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If Tea Dtm’t Read THE CHRONICLE Too Don’t Get The Newa V I THE CHRONICLE * | S' Strirea To Be a Clean Naim* | • * I paper. Complete. Neway, J I and ReUable S VOLUME XXX CLINTON, S. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1930 NUMBER IT BEHER COnON IS GI^T NEED Mill Executive Tells Local Farm ers and Rotarians Why Quali ty Must Be Improved To Meet Competition and Acreage Re duced. Better Call Off the Dog' •By Albert T, Reid The need for quality, cotton and the reasons why were discussed from the 'Standpoint of the manufacturer by Frank W. Gurry of the Clinton Cot ton mills before the local Rotary club and a jnroup of farmer guests last Friday. ^ . Speaking with a background of more than 25 years experience as an operating executive and technical ad viser to mills,, both in New England and in’ various states of the South, Mr. Gurry first explained what sort of cotton is desided by the mills and then by use of drawings and models of spinning machinery, showed why the qualifications be had specified are necessary. He made an earnest pleii to tbe fanners to insist on the establ’sh- ment of a modern ginning plant in this territory, a plant, which as he explained, will include eqyipmeni for pre-cleaning the cotton before the .seed are separated from the fibre. One modern plant which he recently visited in Texas, he added, took a pile ^ sledded cotton, which included boUs, stalks, leaves and trash as well 4s seed cotton, and by running it through a system of cleaners, deliy- rred it finally to the air blast saw tooth gin roll as a middling grade. “The value of a bale jf cotton to the mill man,” Mr. Gurry said, “is mtasured by the staple length and its :tlative hardness oi softness and by the color or grrade and ih.- amount of trash visible. Speaking in terms of staple length, I do not Migges* that oouth Cairdina attempt to raise 1 S-16 to 1 3-4'inch staple. Cotton of iVis nature can be grown only in the M.ssissippi delta black soil or in Egj’pL It has been (iemoustrati'd that in South Carolina, a hard bodied fibre ^ ' ' SYNOD TO MEET IN COLUMBIA PrcKbyterians Call Special .Meeting March 24th To Discusa Chicura .Merger Question. Columbia, March 11.—The Presby- of an average of 1 1-16 in ch staple I terian synod oif South Carolina will can be grown. If the yie’d of cotton ' meet in Columbia March 24 to receive SUIT BROUGHT AGAINST CITY OFFICERS NAMED FOR NEW YEAR J. F. Jacobs, Sr., To Head Cham of Commerce. Retiring President^ Voted “Most Useful Citi HOUSE SEEKS , TAX REFORM resident/ ^ izen.*^ At the March meeting of the Cham- i^ber of Cqmmerce held Tuesday even ing, the idea of holding a Merchants Trade institute the week of March 24-28 was unanimously approved. 'Hie school wUl be headed by John W. Griest of Chicago, who recently ad dressed the club and made a profound impression upon all who heard him. The institute will be a series of get- together meetings of merchants and business people—in fact, everybody interested in better business with the purpose of awakening a keener inter est in business problems and commu nity work. The cliib voted $100 to ward the cost of the week’s program, and a committee was named to raise additional funds among the merchants and business houses to make Mr. I (Jriests’s coming to Clinton possible. 1 The March meeting being the close t of the' chib’s 'year, tKb nbm-inanrig ' committee headed by A. O’Daniel as chairman, submitted the following recommendations for officers and di- itH'tors to serve the ensuing year; J. F. .Jacobs, Sr., president. Dr. 1). J. Hrimm, vice-president, (’arlton F. Winn, secretary^ L. D. McCrary, treasurer. Additional directors; A. .1. Swan- aan, H—li... Uanry.r'. J- ■ Harjaa, ■ J, buld Give General Assembly Authority for Classification cf Propert<^\ Amendment If Passed To Be Voted On By the People. Mrs. Fennella B. Milam Files Case Against Town for Alleged Dam ages By Storm Drain. The case of Mrs. Fennella B. Milam WHITE PERSONS LEAD IN CRIME More White Than Negro Defendants In South Carolina Criminal Cases for Year. Coluumbia, March 9. — Negro de- of this staple length can be greatly increatad during the next two y^afs. the special educational committee’s report dealing with the existence of then and only then, will the farmers j Chicora college in Columbia as a sep- of South Carolina prosper from their |arate institution or as a merged body cotton_crops. Such a con'huon will be , with some other Presbyterian schooL welcomed by the mills, many of whom i The synodical meeting is to hi against the Town of (Uinton, was i fondants in criminal cases in the postponed Tuesday until the next { South Carolina state courts wore out- term of Court of Common Pleas on | numbere<l by whites in 1929, accord- motion of O. L. I»ng of l..aur<lns, at- ing to a recapitulation of the report of torney for the plaintiff. Mr. Long asked that the case bo carriwl over becau.se of tbi; illness of J. F. Jacobs, Sr., of this city, who, Mr. l..ong stat- Attorney General John M. Daniel made by The