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■ I /T wr^ “W / A \j ~\ ■ i' r' A »•••••• • _ Lt : i(N«W8- • • ^THE CHRONICL • Strives To Be a Qean I paper, Complete, Newsy^ • • and Reliable.'' I ' ••••••••••••••••••••••••a VOLUME 3CXXII CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1932 , NEW TAX BILL BEFORE HOUSE Stirring Appeal By Garner For Balancing Budget Meets With Instant Cooperation. Success Forecast for Pogram. DID YOU KNOW? High Tariff Policy Is Now Wrecking Our Foreign Trade, Says W. L. Clayton IVashington, March 29.—Democrat- ‘ it* leaders 6f, the house hoped today to put through their new tax program with a burst of speed thht would dase •the opposition and restore their lost prestige. Their carefully devised and conceal ed progrram for making up $600,000,- 000 of lost .sales tax revenue was to be presented to the house before night, as soon as it is presented. Speaker John N. Gamer in his first speech from the floor this session will demand fast action to balance the budget. A drive will be organized to force it through immediately. By this strategy. Acting Chalirman Crisp of the ways and means commit-• approach tee hoped action might be secured be fore those hit by the neAv taxe.s had a chance to deluge the house with ob jections. •■It is^my desire,” he said, ‘‘to bring the substitutes before the house—as quickly 'as possible and to take them up before we aie flooded with.tele- gT*ams from ^those affected.* Whether the plan" w-ould work was a matter for s|>ecnlation. AKany rate, Ju\ THAT—Larry Byrd Dillard is one o^ the city’s diligent, dependable citi zens whose friends are legion — both in Clinton apd throughout the state. Mr. Dillard was bom in this coun- t>’ on April 18, 1880, at the old Dill ard home place. His father was James P. Dillard, who served in the Confed erate army, 14th S. €. regiment, and a son of Dr. Jkmes Dillard, who came from Henry county, Virginia, to I.4iu-j rens county as a general practitioner. He used two horses for his widely- scattered practice, and for a consider able 4ength of time was the only phy sician in the county. Mr. Dillard’s mother was Irene Byrd, daughter of Capt. Downs Byrd of this county. His great*-grand mother w*as Mary Dillard, who gave Sumter notice of Tarleton’s towards Blackstock’s, His World’s Largfest Cotton Calls for Return To Jeffer^n- ian Principles. Republican Tariff Creates Eneni)& of the Cutton Trade, He Adds. 1 The following is from an address delivered at a conference of Texas in dustrial and commercial leaders,-held under the auspices of state research agencies at Austin, Texas, Monday ■evening by W. L. Clayton, of Ander son, Clayton & Co., Houston. was I the Ways and means committee was called into spe<*ial session this morn ing to .sUn the 1^11 rolling. The Ragon sub-committee ready to report the new tax program. It finished it at a four-hour session la.st night. The plan was understood to hinge around a five per cent levy on automobile sales and seven per cent on electricity, a tbree-^ent post age Aate and levies on radios, phono graphs and cosmetics. These taxes brought a storm of proteats when originally proposed by the treasury- ^ ^ j: Two items in the program were dis closed. The committee announced it had drafted an increased lev>—on stoc-^i- exchange transactions with the assistance of 'representatives of the New Vork stock "Exchange and the Nww York federal reserve bank. It also decided to ifeliminate the conioli- a^ed income tax provision un.ler wh’ch corfiorations now balance profits of one affiliate or subsidiary again.st losses of another. This charge would reejuire a tax to be*, paid on all profits antf should yieht +roflv $80,000,QOU to $100,000,000. Bv acting swiftly, the Democats great-grandfather, James Dillard, was born in Culpepper county, Virginia, (about nr).*!, moving to this county in 1772. In .