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VOLUME XXV
CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1925
NUMBER 13
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PROGRAM ANNOUNCED FOR
APPROACHING CHAUTAUQUA
Redpath Seven Day Engagement Opens Here
May First Includes Many Brilliant
Attractions on Program.
A superb production of America's
best-loved comic opera, “Robin Hood”;
Bachman’s Million Dollar Band; the
great Broadway comedy success,
“Adam and Eva”; an Artists’ Night
recital featuring Ruth Ford, noted
me;zo-contralto; such headline lectur
es as Private Peat, world war hero (
and widely known, author, and Hon.
R. A. Nestos, former governor of
North Dakota; delightful programs
for children—all these are to be found
among the many, brilliant attractions
that will appear here at the Big Seven
Day Redpath Chautaqua which opens
on Friday, May 1.
The program will be launched on
the first afternoon with a popular
concert by the College Singing Girls,
five young ladies who will charm their
audience with the spirited rendition
of their widely varied program. Fol
lowing a concert by this company at
night, Hon. R. A. Nestos, former gov
ernor of North Dakota and a powerful
speaker on questions of current im
port, will deliver his inspiring ad
dress, “The Responsibilities of Lead
ership.”
On the afternoon of the second day
the Adanac Male Quartet, one of the
foremost male singing organizations
of the day, wjll present a splendid
program which, in addition to select
ions of genuine musical worth,' offers
many numbers provocative ■ of up
roarious laughter. On the second
night, after a concert by the Adanacs,
Wherahiko Rawei, Polynesian racon
teur, will present his fascinating lec
ture-entertainment, “Uncle Sam’s Sa
moan Islanders,” portraying in native
costume, amid a tropical stage set
ting, the arts, crafts, folklore and
tuneful music of these picturesque
people of the South Seas.
A clever program of magic and
Mystery of Reno, widely known magi
cian, will be given on the third after
noon, following which, Lester M.
Starnes, popular dramatic lecturer,
will present his unique lecture-fecitalr
“Shakespeare and Life,” On the night
of the same day, “Adam and Eva,”
sparkling comedy bubbling over with
fun and laughter, will be presented
by a cast of New York actors.
On the fourth afternoon, following
a prelude concert, by artists who will
be announced later, Frank Preston
Johnson, lecturer, sociologist and
newspaper man, will deliver his vital
ly interesting address, ‘The Basis ftf
Liberty.” The fourth night of Chau
tauqua week has been designated as
Artists’ Night and will feature a reci
tal by Ruth Ford, noted American
mezzo-contralto, with assisting art
ists.
Following a unique novelty enter
tainment by the Middletons’ Manikins
on the fifth. afternoon, Geoffrey F.
Morgan, well known educator, lectur
er and humorist, will speak upon “Suc
cess With Ease.” At night, “Robin
Hood,” De Koven's beautiful comic
The seventh day brings to chauiau-
qua a great entertainment band.
Bachman’s Million Dollar Band has an
assured place in the front ranks of
America’s popular bands, and the two
grand concerts, one in the afternoon
and one at night, which it will give
here under tbe direction of Harold
Bachman, will be outstanding events
and a fitting conclusion to the great
est chautaqua program ever given on
any chautaqua circuit. y
Among the most important Teatures
of the chautauqua are the special
programs for children, griven in addi
tion to the regular programs for
adults. On the third morning, Reno
the magician, will give a mystifying
program of magic and sleight of hand
which* will keep his small patrons
agog with excitement and breathless
thrills. Ada Ruth Jones will enter
tain the children on the third morn
ing with delightful stories illustrated
with clever pictures tfhich she draws
before the eyes of her spectators. The
Middletons’ Manikins, which are made
to dance and sing and give delicious
pantomines upon a mimic stage, will
be the feature of the fifth morning.
The entertainment for the sixth morn
ing will be announced later.
FLORENCE HEARS
HERBERT HOOVER
STATE OFFICIAL
ON P. C. PROGRAM
BOARD HOLDS
• FIRST MEETING
opem, will be presented by the May
'Valroti
G. M. Moore Reelected Chairman of
Equilization Board. R. L. Bailey,
of This City, a Member.
