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7 v'. V - f >* » r txu* - •, *» / ' -I • ' - C&$ s ' ' • ‘ ^ * \ •••;.•" . • , , X- r N rf .'« - T’j - ' . ■ . -v ' -V . MBjgngBB c* i.- • r# Vj~ »* » THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be a Clean News paper, Complete, Newsy, * and Reliable. If Too Don’t Read THE CHRONICLE Ton Don’t Get The J ~'i .f Newa. CLINTON, S. C. ( THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1927 VOLUME XXVII NUMBER 12 k & *1 ^ '' CITY TO BUY FIRE TRUCK City Council Passes Favorably On Firemen’s Request for Fire-fighting Equipment. City council in special session Mon day evening, heard a Committee from the Clinton fire department with a re quest that immediae action be taken to replace the city’s present inade quate fire department. The commit tee was composed of V. Parks Adair, Jack W. Anderson, Walter A. John son, 0. T. Lawing, T. M. Littlefield, W. G. King, Pet B. Adair, and H. C. Suber. V. Parks Adair, chief of the department, was spokesman for the delegation. The firemen came with a request that the city buy a fire truck with standard triple acion combination pumper, and urged that the matter be no longer postponed. It was pointed out by them that the facilities they now have for fighting fire are inade quate and that with a disastrous fire gaining headway in the city, they would be practically helpless. As one of the firemen put it, “it makes us feel ashamed to go to a fire and see property destroyed because of a lack of water pressure and necessary fight ing apparatus.” The committee sug gested that a modern equipment be purchased and that a day and night service be maintained. Such an en gine and additional pumper installed at Beard’s Fork creek, would give abundant pressure and water flow to relieve the presentoaituation. It was further pointed out by the delegation that the installation of a paid fire de partment would result in a re-classify ing of the city and a lowering of pres ent insuurance rates on residential and business property. They pre sented an agreement from D. E. Trib ble Company offering to provide am ple space and accommodaions for the truck and firemen in the rear end of the telephone building now being erected by this concern at the corner of Broad and Gary sreets. The rental price offered was $25.00 per month and the location would be easily ac cessible and well situated for the housing of the truck. In case the present agitation is successful for the erection through a bond issue of a municipal building on the city’s prop erty on North Broad street, the new building will provide for the fire de partment along with all other inter ests of the city and the fire truck would then be moved from its rented location into its own headquarters. The matter was presented from ev ery angle by the firemen and a num ber of questions asked and answered affecting the proposition. The fire men were thanked for their services and interest in the matter, and fol lowing ther retirement, a general dis cussion of the question was entered into and the opinion was general that the time for action in providing im proved fire protection for the city had arrived. After a general discussion pro and con, Alderman Harris offered a motion, seconded by Alderman Car ter, which was unanimously approved by council, calling for the purchase of a city fire truck and pumper. The motion as offered and adopted, fol lows: "Moved that the finance com mittee of council be instructed to in vestigate the feasbility of buying an adequate fire truck, equipment and pumper, and that when the purchase id made, the contract be awarded on a competitive basis, and that the Clin ton fire department be requested to appoint a special committee of three to cooperate with city council in the matter.” With this action takn by council, ■ the matter of working out details and collecting information on the proposi tion is now under way. It is hoped that by the next regular meeting of council the proposition will be in def inite shape to make the purchase. It is proposed by the city authorities to buy the truck and pumper on the long term note plan at the rate of 6 per cent interest on deferred payments, ft is estimated that the equipmnt com plete and modern in evry respect will cost approximately $16,000 and will afford the city first-class fire protec tion day and night.. J. HUGH DONNAN HAS PASSED AWAY Well-Known Young Man Dice After Short Illness. Was Highly Es teemed In City. James Hugh Donnan, aged 41, died at his residence on Centennial street shortly after ten o’clock Saturday morning after a critical illness of only a few days duration. Hia condition was not generally known and there fore the news of his death, coming at such ap early ape in life, was a great shock to many of hia friends in Clin ton and throughout the county where he was well-known and highly es teemed. - * The funeral service was held Sun day afternoon at 3:30 in the North Broad Street Methodist church of which he was a faithful member. The seating capacity of the church was taxed with a large