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Pridat» December 24» 1937
S. C. GROUP FIGHTING
HIGHER RAIL RATES
Columbia—South Carolina opposi.
tion to the proposed 15 per cent
freiffht rate increase asked by rail
road took definite form Wednesday
when letters, were written asking
“vigorous co-operation” from cong
ressmen in the fight.
J. K. Breedin, managing director of
the South Carolina Federation of
Commerce, Agriculture and Industry,
wrote the State’s Washington repre
sentatives, the Interstate Commerce |
commission and the Consumer’s coun-;
cil setting out opposition to the pro- ■
posed rate increase.
His letter:
HIGH TRIBUNAL UPHOLDS
PERCULIAR CANADIAN WILL
‘The directors of the South Caroli
na Farm council (a unit of the feder
ation) met today with producers and
shippers of agricultural products and
unanimously resolved to oppose any
increase in freight rates as would ap
ply to unprocessed farm products, in
cluding all the usual crops, as well as
vegetables and fruits.
“The meeting was representative
of all farming, trucking, and fruit
growing interest of the state and
was characterized by active partici
pation by all of the groups indicated.
“The farmer cannot pass these
items to his customers and must
therefore absorb all the costs which
can be charged against him. One
need not repeat what is so often
said, that the farmer pays an ad
ditional price as a consumer for all
the increases and advances which
other interests add to their costs and
pass in to the consumers; but the
farmer’s product is sold in markets
beyond his control, making :t unaveid
able that he should assume and ab
sorb all the items of cost.
“By direction of the council I send
you this letter soliciting very ear
nestly your vigorous cooperation.”
MILDRED DRAFTS
OPERA HOUSE Midnight Show Christmas Eve
Mildred Drafts, five year old daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Otis Drafts of
Leesville, died Wednesday morning at
the local hospital following a brief
illness.
Services were held Thursday after
noon at Cedar Grove Lutheran church
in Saluda county, conducted by the
Rev. L. O. Ruff.
Besides her parents surviving are
a brother, David Drafts and two sis
ters, Helen and Violet Drafts.
Ottawa, Ont.—The famous stork
derby will of Charles Vance Millar is
legal. All the courts have to do now
is to determine who gets the money.
Canada's highest court ruled Wed
nesday that the rich and eccentric
Toronto attorney had a perfect right
tq bequeath his fortune - estimated
at more than $500,000— to the mother
who bore the most children in Toron
to during a 10-year period dating
from his death; but it ruled also that
illegitimate children don’t count.
The supreme court decision left the
stork derby situation like this:
1. The petition of Millar’s “next
of kin” challenging the will is dis
allowed and the document stands val
id unless the judiciary committee of
the privy council in London— the
highest court of appeals in the Brit
ish empire—should decree otherwise.
An appeal there is considered hardly
likely.
2. The courts now must determ
ine what mother, or mothers, bore
the most children under the terms of
the will.
Today’s decision came simultane
ously with news from Toronto that
Mrs. Martin Kenny, the leading con
tender for the fortune, was out of
danger after the stillbirth of a child—
her sixteenth, according to Mrs. Ken
ny’s count, though other mothers
have disputed it.
Mrs. Kenny claims to have given
birth to 11 children during the 10-
year period specified by Millar’s will,
but only nine of them are registered,
as required by the will. “I really had
12”, she once said, “but I’m willing to
settle for 11. That’s enough to win.”
Validity of the Millar will was
challenged before the supreme court
by two .relatives of the prankster bai
rister. These relatives, Ababella
West and Alexander Butcher, asked
that the will be set aside on the
grounds that it was contrary to pub
lic policy.
They argued that the document.,
which Millar himself admitted in its
preamble to be “uncommon and cap
ricious,” was actually “monstrous ’
indecent,” and subversive to mother
hood.”
“We find it impossible to affirm
that a policy of encouraging large
families by pecuniary rewards to the
parents.... would have a tendency in
jurious to the State or to the people
as a whole....
