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f .Ci THE CHRONICLE • • Strives To Be a Clean News- • paper, Complete, Newsy, and Reliable. > * Uflfp Ollmtan (Eljrnntrlr If You DonT Read THE CHRONICLE You Don’t Get The -News. VOLUME XXXI CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY; APRIL 9, 1931 NUMBER 15 DEATH CUIMS Farm Women j No Kind Word Said COL SPRINGS Meet Saturdayi For Bingham Plan Wealthy Tevlile Mairnai. «,ir 'SprinR Meeting of County Coun- Republicans. Democrats and In cumbs After Illness of Three Bays. Was Widely Identified With Business Interests. cil To Be Held WMth Brewer- ton Club. Program Given. dependents Join In Criticism of Income Tax Increase. Raskob Wants ’ Connnittee Views Charlotte, N. C., April 7.—Colons! Ix?rcy Springs, who started his husi-j Browerton ness career as a wholesale grocery salesman and became one of the wealthiest textile magnates in the Carolinas, died today at his here. The 69-\’ear-oId manufacturer and! The spring meeting of the Laurens count.v council of farm women w’ill be held Saturday, April 11. with the club as hostess, at the home Brewerton school house in the west- i^rn part of the county, it has been announced by Miss Jenme Coleman, home demonstration agent, of Lau rens county. The session will onen at -11 o’chA-1; banker succnmbwi to complications growing out of a three-days illness of septic sore thraat. His son. Captain Elliott White Springs, World war ace-and novelist, and his wife, were at his bedside when be died. Colonel Springs was bom in Fort Mill, York county, South Carolina, November 12. 1861, and practically all of his business interests were cen tered in his native state. studying at Uie University of he came U* Charlotte and worked as a jnie H. Dunla]). president of the county organization. At the forenoon session i s'sted the thousands now unohligate<l Washington. April .5.—The proposal of Senator Bingham for a blanket in crease in income levies and a lowering of existing exemptions to curb ex travagant federal spending was given a frigid reception today by leaders ^f all factions in congre.ss. The Connecticut Republican, a mem- I'cr of both the finance and appropri- Party Chairman Asks Members of National Body for Recom mendations for I’latform. Washington, April 5.—An appeal to each member o.f the IVmo. ratio na tional commitfee that he forward to Washington his individual recommen dations for the 1932 platform—“par ticularly” on prohibition — went for ward today from Chairman John J. Raskob. White I'opulation Exceeds Negroes Director of Census Gives Total For Slate As 1,7.18,7()5, 51.3 Per Cent Whites, Washington. .April 7>.— By virtue of a 15.3 per cent gain in its white pop ulation, South Carolina had 1,738,765 l>er.=ons living within its bounds on April 1, 1930, a« compared to the 1920 total of 1,683,724. The white jvopulation increased in the decade from 48.6 per cent of the MONEY BILL STIU^ROWS Completion o f .Appropriation Measure By Senate Now In •Sight. House Kills Bill To Cut Teachers’ Pay. In letters made public tiKlay, the|t(Ttal to f)4.3 per cent. ations* committLH's, meanwhile pointi^l! chairman repeatt*d the “home rule out that hardly more than 2,500,000 plan” recommendation that he ad- persons pay income taxes now. He in James H. Sullivan, member of the Laurens bar, will deliver the princi pal address before the council of wo- increased cost of government. should have it brought home to them that they should bear a share of the vanc<'<l before the recent meeting of4 information relea- wl hv The Negro pojuilation showed a de- crea.