The Laurens' County Equilization
Board held its first meeting of the
year on last Tuesday in the office of
Auditor J. Waddy Thompson. G.
Marion Moore, of Waterloo township,
was re-elected chairman of the bbard.
During the next two weeks meetings
will be held by the township boards
of assessors with a view of equalizing
assessments already made and of ad
ding to the county books any property
not yet returned.
The following, who are chairman of
the various township boards of assess
ors, compose the County Equilization
Board:
Laurens, H. D. Mahaffey; Clinton,
R. L. Bailey; Cross Hill, A. M. Hill;
Laurens Township, B. B. Blakely;
Dials, L. W. Gilliland; Youngs, W. E.
Bobo; Scuffletown, O. L. Hunter;
Jacks, S. W. Dean; Hunter, John M.
Simmons; Cross Hill, George M. Han
na; Waterloo, G.'IM. Moore; Sullivan,
T. T. Woods.
CLUB NAMES
NEW OFFICERS
ne Opera Company with a no
table cast of principals, a spirited and
tuneful chorus, symphonic orchestra
and special scenic and lighting ef
fects. May Valentine, in person, will
conduct. “Robin Hood” is a chau
tauqua feature de luxe.
A grand concert on the sixth after
noon by the Zedeler Symphonic Quin-"
tat features the music of the masters,
popularly interpreted. Following a
concert by the same company at night,
Harold R. Peat, who as Private Peat
won an international reputation in the
telling of his experiences during the
great war, will deliver his noteworthy
lecture, “The Inexcusable Lie.”
Local Rotary Organization To Be
Headed By Prof. H. E. Sturgeon
For Coming Year.
The annual meeting for the pur
pose of electing officers for the Clin
ton Rotary Club was held during the
past week, at which time officials to
direct the club’s activities for the year
were named. > ,
Prof. H. E. Sturgeon was elected
president; D. W. A. Neville, vice-
president; Barnie Parrott, secretary;
R. C. Adair, treasurer. The board of
directors is composed of Dr. P. J.
Woods, A. O’Daniel, D. W. A. Neville,
Prof. H. E. Sturgeon, and Dr. S. C.
Hays.
The club has just closed a success
ful year under the presidency of Dr.
S. C. Hays. The newly elected offi
cers have assumed their duties and a
splendid year’s work is expected under
their leadership.
TENNESSEE GOVERNOR SIGNS BILL THAT
FORBIDS TEACHING EVOLUTION THEORY
Nashville, Tenn., March 23.—Ten-
ssee today rung down the curtain
i the Darwin-Huxley drama, when
jvernor Austin Peay signed a bill
ased by the geheral assembly cast-
g in discard the theory of evolu-
'as*
The governor defended his decision
declaring that the bill, conceived
Representative J. W. Butler of
ifayette, Tenn., represented a “dis-
ict protest against an irreligious
idency to exalt so-called science and
ny the Bible in some schools and
arters—a tendency fundamentally
■ong and fatally mischevious in its
fects on our children, our institu-
*ns and our country.”
The bill contravenes neither “free-
m of religion” nor “strict separa-
►n of church and state,” the govern-
said, these being “fixed principles
this country.” It is “manifestly
[possible,” the message continued,
or our school system to omit all at-
ntion to the Bibit and to wholly
no re it.”
“Nobody 'will deny,” the message
id, “that the Holy Bible teaches
at mail was created by God in His
own image. This bill is founded on
the idea and Ifelief that the very in
tegrity of the Bible in its statement
of plan’s divine creation is denied by
any theory that man descended or as
cended from any lower order ofr ani
mals. That such theory is at utter
variance with the Biljle story of man’s
creation is incapable of successful
contradiction.”
The ne^r act makes it unlawful for
any teacher in the universities, normal
or other schools/ of the state which ob
tain state funds “to teach any theory
that denies the story of the Divine
Creation of man as taught in the Bible,
and to teach instead that man has de
scended from a lower order of ani
mals.”
