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/ I "IT ■HBHI ' * • . '. , • ■ t i ' '''•' T - ’ . ■r-Vv If Ton Don’t Rond THE CHRONICLE Ton Don’t Get Tfce Newt. Site (Elitttmt THE CHRONICLE , StriTen To Be a Clean Neva* paper, Complete, New»y and Rdlahle. VOLUME XXV CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1925 NUMBER 6 PROGRAM FOR MAYGLOSING Two Commencement Speakers An* nounced. Exercises To Be Day Earlier This Year. With the exception of the orator for the address before the graduating class, the commencement program of the Presbyterian College for 1925 has been completed and was announ ced yesterday by President Douglas. The baccalaureate sermon will be preached by Rev. R. G. Gillespie, D. D., the newly elected president of the flrtlnmhin ThxxU^ ff ii»nl yfrji»b is soon to be removed to. Atlanta. The annual sermon before the Young Men’s Christian Association will be delivered by the Rev; H. T. Phillips, D. D., pastor of the Trinity church of Columbia. The orator for commencement day has not yet been announced. It had been hoped that Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, would be the speaker but he has advised Dr. Douglas that he will be in Europe at that time and unable to accept the invitation. Nego tiations are now under way to secure a speaker of national prominence to take this place on the program. A change has been made this year in the usual commencement program that has been followed in the past. The exercises will continue through three days instead of four as hereto fore. Following the two sermons on Sunday, the orators-declaimers con tests will be combined and will be pre sented on Monday night. Tuesday morning the commencement proper exercises will be held. [ Shot Down ] Glenn Young, Dry Klan leader of Herrin, HI., who was shot down In the latest riot at that place. He leaves a blind widow, who lost her sight in rioting last year. The town is again under martial law. FOLLOW LAST YEAR PROGRAM ADVISED Department of Agriculture Urges Cotton Farmers To Follow Plan Used Last Year. Washington, Feb. 1.—The general outlook for American agriculture this year is “fairly encouraging”compared with recent years, the Department of Agriculture declares in its annual outlook report, made public today, but it added that there “may be a slack ening in domestic demand for farm products next winter.” BAPTIST HEADS MEET IN MEMPHIS Producers of the major farm crops, such as cotton and wheat, were advis ed to “follow about the same program of production as last year.” “Increased acreage of these crops,” it said, “are not advised this year.” “General business prosperity during the first half of this year will main tain the domestic demand for the 1924 farm products yet to be market ed,” the report continued, ‘and should stimulate the demand for the better grades of certain products. “The outlook for cotton, although perhaps less favorable than in 1924 from the standpoint of production costs, other wise is encouraging. From present indications, stocks at the end of the current season will not be large and the improved foreign demand should be maintained. Anoth er 13,000,000-bale crop could probably be absorbed at sustained prices. “If there is an average world crop of wheat in 1925 the present high price of wheat can not be expected to prevail for the 1925 crop, although prices are expected to be better* than in 1923. Growers of hard spring wheat are cautioned not to increase production above domestic require ments. - ' “From present indications ample credit for farming purposes will be available in most regions of the Unit ed States on more favorable terms. Interest rates now are somewhat low er than in recent years and credit needed should be arranged for in the early part of the season.” Twenty Million Dollar Educational Fund Will Get Attention By Association. Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 3—Disposition of funds raised during the past five years in the $20,000,000 campaign of the Baptist church and set aside for educational purposes will be discuss ed and probably settled at the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Edu cational Association that will be con vened here tonight with approximate ly ninety members present. Schools maintained by the Baptist church in the South number 121, and the president of each of these is a member of the association and entitled to a seat in the convention. Evolution, its inclusion in the cur ricula of Southern schools and the recent action of the lower House of the Tennessee Legislature in passing