«e of 8.2 per cent, according to men, and council activities will be dis cussed by Ml'S. Wesley Welbom of Belton, district director. Mr. Sullivan is a former member of the house of representatives from I.aurens county and has always evinced deep intere.<d. EdHowlfig We'nwdcS^ H. J. Snider of Poplar Springs, the salesman for the Springs and Burwell welcome will be given by wholesale grocery. Later be moved to Lancaster, S. where until a few years ago, be made his home. At Lancaster, in 1895, he buih his first cotton mill with a capital of $150,000. His inve.stment in mills in Lancas-i .Mrs. L.' C. Taylor on 'l>ehalf of the hostess club, and the response will be by Mrs. Rikbert .M. Cain of Trinity Ridge. At 2 o’rl ock in the afternoon a .song contest will be held to be followed by Commenting on the New England er’s !«weeping tax program, Senator Watson of Indiana, the majority floor leader, said: “1 am opposed to any further tax ation because 1 don’t think it is nec essary under existing conditions.” is estimated at $5,(100,000. In advii-l tion to his textile holdings, he. was' president of several small* banks, a T. , ! departmental reports, ter, bort Mill, ( hester ami Kershaw; Agriculture, Mrs. Horace ^Hickory Tavern. Exterior beautification, . , Gray Harris, Y'oungs. power comi>any, a short line railroad and a cotton oil company. Funeral services will be held at the Springs residence here tomorrow a* 3 p. m. Burial vi III lx* in We.st Side cemetery at Lan:‘aster at 5 p. m. ^Ridge. In addition to his son and widow,| ’^jrs Ridge. Mrs. M rs. ('itizenship, Brewerton. Education, Ivanford. Finance, Miss Ethel Balentine., Trin IvCgislation, Mrs. Bai k.sdale-Narnie. Membership, Mrs. M R. M. Cain^ Trinity A. L. Bramlett. Col. Spring.s is survive<l by four broth ers, Richard .A., and Eli Springs, of New Y’ork, members of the stock ex change. and a <firector of the South ern railway; Brevard B. Springs, j i^antly Springs A. ('. Springs, (’harlotte busines.sj’ .velfare, Mrs. ('. men. and a sister, Mrs. ( harlotte. . , . ' .Music and recreation, Mrs. .1. In 1927, shortly after moving his residence to Charlotte, Col. Springs was shot and wounded in the shoulder treasury deCiclt can be* TnC* by sale of short term securities w’bich the gov ernment already ha<l suceeed<Hl in marketing at low interest charg«‘s. Senator Norris of Nebraska, a lead er of the indemmdent w'ing of the Re publican party, said he did n d agree with Bingham’s method of taxation.” “I’m not oppostnl to an increase in League, j >f there’s going to 1m> a did’icit, jbut the im rease shoukl’be ajvplied or Mrs. J.I inheritance taxes and on the high(*r bracket.s or larger incomes,” he said, Morrow,; u<lding; “I am opposed to issuance of bonds. I don’t want to increase taxes on the smalh-r ineomes. ro? do 1 want to cut down {h<‘ exemjitions as .Sen.itor Bing ham proposes.” Senator Harris of Georgia, ranking DemocraC on the senate appr<ipria- M. B. Roy DeShields, W. vSanders, n s. the committee here wbich stirreil the ire of Southern Democrats, led by the party’s senate leader, .I-o.seph T. Rob- in.son, of .Arkansas. Ra.skob wrote that he had advanced | the plan propo.siing a substitute for the 18th amendment under which states could he wet or dry in the hope that the committee might come to “a common and definite understanding on this question.” -198,6^1; -Negrp<tSLt-9nd, • 1 lui) cHimprlsedDommittee. These were for $l(fn eacH'~' “to realize that perhaps the ihost out standing problem” facing the commit tee was “to attempt in some way to rwoncile the dry attitu<le of the party in the South with the liln'ral attitude of the party in the North.” “If the.sp o|)posing factions cannot 1h» I’eponciled,” Rnskoli con’ended. “we must .squarely face the fact that our party is reaBy <iivided into tw of the cen.