“it will be seen,” the message
pointed out,” that this bill does not
require any particular theory or inter
pretation of the Bible regarding man’s
creation to be taught in the public
schools when reference was made to
the clause in the constitution that ‘all
men have a natural and indefeasible
right to worship Almighty God ac
cording to the dictates .of their own
conscience’.”
Secretary of Commerce Says Country
Is Entering Period of Stability and
Praises Cooperative Idea.
Florence, March 23.—Herbert Hoov
er, secretary of commerce, introduced
by Congressman Allard Gasque of the
Sixth district as a “big man above
partisanship” told 150 citizens of
Florence and 100 of their guests to
night, at the annual dinner of the
Florence chamber of commerce, that
in his belief, the country was enter
ing upon the longest period of busi
ness stability it has ever enjoyed,
that every constructive suggestion for
agricultural betterment he had heard
revolved about cooperative marketing,
that government price fixing and gov
ernment buying* and selling were
alien to the American tradition and
that responsibility devolves directly on
the business community to provide
the leadership that farmers requite
in marketing and ^distribution prob
lems. Bankers, planters, business
men, extension agents and other key
men from every considerable com
munity in eastern South Carolina were
present.
Secretary Hoover spent the day in
Florence driving over the city, lunch
ing with a group of Pee Dee leaders,
and leaving for Washington im
mediately after the dinner, which was
sumptuously provided and "skillfully
managed in the Atlantic Coast Line
restaurant.
Senator Ellison Durant Smith, ill in
the Florence infirmary found himself
unable to introduce the secretary and
for that office president C. C. Chand
ler drafted Representative Gasque,
just returned from Washington. Sec
retary C. W. Morrison arranged the
banquet easily among the most nota
ble held in South Carolina in a long
while and which can not fail of last
ing effect toward that consolidation
of the Pee Dee region as a working
unit which has been one of the con
structive developments of the last
five years.
Economic problems are not parti
sans, Secretary Hoover said. They
receive in congress equal attention
from both major parties. Ninety-five
per cent of legislation there on eco
nomic matters is non-partisan in char
acter. "We have relegated partisan
ship to the background in our more
vital problems.” /
“Economic problems in the develop
ment of the Pee Dee as an agricultur
al community and the responsibilities
of local business men therein” was
the subject assigned the secretary of
commerce at a conference this noon
at the McLeod home. Stability in
agriculture and stability in commerce
and industry were interdependent, he
said. They are so interlocked that no
room is left for class feeling. The
outstanding hopeful factor is that con
sumers are increasing^ln the United
States more rapidly than producers.
American marketing has been a
haphazard growth and is enormously
complicated by the fact that the aver
age haul of agricultural commodities
is 1,500 miles .as against 150 in Eu
rope. Waste is enormous between
farmer and-consumer.
“I have seen no constructive sug
gestion of large importance for Amer
ican agriculture,” said Mr. Hoover,
“that does not revolve directly around
cooperative marketing. Only by that
procedure can we secure more orderly
and economical progress of product
from producer to consumer and elimi
nate the local glut. But its reactions
on agriculture are even more benefi
cial than its economics. When all
farm commodities can be sold on
weight and grade by certificate, as is
already done in certain lines, market
ing will be enormously simplified.
Another vital phase relates to the Or
ganization of terminal facilities. The
vast bulk of our commodities are now
distributed from 15 to 18 great termi
nals, the personnel of which performs
indispensable functions in the latter
stages of distribution. A minority
however, is of the ‘fly-by-night’ de
scription and there is no organization
to coordinate terminal services, that
being *one of the few major fractions
in our marketing system remaining
unorganized. About 100 firms han
dle 87 per cent of all the commodities
arriving in New York. The principal
difficulties are had with those who
distribute the other 15 per cent. New
York City consumes 25,000 carloads
less than it would absorb were termi
nal fynctions rationalized. Solution
of the terminals problem will elimi
nate. 20 per cent of distribution cost.
That is the reasonable service of the
business community.
“Stabilizing of agricultural imper
atively needs the establishment of a
federal cooperative marketing board,
the formation of terminal associations
and the exemption of cooperatives I
from the conspiracy in restraint of,
trade laws. That is not government!
regulation nor putting the government
into business. I believe farmers when]
they understand the need for them
will demand these things.”