\ugust, 1780, he was chosen a captain in Col. Williams’ i*egiment and served at King’s Mountain, ^lam- hribnd’s Store and Towqiens. In'1782 he accompanied Gen. Pickens on an expedition against the Cherokees. He afterwards became a major in the mi litia and died on Dec. 4, 1836. As a young man Mr. Dillard moved the early restoration of a fair market value for this great crop. “Over a hundred years ago, Thomas .Jefferson said that the way to en courage purchasers is tp multiply their mea.ns of payment. In this coun try we have adopted the opposite pol icy. A disinterested onlooker familiar lyith the post-war financial position of^the world would almost be con vinced that we had set about deliber ately to destroy practically all means of payment available to our foreign customers. The close of the war found the world deeply in our debt. During the ten years following the war, we did a very large export trade, mostly on credit — thus further en- C. E. Union To Meet In April Speakers of Note To Appear On Youns: Peoples* Organization Program At Kingfstree. The South Carolina Christian Fm- deavor union will hold its ISth annual convention at Klngstree, April 8, 9, and 10. The Rev. .W. T. Palmer, D.D., pastor of the Presbyterian* church of Manning, will deliver the opening ad dress Friday night at 7:30, and Dr. John MoSween, president of Presby terian college, will deliver the closing! “Texas and Oklahoma alone lave this year furnished the world with one-fourth of its supply of raw cot- , • • j j ^ au a , V ix. larging the indebtedness of the rest ton. For the seven and one-half i «ru months of the present cotton season more than 4,000,000 bales of cotton, or two-thirds of our total cotton ex ports, have sailed out of, Texas ports for various parts of the world. Near ly half of it, strange as tt may seem, has gone to the Orient, the cradle of 1 cotton. In addition, nearly 2,500,000 bales are*now lying in storage in Tex as ports and the great bulk of this must also eventually find a market abroad. “The transportation cost to land a bale of Texas cotton in .Shanghai or Bombay, or Kobe, half way around the world is less than the cost of de livery to a South Carolina mill. In- de<‘(l, the fivight on a bale of cotton to Clinton "from his country home in i fro,m fjouston to .Shanghai, some 10,- the Sandy Springs section, in the fall ooo miles, is less than it is from Dal- of 1901 and accepted a position as salesman with J. Arand P. S. Bailey, making his home at that time with Mr. and Mrs. George W. Bailey. On Aug. 31, 1907, he entered the gents furnishings business with F. M. Bo- ,,land, under the firm name of Dillard « Boland. In 1910 J. Will Dillard pur chased Mr. Boland’s interest in the firm and it then operated until 1922 as Dillard t Dillard. At this time he acquired Mr. Dillard’s interest and since that time has operated the busi ness under his own name as sole own- """“"TopeTTp^gaTfTpresUg^^ sales Ux debacle and thus meet such ' arguments as that advance^ over the ra<lio last night by RepresenUtive Will Wood, Republican, Ind., chair man of .the Repui>lican congressional campaign committee. .Wood contended the Democratic leadership had show'n itself inade quate in the tax fight. “They have er. On Nov. 14, 1914, Mr. DUlard mar ried Miss Wrenn Flafner of Chester. Their three, attractive daughters, Masg Howze, Irene and Flmily, are members of the eleventh, ninth and fifth grades in the city schools where they hold commanding positions and are making envirfile records. DilUr*! this cityt -ftTur sisters, Miss Lila Dillard of Hendersonville, N. C.; Misj^. .MarjLJH]J.grA. .lessie Dillard Young of this city, and Mrs. C. B. EKiott of Columbia. Mr. Dillard is one of the city’s pop^ uar young business men and has al ways typified those qualities and -vir tues that count for a higher-standard of citizenship. His pleasing personali ty, his- uniform courtesy, kindness and consideration to all with whom he comes in contact daily, has made and las to Houston,* under 300 miles. The cheapest transportation in the world today is the power-driven vessel on the high seas. F'ortunately, the sea still remains free — about the only thing left in the world that is free. With our remoteness from American mills and our easy access to the sea, tip wonder 86 to 90 per cent of the Texas and Oklahoma cotton crop is marketed abroad. ‘ “Can any one doubt our deep and compelling interest in these markets and in the buying power of our for eign customers? Unfortunately, that buying power, ds measured in price, has given Texas $300,000,000 less for this yeai~i cotton crop than a simi lar crop should have brought at the price of three or four years ago. Three hundred million dollars is a lot of money and every^itizen of Tex as, indeed every citizen of the United Mr. Dillard has two brother, John States, should be deeply interested in H. Dillard of Augusta, and 'W.