^us. The population 21 years of age an<l over represented 47.1 per cent. IncludiHl in the total population w'ere 853,158 males ami 886,(507 fe males. There w'cre 473,312 white males and 470,728 white females; 379,300 Negro males and 414,:581 Ne gro females. There were in the state at the re- Columhia, April 7.—The senate to night completed consideration of the appropriations bill with the exception ol four dePH'tments whose upkeep i.s provided by revenues of their own. The total, if these fc.ir departments rema:n Jhe same, will lie slightly above $11,000,000. Th(‘ departments to eoine up are the director I I'll* highway department, sinking fund comm s.sion, railroad eommi.ssion and ihief game warden’s offi^'e. There still remains for eonsider- aUon the motion to make the levy on property flexible an<l an amendment to tax hydro-electric power 5-10 of a mill on each kilowatt generated in the state. Tonight’s session was jiunctuated by much oratory, hut thm-e were only cent ('cnsu:?, 954,040 white white per-1 two increases over the apjimpriations other races: The last gniup eompri nine Mexicans, 595 Imlians, 41 (’hi-jiind weie to aid in^upkeep of the state ne.se, 15 Japanese, 18 Filipinos and i house groumls. two Hindus. The white poiiulation reiiresented Indications were that may be able to complete the the senate apjvro- parties, because there is no gainsay ing the fart that the Northern Demo-1natives of native parentage, 13,- crats, electing candidates on the South ( arolina Negria-s. hibition issue in such great stati's asj white population incliideil 92j),- New York, Massachusetts, ('onnecii-! of foreign'or mixed par- cut. Ohio nad Illinois, three of wh: h'ami 5,2(56 foreign horn. Of the Tati'S are normally Republican, mx*! whole numlM'r of foreign horn, 3,421 54.3 per cent of the total, ami the N:/-i l>imtions mea.siire tomorrow, gro 45.6 per cent of the total..In 1926! A bill was introduced (ly Senator the white population was IS.6 per cent Long, (’harleston, to pn hibit charge of the total and the Negro Jll.l ))er by npwspapners of a higher rate than cent. Ten j-cars ago there were 818,- the regular rate hy new.sqiapers fo^ 538 South ('nrolina whites and 8(54,- fiolitical ailvertising. A bill to restore the “save-a-teaeh^ strongly demanding some ionsiructive change in our jiresent iirohiliilion laws.” were naturalized, 376 had taken out their first jiape-rs, ami i(l)() were re- turne<l as alimi. Reports on eitizen- tions committee, said it was “Ulle talk about shifting the burden of taxat ion on the iH'ople with •mall inr-omes. “The income tax never was 'tnt<*nd- Raskob termed prohibit ion “the Is-' *9. .sue on which there is the gravest eon-j Ahum foreign-horn whites repre own ranks arMl,^‘'^t<‘<l one-tenth of one per eimt of jtherefove, the one di'inamling our cHs-'the populalion in 193(1, the same per- , ,, , , , ,, ‘*J*t, most thoughtful eon.siileration.” ed to fall upon the rK>opIe of small, dangerous eompli- by Eldixsl Griffith, retired c otton i Lriiker. The .-:ho»tting took place in the I c rowded busine-s district and was re-1 polled to have been the outcome of| 1 j.-irie.s.s diff::-ul1 ies. I \Yhen C. l. Soring.^ rcfu.<e.l io iii' ssj p; osccutic.n of Griffith, tin- c-ourt i placed the elderly man under 825.()(»(lj pt ace bond and he never went on trial | for the shooting. ( o'. .^prin<'c was ri\’(*n hi- honorary t’'ie whe-n be >»-rved aya hicrnlx-r of the* sti'ff of G :vern u- John f*. R -h- ardstm of South 1 arolina. in 188(5. Winetmmner. Mountvjlle. Publicity, Mrs. C. L. M’aldrep. I.an- ford. To Give Series Bible Lectures Miss Kathryn Danfor;b. of the ('o- umbia Bible* college. w M begin nc*x’ in the -tud- ; es in the b^- k of Romans t') which .all 'Bibb* students are given a cordial in- i citation to attend. The Y’dang Peopli.’s I Sabbat.h evc-ning, April 12th. i.