The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, December 30, 1926, Image 1
RECALL LATE
WAR LEADER
COOUDGES GIVEN
FINE CHRISTMAS
Seventieth Birthday of Woodrow
Wilson Is Observed At For*
mer President's Home.
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Presents From All Puts of the World
Arrive. Delivered by Tracks.
President Goes To Church.
Staunton, Vs., Dec. 28.—Woodrow
Wilson was the most dramatic figure
among our presidents, said R. Gray
Williams, president of the Virginia
Stats Bar association, tonight at the
anniversary celebration here marking
the 70th birthday of 1 the wartime lead
er. Mr. Williams was the principal
speaker at a binquet in a local hotel
to which about 200 persons came.
“Wilson,** said Mr. WUliams, “did
not, in a moment of victory, like Lin*
coin, have the processes of his own
immortality accerelated by an assas
sin’s bullet; but he played boldly, on
a broader stage, before h larger au
dience v to the climax of the last act
when he gave his own life in the brave
effort to save the lives of others.
“Had fate been kinder he should
have died when he uttered that last
moving appeal for the covenant at
Pueblo. But he lingered on, wounded
in body and spirit, to suffer most of
all the knowledge that it was more
hatred of his power and prestige than
sincere opposition to the league and
the treaty that animated men like
Lodge in the fight to ruin his work.
“Woodrow Wilson was hated by
many men in high places during his
life and the poison gas, spread on the
wings of animosity, has clouded his
shining face from the eyes of the peo
ple he served. Charges conceived in
malice or envy or wounded pride were
circulated against him. Even yet the
hostile gas hovers over the tomb of
Wilson. But a majestic wind of elo
quence dispelled these vile, vapors on
at least one day when Edwin Anderson
Alderman, president of the University
of Virginia, stood before the president
and congress of the United States, and
spoke brave and brilliant words of af
fection and loyalty of this old student
of our university.”
Mr. Williams said that the “fatt re
mains that majority public opinion in
America feels that* Woodrow Wilson
both failed himself and increased the
difficulties of his country at a time
of peril.”
“The most disturbing revelations of
a weakness in Mr. Wilson was his suc
cessive breaks with close friends,”
said Mr. Williams. “I have been at
some pains to gather information
about bis breaks with Col. George
Harvey, with Colonel House and with
Secretary Lansing.
“In the case of Colonel Harvey ,Mr.
Wilson was brutally frank in admit
ting that Harvey’s support was doing
him more harm than good; but at best
an intimacy between Harvey and Wil
son was utterly unnatural. Wilson
was an idealist; Harvey a realist.
There was always a cynical quality in
Harvey. that revealed itself when he
said in London that America had
fought only to save her own skin.
“Harvey had his reward, one that
doubtless consoled his wounded pride,
for he was one of the most effective
sappers and miners that blew up the
league and the treaty in the senate.
“Lansing was distinctly second rate
and illustrated Wilson’s weakness in
the selection of men for large places.
His owiv book reveals that he was
hopelessly at variance with Mr. Wil
son’s views and that he should have
resigned both as a matter of self-
respect and loyalty to his chief.
“No one can doubt the loyalty and
love that Colonel House felt for Wood-
row Wilson, and yet, Wilson had ele
vated House to his high estate and it
was not in the st*>rn nature of this
Scotch-Presbyterian covenanter to dis
semble his feelings where Colonel
House conceded so much, for which
Wilson intended to stand firm, be
tween the time Wilson left Paris with
the draft of the League in his pocket
Washington, Dec. 25.—Christmas,
judged by the variety and plums of
remembrances received, excelled all
previous celebrations of the kind for
the President and Mrs. Coolidge.
Vice President Dawes, who went
home to Illinois for the holiday, un
knowingly contributed to their yule-
tide observance while thousands of
others outside Washington’s offHial-
dom, scattered in high and lor# places
throughout the nation, were among
those who remembered the chief ex
ecutive and his family at the White
House.
The day could not be counted a holi
day. President Coolidge worked pan
of the forenoon preparing the address
he will deliver nt Trenton, N. J., on
Wednesday. Meanwhile, Mrs. Cool
idge, assisted by her son, John, divided
her time between household duties and
unwrapping presents which continued
to arrive in bulk during th day.