gathering that assembled to pay a last tribute of respect to his memory. Rev. O. M. Abney, pastor of the church, presided over the services. Prayer was offer ed by Dr. D. J. Woods, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, and the Scripture reading was by the Rev. W. M. Lever, pastor of the Methodist church at Enpree. An appropriate and impressive address Was made by the Rev. L. E. Wiggins of Gaffney, former pastor of the Clinton church. The service was concluded with in terment in the Presbyterian cemetery. The floral offerings were many and beautiful. The following served as active pall bearers: L. B. Dillard, W. W. Harris, R. G. Murphy, W. G. King, R. O. Nel son and Felder Smith. The following were honorary pallbearers: F. M. Boland, H. D. Henry, J. I. Copeland, Dr. Jack H. Young, B. H. Boyd, L. H. Davidson, C. F. Winn, S. A. Pitts, A. K. Kinard, Jno. W. Finney, J. Will Dillard and W. H. Simpson. Mr. Donnan moved to Clinton in 1914 from his home in the Tylersville section. He was first employed by the local C. N. & L. office and later by the Dixie Flour & Grain Company. In 1917 he became connected with the Commercial Bank as bookkeeper, and at the time of his death was em ployed by this institution as assistant cashier. His connection with the bank brought him in contact with hun dreds of Clintonians and he was known and admired by scores of friends throughout the county. ^ Mr. Donnan was a young man of the highest type and clean habits. His character was marked by the highest moral courage, integrity, sincerity and unfailing courtesy. The absolute trust and confidence of his fellowmen was reposed in Mr. .Donnan. Modest and unassuming in manner, this faith ful friend, devoted brother, husband and father, was true in every rela tion of life. His passing at so early an age in life saddened many hearts and has brought forth many expres sions of sympathy. Surviving in the immediate family are his widow, before her marriage Miss Mollie Davidson, and two small children. By his father, J. Wess Don nan, one of the* county’s most beloved and esteemed citizens, and by eight sisters and two brothers: Misses Ja nie and Irene Donnan of Columbia; Mrs. T. E. Scott of Whitmire; Misses Bessie and Corie Bell Donnan of Greenville; Misses Lucy and Margax-^ et, and Mrs. M. C. Deaver of Carlisle, and two brothers, Geo. and Sam Don nan. YOUR BOY’S BUSINESS RAILROADS FOR EMPLOYMENT AND INVESTMENT By Roger W. Baboon Babson Park, Fla., March 18, 1927. | presidents, general managers and oth- This week Roger W. Babson discusses the opportunities offered today by the railroads both to young men seeking employment and to the older ones with money seeking investments. This is one of his series of ten articles on “Your Boy’s Business.” Says Mr. Babson: Governmental Control Railroads, Uke all other things in the world,**fiave their advantages and disadvantages. The chief advantage held by the railroads is that they are a natural monopoly. Since the advent of the automobile and truck, this mo nopoly is not so great in connection with short haul business; but it still exists to a large extent. Certainly the long haul railroads have no com petition and none in sight. Even in the case of competing lines (as illus- trated by the Atlantic Coast Line arid er officials. These men mostly are promoted from the ranks and receive princely salaries. They have private cars and beautiful offices, but very little freedom. They must be on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 52 weeks each year. Furthermore, their work is circumscribed by the labor unions almost as much as the work Of engineers, conductors, and brakemen. Hence, I do not feel that the railroads today offer much to young men as a life work. Very seldom do I find a railroad official who wants bis boy to go into railroading. Railroad Stocks As Investments The control which union labor has over the railroads ultimately harms the stockholders of the railroads. Bondholders do not suffer so much because labor leaders dislike to throw railroads into bankruptcy and be Seaboard Air Line competing for Flor- ( obliged to deal with receivers. Stock- ida business) there is no rate cutting. The competition is in service and salesmanship only. The fare is the -same from New York to Miami wheth er one goes on the Coast Line or on the Seaboard. Railroads are a nat ural monopoly, but this very fact makes necessary governmental super vision. Hence we have the Interstate Commerce Commission with its arbi trary rulings holders, however, get only what is left after the govejmment, the employ ees, and the bondholders are satisfied. The stockholders today get a small share; labor gets more than half; while the government collects, in the form of taxes, six cents of every dol lar that the railroads take in. In this connection it is interesting to note that in the last six years,, the large railways of the United States have At the present time the railroads paid $80,000,000 more in taxes than are not suffering as in the past from they paid in cash dividends by governmental