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t ii OIlttttDn CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1930 NUMBER 14 HOUSE MAY NOT CONCUR IN BILL CLINICS HELD , IN FOUR SCHOOLS f Vi Session May Run Weeks lAinjjer By Failure To Concur On Ap propriation. Bitter Fiijhl Is Expectod. Rapid rriiRress lioing Made In Health Campaign In County. Other C linics To Follow. Columbia, .April 1.—When the house adjourned'at near midnight tonight a concerted movement was on foot to refuse to concur*in the free confer ence report on the annual appropri ations. bill, with the house about even ly divided. Should it be sent back, it will mean a session of from two to four weeks longer. Three votes were necessary before j wwks the house adjourned until 10 o’clock tomorrow morning. The last motion carried after the house refused, hi to 50, to order a vote on the luestion of concurrence or non-concurrence Laurens, March 28.—A total of 142 children in four*schools of the county were given thorough physical and dental examinations last week in clinics conducted by T. D. Dotterer. M. D., a:nd T. C. Sparks, D. D. S.\ of Columbia, co-operating with Miss Mary E. Frayser and Miss Ada M. Moser, both representing the exten sion departnient of Winthrop college, who had already made food histories of the schools during the previous The clinics were held at Hickory Tavern, Cross IjLill, Poplar Springs and Trinity-Ridge schools. Parents of the children attended the clinics in nu merous instances and exhibited keen Representative' Herb<»rt -Rich-[interest in the health program being land, chairman of the committee writ- <^^rried on. Both Dr. Dotterer and Dr. « > - - L 1 J , ,. ., . , , , , ing the revenue measures, made a mo- j Sparks held consultations with moth , tion. for aoij-oom'ujTence-iii the _ami gave , valuable shortly after it was .taken up for de-1 to methods of treating va- bate at 8:30 o’clock. The report v^as<ii*orders. .At the Trinity-Ridge under debate until 11:40 o’clock, when adjournment was taken. The chief objection of Mr. Herbert to the report was that the five-mill levy on real estate and personal tan gible property had been retained in the bill. “Day is breaking in South Caro- Jina,” Mr. Herbert shouted. “The first thing to be done is to reform our tax system.’’-He advocated non-concur rence in the report, continuing of all second reading bills except those con cerning appropriations^and revenues and “come back here next week, and clear this thing up.” Representative McCaslan, of Green wood, chairman of the ways and means committee and member of the free conference committee, gained the floor at beginning of debate on the report and asked that it be carried over until 8:30 o’clock toTnorrow night but the house refused. A later notion by Mr. McCaslan to adjourn debate until 11 o’clock tomorrow morning was deeaedt, 48 to 44. Speaking for concurrence in tnc re port, Representative Stop, of Wil liamsburg, said while he did nut like every detail of the free confereme re port, he would vote for it. He believed that to kill the report “and stay here four or five weeks lonrrer. will cost tschool the two doctors spoke to the student body, stressing fhe impor tance of a l>alanced diet. Clinics are yet to be held at Gray Court-Owings on March 31-April 1; at Barksdale-N’arnie and Fleming schools on April 2, and at Mountville and Renno on April 3ni. Food his tories of these schools are being made this week by Miss Frayser and Miss Moser, assisted in field work by^rs. J. H. Powe, Mrs. AlJie Lee and Mrs. DeWitt Parker. Miss Mary E. FraVser, who is in general charge of the health cam paign, was very enthusiastic yester day over the assistance given her by all who have taken part in the work. Both Dr. Dotterer and Dr. Sparks, she said, have been careful and gentle in the examination of the children and show, a very sympathetic interest in the work. Miss Kate V. Wofford, wfto was largely instrumental in securing the work for the county, and Miss Mary Shaw Gilliam, county home agent, are lending their assistance and influence in making the survey worthwhile. The friendly cooperation of all Ihe school teachers and princi- pals^^she said, has been very pleasing to her and has been very important in making the survey a success. With out the friendly reception of the par- I, ♦ ' The Reql Discoverer Seldom Gets Credit Uy Albert T*. Reid NATIONBEGINS CENSUS JOB rnclc Sam Sends F(>r4^-4 20.0(10™ Enumerators for I'remendous Task. I*ublic Asked To (.’o- operate. Washington, April !. —Doorbells will Start buzzing und bras,*: knockers clicking throughout the United States tomorrow as Uncle San’s l.'iih decen nial census enumerators, numbering 120,000, swing into action. From the White House in Washing ton to President Bower’s form r abode in Palo Alto, Ualifurnia, from the Canadian bound.u\v line to the Mexican border, every household will await the arrival of the con.jus take’’ President Hoover, who j.rjclalmed the ncen-sus and 'retjirestc 1 ( veryl) >dy to answ'er questions freely an<l frank ly, is thtr Tinly person in the t3n’’ted States who has a definiu- date with the visitor from the ren.