Superintendent of Education J. # H.
Hope To Address Presbyterian
College Graduates.
Plans for the 1925 commencement
exercises of the Presbyterian, College
have been completed, it was stated
yesterday by the college authorities.
* As previously announced in The
Chronicle, the exercises will open on
Sunday, May 31, with the annual
baccalaureate sermon by the Rev. R.
T. Gillespie, D. D., president of the
Columbia Theological Seminary.'
On Sunday evening the sermon be
fore the Young Men’s Christian Asso
ciation will be delivered by the Rev.
Henry D. Phillips, D. D., pastor of the
Trinity Episcopal church of Colum
bia. »
The commencement day exercises
proper will lie held this year on Tues
day morning instead of on Wednesday
as heretofore. The Hon. J. H. Hope,
state superintendent of education, has
accepted the invitation to deliver this
address before the graduating class,
and with his selection the program is
now completed.
The orators-declaimers contests will
be combined this year and will be
presented on Monday evening.
President D. M. Douglas .feels parti
cularly fortunate in his selection of
speakers for the occasion. The grad
uating class is composed of thirty-one
young men, the largest in the college’s
history. The approaching commence
ment season marks the completion of
one of the most successful year’s the
institution has ever experienced.
COUNTY PAGEANT
PLANS PROGRESS
M’LEOD SIGNS
NEW GAS BILL
Tax Increased To Five Cents and Au
tomobile License Fees Reduced
Below First Schedule.
DEFEATED BILL
AGAIN REVIVED
General Occupation Tax and Taxation
of Soft Drinks and Cosmetics Now
Proposed In Senate.
Historical Presentation To Be Staged
In Laurens April 25. Wide
Interest Expected.
According to ipformation given out
by the county superintendent of edu
cation, the historical pageant, depict
ing the history of Laurens county, will
take place on the Laurens baseball
grounds on Saturday afternoon, April
25. Practices are now going on all
over the county and the event is ex
pected to create a great deal of inter
est among the people of the county
and Piedmont section! The pageant
will be unique, according to Miss Wof
ford, in thaT parts will be carried en
tirely by school children, except for
a few of the more important parts.
The pageant will open with a her
ald, who will announce each episode.
Duckett Young, of the Laurens city
schools, has been chosen for this part.
He will be dressed in
herald’s costume and will be accom
panied by two pages. Following the
announcement of the herald the sym
bolic prelude will be danced by the
high school girls of the Clinton high
school, who will present four dances
representing the four seasons, with i
Columbia, March 24.—The act of
the general asembly, increasing the
state gasoline taxes to five ceQts a
gallon and reducing the motor vehicle
license fees, is now the l$w of the
state, having last night been signed
by Governor Thomas G. McLeod.
The increased tax on gasoline—two
cents higher than the rates now in
effect and oqe cent higher than any
similar tax charged elsewhere in the
United States—becomes operative im
mediately and gasoline prices are ex
pected to be increased two cents a
gallon throughout the state this morn
ing, it was stated last night by Walter
G. Query, chairman of the state tax
commission. At all events, Mr. Query
said, gasoline dealers will be held
liable for the^6ollection of the addi
tional two ^mts.
The reduction of the motor vehicle
license fees—to a comparative ' scale
lower than the “pay as you go” road
act schedule but higher than the rates
in effect in T924—is retroactive to
January 1, 1&25,* and as a result the
state highway commission will make
refunds of from approximately 26 per
cent to 33 per cent to the nearly 90,-
000 motorists who have already pur
chased 1925 license plates at the high
er rates.
Receipts from the five cent gasoline
tax will be divided between the state
highway department, the highway
commission receiving the return from
three cents a gallon of the tax and
the counties the receipts from the
remaining two cents.
Changes affected by the law may
be seen:
Gasoline trfx—
State highway department—three
cents as compared with the three
cents allowed under the “pay as you
go” road act anti the two cents al
lowed during 1924.
Counties—two cents as compared
with the no cents allowed under the
“pay as you go” road act and the one
cent allowed during 1924.