State. In addition, the re port diwloses that 175 people were eonvicted of murder, ar.soii-or crimi- hkve been forced to go to the W'est-; held in the First PresbyU^rian church : “ material witness on part of 1 nal assault within the year, while 128 ern states for their raw material, and ' th. Rpv .inKn the plaintiff in the case. i people were acquitted^ df the same as a result, both they and the farmer lose money. “The elements of nature play a part over which the farmer has no control, but after nature has sent the storms and the winds and the creamy bloom has apparently been stolen from Jhe cotton, much of it can be resc mccl by proper pre-cleaning machinery used and the Rev. John MeSween, presi dent of Presbyterian college at Clin ton and moderator of the synod, is expected to preside. * For the first time the, education committee’s decision as to the wisdonr of the proposed merger with Queen’s college, Charlotte, N. C., reached at a secret conference in Charlotte ten days ago, will be announced. Mem before the actual ginning, and a vast j committee agreed among amount of shale and leaf can be ' themselves that they would not re moved at the same time without dam- the press its recommenda- ace to the fibre. Whatever increases ^ions and findings. ^ the spinning value of cotton increas es its value to the spinner. Whatever reduces waste loss to the spinner in creases the value of the cotton in cents per pound and increases the farmer’s income.” Mr. Gurry then added that a gin plant capable of pre-cleaning cotton costs from $15,000 to $17,000 and that he believes before another season comes, somebody in this community will grasp the opportunity and install one, therSby not only benefitting the growers enormously, but splendid profits for himself The Rev. W. H. Du Bose of Spar- tsnburg, is chairman of the commit tee. The Rev, S, C. Byrd, president of Chicora for many years, remarked last night, when asked about the syn od’s meeting, that he did not “see the reason for so much agitation on the question.” / He did not, however, extend his re marks, nor would he definitely com ment on the prospects of Chicora re making ^ maining in Columbia. A committee appginted jiy the Co Mrs. Milam brought suit against I* the Town of Clinton i lainii.ig dam-1 preponderance of white defend*' age.s to her home on Pitts street, al- in the courts come.s nothwith- leged to lie caused by umlerground standing the frequent statement that storm drain which runs across her i of .South ( arolina’s crime is fos- lot. In her complaint, Mrs. Milam j Negroes. There were 2,127 H. Pitts, Jr., and L. W. Davis. The nominations, according to the organi zation’s by-laws, will be acted, upon at the April meeting after being be fore the mernbership for thirty days. The committee appointed a year 0^go to make -nominations as to “Clin-, ton’s three most useful citizens” af filiated with the (’hamber of Com-' merce, through its chairman J. H. Witherspoon, put into nomination the names of H. 1). Henry, Carlton F. Winn and W. 1’. Jacobs. Mr. Henry requested that his name be with drawn, and he was followed with a similar request from Mr. Jacobs. The honor was therefore unanimously ac corded Mr.-Winn in recognition of his untiring and successful efforts in be half of the organization over which ho has presided as president the past year. The custom of selecting the city’s “most u.seful citizen’’ will be ma<le an fcnnual eveirt, the one .so dc.s- ignated being a member of the Cham ber of Comtiieix-e. The newly nominated officers will be inducted into office next month and the year’s W(^rk entered upon with an enlarged membership and a determined effort to promote the community’s interests through this 01 ganization. Continuing, h« pointed out some of | lumbia chamber o# c^merce board the specific thingt which growers, Qf directors met yesterday to investi- asked for two thousand dollars dam ages again.st the Town and alleging that water from the storm drain pile had caused the dirt to wash out from under her house, undermining the piers and causing the house to sink. O. L. Long, aUor^ey of I^aurens, represents Mrs. Milam in the case, while R. W. Wade, city attorney, rep resents the defendant. and ginners can do. to improve the quality of cotton delivered to mills. “Cotton picked when damp or wet. gate the status of Chicora college, whose removal to Charlotte from Co- jJumbia and merger with Queen’s col- he said, “and when ginned in such, j, proposed. , condition, is turned down by the milli *4. i • * ' . * , At the conclusion of the meeting regardless of its color grade. It is - x- ^ ^ . ^ 11 # 1-4*1 11^ 1 - J invitation was extended to repre full of little so-called curl-a-cnes and ^ sentatives of the Presbyterian synod and the Chicora board of trustees to meet with the committee |n order that f long tangled strings. We have no ma chinery in the mill tltfit will make cut fibres whole again or untangis the *. ... ^ matted strings. If you have one balet..