\. R. P. rhur'-h a series of Bibb iffi.irs of the He wa< active in the Demw.ratic- parly and wa- a South Caiolina delegate to the party's na tional c. nventions in 1888, l‘.(fi4, 1912, 1920 and 1924. He wa • a mem}**r of the* IVesbyte- rian church. In a.kliti m to his himie here he maintained a .csidenre at Lancaster and .New York. Col. Springs was a member of the New Y’ork and New Orleans i ott-in ex changes, the .Xmerican Manufaetur- cir.s’ as.sofiation, American Bankers' BssociaCon, Northeastern Manufa:*- turei .’ association, South Car dina Bankers’ assneiati'n, Southeim Manu facturers’ club, anJ the t'otton .Manu- facturer.s’ As«oriation of South Caro-1 lina. He was presblent erf the* Lanc'aster c .tton mills and Eureka cotton mills , ChristifiTi union of the local chur. h is for it was bjiYert on the ground that m.en of great wealth did licd pay a fair s^hare of the taxe^s. There is no chance of nutting this tax on small incomes. I bi'lieve in holding d<rwn expenditures and do not behevc- i* will he- necessai’.v to increase* tax<*s. I a:n onposed to Senator Bing-j ham’s ji'an in toto.” Regarding H ngham’s for a •■evixuil of some* of the “nnisancu*” * taxi‘.<, "ncluding levies on aufmiohilej <ab - and bank (•h(*cks. Ilarri.-. said; “.A st.'imji tax on checks in peace; time* with our rate* of inevome is not: w,orth while clisi-ussintr. .Automobile i usres already are (laying heavily! through ruen.se .and gasoline Ik*m(X’ratic party to disregard the (irchibibion issue bc*eause of its sup posed peril!” The U'tter, a li*ngthy doeiiment. dealt with Raskidi’.s reeonimendations regarding tariff, government in busi- nesc, farni rc‘li<*f. old age and iirirm )>loymc*nt insurance, the five-day W(>.'!\ c“r I Ian” in transjiortation of children to .sc-hols was introduced by--Senator \V<*st, .AblM*ville. The mea.surc* sup|)lements the “iM*r mile, iH*r pupil” plan now in use. It (iiovides that where* consolidatii n or centralization of sehool.s is (*ffect'. !, and the* saving of a t(*achcr is :na;ic, money,-m+t to exceed $546, way 1h* a[.j)ro()riated for Iran-(lortation. A provision hy Senator Aid, \V-'- liamsburg, wa.s a(lnptc*(i that in the future no state nff'ieial could contra t rentage a.s in l'.(20. The po|)ulation 21 yc*His of age and|for outside legal as.sistants in tria’ over numlM'red 819,000. The foTeign-! .An amendmerit to the hc.il:h dc‘('a bom while po-pulalion 21 year.s of ag<*:im*nt ai iiropriation wa- a ! ■ited. n and over mnounted to 5.022 of which 90(5 were re^urnc*(l as aliem. land (mhlir u1 Tries, -ngge.-tion I . • r .. J he < hairman a- k e < nairman a-Kei| .■;ii«*ful •oii'-id-. (•■ration of h> rc-comnieniiaCion.s, whi'‘lri th e wu rli fie s.aid, “cuidcavor to writi fair’ aerns- (he I (eniocralie lianrier.” “VVe should he fair to all alike,” the lc*ttc*i' a ided, ‘‘noor ami r ch. la'mr and cajiital. In treating wilh the tariff, r '- Contest Betters Cotton Quality South (’.'irolina Farniors .Make (Jood Ui’ford In Five Throuvh, Fi Y e- A ere ('on I e.sl .s. .Sou' h viding that the state suroi",n for e*-' * (lied children would m t ha com.‘ except in ca<es wlic* deeins it alisolutelv rie 'T" t . at. the ji’ arv. le amendment was by Sena: r An \a h ’■■ a I sa'aiv ( ff i t was nridc ' ■ i of Dr. W’MIiain We t > air ng director id’ tin- ^'■•t^;*Ml n • -.i cs coininission, from ■(‘..(if n to St'.'*' lot this failed. ('olm 1 levies. o bringing Miss Danforth to rilintonj and it honid that all of the young; (lecple of the other ehur hes may he \ I able t) attend her serv'iees. .She i.s aj young woman of deeply sniritua! (ler-; .'