* FI of the world to us. When our econoni ic .situation commenced to show strain and stress in 1928 and 1929, we sudu denly discontinued further foreign credits* as we certainly had the right to do. This then threw our foreign customers on their own resources to pay for their purchases from us and the interest on what they owed us. “Only two means of payme? v wor« open *to them, the shipment of gold and the shipment of goods. Except for F>ame, we already -had most of their gold. As for payment in goods, promptly closed that nu-t''o(l by the passage in 1930 of the ll.»wlev- .Smoot tariff act, carrying the high est rates of duty ever put into law in this country.' ' , “Month by month the figures of the department of commerce regisUm the unparalleled success of this measure as a destroyer of our foreign trade. We had ample warning that it w’ould do 80, hence acted with our eyes wide open. Almost the whole world has re taliated. In the past two years prac tically every nation in the world has increa.Hed its tariff rates,, or imposed import quotali or restrictions of some kind. At least one class of our exports has increased heavily and that is the export of branch factories to Canada and England and other countries in order to operate behind their tariff walls. * ' “Cotton’s greatest enemy is not the boll weevil, but the tariff. The boll weevil deatroyt a portion of the crop; the tariff not only destroys the means of payment of those who would buy the. crop, but adds heavily to ihe cost of making .the crop and Ihus impbse.x a double butden.’’ the Baptist church, Kingstree; the Rev. J. E. Clark, pastor of the Meth odist church, Kingstrt'e; the Rev. F'. K. Garrison, presiding elder of Kings- tree district, Kingstree; the Rev. .lohn L. F'airley, D.D., of. Richmond, V’a.. the Rev. S. K. Phillips, Colunvbiu; the Rev. .Joseph H. i'udlipp, director of religious t'xlucati'on of the Synod of South ('arolina, Columbia; the Rev. t'lartmce F], Piephoff, (irwnville, and the Rev. P. I). Miller, edut;^atii>nal sec retary, home mission board of the Southern Presbyterian, church, .\t- lanta, Ga. 'Two interesting features of the pio gram will In* a young people’s service conducted by the young pt‘ople of In- diantown, and reports from the eight district preside ns. The entertainment features will consist of a social hour under the di- ,rection of Mrs. Carl G. Henderson, recreational superintendent of the State ChrlstiaTi Endeavor Union of Walhalla, on FJriday night at*the con clusion of the program, and a fish supper on Saturday night. The officers of the State ('hristiaU Endeavor union are as follows: the Rev. J. W. Davis, president, Kings tree; the Rev. R. H. Ratchford, asso ciate president, Greelyville; Miss Le- ola Hines, secretary, Seneca; "Miss Frances Glenn, treasure.r, Columbia; and the Rev. S. K. Phillips, director of finances, Columbia. | An attendance of a large number of young people from every section of the state is anticipated. CONFEREES At WORK ON BILL Makinic Progrress In Draftinir New MeaASure. Legislature Ex pected To Adjourn At End of This Week. Columbia, Marclr 29?=^.*\njotTir re<io- lution submitting the 18th amendment to a popular vote in thi^ year’s Demo cratic* primary wa.s defeatecl in effect by the house tonight when debate on *^t was adjourned until .April 15. . , , , Over the protest of the re .oJution’s address on Sundry night at S o clock, sponsors a motion by Repi csenUlive Other speakers appearing on thejCb E.!^Jones, of I/e.xington, l.o postpone convention pro^am are as folowa:: cU'bate was caiTied, 19 ty 17. The vote the Rev. James WfM!t*'”**v, nastor of|wa.s in about the same ratio that the C’ooke bill to repeal the state prohi bition laws was defeated. City Primary Comes In June College League —rxzr ” 'tr— Ppens Today demonstrated they are unable to gov-1 held for him a wide circle of friends ern themselves, and therefore it land an extensive acquaintanceship, stands to-reason they cannot be ex jHe is a past president and charter pected to govern the country,’’ he j member of the Clinton Kiwanis club said in what apparently is to be a Re- j and one of its most active members Pre(4byterian and Indians Meet In Newberk'y