIL Various Affairs Interest City Fath ers. PoUce Ordered To Wage War Against Speeding. City Council in regular session Mon day evening, acted upon routine mat ters of various kinds before it for consideration. The meeting was pre sided over by Mayor Young, with Al dermen Henry, Adair, Duncan, Harris and Wilson present. The report of the cemetery commit tee, showed further progress being made in the improvement and beauti fying of the property. Council approv ed the extension of a water line to the cemetery, the erection of an attractive shed and keeper’s house, and the em ployment by the committee of a keep- ei of the property. It is planned by Council to continue its program of de veloping Hie cemetery and pushing the ^g^^eCTFhelgdedrTiffpT^^ va- Laurens, July 1.—Whether or not there is anything in a name, Laurens county has a young corn farmer nam ed Drake—Sammy Drake of Waterloo township, who has just been notified that he is for the second time winner i I of the scholarship to Clemson for the summer short course for 4-H club boys. The award was made by the Chilean Nitrate of Soda educational bureau, and young Drake, who is 16 years of age, has signified his inten tion of attending the course. He won the prize on his yield of corn last year on his club project, producing 83 bush els on one acre at a cost of $30.20. His net profit was estimated by the county agent at $94.30. Sammie Drake is one of the out standing members of the Laurens county 4-H club boys organization, and his sustained success in competi tive project work is gratifying to the sponsors and to his friends alike. Clemson college gives four scholar ships to each county every year to farm boys who do outstanding work with their projects; also to one local leader, for the short course in agri culture, which begins this year Mon day, July 8. The four boys and the leader winning the scholarships this season are: Tommie Martin, Mount ville club; Fred Carlisle, Poplar Springs club; Clyde Wilson, Hickory Tavern club; David Roberts, Barks- rious sections of the town were point ed out by the street committee and the work authorized. Council autl^brized a continuance of the repair work now being done on the water dam at Beard’s fork with the aim in view of enlarging if pos sible, the city’s water supply to a^ert a summer shortage. The matter of speeding was before Council and again discussed. A mo tion unanimously adopted, authorized the immediate purchase of a motor cycle for the police department’s use in enforcing the speed limit regula tions in the city. A petition before Council for the erection of a lunch counter and cold drink stand on West Main street, was refused. The report of the police department and recorder’s office for the month was considered. It showed total fines levied and collected of $506.75, with 510 chain gang days levied against violators. A further discussion was entered into on the proposed health ordinance now being drafted and the establish ment of a city health unit, final action being deferred until a later date while further data and information is being collected. Council also had before it the mat ter of Sunday laws and observance in the city and a special meeting was appointed for a consideration of this question. NEWBERRY BANK CLOSES ITS DOORS Directors of National Bank Place Af fairs In Hands of Comptroller Monday Morning. Newberry, July 1.—The National Bank of Newberry, the oldest bank in Newberry county and the adjoining counties, was closed to business this morning by an order of Hie board of directors, and its affairs placed in the hands of the comptroller of the cur rency as required by law. H. F. Stokes, national bank examiner, is in charge of the bank. The bank was organized in 1871 by the late R. L. McCaughrin, who was its Hrst president. Hie other presidents since its organization were J. Newton Martin, M. A. Carlisle and B. C. Matthews, the present president, who has served for over 16 years. At the close of business March 27, the bank issued a statement that $1,- 2Q5,^l^^yi^ on deposit. The county CHESTER SCENE OF KING TRIAL Fifteen Witnesses Take Stand Second Day. Physician Says Mrs. King Could Not Have Died In Posture Found. Kood> Stained Clothes Enter Case. Chester, July 2.—A physician testi fied this afternoon that it would have been impossible for a person to have died in the posture the neighbors found the body of Faye Wilson King, Sharon, French teacher, on the night of January 25. Appearing as a state witness in the case in which Rafe F. King, the wo man’s husband, is charged with her murder. Dr. C. C. Burrus, family phy sician of the Kings, declared the re laxation of • the muscles would have precluded the. possibility of her fw- orNevi^Tia(f-$^d;W oif wiHr her arraa attefehed ^ and other various institutions of New berry had small deposits in the bank. The closing of the bank was a distinct blow to Newberry, as this is the first bank failure to ever occur at New berry. The other two banks, the Commer cial bank and the Exchange bank, are well prepared, it is stated, to take care of all emergencies. No run has been made on these two. It is stated that the Commercial and the Exchange are two of the strongest banks in the state. It is said that the