of a bill prohibiting its teacherjng in schools, will be included in the topics of interest to come before the conven tion members of the Baptist church in Memphis. GR£AT WRITER COMMENTS ON CLINTON ADVERTISING SIGN Arthur Brisbane, the highest paid newspaper writer in the world, in his column a few days ago assigned a paragraph to the impression he gath ered of Clinton upon passing through here recently en route to Florida. Here is what the distinguished gen tleman said: “The use of plain English is an art, and such plain English is visible from the window of this express train aa.it rushes through Clinton, a thriving settlement in South Carolina. A big sign be- - iitte' tfre "highway,?reads: • “Loafers, scalawags and bums don’t like Clinton. ^ “The heart knoweth his own bitterness. “The scalawag recognizes him self and passes on rapidly in this warm-hearted South. They let you know just how they feel. Their hospitality is overwhelm ing and so is the other thing.” Mr. Brisbane writes for the leading daily and weekly papers of America. Readers of The Chronicle are familiar with his interesting column that ap pears in this paper every Thursday. Incidentally, it might be stated that this reference to Clinton appeared in all the leading daily papers in the United States. From friends and ac- quaintances, the . publisher 1 ? Vf Tho Chronicle received this clipping taken from papers in*New York, Washing ton, Shreveport, Birmingham, Char lotte and Memphis. DRINKLESS SOLONS WOULD KILL LAW CHANGE MADE IN OFFICE FORCE R. J. Copeland, Jr., for several years secretary-treasurer of D. E. Tribble Company, has severed his connection with this concern . He is succeeded as bookkeeper by W. Ellwood Dillard, who has been connected with a large lumber company at Hardevilte for the past two years. FURNISHINGS BOUGHT FOR BABY COTTAGE The order has been placed within the past few days for the furnishings for the Mayes Memorial Baby Cot tage of the Thornwell Orphanage, which is neariiig completion. The home will be opend for the reception of children on March 16. REGULAR MEETING OF MASONIC LODGE On Friday night the regular month ly meeting of Campbell Lodge No. 44 A. F. M., will be held in the lodge rooms. The hour is 7:30 and work in the E. A. degree will be given. V. Parks Adair, the secretary of the lodge, urges that all members be pres- ^ ... .-.m—. FARMER IN FRENZY SLAYS 2 CHILDREN His Little Daughter and Son Beaten To Death. Moved By Spirit, He Says. Pottstown, Pa., Jan. 31.—Walter Bingham, a farmer of Warwick town ship, near here, while in a j*eligious frenzy, today beat to death two of his children. When policemen broke into the farm house they found the farm er’s father, George C. Bingham, 73 years old, alsd dead. His death, Cor oner Russell James of Chester county, said was probably due to excitement and heart disease. * Tonight Bingham was jn the Ches ter county jail violently insane, the police said. Bingham’s wife was at a neighbor’s house when the tragedy occurred. The dead children were Briscilla Bingham, 3 years old, and William Bingham, 18 months-old. Thursday night, according to Mrs. Bingham, her husband tried to convert her to his way of thinking in religion. An argu-. ment followed and he tried to strangle her. She was rendered Unconscious for some time. Friday night her hus band again attacked her and she fled to the house of a neighbor and re mained there overnight, fearing to return to her home. ' Today she became alarmed when nobody was seen about the farm house and the authorities at West Chester were notified. Breaking into the house, they found Bingham and a five-year-old son, Walter, Jr., stretch ed across a bed, with the dead grand father and the two lifeless children in the same rpom. The county officers seized Bingham and manacled him hand and feet. He said he was prompted by “spirits” to kill the baby. He evidently had beat en the infant to death with the han dle of a carpet sweeper. When his aged father died, Bing ham said he had to “scantify” the home by sacrificing the three year old girl. Her skull had been crushed. The coroner held an inquest and decided that Bingham had killed the two children and that the father died from excitement and heart trouble. MRS. JOHN C. DAVIS IS CRITICALLY ILL The many friends of Mrs. John C. Davis will be grieved to know that she is critically ill at her home near here. Her children have been sum moned to her bedside and her condi tion is described as alarming. All who know and love Mrs. Davis will learn with genuine sorrow of her con- idition and