“It is not sufficient to say that
some people may be, or probably
would be, tempted by the hops of ob
taining this legacy to conduct them
selves in a manner injurious to wife
and children.”
The effect of the court’s decision
that illigitimate children may nut be
considered as “children” under the
terms of the will is expected to re
move one of the mothers, Mrs. Paul
ine Mae Clark, from the lists.
Mrs. Clark claimed to have borne
nine children in the 10-year period
in Toronto; but a point was made
that five chidlren were born after
she and her husband were separated.
The mothers who claim to have
borne nine properly registered child
ren in the 10-year period and who
thus believe themselves entitled to
the fortune or shares of it are:
Mrs. Martin Kenny, Mrs. Kathleen
Nagle, Mrs. Lucy Timleck, Mrs. An
nie Smith, Mrs. Hilda Graziano, Mrs.
Grace Bagnato, and Mrs. Vera Mel-
drum.
Are The Cotton Mills Worth Keeping?
Sometimes our blessings seem so commonplace, and are so close to us, that we take them for granted
and do not adequately evaluate them.
'The cotton textile mills of South Carolina, for instance, have tor years been an intergal part of our
life, at our very elbows'wherever we turn. We have become so accustomed to them that we actually
look upon them as our just due, our very own, like the climate and like the many public facilities which
we jointly own and enjoy. In reality, however, the cotton textile mills are not public institutions at all.
They are privately owned corporations, though actually they produce benefits which are publicly enjoyed.
Together our cotton mills supply a very large proportion of the man-made assets which the state
affords. So many are the advantages which we as citizens derive from this industry, that hardly a man,
woman or child can be found in the State who has not benefitted from the payrolls or the sundry pur
chases of the mills, or the taxes which they pay.
It is suggested that you study the figures below in the light of the benefits which you derive as a
citizen, and ask yourself the question, “Are the cotton mills worth keeping?”
First, consider the payrolls—wages only—$56,498,852.00 in 1936, according to the Department of
Labor. Is it worth while to preserve this to supply the trade and income for our merchants, farmers, ed
ucators, bankers, doctors, lawyers, ministers, insurance men, and other trade and professional men and
women? In the face of the decrease in our agricultural income, what would we do without our industrial
payrolls? The bulk of these payrolls are spent right here in our State.
Then consider the huge purchases of the mills:
1,155,094 Bales of Cotton in 1936.
774,085,408 K. W. Hours of Electricity in 1936.
597,322 Tons^of Coal in 1936.
(S. C. Dept, of Labor Report of 1936)
And the huge amount of gasoline, oil, cord wood, building materials, freight, express end postal
services, and hundreds of other services and general equipment and supplies purchased each year by the
cotton mills. Together the mills’ purchases run into hundreds of millions of dollars as they buy from in
dividuals and corporations throughout the state. Together they represent the state’s largest customer.
These expenditures, when added to the millions of dollars of taxes paid by the mills, represent a
figure spent in South Carolina totaling $150,000,000.00. This is greater than the value of the State’s farm
crops, greater than the expenditures for highwayjpurposes, greater than the expenditures of the railroads
within the State, the power companies or any other single class of industry. It is greater than the total of
individual bank deposits within the State, nearly six times greater than the total savings deposits within
the State, greater than the total value of the annual products of all other industries in the State, and thir
teen times greater than annual public school expenditures in South Carolina.
The value to each South Carolina citizen of the annual expenditures of the cotton mills within the
State is apparent.
If these advantages are worth keeping, are they worth protecting?
The Cotton Manufacturers Association of S. C.
PERSONAL ITEMS
Mias Martha Jane Grey left the
city last week end to spend the holi
days with her parents in Ohio.
Miss Clara Schaeffer left Wednes
day morning for her home in Kansas
City, Kan., to be with her parents
during Christmas.
Miss Ethel Jones left Tuesday for
a visit with her sisters, Mrs. T. A.
Scarborough in Columbia, and Mrs. J.