^ of wet fie att cotton, you Iok least $40 a bide. | members of the chamber of “The bale left'on the ground outl®®*”™*”* committee to investigate in the open and subjected to rain and • propo8e<f^moval of Chicora ar^: *11. Ih’''MTihgfieTd, G. T. Pressley, the Rev. 8. K. Phillips, F. C. Withers and James Macdonald, Sr. damp^- air is quickly spotted by the man at the mill receiving the cottifn and he promptly knocks off 10 to 20 pounds when the cotton is weighed. “Why do the mills receive so many bales that have a good gTMlc on one side and a low trashy grade on the men vrfao offer us your cotton try to other, "nie army of so-called cotton make light of this condition and say Confers Degree On Mr. Jackson The degree of doctor of divinity has _ been conferred upon the Rev. James that thw must have been a little cot- W. Jackson, pastor of the First Pres ton of low grade left hi the gin when | bytedian church of Greenwood, by your bale started in. We are fed up; the Presbyterian college of this city, on the story, and as we must judge, Announcement of the honor was the bide by the sample from the low grade side, we cither turn it down, or if it has certain staple length we take it at two or more cents off. If you carry good cotton to th$ gin, in sist wponlhe-finner giving 4ou a square deal.” (Continued on page eight) nwde by President John MeSween at the Kiwanis meeting held last Thurs day evening and attended by^ Mr. Jackson. The degree wilL be swarded at the approaching commencement exercises of the college in May. The announcement ia very pleasing to Mr. Jackaon'a friends. — Fuller To Speak Sunday Afternoon The Rev. ^Ilis A. Fuller, D. D., pas tor of the First Baptist church of At lanta, will speak at the First Baptist church of this city on Sunday after noon at 3 o’clock. Dr. Fuller will use as his subject, “Will the Church L>ve or Die.” The meeting is being ar ranged here by Rev. Rev. Edward Long as a community service and members of alf denominations in the city are cordially invited^to be pres ent. - Dr. Fuller is now conducting special revival services at the First Baptist chbrch of Laurens. He accepted the invitation to speak Sunday to the Clinton people and it is hoped that he will be greeted with a large congrega tion. He is well known and highly es- temeed here, being a g'raduate of Presbyterian college. BIBLE CLASS GIVES SUPPER white defendants compared with 1,- 942 Negroes, a total of 4,009 people who faced juries in the state last year on criminal indictments. Murder convictions, in various oe-, grees including straight verdicts (au-j Reds !•' tomatically carrying the death penal- (Continued On Page Three) Hartsville Friend Makes Three Gifts The Epworth orphanage of Colum bia, Connie Maxwell of Greenwood, and Thornwell orphanage of this city, were bequeathed $17,000 by E. V’. McNabb of Hartsville, who recent ly passed away. Mr. McNabb was a life-long friend of the Epworth home and through his efforts the Hartsville Sunday school was <one of its most liberal supporters. He left this institution as an evidence of his love and inter est, a legacy of $15,000 with which to build a brick cottage on its campus Columbia, March 12.—One of the most important measures introduced in the house at the present session of the general assembly, looking to a re form of the tax sit'intion in South <'-arolina, was passed to third reading last night in the house. 'The measure, giving the general as- .sembly the right to classify and seg regate property for taxation, was passed by a vote of 86 to 17. As it proposed an amendment to the consti tution, a vote of two-thirds of the house membership was necessary—or 84 votes. “It is the most important action taken by the house at this session ^ looking Lo. tax veforui.'ll-Walter G. Quedy, chairman' of the tax eomniis-* sion, said. “Ihdeed.^it'Is the most im portant ste]) taken for tax reform since 1 have heenr connected with the state government.” he continued. 'The measure, it is claimed, will make possible an honest tax return and al.«o will bring in revenue which heretofore has been escaping. Should the measure pass the sen- ate^ the aTnFmrhienT“wlTl he vdt'felT ‘STV by the people and should they approve it, the general assembly will have th« authority to classify property tor tax ation. Kepre^<entative Ilerbei't, speaking for the resolution, declared that mil lions of dollars in property is escap ing taxation in South Carolina every year because of the present way of assessing it. He referred to such in tangibles as stoeks, bonds, mortgagi'S and money in banks, 'I'he present levy on such property, he said, is too high and therefore per sons generally disregarded the law. Because of the high rate, he contin ued, no effort is made to enforce the taw. If, however, the state classifies it and places a"low levy onlit, it will he returned, he declared, and the state will ecllect a large tax from it. .Speaking against the resolution. Representative Buist (»f Charle-ton, said that this is “the wrong time to turn thi.s or any other legislature loose on taxation,” adding that they i re “liable to run wild” in taxing su h intangibles as