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\ "V _ ♦ 4 ^'5 IT- t4. THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be s Cleso News paper, Complete, Newsy, and Reliable. If Too Don’t Read THE CHRONICLE Yon Don’t Get The News. —u VOLUME XXVII CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1927 NUMBER 10 STATE FACES HIGHER LEVIES ROAD PROGRAM NEAR AN END AU Old Imposts Would Stay On Books. More Strings Out For Extra Revenue. Columbia, March 5.—Not only more but higher luxury and special taxes will have to be paid by the people of South Carolina if the revenue bill pre pared by the sub-committee of the ways and means committee of the House is finally enacted into law. The money bill as passed by the House carries an appropriation of about $10,000,000, and will be raised by the Senate probably $500,000, in cluding $250,000 to care for paymdnt ol the salaries of the teachers under the 6-0-riaw that is said to be neces sary. YOUR BOY’S BUSINESS Unless More Funds Are Provided Con struction In County Will Soon Be Halted. AGRICULTURAL OPPORTUNITIES By Roger W. Babson CAMDEN GOLFERS ON TRIAL LATER Magistrate Holds Up Cases On Re- BOHLERS ASK - FOR REUEF Laurens, March 4.—On account of the inclement weather last Tuesday the regular monthly meeting of the County Highway commission was not held. If there are any plans vyhereby road construction may be continued in the county, they have not been an nounced. Funds for this purpose are about exhausted, it is stated, and since the proposed bond iss\ie of a half million dollars was declared illegal by the supreme court last week no fur ther plans have been put forward to continue the work unless the Laurens delegation to the. GeneraL-Assembly have something in their minds which they have not yet made public. Mr. P. F. Patton, county road en gineer, stated this week that there are still two road crews and one bridge Babson recommends Agriculture Only for the Son of the Farmer. Babson Park, Fla., March 4, 1927. Roger W. Babson continues his discus sion of present day opportunities for young men this week discussing the opportunities in farming. Importance of Farming Agriculture is the basis of both life and prosperity. Nt only without agriculture would we all starve, but agriculture is the surest and most eco nomical method of creating wealth. The billions of real wealth coming to co-operate in this evolution should grasp it. They should go to a good agricultural school and then return to the farm. The pessimistic advice I gave above is against starting new farms at this time. If you can stay on a good farm which your father has made pay, do so. You’ll be hap pier staying on the farm than by leav ing the farm and becoming fuel for large city bankers and business men. Besides, so many are leaving farms quest of Governor Who Is Going To Appeal Judge Rice’s Ojrder. Columbia, March 7.—The battle of the blue law went in today, with Cam den the theatre of operations, but with no decisive result. Meantime, Governor -Richards announced his in tention to appeal to the Supreme court as quickly as possible for an order set ting aside Judge Hayne F. Rice’s in junction permitting the playing of golf in Aiken. Ten golfers arrested in Camden yes terday by Sheriff J. H. McLeod of Kershaw, presented themselves for Declare 20% Levy Is Ruinous. Propose Tax On Candies, Cos metics and Chewing Gum. each year from the farmers of AlfHeT-'Tor the Cities "and so many farms are Higher rates on cigars, cigarettes and smoking tobacco, a tax on all ad missions except school and church en tertainments of local talent only, re- crew at work. One of the road forces enactment of all other present luxury and indirect taxes and with addition of milk drinks and ice cream, five cents a ton on imported hay. the two is on the Cross Hill-Belfast road, which is nearly finished. The other road crew has nearly finished the road from Senator Goodwin’s to the cents documentary tax which include j Pitts place, it having been planned, finance corporation notes on automo- | had the bond issue been consummated, biles and possibly the levy of a bus- u> extend this road from the Pitts iness license tax and also a two-cent place to Jones Ford bridge on Enoree tax per gallon on kerosene, are pro-. river, giving a direct route to Union, posed in the revenue bill to be intro duced this week. In order not to make the enforce ment of some of these laws unpopular provision is made that trial can be had before a local mgaistrate or jury. ica are the foundation of prosperity The farmer must be upheld and pro tected by all who want real prosperity. Moreover—we owe to agriculture semething far more important than good business. We owe our manhood to the farms. A large proportion of going backward that those who remain may have a real worth-while business. Personally, I cannot imagine a better life than to farm in the North from April to November and spend the win ters in Florida or California. Only the farmer has a business where such price, is ruinous, the bottlers through trial before Magistrate W. L.