state had a small amount on deposit in the closed bank. The capital stock is $100,000. The bank was advised a few days ago that it would be necessary to put up cer tain extra first class securities to se cure the deposit carried for the coun ty or such deposit would be with drawn. Officials of the bank, under existing circumstances, did not feel that they could comply with this re quirement because to do so would not be fair to the other depositors to whom the bank was responsible for nearly $1,000,000. Officials feel that all depositors should be treated equal ly and not being prepared to meet the required conditions, it was necessary to close the institution. Deposits at the time of closing amounted to $1,- 200,000, surplus and undivided prof its, $66,000; total assets, $1,500,000; liabilities outside of capital stock and surplus account, $1,350,000. LOCAL CONCERNS PAY DIVIDENDS Presbyterians Add New Deacons Clinton Jd3es not possess a more . , ^ ^ „ highly esteemed and universally loved i dale-Na^ie cldb, and Gro^r C. Ro- citizen than Mr. Copeland. His hun-1 Hickory Tavern or- dreds of friends unite in the hope that [ K^^iization. he may yet be spared many years in this community where his life in nu merous ways, has been in great bless ing. I Mr. and Mrs. Copeland will continue to live in the McCall building on the campus, Mrs. Copeland retaining her position as supervisor. Chamber Meets Next Tuesday Ti^ July meeting of the Chamber of Commerce will be held next Tues day evening in the club rooms with President Winn presiding. The usual dinner will be served at 7:30, after rnMMiTVinv cK-pvirw business session will be COMMUNION SERVICE present. PRESBYTERIANS TO HOLD Revival Services Closed Sunday The Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper will be administered at the First Pres byterian church next Sunday morning. This is the regular quarterly commun ion service and the entire membership is urged by the pastor to be present. Semi-Annual Checks Amounting To $34,500 Distributed July 1, to Clinton Stockholders. Clinton corporations . distributed $34,500 July 1st in semi-annual divi dends among their stockholders. All of the institutions were reported in ex cellent condition. The following is a list of the divi dends distributed among local share holders: The Commercial Bank, 4 per cent semi-annual on $50,000 capital—$2,000. The Clinton Bonded Warehouse, 10' per cent annual on $10,000—$1,000. The Clinton Cotton mills, 4 per cent semi-annual on capital stock of $360,- OOD—$14,000. The Lydia Cotton mills, their regu lar serial note dividend of $17,500. congregational meeting of the First Presbyterian church was held Sunday morning for the purpose of electing five additional deacons. A number of, names were placed in nomi nation, with the following duly elect ed: Jack W. Anderson, Geo. H. Cornel- son, Irby Hipp, R. C. Adair and J. Harvey Witherspoon. The installation service for the new officers will be held two weeks hence. Barnes Passes ward. To make it more dramatic, Arthur L. Gaston, attorney for the prosecu tion, lay on his back in the center of the jury demonstrating just how the neighbors had found Mrs. King’s body in the outhouse near her home, and then had Dr. Burrus point out what muscular contraction would change the position. The physician was on the witness stand almost two hours, de fense attorney B. T. Falls of Shelby, N. C., subjecting him to the most se vere cross examination that has fall en the lot of any state witness. The fact that Dr. Burrus had in his first autopsy given as his opinion that Mrs. King had died of poisoning and after the second autopsy that she had been choked, was used by Falls as a clever attempt to discredit the doctor’s testimony. “You passed over the marks on her throat and examined only her stom ach the first time?” Falls inquired in credulously. “That was all Dr. Saye was in structed to do,” replied the witness. He contended he had been asked to assist Dr. J. H. Saye in the autopsy. “Were you not satisfied she died from poisoning?” “1 thought it probable.” “And you went away with only a supposition?” Here Dr. Burrus in- .“isted again he was only called in to aid Dr. Saye. l.ater Falls demanded to know why 1 Dr. Burrus hadn’t examined the liver, kidneys, heart and other organs in the effort to discover poison, to which Dr. Burrus made the reply that he was not an expert on autopsies. “Don’t you think in coYnmon sense they should have made you tell that you were not capable of making an autopsy,"!!!^^” Fall asked. The fact that t)r, Burrus had made an affidavit that Mrs. King died by being choked with a cord or rope and that there were no .scars on the back of her neck or directly on the front was used by Fall in some bitter ques- tibning. A subsequent witness, B. L. Robertson of Clemson college, chem ist, testified that after a chemical ex amination of the stomach he was con- J i-fc JI the person whose stomach he didBOdrCl! examined had not died of poisoning. He described in technical detail the manner in which he eliminated vari ous poisons and how he discovered an Union Services Begin Sunday The first of the series of summer union services will be held next Sun day evening in the Associate Reform ed Presbyterian church. 