^finality w.lh a keen understanding of ' the B:i)le and those coming in con-! Tact with her receive a great b'es.sing. Service.^ beginning next Sabbath even ing at eight o’clock will lx* held Through Friday night at the same hour. S. C. Science Body Hears Dr. Davis ' ('lem.sori ('(/ilege, .Aoril 5 T'avolina fanners have ma-b* an i n- !gardless of ^pee;fie differences as ton'’''''” i'-'I>n.vimr the (,ual:- rindividua! .sehedides, which apply t.,; ty ‘>HLeir lint cotton during the past our nicn.l.ersbip in congress a.s well!• Hamilton the oer.onnel of this committee,''‘"^H-nsion agronomist. who gives prr f I f this by stuing that m I9J.), only 13 as to the oer-'-.nnel of this committee, we agre< that onr (larty advceal;'. ‘fair’ tiaiie and not ‘free’ fr.nde. Tliat is what an honest emnpelitive tariff mean.s.” Ita.skob -aid that the home rule ()lan Presbyterian Biology Head I)e livers Lecture At Session Hcld|<'f li<|nor eontnd after ratification by At University In Columbia. a , majority of fourths of the “that anv .state Several Tracts Of Land Sold I Dr. J. H. Davi.s, head of the (le])art-i ■! menf of biology at PreTiyterian eol'-'l lege, delivered an interesting lecture| Monday night before the South Taro-1 within lina Academy of Science nie(*ting at plan The Univer.sity of .South Carolina in Columbia. He used as his subject, the people in three- states would (ir-ovide may thereafter direct ,'ind control aleoliltely the nianufa*- ture and tran-iiortation and .sale of in toxicating l;(|m r.s for beverage (uir- Ihat sta'c, (irovided the under which that state is to d( . (ler cent of the .South Caiaditia eroji I wa.s 15-1(5 inch or longer, in length;; I for 1930, 53 (lef cent ( f the cro*) w.is I 15-1(5 inch or longer. .Authorties i.f I the L’nited State.s dejiar: ineriA of iriculture say that this improvi nient i'-^i c/iie of the out.standing a ■hieveinent.-1 in tl'.e history of Southern agri.-'jl-i turn. With Tie |n-o pe-f Cor r’ontiniied lo-,v [irices for the 1931 cro|), it i.s r/f (iri- iiiiiry importamc ihat Sou'll Cardina fanners continue to itiitirove Tie (pial-' ity of their lint cotton. Bv the u a* of I ' ■Muiiiuia, .April 7. .\ i-alaiie.s of public .-•choo I (lev tile (5-0-1 .^(hi .ol law vv.i j ly voted down by th" h c !■ ifty-lhree im'mlieis \i \ j bill, 2(5 against it. ^ Writ ten bv tlie educat i Tei*, the bill would have r- ■cho.il tiaihers aiuj^ affi •ha:;gc- in salary distriimt Sum: •■!•, . to Cl a e •1 her u;- d"c! -ive- ’(■ 'ill' t . kill fjl • a coiu'u’*- iuced higa ■*cd ( th‘ r ui. f.ne ( f rin • I \V. IVI. .Vlaiminir. measure’s (irinciiial .-up)ioit( rs. said it 1! $.”.25.0(1' • .s‘;;.'u/v i) a |■ea'lj■Jsl- would save fr vear. “It firuvide merit,” he as^crtid. R. Bradfi.r.l, Y 'uk, nrivc W str ke out the enacting w .r Is of th* bill. “I do not .^-ee wbv th <• i’'cacra: a-- einlily should make the -• f mol The following land sab.s were made “.Some Sub-Ali)ine Plant Communities Monday morning bv the clerk of ! of We.Tern .North Carolina.” and was. at Lancaster; the .Springstein cotton mills at Chester; the Fori Mill Manu-' Ph^-jdiate Co. vs R. T. Dun- facturirg comnanv’s tw'o mills at Fort al. .mi.8 a^res. w.Lbdrawn; 77 Mill; the Kershaw cotton mills in plaintiff for $200; 53.5 Kershaw; the Bank of Lancaster; the! plaintiff for $100; el.l , Lancaster and Chester railway, and plaintiff for $100; 79.ri the Lansford Water Power companv. to plaintiff for $100. He was a director of the Catawba' aflministrator vs E. B,. Rasor, 104.25 acres in Cross TTill well received by the leading scientists About half the letter, appr'iximat- ing 4,000 word', -was d - 'ot( d to (iro- of the .state. The topic di.scus.sed by Dr. Davi.s bar! to do with hi.s botanical studies