^DePass}Alva M. Lumpkin’, Columbia attorney. the great manufacturers, merchants an ideal life is possible. that county having already built its road to the river. y At present the bridge force, operat ing under the County Highway com mission, is erecting a bridge across Duncan’s creek on the road between <_ Heretofore, the alleged violators were Senator Goodwin’s and Sandy Springs compelled to go to Columbia and fight their case out before the State Tax church. The completion of this bridge and short stretches of road on each commission. Provision is made that side of the creek is all that is lacking any person charged with violating the j to make this road complete. And indirect tax laws may make a settle- when this bridge is finished the crew ment with the State Tax commission will go to the Cross Hill-Belfast road if desired. where a bridge will be constructed No change in the income tax law is' across Little river, proposed except to adopt the Federal ] This will complete the program un government provision relating to the less more funds are provided, depreciation of buildings and the like 1 instead of the flat rate now contained 1 in the South Carolina income tax law. A flat twenty per cent tax is pro posed Tor cigarettes and smoking to bacco. For instance a fifteen cents package now costs seventeen cents and a fifteen cents package of smok ing tobacco sixteen cents. The new tax would make the cigarettes and to- BIG DEVELOPMENT SEEN FOR SECTION and bankers of this country were born on farms. Big cities—like New York —are furnaces which feed on the country both literally and figurative ly. These furnaces use for fuel the beys from the farms who go to New York and become bank presidents, and great captains of industry. The rea son farm boys are wanted is because they are trained in the ’fundamentals of integrity, industry, thrift and ini tiative. President Coolidge once said to me, “The ultimate result to be de- i sired is not the making of money, but the making of people. Industry, thrift, and self-control are the prime pro ducts of the farm. We who have seen it and lived it know. It is this life which the nation is so solicitous to maintain and improve.” Henry Ford gave as one reason why he voted for Coolidge the Tact that Coolidge was born on a farm. Truth About Farming There have been times when agri culture offered the best opportunity to a certain class of young men. When land was cheap in the West, and farm ers were able to profit greatly by the Ultra-Optimistic Tone for State. Charlotte Man Speaks. Civic Gathering At Newberry Sotmds increase in lamb values—which was sure to come- opportunities. farming offered real Farming still offers men Newberry, March 7.—The South i some opportunities for men with wouiu tnjiKe one «„u cu- . with cent€r of deve!opment in the two strong physique, sufficient capital and bacco each cost eighteen ** nts - Carolines is destined rapidlv to become ! proper locations. Just now, however, Ux on cigars is a gn>du.Ud on» and; the foremost S( . ction of th(! Un|U . d the "cream is off" and 1 strongly hes- will cause a slight increase. . T , 'rv. *• * „ ^ • .,7 . • • .. States. This sentiment was given Heretofore the admission tax ap- • * . * * , • u ... , 4 ... , confident and forceful expression by pued only to moving picture shows, , , * • u* * aiT j- * * • i / *i. i t. i* speakers here tonight at the dinner of professional games and the like. It the local Chamber of Commerce’s will apply to all entertainments where • au xt u u . . *T ^ . , . . „ | Merchant bureau in the Newberry ho- admissions are charged and to all' sporting events. School and college | tel. The event which was engineered by Hal Kohn, chairman of the bureau, games of all kinds have been exempt. . , r, . , e ,, *■ . , . r and J. P. Moon, chamber of commerce If the provision is adopted a ten peri- . r » . j ■ ■ * , it u l »i 'secretary, with the assistance of E. A. cent admission tax to all baseball, ,, a j n n .C arpenter and H. M. Bryson, mer- football, basketball games or any oth-; ,■ , , , ’ , f . ,, chants and others, was characterized cr kinds of games of grammar, high' n u l " C V r iby enthusiasm. The significance and school of college will have to be charg- i , ,. -u-r*- . t ed. School and church entertainments i remarkable possibilities of the mam- itate advising a young man to pioneer or to start a new farm. Enough land has been broken for agriculture in the United States and Canada for the immediate present. The supply of many farm products exceeds the de mand for them today. There is no profit in raising cattle, the margin of profit in raising wheat and corn is very small; while in most agricul tural lines the competition is exceed ingly strong. It is hard enough to be obliged to only would be exempt provided local < moth ^O.GOQ.WW power development | compete with all others m an industry talent only was employed. County! ; ,r0p0Sed t at Dreh ^ r ^als, Lex.ng- but in addition a farmer must also fairs and the like also will be called - ton c ? unt y’ near Columbia was dis- compete with the weather. A farmer , 4 u- * j ; : cussed and plans laid for aiding in the on to charge this 10 per cent admis- i , . K . , ^ • sion tax on all admissions. 1™'““' undert » kra * a " d ca P“ allz "'« Last year ice cream and milk drinks i U '*r' 1 ‘ The speaker of the evening was were exempted from the regular twen- , ty per cent soft drink tax. This year ^ larence O. Kuester of the Charlotte they have been placed back in the rev enue bill. Chamber of Commerce. Others on must not only guess as to what and how other farmers are to plant, what and how much other people are going to buy; but in addition must gamble Agricultural Investments Those who wish to have a hand in “raising things” but are not thorough ly trained and aide to make farming a real business should either confine themselves to back-yard gardens with a few hens or else be content to in vest in some of the standard compan ies. For instance, it is fine to raise enough fruit for your own table; but don’t attempt to do more unless you are ready to go at it scientifically and make it your sole business. You had far better buy stock in the United Fruit Company or one of the other established concerns which are oper ating scientifically and making a real business of raising and marketing fruit. Many such companies will be organized during the next few years as independent growers of citrus fruit, apples, melons, peaches, etc., espec ially as men find that ten acres as a sideline is likely to be a luxury rath er than an investment. • Gradually the rasing of wheat, corn, potatoes, etc., will be consolidated in to big companies as has the raising of sugar, rubber or tobacco. Until such n time comes one will probably be far better off to invest his money in se curities of the Cuban-American Sugar Company or the International Rubber Company. Personally, I feel that the best future is irr connection with rais ing dairy products. Milk, cream, but ter and cheese are the safest things to raise; while eggs, chickens and early vegetables come next. These, how ever, demand modern dairy plants, hot houses, irrigation systems and other capital investments. Hence, unless one is able to adopt these most modem methods it is better to invest one’s money in securities of the California Packing Company, the Kraft Cheese Company, the National Dairy Com pany or even the Southern Dairies, all of which securities are now listed, on the New York Exchange. The fact that they are listed on the Exchange, however, means that they doubtless will sell lower when the next down ward swing in the stock market oc curs. Hence, I do not suggest buying these issues at the moment w’hile the at Camden, this morning, but the trial of eight was postponed until Friday by request of Governor Richards, and the cases of the two others were not settled. Magistrate De Pass reserving his decision for a day or so. So great was the crowd that turned out for the trial that the proceedings had to be transferred to the Circuit court room. C. R. Walton and Andrew Burnett admitted" tfiat they had played golf on the Sarsfield course, but contended that in so doing they