Counties’ quota of the gasoline tax
to be distributed on the basis of the
motor vehicle license fees received
from each county instead of on the 0 * 1.
basis of property valuation
1924.
as m
Columbia, March 24.—A general oc
cupation tax and taxation of soft
drinks and cosmetics were proposed
by the senate finance committee Tues
day night as measures to raise funds
needed to prevent a deficit in the fis
cal operation of the state this year.
The proposed occupation tax, which
would require a license fee of every
person, firm or corporation receiving
any income from a tpiefoess, profes
sion or trade, was intended as a sub
stitute for the chewing tobacco and
snuff tax bill passed by the house.
No change was made in the rates of
taxation proposed dri soft drinks in
the bill as originally reported out by
the finance committee, which was
killed by the senate, only to be resur
rected and recommitted, but cosmetics
were added to the {articles to be sub
jected to the tax.
It was estimated , that the occupa
tion tax, as proposed, would raise
$800,000, and that the soft drinks and
cosmetics tax would produce $1,000,-
000 during the remainder of this year.
That would be the sum which calcu
lators believe is necessary to supple
ment revenue from existing taxes to
meet the appropriations contemplated
in the general appropriatidns bill, car
rying nearly $6,500,000 for state pur
poses, exclusive of public schools and
highways.
Persons, firms or corporations
whose income for last year was under
$1,000 gross would be exempted from
the occupation tax. The scale of rates
in the measure, the tax in all cases to
be computed on gross income, is as
follows:
From $1,000 to $2,000, $5 a year.
From $2,000 to $5,000, $10 a yey.
From $5,000 to $10,000, $15 a year.
from $10,000 to $50,000, $50 a year.
From $50,000 to $100,000, $100 a
year.
From $100,000 to $500,000, $150 a
year.
From $500,000 to $1,000,000, $20Q a
year. •
More than $1,000,000, $250 a year.
Other taxes provided for in this
meaure are: circuses, $100 a day;
transient vendors or pedlers of patent
medicines or “other like substances,”
$5 a week.
The taxes would be payable annual-
License fees:
Automobiles weighing 2,000 pounds
or less—$9 as compared with the $12 ly on April 1, except for this year,
charged under the “pay as you go” when they would become due and pay-
a traditional' act and the * 6 charge^ in 1924.
For each additional 500 pounds or
able June 1.
“The term gross income,’
according
fraction thereof—$3 as compared with to the text of the proposal, "means
the $6 of the “pay as you go” road the Kross income as shown and defined
act and the $2 of 1924. | on t he indome tax return of the per-
Trucks of a capacity not exceeding, son > firm or corporation. ’
one ton—$30 as compared with $30 of | Besides soft drinks, the cosmetics
the “pay as you go” road act and the an ^ similar articles that would be
spring maidens predominating, giving j °f *^24.
to Laurens county her warm climate
and beautiful seasons throughout the
year. Following the dances of the
seasons, the birds and flowers, the
first creatures to ever inhabit Laurens
county, will also give two dances. The
primary children of the Mountville
high school will take this part.
The following schools will take part
in the pageant: Clinton, Mountville,
Barksdale-Narnie, Prospect, Center
Point, Hurricane, Eden, Hickory Tav
ern, Warrior Creek, Shiloh, Laurens,
Wadsworth, Cross Hill, Watt* Mill,
Princeton, Mt. Olive, Trinity-Ridge,
Lanford, and Gray Court-Owings.
SPEAKER NAMED
FOR GREENWOOD
W. B. Byers To Represent Presbyter
ian College With H. J. McLaurin
' As Alternate. *
The preliminary contest to select a
representative for the college in the
State Intercollegiate Oratorical con
test to be held next month in Green
wood, occurred within the past week.
W. B. Byers, of Rock Hill, was named
as the first honod man and the dis
tinction goes to him. The subject of
his oration was “The Challenge.” H.
Trucks exceeding one ton and not
taxed are named as follows: lipsticks,
rouge, face paints, face powders, tal-
over two tons—$60 as compared with! 0151 * 1 powders, toilet waters, perfum
$60 of the "pay as you go
act and the $30 of 1924.