C. Bragden in Brogden.
Miss Theressa Leightsey is spend
ing the Christmas holidays
home in Fairfax.
at
her
Teachers home from Columbia for
the holidays are Miss Lucy McCaugh-
rin. Miss Cornelia Mayer, and Miss
Pearl West.
Guardians of the estate have ex
pressed eagerness to settle the mat
ter promptly, but have petitioned the
courts to decide who is entitled to the
money.
Millar, a
wealthy liwyev, sports
man and bachelor, died October
1926.
31,
A DAUGHTER
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Robinson, of
Shelly street, announce the birth of
a daughter at the local hospital, on
Thursday, December 16. The little
girl has been named Sherry.
EXCHANGE BANK LANDS FOR
SALE
The receiver of The Exchange Bank
offers the following real estate for
sale: The Wallace house and lot on
College street; Johnstone lands on
paved road from Newberry to Po-
maria, subdivided into tracts contain
ing 48.28 acres, 50.69 acres and 59.80
acres; the "Boyd place, at Boyd’s cros
sing, on two railroads and public
highway from Newberry to Pros
perity. Call on the undersigned for
prices etc.
H. C. HOLLOWAY, Receiver
H. K. Bedenbaugh
SIGNS
House Painting
Interior Decorating
'‘Satisfaction Guaranteed”
1103 Boyce St. Newberry, S. C.
Miss Frances Jones will spend the
Christmas holidays in Cleveland, Ohio,
with her brother, Roy Jones and Mrs.
Jones. From Cleveland Miss Jones
goes to Pittsburg where she will join
Mr. and Mrs. Crosby Adams to attend
a music festival there.
HAL’S ABLETS—
We still have oddles of fine gift it
ems. A lot of merchandise arrived
last week end to replendish our
stock. You wont find us “sold out” of
nice things.
Our poinsettias and other Christ
mas potted plants are lovely. Some
said the store looked like fairyland
with all the lovely plants. We’d like
for you to see the flowers.
Cut flowers, carnations, roses, lilies,
gladiolus.
If you wish flowers devivered else
where we wire orders to all parts of
the world. Guaranteed service.
Books for children and adults. Lots
of them. 60c up.
God’s minute book of prayers 60c
and $1 editions.
Christmas cards. Plenty of nice
ones. New Years cards now on dis
play.
Christmas wreaths for home or ce
metery use. Made of painted
leaves and other preserved foli
and burs.
Canary birds, imported singe
Cages and stands. A canary in a cag
makes a lovely gift.
Our business this Christmas
been good. Thanks to the many who
like quality things. We have no rea
son to “sing the blues” about
ber sales. We are thankfuL
Christmas morning we will be op
en until noon, to take care of the i
mas day flower deliveries.
To one and all we wish a merry
Christmas.-
—Verna and Hal Ko
MORE
DAYS
INVENTORY
Tax Dodging Sale
Absolutely Ends Dec. 31st
NO Carrying Charges! NO Interest!
We have unanimously decided to
give to our people of Newberry
county this year’s inventory tax,
which is taken on January first, on
our stock of good, clean used cars.
1929 CHEVROLET TRUCK $65.00
1934—67 BUICK SEDAN $750.00
1926 DODGE SEDAN $125.00
1936—61 BUICK SEDAN $885.00
1931 CHEVROLET COACH $225.00
1929 DODGE SEDAN $50.00
1930 CHEVROLET SEDAN $215.00
1933 CHEVROLET COACH $315.00
1935 CHEVROLET STANDARD COACH $425.00
1931 CHEVROLET COUPE $195.00
1929 DODGE COACH : 75.00
1930 BUICK SEDAN 135.00
1935 CHEVROLET COACH $445.09
1936 FORD COACH $425.00
1932 CHEVROLET COACH $245.00
1931 CHEVROLET SEDAN $1».0V
1936 BUICK SEDAN $760.00
1934 CHEVROLET TRUCK $375.00
1927 CHEVROLET TOURING $65.00
Davis Motor Co.