had violated no law, and through their attorney, Hen- ray Savage, Jr., entered a demurer, this being the question upon which decision was reserved. The eight others demanded trial by jury. Governor Richards, confirming a report that he had requested delay in these cases, said he desired the State to be represented by counsel, preferably Attorny General John M. Daniel or Solicitor A. F. Spigener, both of whom, however, were reported out of the city. The defendants in this proceeding are: James De Loache, Jr., R. N. Shannon, Jack W r hitaker, Jr., W. T. Redfern, F. L. Harlow, J. F. McDowell, Mendel L. Smith, Jr., and Hughey Tin- dal, all of Camden, who were arrested while playing on the Kirkwood course. Institution of the gpvernor’s action to set aside Judge Rice’s order, which SL-t March 19 for a hearing, depends upon the return of Attorney General Daniel from Washington, where he has been on a tax case, the chief executive said, adding that he wished to proceed through the regular channels of the State machinery. He repeated his assertion that in his opinion Judge Rice had exceeded hisTauthority when he issued the re straining order in Aiken Saturday up on the petition of Thomas’ Hitchcock and others, under which tourists and \ A iken residents played Sunday with out molestation. “I am so anxious, however,’’ he add ed, "not to do anything that would look like disrespect for. the judiciary, upon which I count for helping me en force all the laws of the State, that 1 leaned back upon in this case.” He was referring to his withdrawal of four State constables from Aiken up on their being served with the injunc tion, in the face of his earlier an nouncement that he would have ar rests made, injunction or no injunc tion. and W. G. Jackson, former president of the state association, declared’the bot tling interest were willing to absorb a tax of three and one-half cents a crate, without increasing the price of their product, and proposed taxes on ice cream, Five cent candy, chewing gum, bulk candy, and cosmetics as suitable means for raising the reve nues expected under the present pro gram, from the drink tax. The Bottlers’ Plan The three and a half cents tax per crate, it was said, would yield about $188,000, as compared with the $1,- 250,000 estimated under the existing levy. The other items, they contended could be counted upop to bring the to tal up to $1,050,000 on the scale sug gested as follows: On ginger ale, near beer, and such drinks as are imported, ten cents a crate, $20,000. A license tax on dealers in ice cream $22,500. A license tax on soda fountains $70,- 000. A tax of five cents on each 24 pack- rges of chewing pum. $100,000. A similar tax on small packages of candy, $100,000. A tax of one cent a pound on all candy sold in bulk, $100,000. The cosmetic tax, which was repeal ed a year ago, $100,000. The committee has proposed a re enactment of the present soft drinks tax and their extension to ice cream end milk drinks, now exempted, with lessening of the exemptions under the amusement tax, and new levies on hay, and perhaps kerosene, with a modified business license tax underJevusidera- t.on. J. Y. Perry, until recently clerk to Speaker Hamblin, and now attorney for motion picture interests, proposed that the present ten per cent admis sion Lax bo supplanted by a license tax' based on seating capacity, rang-^ ing from $100 for houses seating up tc 200 persons, to $850’ for theatres stating 900 or more. on the weather. No stock broker takes market as a whole is very high. the chances that a farmer takes! How- the program included E. Z. Pence, ‘ ever hard a farmer may work or what General business, however, does not much affect the farmer, although ag- THa rWnmontarv tax would Mayor Zack F. Wright, New-|ever judgment a farmer may have, a i ricultural conditions are a great fac- The documentary stamp tax would _, — k,,™;™ c„n an or a i. , • , , be increased about two cents. I berry, manufacturer and district ro t jtary governor; B. C. Matthews and .^he above taxes with those already :j 0 hn M. Kinard, Newberry bankers; on the books, such as the income tax, i yy yy» H arr j St Clinton, editor and pub- inheritance tax and the five mill levy, ( ]j s }j e r; i ra g. Armfield, Saluda, news- if approved would yield about $9,925,- . 000 which will almost take care of the appropriation bill as sent by the House to the Senate. However, the proposed business li cense tax would yield about $250,000 more if it is approved. It would be paper man; T.