hope that it will show im provement. Head of Anti-Prohibition Movement Gives Opinions On Liquor . Situation. New Yory, Feb. 2—If members of congress were compelled to abstain from intoxicants for one week the Eighteenth amendment would be re pealed at the week’s end, William H. Stayton, head af the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, Inc., said tonight at an “enlighten ment dinner,” at the Hotel Astor un der auspices of the Citizens’ Com mittee of One-Hundred. “A group of wealthly men recently appointed him as a total abstainer and invited all other government officials to come forward and take the pledge,” said Mr. Stayton. “The polls are still open, but not one single vote has been cast. Repre sentative Upshaw has repeated his earnest call that members of con gress come to the mourner’s bench, but no one has budged. “These gentlemen who went to see the president unite with reformers of the United States in crying for en forcement. So far the authorities have failed to give us enforcement. Perhaps it is impossible to enforce the law-in the whole United States. I suggest that they try a more limit- ed task. “I recommend that they try to en force the prohibition law as it con cerns members of congress. That gives them about 530 individuals up on whom to try enforcement. It ought to be practiable to have a set of watchers ^o make sure that these 530 men obey this law for one week. At the end of the week the law would be repealed.” Upon the hypothesis that “no fundamentally dishonest law can en dure,” Representative John Phillip Hill of Maryland predicted a short life for the Volstead act, which he said was “fundamentally crooked,” because it “attempts to prepetuate the falsehood that one-half of 1 ‘per cent cider is legal and that one-half of 1 per cent beer is illegal.” Mr. Hill experimented with ' that act, wqs arrested for the manufac ture of wine and acquitted, the fed eral courts in Maryland holding that a beverage, to be illegal make, must be intoxicating in fact as well as in legal definition. If opportunity offers when there comes*before the house of represen tatives the Stalker bill, reenacting Section 29 of the Volstead act, Mr. Hill will, he said, offer an amend ment “designed to put a little hon esty into the act by placing the words ‘beer and ale’ beside the words ‘cider and fruit juices,’ which latter the Stalker measure would except from the one-half per cent definition of intoxicants.” “We can at least put congress on record as standing for or against equality between the city man and the farmer in this particular aspect of what is especially designated as law enforcement,” said Mr. Hill. Representative James A. Gallivan of Massachusetts expressed doubt that “anyone can make an intelligent gfuess what this farcical prohibition enforcement is costing the govern ment” At present, he thought, it was about $30,000,000 a year with a prospect of reaching $60,000,000 in the near future. He attacked efforts in congress to have a prohibition unit established as an independent bureau, saying “that proposal comes from the Anti- Saloon league, the source of all this mischievous legislation.” TAX EQUILIZATION COMES TO FRONT New Bill T* Be Introduced This Week As Revaluation Plan. 1924 Bill Was Killed. Columbia, Jan. 31.—Tax equiliza- tion, a.new issue in the present legis lative session, but a problem the cen ter of intense debate in former years, is expected to be brought into the forefront in the general assembly dur ing the coming week. Drafts and redrafts have been made of a bill which will be introduced in both houses within the near future, according to members of the legisla ture, and the measure will probably be completed in final form within a few days. Efforts to secure a satisfactory basis for revaluation and reassess ment of property for taxation have been made in the past, especially last year when measures were introduced in both houses of the legislature but failed of passage during the closing days of the session. Amendments to the highway act of 1924 so as to lower motor vehicle license fees and increase the gasoline tax will be before the general assem bly for consideration next week. In dications are that the senate will cen ter upon one of the many highway measures and discard the rfest. The Spruill-Jeffords road bill, to amend the “pay-as-you-go” act, has received a favorable report from the senate committee on roads, bridges and fer ries. This bill, which would lower li cense fees to $5 on automobiles weighing 2,000 pounds and under, and raise the