In First Game of Seaaon. publican campaign cry. The house appeared to 'le in a good mood for any new tax plan. It show ed a dispjasition throughout yesterday to follow its leaders. Baptist W. M. U. Meets At Warrior — ‘The 'annual meeting of the V\’. M. U. of the Laurens association will be held at Warrior Creek church Satur day^ April 2, at 10 o’clock, Mrs. F:d- win B. Young, of Wayne, .Neb., Miss Bertha Smith, of China, and Mrs. L. L. Carpenter, of Gaffney, president of the northern division, will be on Likewise, he is a charter member of the Chamber of Conrimerce and has always done his part through this organization for the community’s ad vancement. He holds membership in the following additional organiza tions: Knights of Pythias, .Masonic, Junior Order and Odd Fellows. He is a deacon in the F'irst Presbyterian church and since his infancy a devot ed member of this denomination. In 1912-1.3 he I'cpi esented ward two as^ a member of city council. Mr. Dillard’s hobby is athletics — alwa)'8 manifesting a keen interest in all sports at Presbyterian college and is an ardent backer of the college stu dents in all their activities. The iresbyterian college baseball schedule, as recently announced, shows “that the Palmetto Intercolle giate baseball loop, of which P. C. is a member, will begin activities this afternoon. The Blue Stockings’ first game will be at Newberry col lege. The second game of that series will be played the next day, also at Newberry. ^ j , _ 'The first home game will come Monday, April 4,^ when the (Carolina Democrats Will __ ~ ReorganTze^oon Executn F . AppoiirtR Enrolling Committees To Pre pare Rolls for Contest. a -J Precinct- Meetings To Be Held In Every Section of County On April 23. ■ In accordance with the rules of the Democratic party of South Carolina, the precinct meetings will be held throughout every county in the state on Saturday, April 23, for the pur- llope F'or Adjournment ' V Columbia, March *29. —- Announco- un*nt that the free conference com mittee would attempt to bring tint its se<.*ond report on the general appro priations bill in time for sine die ad journment this week was made as the general assembly opened the 12th wt-ek, of the session today. TTle six conferees held morning, af-* ternoon and night sessions. Other than to say they hoped for termina tion of the session this week, little news emanaie<l from the eommittee room. The conferees, it was presumed, were discussing pq|f<ibil^ies of cut ting the bill belo^ the ^,2r».'),000 to tal provided in the first report, re jected overwhelmingly by the house. By a nearly unanimous vote the house again today moved to extend the time for payment of county and state property taxes until June I w’ithout the 5 per cent penalty, sched uled to go into effect April 1. A “bob-tailed” bill providing tnis was approved and sent to the senate, after amendments sponsored by Rep resentative Senseney, (’harlesteu, were adopted. He argued coastal farmers had been financially embar rassed by recent frosts. Some weeks ago a joint resoluti-jn authorizing an extension until Jun» 1 was sent the governor, who vetoed t. The house over-rode the v<to but tee Nenate refused to do so. A. J. Beattie, comptroller-general, then (authorized an extension until April 1, when toe 5 per cent penalty is to be added. A 1 per cent penalty for the months January and FVbruary now is in for' e. The senate did not return until i o’clock tonight. With the end of ♦'le session possible soon, numermis “b*' - tailed” bills - appeared on the ho calendar. There, was a rush to get \v ried legislation through. The city DemotTatic executive com-l The senate bill authorizing esti'- mittee met last Thursday evening at Hshment Of" cash deposit(»rie.s wis the call of the president, Dr. Duiiley ann*nded, passed on third reading a nl pose of reorganizing and electing del- riv( egates to the county convention which in turn will reorganize and elect dele gates to the state convention to be held in the .State Capitol on Wednes day, May 18th, - AlLpresidents of precinct clubs* will brganize their clubs and the clubs Jones, to appoint enrolling commit tees in the respective wards and plan for the primary otr the second Tues day in June to’name a mayor and six aldermen for a two-year term of of fice. le following enrolling committees named; leturueil to the senate for com urren *o were in amendments. A number of safv*'- guards have been thrown around the bill, including a requirement that of ficers be bonded. A provision that the defiositoii.M might advance loans to aid farmeri J. : 'was stricken out. The hill’s purp-ne Wkrd 1*—Mrs. Russell (h)oper, .Mrs, 1 is to aid towns without banks by a!