-^us hurean. ' At^ 1 p. m.. tomorrow'. .1 • SijvUng Moran, census supervisor of the^Dis- trict of Columbia, will call at the White House, IdOO I’ejinsylvania ave nue, and enumerate th.’ president per sonally. He will ask him the routine i.l' with regard to himseh’ and CITY PRIMARY COMES IN JUNE Iho state of South Cafol'ina far more|™"“. “W Miss Frayser, the than will be saved by cutting down the bill,” Representative Lane, of Dillon, an other speaking for non-corem rei’ce, said he was “sick and tired of the halo and glory that hangs around the front aheet of a free conference report'’.and asked the house to kill it. Represntative Harley, of Barnwell, leader of the house “economy” bloc, said that the majority of the house voted consistently for two weeks not survey could not have been made and to them, she said, she wished to ex press her special thanks. The women, she said, have given her and her help ers a wonderful reception and made possible a w’ork which she hopes will result in a great deal of .go(^ to the county and the entire state. The Yesearch work done in this cam paign is a part of the general activi ties of the experimental and research departments of Clemson and Win- thdop colleges, it is stated. When the to increase the salary of anyone work-1 ing for the state and to reduce appro priations for educational institutions so as to bring the bill down to about where it was in 1929. The committee cut out fixed sums that the atate is obligated to pay and are com pleted, Miss Frayser and Miss Moser will analyze the conditions as they found them and report them in a bul letin to be issued by Clemson college. .should pay, he declared, and “went LAURENS LODGE here, there and everywhere and raised salaries.” After taking the floor for extended rebate, Mr. McCaslan pointed out that liie salary increases granted by the free .cnference committee amounted to s little more than ten thousand HOSTS TOOROUP District Sesaion Held Last Tuesday Night With County ^at PytJi- ians. State Officers Attend. Laurens, March 29.—Laurens lodge ‘ 43, K. of P., was host Tuesday (ollaiTSt and said that for rth'. jfanaiaij ^ ^ , , tnl wntc ther appropriation bill the state a ould be assessed about |160,()0«) more. Winthrop Closes evening at one of the triangle district meetings that are being held in this Pythian area, and furnished eleven pages for the rank of esquire which was conferred on the class by a de gree team headed by George S. Hudr Executive Committee Appoints En rolling Committees To Prepar-i Rolls for Municipal Contest. The city Democratic executive com mittee met Thursday night to appoint ! enrolling committees in the respective wards and plan for the primary on the second Tuesday in June to name a mayor and six aldermen for a two- year term of o'ffice, beginning Sept, first. Several matters were before the committee for consideration,* includ ing the assessment of candidate.^, time to file pledged, etc. The following enrolling committees were named: Ward 1—Rhett P. Adair, C, C. Bai- I ley and J. A. Chandler, j Ward 2—Mrs. "Clyde I.ankfo^, V. I Parks Adair, Ross' Blakely. Ward 3—A. O’Daniel, L. B. Dillard, L. 1). McCrary. Ward 4—Irby S. Hipp, F. M. Stutts, S. W. Sumerel. Ward 5—Ira C. Boland, R. T. Tram- bell, W. A. Buchanan. Ward 6—Hallie Abrams, Ryland I Sumerel, Mrs. I.ewi8 Bagwell. I These committees are asked to re port to W. D. Copeland, secretary, to secure enrolling books and needed in formation in their work. All voters in the respective wards must be enrolled ten days preceeding the primary. Qualifications for voters, who must be 21 years of age on or before the general election, follow: The member ship of the city Democratic club shall be confined to white citizens who ! have resided in^ the coun^^ for one j year and in the city of Clinton for four months prece'ding the general election for city officers. FIELD EVENTS AT P.C. TODAY County Track and Declamation Con- testH To Attract Many. Afternoon and Night Programs. The annual l.aurens country track meet and-dwlamation contests will he QUAUTY OF COTTON MUST BE IMPROVED The track and field events will be at the college stadium and will open at 2:30 p. m. The reading and declama tion contests will be held at 8 o'clock this evening in the I'ir.st Baptist church, orphanage chapel, and high school auditorium. The day’s events, follow: Girls’ track and field events — 50 yard dash, basketball throw, running high jump, discus throw, fiO yard hur dles (4 hurdles 2 1-2 feet high), base ball throw, running broad jump, 75 ■yard dash, shot put,Tplay' (240 yards). To Retain Its Supremacy In Market World Staple Must Be Better, Board Member Says. The quality of American cotton must be improved if it is to retain its held here this afternoon and tonightrf’^^^®'*^®^^ markets of the (2 girls in each event except iiy the, world, Carl Williams, member of the Federal Farm board, says in a letter to Representative Brand of Georgia. “It is apparent that the staple of American cotton is on the average so poor today that much of it comes