‘C. Williams, Columbia, one of the moving spirits in the Lex ington county power development; McDavid Horton, managing editor of The State; C. A. Williams, Charlotte merchant; Paul Simmons, state news editor of The Greenville News, and similar to the one in effect in North • Lecn Williams, Charlotte engineer. Carolina. This is still in prospect, so! tc speak, as no final action has been taken on it. Special Services While this money, if the revenue measure is passed, probably will al most take care of the appropriation ^,e v General Assembly will have the pleasatn* task of finding about $2,500,000 mon?N$o take care of the deficit that is now S*ced by the State. No measures as wet been intro- At The College Beginning tomorrow and continuing through Sunday, special religious ser vices will be held at Presbyertian col lege. Rev. J. Sprole Lyons, Jr., will conduct the services which have been I arranged particularly for the student of duced that will care for th^ $.-. . -.g^y j n observance of the week If the appropriation ,na ^ j prayer. The visiting minister is one passed reaches the ?10,500,0w^ mark, outstanding men in the Pres- then it will be seen that including the j 5yterian c h U rch and he will be heard ilcficit the present legislature will! her(? with (ie i ight an(1 pro fit. have to produce finances totaling ap- 1 proximately $13,000,000. t ♦\ Chautauqua To Open May 5th Parrott-Electric Changes Location burning sun or an early freeze or a j ^ or j n niaking general business good wet season inay ruin his crops. It I or bad. For instance, bad crops re- tpuly seems to me that a young man j su j^ ; n b a( j industrial and mercantile who today could start a farm and conditions because the farmers have make money raisings anything from j css purchasing power, but Wall Street pigs to potatoes could make more money doing anything else! Another thing, the few farmers who have can have a panic and manufacturing plants bo shut down when the individ ual farmers may know nothing about made money have generally done so, I it 0ften p 00 r‘business in the East not directly through what they have i helps the western farmer because it enables him to get labor and supplies raised, but through benefitting from increased land values or the services of a large family to whom they did not have to pay wages. Best Farming Opportunities Statistics show that the best farm ing opportunities today afe dither in- market gardens, just outside large cities, supplying legumes, lettuce, cab bage, celery, milk, cream, chickens, eggs, tomatoes, etc., or else in great tracts of cheap land where wheat, corn, potatoes, etc., are raised in very at lower prices. This fact is helping farmers now to keep up their courage They believe that before long indus trial conditions are, to become more quiet in Detroit, Chicago, and St. Ixiuis and other cities which have been taking labor away from the farms and that this labor will come back to the farmer. A study of the Babsonchart which has declined from 15% above normal the latter part of 1926 to 7 % above normal today sug- large quantities with machinery exclu- j £ests that these farmers may be right. sively doing the work. Both of these I kinds of farming require executive | p ^ (ilcU Clllb arrott-Electric, now occupying one e store rooms, in the Masonic le building, has rented the front The Clinton Redpath Chautauqua ^ will open on May 5th, according to in- ‘’^“Ttore' room on North formation rrcrivod in the city dunnt| occupied by Cooper Furni- Ihr past few daye. As heretofore 4. roI ip.„j and will move to its program will cover seven days with ^ within the ncIt few d afternoon and night attractions. An’ „ . u u I The store has been divided with a par- unusually atron* program has b«» tilion , n tnmc« to the Cooper Fur- arranged for the *27 season and it is) . expected that it wUl he enthuaiastkal-1 n iture Wl11 ** had the rear of ly received throughout the circuit. the building. ; / < ability, marked intelligence and con siderable capital. Both groups of farmers stand a chance of making a good profit by the increasing val^ie of j the land. The market gardner’s land ' should be near house lots as the city grows; while the big operator will have land purchased very cheaply which must increase in value by the mere improvements m^de. Gives Concert The Presbyterian College Glee club, ...a.nci. ^ j esent j annual entertainment enough to be sold for; £ , . o c.;*,. c,wv«. 