- B. F'rontis, .Miss Mayme I^eake. i btwing establishment of the dcpo.i- Ward 2—A. Ross Blakely, Mrs 'toiies. Clyde l.ankford, V. I*. Adair. | Apprcjval was given a senate SM Warr) 3—W. K.'Denson, Walter A.' retaining the number of members f Johnson,-R. J^ Pitts. '.the railroad- eWnmU-iion at sev,en.- Ward 4 — (Joyne L. Simpson, MFs. Gamecocks* come here for a two-day engagement. The season will end with a two-game series with Carolina on May 3-4 in Coluutbia. P. C. will play a total of sixteen games during the season, eight at ^ome and the same numlber on the will elect officers and UHinc delegates"' He^nnis Sowers, Wm. Brooks Owens to the county convention. ^ ‘ road. Two two-gam€ series will be the program. Attention is called to the fact that the meeting this year is being held several weeks in advance of the usual time. Death Claims^ •1 Fanners Meeting At Shady Grove r There will be a farmers meeting at the Shady Grove school houye Friday night, ApriL*'l, ‘at 8 o’clock. Cotton -fertilizers Will be discussed. .All the farmers in the Tabernacle and .Shady Grove communities are urged to at tend this meeting. The meeting wMl be conducted by S, P. Harris,-teac’nt r of vocational ag ricUlture at thi; dush River school. GIFT FOR THORNWELl Fldna Jean Baldwin, one-year old infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. j P, Baldwin of this city, died last Fri- I day afternoon from whooping cough and pneumonia following a’ critical illness of several days. The funeraP service vvas held from the residence of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. McMillan, on .Saturday afternoon with Rev. H. 0. Chambers and I>r. D. J. Woods in charge. Interment fol lowed in Rosemont cemetery. The large number of friends, the beauti ful flowers, the eyes wet with tears, high j these united in a rare tribute of re- I membrance tp the little soldier who bore her intense suffering so bravely. played with each team in the league. All games will be played on .M'^mday j and Tuesday, or Thursday, and Fri- j day, except in case of rain on the last ; game of the series, when the play-off ] game will come on Wednesday or Sat- Little Girl The complete schedule follows: March 31-April 1 — Newberry at Newlierry. April 4 and 5—Carolina at P. C. April 1 and 8—f^lemson at P. C. April 14 and 15—Erslcine at P. C. April 21 and 22—Clemson at Clem- .son. April 25 and 26—F^skine at Due West. April 28 and 29—Newberry at P, C. May S and 4—Carolina at Columbia. The meeting of the ejuhs, precinct and county, will he followed by the opening of the books of enrollment and later in the sj^mmer by the (;oun- ty campaign. County Contests Friday Evening Gijie commi.^sioner is ele< ted fr mi '•lich congressional (fi.strict, which hci* to be iciiuced to six The old congre* Mc.Ncace, FMward Ray, Jr. si(tiial <ii.siriets will l>e known is Ward 6R. W. f Phillips, Mrs. F'u- “railroad commission districts.” nice Bagwell, .Mrs. Nell Howard. .Marion Grcs.'*eite, ( alhoiin, oppo-*- Entry fees for candidates were fix- cd the bill, contending that one ed tfs fidtoWSF MayWFy $20.IMI; abler- niissioner shouh! he eliminated, h*it i men, $.').00. .Sei'tft'ai-yAjuiury, $50.00; , he wa.s defeated. to 11. ! managers of election $2.00 per day j A hoii.'e bill was approved cK*Lngiug , Two vot4p|f precincts wbre provid- Lhe imme of the Ktate^ Industrial edT the ('luiton iClijl box at the band .<eho(d for Girls_ to-the South Ca o- Thc annual county high school ex pression and declamation contests He , , , . „ , . . , I five ancTsix will only will be held together this year, with Glinton mi Information has been received here of a bequest of $1,000 to the Thom- well orphanage in the will<rf Mrs. J. M.