These labors, however, gave way
shortly before noon to another engage
ment, father, mother and soq attend
ing church service. They motored
through the rain to Foundry Metho
dist Episcopal church on Sixteenth
street, where the service was conduct
ed under the auspices of the Washing
ton Federation of Churches.
The Dawes touch to the Goolidge’s
crowded calendar was added during
the service when the organist render
ed the “Melody in A,” composed by
the Vice President.
The President and his family re
turned to the White House after a
half hour’s ride through some sections
of the city, and after luncheon he and
Mrs. Coolidge again tackled the job of
opening parcels, reading hundreds of
telegrams and as many as possible of
the thousands of greetings delivered
by trycks from the postoffice.
White House attaches could only es
timate these in thousands, explaining
that there were too many to be count
ed. Of the gifts received by the Pres
ident, there was a great predominance
of walking sticks, cigars and cigar
holders, while Mrs. Coolidge’s share
included a wholesale supply of hand
kerchiefs, gloves, silk stockings,
shawls candy and flowers.
In the evening, the Attorney Gen
eral and Mrs. Sargent with Mr. and
Mrs. Frank W. Stearns of Boston,
White House guests, joined the Pres
idential family for a turkey dinner.
Elsewhere about the capital there
was the usual celebration of Christ-
mastide, despite the chill and gloom of
overcast skies and intermittent wintry
showers and the absence of scores of
Congressmen and government officers
who had gone “back home” for the
holidays.-
Only part of the President’s cabinet
remained in Washington. One of its
members, Secretary Davis, of the La
bor Department, had a Christmas tree
in his Markham Park Hotel apart
ment for his five children, who had in
vited a number of little friends for the
festivities.
The day was celebrated at the fifty-
three embasies and legations here in
a variety of ways representing a con
trast in foreign tongues and yuletide
customs.
tartinfl
cw Year
Columbia, Dec. 25.—South Caroli
na’s total bf taxable property assessed
for taxation is reduced by the reas
sessments of 1926 to $424,868,722, a
New York, Dec. 27.—Beacons in the
T , _ banking and industrial world point a
decrease of $5,218,644' under the total fair weather course for the good ship
of assessed values for 1925, the as
sessment statistics for the state made
public today by A. J. Beattie, Comp*,
troller General, reveals.
The reduction brings the total of as
sessed values to a mark within $800,-
business in 1927. Forecasts of opti
mism, tempered with notes of conser
vatism, were available today in state
ments on the outlook for next years’
business from heads of railroads,
banks and industrial corporations. The
000 of the assessed total for 1928—the navigable seas of commerce ar not
LOCAL CONCERNS
PAY DIVIDENDS
SHOOTING AFFRAY
HELD IN LAURENS
Pender Seay Shot By Austin Wilburn.
Caused By Quarrel Between Chil
dren of the Two Families.
Laurens, Dec. 24.—J. Pender Seay
was carried to the Laurens' hospital
yest^day afternoon in a critical con
dition and Austin J. W’ilbum is in jail,
charged with ' shooting the former
times at the Laurens Cotton
, Mill shortly after the noon hour. It
and the time when he returned to find wa8 stated'that all three shots enter-
the covenant separate from the treaty ^ ^ two on the i e ft side and
in the stomach.
“I think that much of the misunder- The . trou bi e between the two men
standing of Mr. Wiisdn^ said the sta rted Wednesday, it is said, when
Semi-Annual Checks Go Out To Stock
holders of Local Banks, Mills
and Corporations.
Saturday is dividend day—a glad
day for stockholders of Clinton banks,
mills and other corporations paying
their ustixl January first dividends.
All of the corporations have just clos
ed a satisfactory business for the year
and are looking forward to a prosper
ous New Year. The following is a
record of the dividends that are being
paid, aggregating $40,500.
The First National Bank, 4 per cent
semi-annual on a capital stock of
$14)0,000—$4,000.
The Commercial Bank, 4 per cent
semi-annual on a capital stock of $50,-
000—$2,000.
M. S. Bailey & Son, Bankers, is a
private institution and does not pay
a dividend, but reports an entirely
satisfactory year’s business.
Lydia Cotton Mills, 3^4 per cent
semi-annual on $500,000 serial notes—
$17,500.
The Clinton Cotton Mills, 4 peY cent
semi-annual oh capital stock of $350,-
000—$14,000.
The Peoples. Bonded Warehouse, 10
per cent r unnual on capital stock of
$20,000—$2,000.