into direct competition with the cotton of India, China and sundry foreign coun tries which is sold at a cheaper price than that of our cotton,” Williams said. He asserted that within the last twenty year.s the world consumption j_pf cotton outside the United States had increased about 60 per cent, but c« • 91 *on, chancellor commander of the Blue bession June lodge. Greenvllle. Rock Hill, March 29. — Winthrop college will close the 1929-30 session with graduation exercises at lO:30 o’clock on the morning of June 3, Dr. James P. Kinard, the president, an nounced Thursday. Departing from the usual custom of having the grad uation exetcises at night, ^the institu tion’s last exercises will be in the morning this year. - RichardnS. Owefis,“l)5sp., pas tor of Calvary Baptist church of Roa noke, Va., will deliver the baccalaure ate sermon Sunday evening, June 1. Dr. Owens is one of the leading min-j come were spoken by C.-A. Power and The meeting here was attended by about 75 Pythians from Greenville, Pelzer, Anderson, Clinton and Lau rens, in addition to two high otHcials of the order, C. A. Edwards, of Co lumbia, grand chancellor, and C. D. Brown of Abbeville, grand keeper of records and seal. The exercises of the evening were held in the new quarters of the local lodge ift the room suitiesTiw the f ormer Xaurehs MiH school building on Holmes street. The meeting was opened with J. R. Murff, chancellor commander, presiding. Words of wel relay race where there are four). Mer chandise prize.s given by Laurens bus- iae.ss firm.s to first place winners. Boys' ’track and field events—100 yard dash, 1 mile run, 220 yard dash, 120 yard high hurdles, 440 yard run, 220 yard low hurdles,’ half mile run, mile relay, pole vault, shot put, run ning high jump, discus throw, run ning broad juthp,' throwing the jave lin. (2 boys in each event except in the relay race where there are four). Merchandise prizes given by Clinton that during that period American ex ports had stood still “Foreign growths have gotten this increu.sed business,” William said. “Through the use of American seed the soviet government last year raised 1,230,000 bales of cotton of which more than 50 per cent was one inch and one and one-eighth inch staple. “Through the use of American seed the British cotton corporation has im proved the staF)le of the Indian crop to the point where some two-fifths to one-half of India’s total coaon pro- hvsiness firms to winners of first j duction is a good seven-eighths or bet Laurens Finals. Speakers Named isteri of the Baptist church and his .the response was made by Mr. Hud coming here will be hailed with satis faction. Dr^ Charles Moore of Washington, son of Greenville. After the degree work had been concluded, refreshments were served. D. C., will deliver the baccalaureate j during which time brief addresses “on address on Tuesday morning, June 3, the good of the order” were delivered at 10:30. Dr. Moore is the author and | by Mr. Edwards and Mr. Brown. editor of several works in fine arts. He is chairmatn of the National Com mission of Fine Arts in the United States and it an incorporator and life member of the Ameri<;an Academy in Rome. He is a graduate of Harvard university and has hsm an overseer of that iasittutiou for many yoara. The next district meeting will he held April 15 with the Clinton lodge, at which time the rank of knight will be conferred oi/ a class of ten or twelve. . .Thom^lDunlap spent the week s' in Siuidersville, Gil * Laurens, March 27. — The Laurens city school will hold its closing exer cises May 18-23, it has been announc ed by Superintendent C. K. Wright. Forty-three boys and girls will be graduated from the high school on the evening of May 26, when the annual address will be delivered -by A. C. Elora, superintendent of the -Column, bia city schools. The commencement week exercises will begin Sunday, May 18, the baccalaureate ierrhoh to be preached at the First Baptist church by the Rev. Edward S. Reaves of Union. Chick Galloway, accompanied by Mrs. Galloway and little daughter, left yesterday for Philadelphia after a short stop over in the city from Flor ida where Mr. Galloway has been in [training with the Philadelphia Ath letics at Port Myers. Chick played in an exhibitigrL game at Daytona Beach SINGS OVER RADIO Margaret Shealy, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. F. KL. Sh§aly of this city, Is very grateful for the kind expressions she has received following her recent appearance on the radio over station WBT, Charlotte. The little musician will appear again over the same sta tion on next Wednesday afternoon be tween 5:16 and 6:00 p. m. The Ckkora college girls, after spending the spring holidays at heme, returned to Columbia Tuesday to re* some their studies. places. Reading and declamation contests— One elementary girl and one ele mentary boy, one high school girl and one high school boy allowed for each school. Elementary contests in First Bap tist church; high school boys in high school building; high school girls in orphanage chapel. Prizes or medals given for first place winners. ter. Chick Galloway Off For Philadelphia If Southern farmers are to get any where near the cost of production plus a profit, and if the Federal Farm board, regardless of its goo<l inten-, tions, can fully ‘ help them it would I questions his family. Be.