gasoline tax from 3 to 5 cents, will have many supporters in the upper house, according to Chair man Stabler, of the roads committeee. A similar bill has been favorably re ported upon in the house. Definite action is to be taken by the house on the Goodwin concurrent resolution to extend time for payment of license fees until March 1. The house passed a resolution which plac ed it on record as favoring the exten sion, but the Goodwin resolution re quired three readings in the house be fore final passage. The senate had previously passed the resolution and sent it to the house. Although a concurrent resolution has been introduced in both houses for investigation of the feasibility of acquiring the Liberty Bank building for housing the state offices and de partments, the senate finance com mittee is expected to call up again its measure to authorize exxpenditure of $800,000 from the state sinking fund, instead of $500,000 as authoriz ed last year by the legislature. Fin ancial statements have been prepared and laid on the desks of the legisla tors with tables showing how amorti zation would take place. The house ways and means commit tee this week by a vote of 2 to 1 re jected the proposal, and certain sena tors have served notive of their inten tion to block the passage of the fin ance committee bill. Both houses of the legislature to day were in recess for the week-end, the senate and house having adjourn ed until Tuesday night. Although the senate has adhered to the custom of holding Monday night sessions, the disposal of many local measures, which are generally considered at these meetings, allowed the upper house to deviate from its course. While for the first two weeks the number of bills in the two houses was rather limited, there have been introduced this week on an average about thirty bills a day. Mm Wilson Today ] LARGE CROWD FOR SALESDAY County Officials Settle' Several Es tates and Dispose of Consider able Property. * - — "'Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, widow of our war president, at the dedica tion of the Wilson Memorial Tab let at the Central Presbyterian Church in Washington last week. INDIANS DEFEAT BLUE STOCKINGS ANNUAL MEETING OF GOOD SAMARITANS The annual meeting of Clinton Caravan of Good Samaritans will be held in the ladies room at Masonic Temple Sunday, February 8, at 3:30 p. m. It is hoped that every sub scriber will be presents Election of officers for ensuing year. Reports for past year. Some important mat ters as to future policy will be dis cussed and acted on. In Spite of Some Smart Caging New berry Wins In Well ■ Played Game. In an interesting and fast game here Monday night the Newberry college Indians defeated the Presby terian college Blue Stockings by the score of 34 to 26. At the end of the first half the In dians led, 13 to 7, and during the early part of the second period they in creased their margin to 14 points. The local team then rallied, however, and by a brilliant exhibition of goal shoot ing threatened to tie the score. The caging of Moore and Hunter, who together accounted for 24 of the Bluestockings’ 26 points and the floor work of Shealy, and the defensive work of Butler for Newberry were features of the game. Line up and summary: Newberry (34) Presbyterian (26) Gwilliam (11) F Hunter (13) Shealy (6) F Moore (11) Wollett (7) C Moffatt (2) C. Butler (5) ... G Walker Rickert (3) C Warner Substitutions: Newberry: Wallace for McPhee (2), A. Butler, Rhiel, Cromer. Referee, Galloway (Presby terian). Time of halves, 20 minutes. MEDICAL SOCIETY HOLDS MEETING DR. DOUGLAS TO • WORK FOR SEMINARY Dr. D. M. Douglas left Tuesday for Memphis to attend the Southern Edu cation conference in session this week. Upon his return he will stop in At lanta to speak in connection with the Presbyterian campaign now being conducted with a view to raising funds for the removal of the Columbia Theological Seminary to that city.. County Association in Session At Laurens Names Officers For , New Year. The Laurens County Medical so ciety held a monthly meeting in Lau rens Monday and after an interesting paper on “Focal Infections,” read by Dr. J. L. Fennel and discussed by oth ers, the annual election was held, the following being chosen as officers for the year: President, Dr. J. M, Bear den; vice-presidents, Dr. J.