control. Since ’ the amounts varying from about $300,000 Transportation Act of 1920 by Con-1 in 1920 to $36,000,000 in 1923. In 1925 gress, allowing the roads to earn 5 3-4 , the excess of taxes over cash divi per cent on their valuation, the Inter-j denis amounted to about $18,000,000. state Commerce Commission has been ; Striking changes have occurred in the compelled in many cases, to advance, past fifteen years. In 1911, the year rather than lower rates. This has es-! in which the IntersUte Commerce pecially helped the strong roads and Commission adopted the present sys- made them stronger. A Republican I tern of railway classification, the tax- administration is also favorable to 1 es paid by the large railways amount- the railroads and such an administra- ed to $98,600,000 while their dividends tion has been in power since 1920. were $397,100,000. Then taxes start- DEMOCRATS TURN .GUNS UPON FOE ‘Coolidge Economy” and Tax Cat Targets Are Cited. Consum ers Are Pinched. Washington, March 20.—“Coolidge economy” and the treatment accorded the Democratic tax reduction program at the last session of Congress came in for attack today from two Demo cratic quarters. Asserting that appropriations by the last Congress were nearly four times as great as in in 1916 under the Wilson administration, the Democratic national committee, in a statement asked: “What about this Coolidge economy so industriously assrted and reassert ed by overlings and echoed and re echoed by underlings?” Chairman Oldfield of the Democrat ic National Congressional committee, declared in a statement that Ameri can consumers this year will pay near ly $1,000,000,000 more n living costs than they would have had the Demo cratic tax revision plan been adopted by the last Congress. “While nobody should expect appro priations to be no greater now than they were before the World war,” the national committee’s statement add ed, “appropriations are still double what they were in 1916 after deduct ing appropriations for tax refunds, prohibition enforcement, cooperative road bqilding and forest reserve roads, items which appeared since the 1916 budget. The committee asserted the nine years which have elapsed since the armistice would appear sufficient time to get back “near a state of normal- "OPEN” SUNDAY BILL ISVETOED Governor Richards Refuses To Sign Act. Says It Amends Ten Commandments. cy. “Coolidge economy is ‘constructive’ and vociferous,’ the statement con cluded. “It requires budgetary inge nuity to “construe’ a two-fold ahd four-fold increase in appropriations as a saving.” Estimating a surplus this year of more than $500,000 from income tax payments. Chairman Oldfield said Everything goes in cycles and unless ed upwards and dividends began to de- | President Coolidge and Republican the politicians use all their energies' cline, with the result that in 19251 leaders in the Senate now favor a tax in attacking the Telephone companies,! taxes had increased 263 per cent over, revison plan almost identical with the ....ui;.. the 1911 level, while dividends were! bill introduced by Democratic mem- will go back to their old football games and use the railroads for the ball. A Democratic administration would especially be tempted to do this. Problem of Unionism The chief disadvantage facing the 14 per cent below the 1911 mark. |bers of the House ways and means Recently railroad stocks have been committee. very popular—especially the lower! That bill, he added, would Ktive re priced ones. This has been due large- duced taxes $350,000,000 but was de- ly to speculation in connection with feated by the Republicans who claimed possible consolidations. It will be the surplus would not exceed ’ $400,- railroads is that they are bound hand 1 J ears before some of these consolida-! 000,000 and held any cut would be un- and foot by the labor unions and con- jtions occur; and even if they should safe. stantly harrassed by the farmers, now take place present prices forj “The corporation tax reduction pro- This is not a criticism of the unions or the farmers. Both the fight of the labor unions and the dissatisfaction some of these stocks are, in my opin- j posed by the Democrats,” he contmu- ion, unjustified. On^ the other hand,led, “would have been of great relief it should be recognized that some of to the smaller corporations, and would of the farmers are signs that the peo- the large systems have been plowing have saved the consuming public hun- ple are struggling for better condi- back huge sums into maintenance and dreds of millions of dollars, for 70 tions. Moreover, 90 per cent of all improvements ~ * business depends upon agriculture and ison, the New payrolls. Hence, unless farmers and ! Southern Pacific wage workers are prosperous, there s. Roads like the Atch- per cent of the corporation tax is pass- endorseim n , on i lew York Central, the ; cd on and pyramided, so that if the Assembly, gives cific, the Northern Pa-, rates had been lowered as we proposed < arolma w la is toinmor , is little hope for manufacturers, mer- FATHER AND SONS