0 . i«k;ic ♦kc ' * ueS( ' a y evening before a large Clin ton audience, made a decided hit and offered the music lovers present an enjoyable evening. The program was given in two parts and the ensemble The above warning need not be con-1 , - . , ., , , . . . numbers were all good. A number of sidered by young men who are to in- i herit farms from their fathers. Al-1 individual features were on the pro- though there iano need of more farms gram also, and all of these renditions t present, there must not be any de-' were abdve the average and appealed ^Hjon of farms already in operation the audience . The entertainment The solution of th* farm problem will , . .. , • - rough the improvement »nd| w,B conclusion as come consolidation of those already exist-.’one of the best of jts knd presented ing/ Y< 'oung men who 4iave a chance here in a number of years. TEACHERS BODY FOR COMPULSION Few Legal Sales Made Monday A small' amount of property changed Chester Association Calls On Legisla ture To Make Children At tend School. Chester, March 7.—At the meeting of the Chester County Teachers asso ciation Saturday the following resolu tions were read by John E. Nunnery, assistant superintendent of Chester county, and were unanimously endors ed by the association: “We, the officers and members of hands in the legal sales before the the chester Count Teacherg associa _ court house m Laurens on Monday. ln jtjon d() hereb wish to go on record addition to a few sales for tax exe- as stronfr , v endor8ing a compulsory cutions, the following property was school Wfo^r^^ than six months. C. A. Armstrong vs W. B. Stewart, , ,, , ... 75 1-2 acres in Dial township, sold to . ‘ further would beseech the le ^ R. T. Wilson, attorney, for $600. j is,autre (,f our . ^ to P as8 a com- National Loan & Exchange Bank P ul * or y ,avv with adequate financial of Greenwood, vs I). R. Scurry, 860 backing so as that it will function with acres in Cross Hill township, sold to 1 su ^ ess - The law that we now have R. L. Scurry for $500 and assumption. W1 . not, as the plan for enforcing it of certain mortgages. I * 8 * na dequate. J. Mills Hunter vs C. G. Jackson,! “We would further admonish our 88 acres in Waterloo twonship, sold to legislature of the fact that a compul- the plaintiff for $300. sory law to be successful must be G. H. Blakely and Hall Fleming, ad-, state wide in scope and some tenta- ministrators of the estate of the late , < tive plans devised and enacted into W. J. Fleming, sold about 900 acres law to guarantee state-wide enforce- of the Fleming estate, including the, meht. home place at Ora, to Dr. W. J. on for $12,450. Bry- , “We would call to the attention of Mail Order Houses —are getting business in Clin ton while the home merchants “sleep.” The mail order houses, chain and city stores advertise and hustle after business, and they are getting it. If business is worth having it is woith working for. The mer chant who puts his goods on his shelves and thinks that is the end yf h:s selling job—will bo badly fooled. rf Your customers BUY THE CHRONICLE to read. , They don’t buy hand bills and other material you send out. The live merchant uses his home paper to sell his goods. L. lour legislature the fact that in our , state hundreds of boys and girls are not in school at all and many arc very irregular in attendance. We are all anxious that each boy and girl he guaranteed at least a high school ed ucation.” Thornwell Adds New Officers A congregational meef'ng of thj Thornwell Memorial church was held last Sunday at the close of thp-mom- in& services for the purpose of elect ing two additional elders and three deacons. Te meeting was presided over by Dr. L. Ross Lynn, the pastor, as moderator, with H. C. Layton acting clerk. Prof. R. O. Nelson and Carlton F*-Winn yere elected elders, and Mes srs J. J. Lynn, Dennis Sowers and Harry McQuiston were selected as deacons. v / . 7 7 -X / X 7 .X. i Columbia, March 8.—The ways and • means committee of the House defer red action upon its tentative revenue program today in order to permit rep resentatives of South Carolina bot tlers and moving picture interests to present a proposed substitute program at a hearing this afternoon. Protesting that the present soft drinks tax, 20 pier cent on the retail si •- Vi* ,v - . • / ^