‘L. Doffnan and Dr. W. D. Ferguson; secretary- treasurer, Dr. J. L. Fennel. Dr. *J. Lee Young and Dr. R. E. Hughes were elected as delegates to the State Medical association which meets in Spartanburg in April. Dr. W. T. Pace and Dr. J. L. Donnan were nhmed as alternates; The meeting was well attended and much interest shown by the physician members. It is planned to hold regular monthly meetings throughout the year, the one for February to be held in Laurens and the one in March at Clinton. MR. M. S. BAILEY NOW AT HOME AGAIN Mr. M. S. Bailey, after a stay of several months at the Columbia Hos pital, returned to his home here Tues day accompanied by his daughter, Miss Connie Bailey. Following a serious operation several weeks ago, Mr. Bailey has been taking a com plete rest and is reported as greatly improved. His friends in the city, many in number, will learn with in terest of his return home and are glad that he is restored to his accus tomed health. A large crowd gathered at Laurens Monday for salesday. Through the office of clerk of court, sheriff, judge of probate, and trustees, a number of tracts of land and estates were of fered, aggregating several thousand dollars. The following sales were made: Clerk of Coart In the case of Peoples Loan k Ex change Bank vs L. P. Blakely, 106 acres fttar Ora,- sold" te A. C. Todd, attorney, for £4,200. Mrs. S. Y. Simpson vs Eugene E. Pitts, 23 acres near Mountville, sold to the plaintiff for $100. Sarah L. Mazyck vs J. L. Todd, 45 3-4 acres in Scuffletown township, sold to R. E. Babb, attorney, for $450. Union Central Life Insurance Co. vs Washington W. Davis, 201 899-100 near Clinton, sold to Washington W. Davis for $5,325. Farmers National Bank vs T. B. Sumerel, 30 acres in Pea Ridge sec tion, sold to R. E. Babb, attorney, for $5 and other considerations. __ Sheriff Peoples Loan k Exchange Bank vs Snow, 127 1-2 acres near Maddens, sold to A. C. Todd, attorney, for $645. Calvin Pitts as executor of the es tate of Berry Finley vs Tom Finley, et al, 171 acres near Maddens, to E. A. Adams and S. L. Moore for $2,175. Judge of Probate Mrs. Myrtle McDaniel in her own right and with R. R. McDaniel as ad ministrators of the estate of M. E. McDaniel, Jr., in settlement of the es tate of Mi E. McDaniel Jr.: 4 1-4 acres near Ekom to Mtfs. Myrtle Mc Daniel for $100; 24 acres to Mrs. Myr tle McDaniel for $50; 28 acres to Mrs. Myrtle McDaniel for $50; 108 acres to Mrs. Myrtle McDaniel for $200; one-third interest in 3 acres con taining store to J. C. McDaniel for $25. In settlement of the estate of R. Dunk Boyd: House and lot in Laurens for $6,000 to R. E. Babb, attorney; 163 acres in Dials township of old home place fog $6,900 to R. £. Babb, attorney. In settlement of the estate of J. R. Copeland, Clinton: Tract No. 1, one- half interest in 36.9 acres in Clinton, $1,762, to John H. Young; tract No. 2, fraction of an acre on Florida street, $300 to Mrs. Mayme Little Copeland; tract No. 3, lot on Shand street, for $100 to Mrs. Mayme Little Copeland; tract No. 4, one-half inter est in lot on Centennial street for $610 to T. D. Copeland; tract No. 6, one-third interest in brick store on Musgrove street to. G. P. Copeland for $2,500; tract No. 6, home place of J. R. Copeland to Mrs. Mayme Lit tle Copeland for $4,575; tract No. 7, one half interest in 25 1-10 acres partly in Clinton, to T. D. Copeland for $2,005. , Trustee Sale In settlement of the estate of J. M. Philpot: Tract No. 1, 213 acres in Jacks township to A. C. Todd, attor ney, for $1,000; tract No. 2, house and lot in Laurens to A.- C. Todd for $2,200. COLLEGE FRATERNITIES RNI ACCEPT NEW MEMBERS Last Thursday was “bid day” at the Presbyterian College with the five fraternities of the institution. Twenty- seven Freshmen were invited to affil iated with the respective clubs in ac cordance with plans outlined by the Pan Hellenic council, and considerable rivalry existed. The freshmen elect ed were: Pi Kappa Phi: Blankenship, Graf ton, Swedenburg, Hughs, Roberta, and Bankhead. Kappa Alpha: Jones, Witherspoon, McBrayer, Spratt Vaughan, and Ken nedy. Owl: Milner and King. Chi Tau: Farr, McKenzie, Brock, Stamps, Blalock, McFall and McLen don. Pi Kappa Alpha: Dugan, Blake, Woodley, Gaston, Sadler and La» Motte. NEW FARMER AT THE ORPHANAGE Mr. James J. Lynn of Chester, has been selected as foreman of the Thornwell Orphanage farm, succeed ing E. R. Knox, who has been trans ferred to the shop department. Mr. Lynn arrived in the city Monday to assume his new duties and will bring his family here at the close of the present school term in May. JOANNA MILLS TO ENLARGE CAPITAL The annual meeting of the stock holders of Joanna Cotton Mills of Goldville, has been announced for March 3, at which time the capital stock will be increased from $750,000 to $2,000,000. \