IN LIQUOR CASE cific, the Reading and the New Jer-I effective on taxes now being paid, the sey Central have tremendous assets, total benefit to all of the people would chants, and transportation companies, j Without doubt the railroads are in have been close to a billion dollars. When the railroad employees received I better physical condition and have a “These facts should not be forgot- an increase last month, amounting to'greater earning power today than at ;tne by the public now that Republican $10,000,000 annually, this means that 1 any time during the past twenty j leaders are so enthusiastically for the $10,000,000 will be spent in stores, or years. A 7 per cent stock today, how-j tax relief we proposed and they so for homes, automobiles and savings ever, is not worth what it was twenty ! stubbornly and successfully opposed.” bank books. I think that it is inev- years ago owing to the income taxes itable that the employees of the rail roads be unionized. Moreover, every which must be paid thereon by many holders. To the extent that taxes are PROGRAM FOR other industry with a natural monop- passed on to the ultimate consumer,! BAPTIST MEET oly is sure to be unionized some day. I so dividends of today should be dis- i One-Day Conference Arranged By Nevertheless, the high state of un-, counted when compared with those of ion control existing today among rail- 1906. road employees is a serious handicap J Transportatioa In Cities to initiative, economy and discipline! Owing to the very hard times which A young man with ambition ami love j street railways have had, almost no of freedom must think twice before : one today will buy traction stocks, selecting the railroad world in which Yet people are riding today more than Young Minister Accepts Call Matthew Lynn, member of this year’s graduating class at Union Theological seminary of Richmond, Va., has accepted a call as assistant pastor of the Braem Memorial Pres byterian church of Charleston, W. Va. Mr. Lynn will enter upon his first pastoral work immediately after his graduation in May. lie is a son of Dr. and Mrs. 4 R- L y nn ^'8 cit y» a graduate of the Presbyterian col lege, and has many friends here who will be interested in-his future as a young minister. Federal Prohibition Officers Visited County the Past Week and Arrested Four. Laurens, March 18.—Four federal prohibition officers, headed by Percy M. Caudle, deputy administrator of federal prohibition in this district, j I wiht headquarters at Greheville, spent ■ Thursday in Laurens county. During the morning, accompanied by Sheriff Columbus L. Owens, the officers vis- i ited the home of J. C. Nelson, near Mount Pleasant church and, after se curing necessary evidence that whis key was in possession of th Nelson family, ready for sale, the father and three of his sons were arrested and brought to the county jail. The sons are: Lawrence, Dexter and Albert, and they with J. C. Nelson, the father, are charged with selling and having! [ whiskey in their possession. In ad-' dition to a gallon of booze that was delivered to the officers, six addition- al pints were found and seized by the a prohibition enforcement men, accord- J ing to official information gathered; ■ yesterday Thursday afternoon. a B The case will be taken before the ■ ■ local United States Commissioner, but J as R. E. Babb, the commissioner, was i out of the city, the hearing w^l not J t be held until later, it was stated. The > ! case is one for the Federal court. to make a living. It is an old saying ever. Of course, the great gain has County Association. Several Speakers To Be Heard. TKe annual conference held under the auspices of the Laurens County Baptist association will convene in Laurens on next Thursday, March 31, at 10 o’clock. The meeting will be “there's plenty of room «t the top".been in private automobile ridinfL ^ p ir>t llapttst chmrt and and this probably applies to railroad} (Continued on page seven) cted to be attended by repre [is ei sentat?res from all churches in the !j Rev. and Mrs. Edward Long have ■ returned from a week’s yisit to rela- * tives in Union county, N. C., near ■ Did You Ever Stop to Think? THAT every day is bargain day when you make the ad vertising columns your market place. THAT the merchants who carrv the best that can be pro cured ADVERTISE. TjHAT if you want to buy from firms who appreciate your business, who render good service, who carry good mer chandise, who are worthy of your business and your con fidence, READ THE ADS. YOU WILL FIND THEIR NAMES THERE. THAT standard goods for every day use, goods whose quality does not change will be found in the stores that ADVERTISE. N THAT experience has shown successful merchants that by truthful advertising they acquire both prestige and new business. . - r 'THAT their every effort is to make satisfied customers. WHEN A BUSINESS MAN DRAWS INTO HIS COMMER CIAL SHELL HE GETS NOWHERE. SOONER OR LAT ER HE MUST WAKE UP TO THE FACT THAT IF HE WANTS TO GAIN THIS WORLD’S ADVANTAGES HE MUST ADVERTISE! THE CHRONICLE “THE PAPER EVERYBODY READS” xqect latrre county of this denomination. 