-»ides Mr. and Mrs. Hoover, their unmarried son, Allen, a student at Harvard, will be cn-unu raU‘d as I'e-^ia- ing at the White Hous-?. Some persons less busy than th? president will answer questions on the rest of the household, whi-’h must in clude the other individuals, about a dozen, who reside beneath its roof. Anxious to secure the complete cc- opration of all he could possibly reach in the great census-taking project. Census Diracotr William M. .Steuart welcomed the opportunity to speak over radio at 8 p. m. tonight, from th« National Broadcasting Company’s studio here. Under his direction, also, census .schools for the final instructions to enumerators were being field tonight in most of the 575 districts into which the United States has been divided for census-taking purpose.:. In the census schools, the 120,DOO enumerators learned how to handle their OO-page handbook of instructions indexed to cover hundreds of sub jects likely to pop up v hen the census taker starts asking (]uestion.s. Many persons will not be called up on to reply to more than 21 queries, but one schedule is very likely to lead ‘o another. For instance, the ?-iin;ite the census taker finds out a,man I'ves on a farm he must add the faihi- schedule to the personal list of ques- twms. The total number of (| i.'f«on-5 on all the various schedules is ai)- ni 20,000. The census taking job stai”>nc: to- jnorrow, the biggest in history, v.ill have highly important results. Up n it depends the reapiXirtionment of the house of rejjresentatives, a t'j?ui which has not been faced since I'.HO, Congress faile(U4.y make the rcr apportionment following the Ipoq census. Since then there lias been a great shifting of the population, r.nt- ably to California, automobile manu facturing centers, and- other rapidly- growing industrial sections. Griest School A Big Success The Merchants Retail Tu’ade insti- VliVIII IL WUUJU* -1*1 ’ 1 A I seem to he necessary that the quality j week of cotton production should go up and i John W. Griest of Chicago, came the quantity come down,” Williams said. Health Valued By Thomas Edison Miami Beach, Fla., March 31.—If Thomas Edison were told that he could have any one thing in the ma terial, mental or spiritual worlds, he to a close Friday night. The “school” was sponsored by the Chamber of j (’ommerce and forty associated mer- j chants and business men, and both I interest and -attendance grew from [ he opening day until the clo.-ie. The addresses of Mr. Griest touch ing salesmanship and modern busi ness methods, were filled with prac tical and meaty thoughts The benefit (derived during the week by merf’hant4 would choose “good health,” he told j and their sales and exo'-utive staffs newspaper reporters here. He scribbled the two-word answer to a question on this subject, while visiting Harvey Firestone, rubber manufacturer, here Saturday night. a few clays ago and showed up in bis He ha^b^ here two days visiting old-time form at third base. He has | the Firestone rubber gardens in Mi been signed for the season by Connie! ami .Beach, and other points of inter Mack and in leaying for Philadelphia j est. was very great and all wh ) partici pated in the institute were highly en thusiastic over the results obtained. Mr. and Mrs. Griest and ;''jn left ^arly Saturday morning for Nexv t^s- tle, Ind., where he is engaged this week. They made many friends while in the city. ’ his host of local friends are predict ing and wishing for him a successful season. Chamber Meets Next Tuesday The April meeting of the Chamber of Commerce will be held next Tues day evening in tbe club rooms at 7:30, and all members are urged to be pres ent. It will be the election of officers meeting and the committee’s nomina tions for the new year will be present ed and adopted. Edison said the fields of chemistry j »j.|| THT*wta and physics were ones in which there {-OHI ^ auC fw lIlS was great need for new investigations In Story Contest and discoveries. ! The electrical wizard said he had ,1 The Florida Street school held its one or two ‘old experiments nearly 1 rtory-telling contest on last •finished. He wrote a one-word an- xhufsday afternoon. Mrs. D. J. Woods swer to a question as to whether gt^ries to a represenUtive planned to retire after completing hisj section of each grade. Thir- rubber experiments. It was “no.’ contestants entered the contest He said hia diversion was experi-1 all made creditable showings, menting. He attributed his success ^ 12.50 gold piece of- “hard work and ambition” and said he' the Mother’s club, was cap- did not think be would live to be 100. The inventor paased up a question as to how his day was divided between S I _1 l Af ' • *• tured by Bill Wade, while Frances Simpson of the third grade, was win- working, slewing, resting and eating, ner of second place. ’UM;