-High of Atlanta, fil^d liwt Satur day. Mrs. High, a wealthy AtlanUn and life-long friend of the local insti tution. died last week. . t —— Ray Pitta, Bobby Steer and Joe Worlfean, atudenta at Clemson col- Edna Jean was a bright little girl, loved tenderly by all who knew her for her winsome and attractive dispb- aition and loving manner. Her pdr- Methodut Men To Meet Again The men of the Broad Street Meth odist church will have a supper again on Tuesday evening, April 5, at 7:30 eat? have the heartfelt sympathy of j o'clock. It will be held in the Masonic many friends in their great loss. She is survived by her parents, four sisters, Sara Frances, Elizabeth, Alic8 and Catherine, and one brother, \V. P., Jr. Are spending the spring holidays with thepr-parents. Garrard Johnson and Thurston Gilim spent the week-end in Atlanta with Dickey Blumberg. hall on South Broad street. Commit lees are at work endeavoring to se cure a good attendance. All men of the church are urged to attend. Plates will be 26 cents each. An interesting program is being ar ranged and a good time is promised. It is likely that a permanent organi sation will be effected at this time. the girls speaking first. These con tests are to be staged in the I.,auren» school auditorium on F’riday evening at 7:30.'F^lementary speaking contests' will be held at the same hour in the! F'ir.st Baptist church of that city. Rep-j resentatives for both meets are re-; quested to be present at six o’clock to decide upon the speaking order. The county spelling contest will- take place in the afternoon at 3:30. Rules gov-j ernihg the contests have been for- ’ warded all school principals in the county. They have no connection with i the high school league, but are con tests sponsored by the county teach ers association. stand for yrards five and .six; police ^ Una Keformatorv for Girls. head(;uarter8 for wards mu*, two,* .•\ emicurrent rcAolutioTi reipie.st’ng j three and four. The comir^tec fur- the state board of_fisheries to extend j ther ruled that the voters in wards? the shall .season from .\pril 1 to April he allowed to itmn coastal counties, and to Ap**’'^ 1 box.-It was I 2.5 in interior counties was approve'! also ruled that ab.senlee voters will lie and sent to the senate after a fight allowed t*) vote under the stat u.** of ; for the measure by Representalive the absentee voting clause of the Davi.-^, Georgetown. state D'dmcK*ratic chib. All details pertaining tcc the bold ing of the election w(*re placed in the handvS “Qf the newly elected secretai\^. H. L. BicheJberger. V Abrams Enters Mayor’s Race Cotton Ginnings Exceed Last Year Former Sen. Dial Has Operation ('otton ginnings !n Laurens cou*i- ty for the sea.son just closed exceede<l the ginnings of last s«*ason'liy ne.i’'iy 3,000 bales, ac*cording to figures j sued from the eensu.s bureau ar. i young made public March 21. The ginnirgs for the county this year were 37,H»v.i bales, as compared with 35,044 bales H, Y. Abrams, well known business man of the city and proprie tor of Abrams Barber Shop, announc es 'his candidacy in today’s pajier for;lHst year. The total for the state wa.i mayor of Clinton in the/approaching 1,010,325 bales, as compared wit h primary. He is the second caiTiSi'*date 11,01 .'>,273 bales last year, total to publicly throw his hat in the ring, t otton crop for all states was 16,59'.,- for this office. ! 780 running halgs *of|^■17,060,772 equiv- i Mr. Abrams is at present a member alent .>00-pound bales. The total crop ' city council as representative from I la-st year was 1.3,755,518 running Washington, March 27.— Former I of Senator N. B. Dial of Laurens, was ward six, and needs no introduction to, bales operated on here yesterday at the Clinton voters, since he has lived) Spartanburg county led the state v) Episc'opal Eye and Flar hospital for a i practically his entire life here, during | production with 81,602 bales. Ander- cateract on one of his eyes, h was said by attending physicians today that he had stood the operation well and that in all probability he would be able to leave the hospital withinj C the next two weeks. > , V which time he has always exerted his > son was second, Orangeburg influence for the advancement of the! Greenville fourth, Marlboro t i ^ i city’s interestii He liXs many friends York sixth and Laurens seventh. who will welcome his announcement, and who are certain that he will be a formidable candidate. WWtM M mm m T * . -'‘IL ■ J Charleston county had the smi ^production wHh 740 bales, and was next lowest with 920 b<slti«