in .the mountain regions near Ashe-: ville, and was the basis for his thesis; lUskob ex)ue:s-ed lu.pe '.he platform for his Ph.D. degree from the I'ni-;would provide it-i representatives in Fertilier company; the I^nca-ter Cot- hh-s:*^ acres in cross iiiii versity of Chicago. He spent con.sider- congress 1h* committed to vote in fa- ♦ n-l rnmnanv* American Trust i^ownship. Sold to nlaintiff for $500;iable time in this region collecting vor of a resolution to give the people romrany ofTCbtt,; .National Loan '"' ta Croot, Hill soM to plaintiff for this i*-' fir-t aiitiroved by the (leiqile of;. that slate in a .-tn'e-wule refen n- Hu|)j uved seed, load t: jir du a t> longer lengths of stajile the value of tute to have li.iuor ' = ‘>1* increaud cT-half (('lit to two cents per p. un 1. The Smith Carolina fivc-a re c i't')" (unte-t has been of rnati rial In arousing the interest ■ f fatrimrs in a--'( i ted th( ■ 111,-I t.. . ‘1 want no e to have litpior forced upon it,” Raskob said, “ami I want no state tu have .'Uin|)tuarv rc( d '.111 n it agai.nst it' w'll.”. I. in ,y ; I.* to.’i an bringing atiout a wider d sitriun i .n jf the fine ((UalTy seed. T ie Cfitt.iTi .Manufacturers A-'socia'on ff .Sju'h ei s the scapegoat s, Huff. Lauiens. IluCf ara-.tt vvfi-.ild eliminate “tl.e 1. -• t( hors” liy S(.r:dirig stidi's for [lositions. “I think they are not pa’ rio.v,” (he Laurens m m stated. W. B. N.irritn, .M i> n. bill ha.s a glarnr.r ilc does not reward mei ex()erienee instead.” “S.,me lira'tic Phil 'her .•ith c.-t a'M T in tliid i' I’ev.a V ■ >: and Exchange Bank of Columbia. S C.; National Exchange Bank of Ches ter, S. C.; Bank of Kershaw, Ker.shaw, S. C.; Savings Bank of Fort Mill; Southern Home Fire Insurance Com pany of Charleston. S. C.; Prudential Fire Insurance company, Greenville, S. C.; Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial association, and a trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance company of New York. Several years ago it was announced in newspapers that Colonel Springs had left South Carolina and would re side in Ne^w York and Charlotte. The state legislature adopted a resolution : $250. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. vs Edgar H. Garrett, 140 acres in Youngs township, sold to plaintiff for $1,000. Fagan Receiver For Laurens Bank Harry Fagan, receiver of the First National Bank of Clinton, has been appointed receiver of the Farmers National Bank of Laurens by the comptroller of the currency. Mr. Fa- Other interesting papers were read; by scientists over the .state, anvmg them one by Dr. W. E. Hoy, embry ologist, former head of the Presby terian college biology department, now at the university. of the several slate.s an opportunity to exDre.ss their will on the home rule High School Holds Spelling Contest plan for liquor control. Williamsburg. < ar .lina has taken an a tive (lart in thi.s work by contriburing funds for o,.,,,. ..... ,• premium money in the conte.T. A ho individual members of the associatl'in i . l , ■ J J I r- ■ • .1. 1.1- average young woman .-'cmooI teacher have aided by finincmg the car ot dis- : i ■ ■ .. , is siiiqily bridging the gan betw. .* i - ( I' -. 1 coritfiuied. '• relative to \ he'Trhn(7f .Stoll iiie tiii a staLc- ment of former .fudge Prin--e that ‘-10.