stocks, bonds, mort gages and money in hanks. Representative l!!ackmon of Or- angeliurg, declared that “this i.', the most important bill .of the session” and should pass. Other.s sjieaking in favor H)f it were Repre.sentalives Pearnian of Anderson, Verner of Richland and Lane of Dillon. Another on the opposing side was Representative Oxner of Greenvil.e, who said it would he unwise to “take the bridle off” and. let the legislature tax all property as it saw fit. If this is done, he declarnl, there will be a Attendance ConteNt Held Re cently At (loldville. The contest under way for some time past by the mens Bible class | different rate on different clas.ses of the Joanna Cotton mills community, property set by every legislature. It terminated last week with the Reds v^-ould be ipuch wiser, he though to maintaining a higher average attend-1 the resolution to include for seg- ance than the Blues and declared as winners. It was understood at the be ginning that the losing .side would regation only intangible property. The house last night killed a bill from the ways and means committee provide a supper for the winners and ..hich proposed an amendment to the losers to enjoy together, and it was constitution eliminating the .5-mi!t given last-Satyrday evening in the ipyy qj, estate and tangible prep- Girls club building and attended by pj.jy state purposes. A two-thirds a large representation of the class. . majority, or 84, was required foi its \t 7:15 P. E. Strickland as toast-j pajj^^ge and it failed to receive that masted, rapped for attention and the number, the vote Ijeing 64 for passage Rev. J. E. Bullington opened the pro- to 36 against. The vote was reconsid- gram with prayer, hollowing, the ^ majority vote and the bill serving of a delightful chicken din- thus restored to the calendar, ner, Mr, Strickland made a few hap- Representative Herbert of Richland, py remarks, followed by Mr. Bulling I chairman^ of the special revenue com- to ^ known as the McNabb Memorial ton. The principal talk of the even-j fnittee which proposed the amend ing was made by W. A. Moorhead, 1 nient, through the v^ys and means general manager of the mill, and an ponimittee, said he had not thought building. While a Methodist, Mr. Me Nabb’s big heart would not permit him to be selfish or narrow. Not only did he remember his own church or phanage, but he also left $1,000 to Connie Maxwell at Greenwood, and! $1,000 bo the Thornwell orphanage of! this city. j invited guest for the occasion. Chicora Club Conies Friday THE BUYER^S GUIDE You can make your “shopping” easy by shopping through THE CHRQNIGLE. Eliminate unnecessary calls and aimless walking and searching for the food or merchandise you need by studying the advertisements carefully. Every Thursday in the advertisements you will find new changes, new methods, new products that will interest you—save you moneys— increase your ability to enjoy life. Whether it is. a dress or suit, hat, shoes, dry goods, furniture, •drugs, groceries, vegetables, produce, or what not— you will find it advertised in THE CHRONICLE. -- Do your week-end shopping through^THE CHRONICLE. Its ad vertisements affect you vitally. ^They’ll increase your ^lending money and tell you where you can buy moat e&onomically the articles you need. I The Chicora college glee club will 1 give its iM_ual_«ntertaijiinent here on , the re.solution would be called up to night and that many members in fa vor of it were not present. The measure he had been prepared to debate, he said, was that placin'g a vocational and business license t.ix upon farms. This bill was carried ^yer until today, however, when mein - Friday night at eight o’clock in the j hers became confused over copies of orphanage chapel, under the auspices j committee amendments, which entiie- of the junior class of Presbyterian ly changed the bill, and the bill as college. Their program this season is originally introduced, said to be exceptionally good, with a Representative Stoll of Willianu- variety of classical and popular selec-j burg, one of those appearing again.-t j tions. The Chicora girls always “make ' the re.soIution eHniinating the 5-miT Ja hit” in Clinton and it is hoped that j levy, declared the resolution as writ- j the young musicians will be greeted' ten would cause revision of the 6-0-1 I tomorrow evening with a capacity j .school law appropriation. .An, amend- I house. j ment by Representative Truluck of Florence* that it not ap] ly to sta:e , TO SPEAK SUNDAY ( J. H. Witherspoon, superintendent of the city schools, will address the young men’s Bible dase of -Broad Street Methodist church next Sunday morning at 10 o’clock in the church auditorium. All members of the class are asked to he present and bring other friends. levies for “school and educational pu.*- poses” was adopted by m.'ijority vote after Representative Her'j^.say he saw no harm in it,’^tsTie thought the bill as written covered that. Rev. Samuel P. Bowles has return ed from Wedgefield where he spent last week as the gust of H. M. Mc-‘ Laurin. ir,..