The Clinton Bonded Warehouse, 10
per cent annual on capital stock of
$10,000—$1,000. This dividend was
paid in June.
Young Bros. Live Stock Company is
paying its usual annual dividend on a
capital stock of $25,000.
OSAGE INDIANS’
STOCKINGS FILLED
Z. H. Tinsley Laid
To Rest Sunday
Each Indian Given $2,300 for Christ
mas Shopping Purposes. Children
Enjoy Santa’s Visits.
Pawhuska, Okla., Dec. 25.—Ele
phantine stockings were required to
day to hold the Christmas presents
among the Osage Indians—the weal
thiest race on earth, per capita.
Each Indian on the tribal rolls was
allowed $2,300 with which to do his
or her yuletide shopping.
I Recent sales of fur coats, diamonds
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and expensive motor, cars by local
merchants indicate that giving was
lavish and widespread. A great feast
was in progress today in the Indian
village on the outskirts of Pawhuska.
It was followed by a dance, or series
of dances, whiph lasted far into the
night. The Osages, despite their af
fluence which would give them entree
into any of the white man’s restau
rants or gilded ball rooms, prefer their
feasts of beef and buffalo meat, bar
becued over smoked camp fires or
“jerked” and allowed to dry in the
sun. Likewise they cling to their tri
bal dances.
One element, “firewater,” was con
spicuously absent' from their celebra
tions today. Enforcement officers of
the Osage agency not only have dam
med, as far as possible, the flow of
liquqor onto the reservation, but are
using strong persuasion to restrain
the younger men from ioing outside in
search of refreshments.
To the children of the Osages, Santa
Claus is a very real person who
brings them wonderful gifts and they
await his coming just as eagerly as
their little white cousins:
record for the previous assessment pe
riod—and marks a decline in property
assessed of approximately $28,000,000
since'1921. The loss over the reas
sessment year—once every four years,
all property.in the state is reassessed
for taxation—fails, however, to equal
the reduction made four years ago
when by reassessment approximately
$20,000,000 was cut from the taxable
property total.
Hie fluctuations of the total assess
ed values over the two assessment
years, 1926 and 1922, and the inter
vening years are shown as follows:
1921, $452,490,600; 1922, $435,999,-
839; 1923, 424,015,714; 1924, $428,601,-
724; ’925, $430,082,368 and 1926, $424,-
836,722.
The cuts, Mr. Beattie’s figures re
veal, are distributed generally
throughout the state, reductions being
made in thirty-six of the state’s forty-
six counties. The greatest reductions
are in Anderson county, where valuee
fell $1,608,675; in Union county the
assessment total dropped $852,090; in
Marlboro county values were reduced
$755,035, and Aiken county $740,430.
The one major increase is in Spartan
burg county,. the assessed values of
which gained $1,129,673 by the reas
sessment.
Reductions were made in Abbeville,
Aiken, Allendale, Anderson, Bamberg,
Barnwell, Beaufort, Calhoun, Charles
ton, Cherokee, Clarendon, Colleton,
Darlington, Dillon, Edgefield, George
town, Grenewood, Hampton, Horry,
Kershaw, Lancaster, Laurens, Lee,
Lexington, McCormick, Marion, Marl
boro, Newberry, Oconee, Orangeburg,
Pickens, Saluda, Sumter, Union, Wil
Hamsburg and York.
Increases are shown in Berkeley,
Chester, Chesterfield, Dorchester,
Fairfield, Florence, Greenville, Jasper,
Richland and Spartanburg.
Statistics as to the proportion of
real and personal property included in
the assessment totals are as yet un
available, Mr. Beattie said, but the
figures already on file at his office
seem to indicate, he said, that the
greater proportion of the reductions
are due to the several banjt failures of
the year.
The assessed values by counties—
including $75,000 in the total - for Rich
land county, .which amount is on the
Columbia canal property and as such
available only for state and school
taxes—are shown:
speaker, “was due to the fixed incli
nation of men of affaire to assume
that Candidates for office mean only
a little of what they say.
“Woodrow Wilson was the best pres
ident in our history to accomplish a
great program of economic reform.
He did accomplish such a program
and he might well have had a second
term equally as successful, had the
greatest of wars not broken clamor
ously in upon his studious *.calm.