* H. h"U (t vstem If the dry members in the party j assur- j,ra<luation and matrimony.' oppo.se this plan, he continued, “theyl^ premium w-uid be ^ attack on the bill was made •say in effect that even though a ma- by W. II. Cobb, of Richland, himseir jority of the j-ieople in 36 state.s may*^^®'*^ o.fer.s $2,000 premium nmney favor the plan, they are still unwil'l-- ^.531 contest. Entries in the ing to allow this vast army of people made through ‘v^^nty ^ , the right of .self-govern.ment. “A little reflection on thi.s posi tion,” he added, “must convince any I patriotic citizen of the danger of re bellion growing cut of such an atti tude.” It would seem reasonable, the chair- agricultural agents or by writing to: the extension service, Clemstm college. A spelling contest is held annually to select a representative from the local high school for the county con-'man said, that any patriotic dry could' test. This year the lists of words (conscientiously vote in favor of such Thomwell Duke a school teacher. “.Are you going t > tax the sc-hool children of South Ca;- na ?” he asked. ('obb said teachers must “dres? I well, pay board and attend summer I school every sunvmer.” He contended The proposed cut wa.s not in line with jthe appropriation bill, .^tate employ- Gift $8,589.96 ees making under $1,300 were rarely cut, he .said. Cobb apologized for tlu* .statennnt t^t tnist^s of Minthr^ cdlej^ be,?^ Vir^ were prepared by W. R. Anderson, Jr.,[a resolution because he would be! Endowment fund h elected and that a successor be named .pWment took Sace o^^ the high school faculty, and the “merely supporting a resolution which' Thomwell orphanage _ , ...u ■ J * i. Ani-ii 1.+ 'pai>€rs corrected by Mrs. L. B. Dill- ^ •” « ■ Cokmel Springs then issued a state- April Irt. . .1^ First ulace was won bv Wm Bai- Mr. Fagan .will continue as receiver I, place was won uy wm. tsai of the Clinton bank. Hhe will also con- ley Owens of the lOth grade, and sec- to Colonel Springs. Cokmel Springs t mer.t that he still was a resident of South Carolina, that he always would be, and considered himself a trustee tinue to live in Clinton and go to Lau- of Winthrop college inasmuch as his {rens a few days each week to look af- six year term still had several years I ter that banks affairs, to run, ' ” R. E. Wylie of Lancaster, was elect ed to succeed Colonel Springs on the Winthrop trustee board on “January on March 6 of the same year. The controversy over the matter ran for ond place went to Emmie Adair of the 11th grade, who was awarded the The board of trustees of the Duke to the house that it would not redii.e has notified the the appropriation hill because “y m of this city, that are afraid of politic.^, but you are not will take this matter entirely out ofTt will receive a check within the next afraid cf teachers,” after Henry the hands of politicians and thus out'few days for $8,589.96 as its share as Buist, Charleston, and Neville Cen- of politics by placing the responsi-1 one of the beneficiaries of the $80,- nett, .Marllwro, objected, bility for decision squarely up to the 1000,000 endowment sot aside hy thc; Buist .said “the .South Carolina people themselves,” and that underrate James B. Duke. 'Teachers association is tlie higge-t $2.50 gold piece given each year by the constitution he “could do no less.”i There are 14 white -and colored or-' political organization in the state and M. S. Bailey & Son, Bankers. Billy “Can any patriotic citizen,” Raskob Owens received this prize last year several month*, with Colonel Springs and was therefore ineligible for the still declaring himself a Winthrop trustee. prize again. Garrard Johnson third place in the contest. won asked, “deny the people opportunity to vote on this important and vital question and properly call himself a Democrat?” phanages in this state that will par-1 the mo.st powerful.” ticipate in the Duke distribution.! Thomwell’s quota this year is $2,- 289.96 larger than in 1930. the che k then amounting to $6,300.00. Mr.-i, J. I). Y'arborough has retur*. d from a three weeks’ visit to Rev. r,uJ lyjrs. L. E. Wiggins dn OhcJter.