'The pulpit will be occupied by the Rev. M. R. Wingard, pastor of St. John’s Luther an church. The union services will continue on Sunday evenings through July and August with the local pas tor’s alternating in preaching. Eric Barnes, well known and popu lar drug clerk at Kellers Drug store,, was in Columbia the past week to take! acid derivative and had then examined the examination of the state board of I a speciment of the embalming fluid, pharmacy examiners. In a class of | finding that this same derivative was more than thirty, Mr. Barnes made | contained in the embalming fluid, one of the highest ratings and his j The morning session was featured friends will learn with interest that * appearance of federal Judge J. he successfully passed the examination 1 Lyi®® Glenn, who before his recent and is now a licensed druggist under the laws of the state. Lingle Accepts appointment was solicitor for the dis trict and did much toward working up I the case against King. He described particularly the ac- i tions of King at the coroner’s inquest IN ATLANTA THIS WEEK Post At Davidson ! contradictory statements. He ^ said King declared on one occasion he Davidson, N. C, July 2 -- 1 certain his wife did not commit Dr. Walter L. Lingle of Richmond, Va., has ac- suicide, and said she couldn’t have cepted the presidency of Davidson col- moved her own body, and on another lege, tendered to him by the board of The Clinton city schools are being | trustees in June, R. A. Dunn, acting represented at the National Educa- chairman of the board, revealed today, tional convention now in session in | Doctor Lingle, who is at present Atlanta by Mr. and Mrs. W. R. An-1 president of the Presbyterian Assem- derson, Jr., Mrs. H. A. Copeland, Miss, bly’s Training school at Richmond, Agrnes Davis and J. H. Witherspoon.! succeeds Dr. W. J. Martin, retired. occasion said she must have since she had threatened to do so. . . Judge Glenn said King told him he would tell more about it and that his (Continued on page eight) The revival, which had been in pro gress at the First Baptist church for the , past two weeks, came to a close last Sunday night with the church filled to capacity. The meeting was conducted by the Rev. W. D. Spinx, pastor of the First Baptist church of Laurens, and grew daily in interest. Mr. Spinx presented strong, appealing messages, earnestly and eloquently. He made a profound impression upon his hearers during tl^ entire meeting as a preacher of nurked ability. MID-STATE LOOP W L Newberry 1 0 Clinton 1 0 .Mollohon 1 0 Lydia 1 0 Laurens 0 1 Monarch 0 1 Goldville 0 1 W'attd 0 1 Prayer Band Is Organized .Announcement was made the past Sabbath morning from the pulpit of the local A. R. P. church that a Mon- Clemson College, July 1.—Data re- Pct. igarding boll weevil infestation gather- 1,000 ed during the week ending June 29 in 1,000 *^0 fields in Aiken, Bamberg, Calhoun, 1,000 ' Florence, Orangeburg, Greenwood and 1,000 Union counties, show sufficiently hea- .000 j vy infestation so that poisoning is .0001 generally needed and also that the .000 j infestation is much less in poisoned .000 fields than in the unpoisoned ones, RESULTS SATURDAY Mollqhjon 8, Goldville 4. Lydia 5, Laurens 4. Clinton Mill 7, Watts 6. Newberry 2, Monarch 1. says Prof. Franklin Sherman, ento mologist. “In these ea.stern counties. Dr. Sher man continued, “the squares are large enough to be attractive to the weevils, therefore count was made of the per centage of punctured squares in nine ed field, however, no weevils were day afternoon prayer band would be fields which had been poisoned, 8 1-2 per cent of the squares were punc tured, while in twenty-eight fields found. inaugurated on Monday at four “The standard rule is to poison at o'clock. Meetings are to be hell every the pre-square period if the weevils Monday in the church at four, and all which had not been poisoned 17 per appear numerous; and on fruiting cot- interested, irrespective of denomina- cent were punctured, showing the I ton to apply calcium arsenate dust tion, in the spiritual welfare of the damage to be twice as severe in the; when 10 per cent of the squares are' community and in the building up of unpoisoned fields. “In the two lower Piedmont coun ties the squares were less advanced, therefore the count was fewer weevils to the acre. Examination of two poii being punctured. Throughout the ^he Kingdom of the Lord by prayer, coastal plains the weevils were nu- are cordially invited to meet with this merous enough to call for pre-s(iuare prayer band every w’eek at the place poisoning, which was repeatedly urg- and time designated. The next mee;- ed, and now the percentage of punc- ing, however, will be held on Tuestlay, tured squares calls for dusting. Like- July 9th, at 4 o’clock, as the i^gular wise, we advised pre-square poisoning* Monday afternoon hour conflicts with soned fields did not reveal any weevils, whereas examination of nine fields jin the lower Piedmont on account of a previous meeting at the'chuiTh of not poisoned showed an average of j the numerous overwintered weevils | the Ladies Missionary society already 127 weevils per acre. In one unpoison- jand this advice still holds good.” | announced.