“The World war was a horror to
Woodrow Wilson. He recognized in
his moving war messages that it was
a fearful thing to lead this great
peaceful people into W*r, into the most
terrible and disastrous of aU ware.
eyes too often beheld him
the children of the two families, who
are neighbors in the Laurens mill vil
lage, became involved in a quarrel. It
was further stated that Seay went to
the Wilburn home Wednesday night
and accused a negro woman, employed
by the Wilburn family, of punishing
one of the Seay children. As a result
of this disturbance, Seay was arrested
and tried here in the Mayor’s court
yesterday and fined ten dollars, five
of which was suspended by Mayor
Long.
Shortly after beginnig their work at
the mill in the afternoon the trouble
between the two men was renewed.
After the difficulty Wilburn came to
town and surrendered to officers, stat
ing that he had shot Seay in setf de-
tic, harsh, /item, unfeeling;. fense while the latter was approaching
of
but not one
re and doubt the quick
hie heart to human sufferings.
“Woodrow Wilson said ho preferred
to play for the verdict of history.
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speech* him with ah open knife.
Both men ihbted here from Tennes
see 15 or 20 years ago. Seay is said
to be about 55 years old and is much
larger than Wilburn, who is also sev
eral yean the younger.
Laurens, Dec. 27.—Funeral services
were held today from Friendship
Presbyterian church, Sullivan town
ship, for Zach H. Tinsley, 66, well
known citizen and farmer of the coun
ty, who died at his home in the Trinity
Ridge section early Saturday morning.
M.r Tinsley was a progressive farmer
and had only, recently completed a
handsome new home. He is survived
by his widow and several sons and
daughters.
Bank of Mountville
Pays Dividend
HARRIS SPRINGS
HOTEL BURNED
Building and Furniahings Go Up In
Smoke Friday Night. Manager
Absent In Florida.
Depositors of the Bank of Mount
ville, which closed its doors in the
tall of 1924, were mailed dividend
checks of 15 per cent of their deposits
last week. A dividend of 25 per cent
was paid some time last year, mak
ing the total recovery by depositors
of 40 per cent to date.
SCHOOLS TO OPEN
ON NEXT MONDAY
The city and orphanage schools will
reopen next Monday moming after a
two weeks’ vacation period for the
Christmas holidays. The Presbyterian
college will resume class-work ou
Tuesday.
nishings were destroyed by fire of un
known origin at midnight Friday while
Manager V. A. Purvis and his family
were absent in Florida.
Cottages recently built on the hotel
property were endangered, but were
saved by timely arrival of aid.
Mr- Purvis bought the hotel proper
ty, including the springs, several
months ago and had spent, it is said,
about $10,000 on improvements. The
eld hotel building had been r^nodeled
and was being conducted again as a
resort hotel. Mr. Purvis, who went
to the springs from Orlando, Fla., is
said to have carried some insurance.
The Harris Springs hotel was a fa
mous resort- about 25 years ago, but
f<jr a number of years, until Mr. Pur
vis bought the property, H had not
been open.
The; bottling works located at the
foot of the hill on which the hotel
stood was not touched by the fire Fri
day night and will continue to be op
erated by John D. Seago of Green
wood.
Cpunty
1925
1926
Abbeville ....$
5,7971,237 $
5,397,637
Aiken
12,485,490
11,745,000
Allendale ....
3,115,428
3,048,855
Anderson ....
21,105,805
19,497,130
Bamberg ....
3,943,670
3,784,590
Barnwell ....
4,574,880
4,490,900
Beaufort ....
4,206,420
4,160,745
Berkley
3,902,919
4.035,415
Calhoun
3,342,370
3.203,240
Charleston ..
3g,935,001
36,413,110
Cherokee .....
9,609,637
9,438,729
Chester
10,889,023
10,923,190
Chesterfield
5,676,440
5,800,420
Clarendon ....
4,291,390
4,140,750
Colleton
4,947,500
4,829,010
Darlington ..
10,215,308
9,988,694
Dillon
5,539,545
5,537,120
Dorchester...
4,169,685
4,226,125
Edgefield ....
4,055,090
3,883,790
Fairfield .....
7,446.621
-7^68,769
Florence
12,527,440
12,940,210,
Georgetown
4,781,242
4,76^114;
Greenville ....
29,530,120
30,798,830 1
Greenwood...
10,455,732
10,263,409!
Hampton ....
3,985,171
3,931,575!