11 j church is requested to send five dele- a 1 gates, three men and two women. ■ i W. P. Culbertson of Cross Hill, is ■ seeretary of the association, and he has announced the following program for the approaching event: 10:30—1. Former Prestige, Rev. Jo die A. Martin. 10:50-^2. Present ■ ■ t ■ ■ Conditions and Columbia, March 21.—Governor Rickards tonight vetoed the act pass ed last week by the legislature, lib eralizing the existing Sunday blue law. The govrenor’s veto message was received immediately upon the open ing of the Senate. Senator R. D. McDonald of Oconee, moved to sus tain the veto, whereupon Senator Wil liams of Aiken, offered a substitute motion to postpone consideration of the veto message until Wednesday, March 23, after the morning hour. Senator McDonald moved to table the Williams’ motion, which the Senate refused to do; therefore, no action will be taken on the veto message until Wednesday morning. The veto mes sage follows: “Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Senate: “I have the honor to return to you, without my signature, act No. 873, (Senate No. 456—House No. 634) the same being an act to ‘amend sections 715, 714, 710, 716 and 717 of the Crim inal Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1926, by striking out the same, and inserting in lieu thereof provsions re lating to Sunday observance, and pro viding penalties for violations there- of.’ ' - “In returning this act without my signature, I have no word of criticism for you in the action you have taken in the passage of this act. You have your responsibility and rights under the constitution, and I have mine. The act under consideration does not un dertake to reconsrtuct the entire ‘an cient law’ so much complained of by some people, but does change it in certain particulars, granting special privileges to certain classes. “It provides for the sale of gasoline and automobile fixtures between cer tain hours on Sunday, whether there be an emergency or not, and denies the right of the sale of gasoline and other articles in hundreds of cases, ■no matter what the emergency cessity. “It provides for all sports that are not noisy or boisterous, for the pur pose of permitting the playing of goif on Sunday, and at the same time opens the doors to the playing and engaging in such games and sports as poker and other card games, tennis, football, boat rowing, billiards, pool, basketball, fishing and even hunting, when the gun used is equipped with a silencer. “The a«.t you have submitted for endorsement. Gentlemen of the to South dy known as an ‘open Sunday,’ at least as to sports. Such a policy has been a curse to every people who have - adopted it. It is my opinion that the act, as pass ed, is in conflict with the constitution of our state, on account of its glaring discriminations. “The present law governing our conduct on the Sabbath day, although scoffed at by a few of our citizens, was regarded by your fathers and mine as a wise law; It has been re spected by our ancestors throughout the ages, and has been reenacted from time to time by previous legislatures, and as recently as 1922. Various phases of the present law have been passed upon by-our supierae court, and in every instance sustained and declared constitutional, and not in con flict with the individual rights of the citizen. “Should I be in error as to the ef fect of this act, and the legal inter pretation given it, there is absolutely Each no doubt in my mind that this attemp ted legislation strikes a fatal blow at one of the most sacred and funda mental pillars upon which our civili zation rests, and no matter what the purpose may be, modifier or amends the Ten Commandments of*God. “Feeling as 1 do, I refuse to be a party to this piece of legislation by subscribing thereto.” Aft y! Christ, j Athletic Events ^ - ; To Draw Crowd ■: Problems, Rev. R. H. McKinnon. 3. Urgent Needs: ! 11t2©—(a) To Rediscover Christ [ Rev. Edward Long. I 11:35—(b) An Enduement of the no* SJ,rrit OB. Boho All of the larger »h«ol s of the „ Christian Consecration,!^ and many „ f , he ;maller oneSi e >c* nr. ’» if rS<,n ’r, ,,, r d u f ta ^ e P art ^e annual Laurens 12:05—Address, Dr. W. L. Ball, of , - ,. . , , , . , , ’ ’ county field day events to be staged ■ ! kpa . J?! 1 1 Tg ' u J , c -iii 'in Clinton on Friday, April 1st. The VZln ?• , p m To • w ‘" Md on the 2®0-Devotional, Rev. H. J. |,-allege athletic field beginning at on* m • li- . p’clock. The recitation and deej&ma- Year^“ nCe ^ * * o’clock id t h « FXW SERVICES AT DUNCAN’S CREEK age chapel uiu] Tirst Baptist church. 4 VETERANS TO MEET Monroe. ■V There will be preachnig services at Duncan’s Creek Presbyteran church ■ ion next Sunday morning at eleven! Member* nf R c n.. ■ ^ ; o'clock with Dr. Dudley Jones a, the ' federate veteran. ' a re "'k^^ P ' T ■ speaker. The members of the cbn- Saturday afternoon ai t ^ l° , gregation and all friends in the com- police station. All ^m nibi^ Vf t 'w TTra'Jmty are cordially invited. chapter are urged to be prefer, ^ /