Trucks exceeding two tons and not
above three tons—$120 as compared
with $120 of the “pay as you go”
road act and the $60 of 1924.
Trucks exceeding three tons and not
road er y. oils, hair dyes, and pomades.
Such articles would be taxed at the
rate of five cents for each 25 cents of
retail selling price or fraction thereof.
Soda fountain drinks would be tax
ed 15 per cent. Bottled drinks, the
measure provides, would pay a tax of
above four tons—$200 as compared ten cents a dozen.bottles on drinks re
with $200 of the “pay as you go” road ' tailing for five cents a bottle,-and ten
act and the $100 or 1924.
Trucks exceeding four tons and not
above five tons—$400 as compared
with the $400 of the “pay as you go”
road act and the $200 of 1924.
cents a dozen on each additional five
cents or fraction of selling price. Bot
tled drinks shipped outside of the
state would be exempted from the tax.
The drinks are listed by the bill as
Trucks exceeding five tons and not follows: “Soda water, ginger ale, coca
above six tons—$600 as compared Jcola, lime cola, near beer, beer, fruit
with the $600 of the “pay as you go” j juices, and all fountain drinks and
road act and the $250 of 1924. other beverages commonly designated
Trucks exceeding six tons—$800 as as .‘soft drinks’.” Soft drinks sold
compared with the $800 of the “pay j and delivered at schools would be ex-
as you go” road act and the $350 of empted from payment of the taxes.
1924. | Enforcement of the provision? of
Fifty per cent reduction allowed both the revenue measures would be
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POLITICAL RECONSTRUCTION EUROPE
BE DISCUSSED AT LONDON CONFERENCE
London, March 23.—Another Euro
pean conference similar to that held
J. McLaurin, of Sumter, was selected j j n London last summer to put the
as alternate, his subject being “The i Dawes reparations plan into effect,
New Eldorado.” I b u 't this year looking toward Euro-
*The contest will be held in Green- pean political reconstruction rather
wood on the evening of April 16, with j than economic rehabilitation, is the
representatives participating from all
the male colleges in the state
Spring Holidays
subject of negotiations between the
British and French foreign offices.
Preliminary plans for such a con
ference, which would be held in Au
gust, were revealed today as a result
At the College of much week ' end newspaper specula
tion, which intirpated that new sub
jects of disagreement had arisen be-
The annual spring holidays at the tween London and Paris on the sub .
Presbyterian College will begin to- jectg of European securities.
morrow and continue through Tues
day, the 31st. Practically the entire E land of the necessity
student body will go fame for several a COTnmon basi8 upon wb
Realization by both France and
for finding
which to build
days “rest” and class room activities new Eut . orean security pact to re-
Mr. J. W. Young was called to Dur
ham N. C-, Saturday on account of
the illness of big mother. \
for a few days, at least, will ceafee. Uce the abandon ed Geneva protocol
Tomorrow evening the Pan-Hellenic f respon8ib i f for the movement to-
banquet, the outstanding event of the ward a - enera j gathering of European
year, will be given in the college din- atate8men i n the British capital. The
ing hall, and a large number of out- absence 0 f the'strong support of the
of-toirn young ladies will be present United States, which was the greatest
1924, will be felt greatly by the Brit
ish, but it is hoped, will not prevent
carrying out the plans now being con
sidered. In allying years of new dif
ferences between France and Great
Britain, it was authoritatively assert
ed that the discussions relating to the
proposed conference as yet have
reached only a very preliminary stage.
■The attitude of both governments
seems to be, however, that some de
finite program for European security
must be ready for presentation to the
League of Nations asembly in Sep
tember. Moreover,, it is felt that
whatever is off&red as a solution of
the security problem must be satis
factory to all the principal countries,
unless Anglo-French prestige in di
recting European affairs is to suffer
a material decline.
Both nations agree on the necessity
of a pact safeguarding the Rhine fron
tiers and British statesmen differ
widely on the scope of the pact and
on the methods to be pursued in ob-
for the b*PPy occasion.
factor
in the London conference of .taining assent to it
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