Horry
4,174,597
4,090,3671
Jasper
3,178,084
3,550,443
Kershaw
7,091,205
7,643,094
Lancaster ....
5,288,625
5.177,340
Laurens
9,991,423
9,678,125
Lee
5,627,872
5,541,142
Lexington ....
7,273,539
7,180,684 J
McCormick ..
2,029,450
2,429,260
Marion
'5,378,785
5,307,335
Marlboro
8,693,050
7,938,015
Newberry ....
9,934.710
9,632,830
Oconee
6,460^30
6,313,320
Orangeburg
12,163,870
11,713,900
Pickens
7,158,541
7,038.972
Richland
28,467,280
28,525.015
Saluda
8,467,033
3,223,148
Spartanb’g ..
36,260,692
37,390,365
Sumter
9,959,350
9,675,060 |
Union
9,408,370
8,556,286’
Williamsb’g
- 5,955,260
5^47,280
York
13,398,226
13,304,330
Totals
$430,082,366 $424^63,722
threatened by dire storms as far aa
can be seen, the prognosticators say.
High pinnacley of prediction follow:
James Simpson, president of Mar
shal Field and Company:
“In my opinion business will con
tinue during the next six months sub
stantially on the level of 1926. Bus
iness and government have been con
servatively, although progressively
administered during the past year, and
fundamental conditions are left in
good balance, auguring well for the
period immediately ahead. Merchan
dising activity generally has been suc
cessful. The retail sales of Marshal
Field and Company have been the
largest in our history.” .
Elbert H. Gary, chairman, United
States Steel Corporation:
“If business shall be seriously di
minished during the coming year, it
will be the fault of ourselves, and not
the fault of natural conditions or the
lack of consideration and fair treat
ment by the national administration.
The opportunities for success in bus
iness have been better than ever be
fore,” he added. “These opportunities
are rich in resources, including cash
balances in banks; yearly improve
ment of banking facilities since the
creation-of the federal reserve board,
little disagreement or dissatisfaction
in industrial and labor circles.”
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., president of
the General Motors Corporation, says
it now seems reasonable to expect that
the 1927 production of automobiles
will be equal if it does not exceed the
previous four years average. He pre
dicts that 1927 will be a good and sat
isfactory year for the automobile in
dustry. . -
Lammot DuPont, president of the
E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Com
pany, says:
“As the year 1926 draws to a close,
we do not see any element in the in
dustrial or economic situation which
would indicate trouble or depression
ahead.”
William Sproul, president of the
Southern Pacific company, has this to
say:
“The indications are that railway
traffic volume and financial results
for 1927 will compare favorably with
those of 1926.”
Patrick E. Crowley, president of the
New York Central lines, says that in
dications are that 1927 will be a year
that might be termed generally satis
factory so far as the railroads are
concerned in that the prospects for
the volume of traffic do not, at this
time, present any unusual outlook.
YULETIDE TAKES
TOLL IN SOUTH
Over Forty Dead. Firearms More
Deadly Than Fireworks In Ex
action of Life.
The South’s celebration of Christ
mas was not without its tragedies, it
was shown yesterday in.reports re
ceived. Forty-two persons are dead
from accidents and shootings and
equally as many more injured.
Deaths and injuries attending the
discharge of fireworks were reported
to be at a minimum, althougt fire-
4 , 765‘114 ■ 80n8 ' * our wh* 1 * a^l three negroes,
-— were shot to death in Florida while
Mr. Tom Seaae spent the past week
end in Prosperity with his parents.
nited by matches with which she was
playing and a Negro man crushed to
death brought the Peninsula state’s
death toll to U-
Alabama’s death list mounted to 10,
one death and five injured being re-
L18o|684^P orte< * b y Mobile, four by Birmingham
and Montgomery one, while many per
sons were injured to varying degrees
over the state.
South Carolina reported five deaths
and five injuries * attributable to
Christmas celebrations. Four of those
injured in that sta^e were victims of
a bomb explosion. Georgia had five
each, although the latter bad 13 per
sons injured.
Mr. and l|rs. V. D. Ramseur and
children, and Mr. and Mrs. Tom Poe
and children of Greenville .spent Sun- She has as her guest, Miss Evelyn
Miss Melenee Thornley of Anderson,
is spending the holidays with her pa*
rents, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Thornley.
day with Mrs. B. M. Dutton.
| White of Anderson.
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