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_ T 7 N ’ r-irTtf-. ■ r ,r j 'r- -..yrr'-riT^; i ■ Ai-v ♦ / • THE CHRONICLE • • Strives To a Clean Nriii^ j • paper. Complete. Newsy. • ReUable. / If Top Dop*t RaM THE CHRONICLE Top Dop*t Got The News. t VOLUME XXXIII ClilNTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1933 NUMBER 18 -■Q- SALES TAX IS AGAIN OFFERED Presbyterians Meet May 25 * .1^ Cuts In All Budfirets To Be Rec ommended To General Assem bly At Mcntreat This Month. Two Per Cent Measure Proposed To Aid Schools. Income Rates | Also Boosted. Measure Nowj I nder Attack. , i Atlanta. Ga.. April 26. — Ct>ntinu- lance of the five per cent schedule of f t,**^** XT'- a 4> h a I. Columbia, May 2.—TTie retail sales) debt liquidation and cuts in ail bad- tax. which like Ranquo's phost. re-1 jre*.s \viii be recommended to the Gen- fused to be downed, appeared apain ■ eral Assembly of the Presh>’teriar ! tonipht in the South Carolina senate j Church in the United States at thcj in the form of a proposed two per annual meetinp openinp May 21 at! cent sales levy to operate schools. The; Montreat. N. C. I measure was discussed but no vote| -pbe announcement was made here! reached before adjournment. Ho'day follotvinp a meetinp of the con- j The two por cent tax was advocated niittee on stewardship and. rinar<e. i by Senators Nance of Laurens, andiwhich was attended by prominent; Sims of Oranpeburp. a majority of a; Pb-esbyterians from all sections of the subcommittee , to which a throe per. South. . cefit * sales'^ v measure was referred ‘ ' ThJ*' f per cent srhetiul% for ilebt last week when apparently dead. liquidation was adopted by the Gen- In addition. Sims and Nance pn>- ei-al .Assembly last yea»*.^in lieu of the po.«ed to increase ‘ income rates from previous schedule of 20 i)er Cent liqui-^ a pi'aduated* .scale of one, two, three, |Nation. Continimnce of the lower liqui-' four and five per cent, on yach suc-idation rate and reduction, gl the hud- reessiVO-- $2,000 -above -ei^mption.s to|.|f^t.s -are- neeessa>y -beeattse-of- pre.^ent ^ two.,TKi‘ee. four, five and six per cent j financial conditions, the commitiie_ and lower exemptions from“ $2,200 .caid. married and $1,200 sinple to $1,100^ Budpots to be recommended are as , and * .'follows: Forei.im missions, $608,020;, Their propi*am included an increase .home ?nissions, $2l>‘.h72*I; t'hristian of the coiT)orations license tax from • education and ministerial relief. $2l>r>,- two to five |H'r cent, and of the pub-1 anti reJipious education, $1.1.!72. lie utnitie- tax from three to seven' iX'.spile'conditions, however, every mills. ^ ' hoard and apency of the church re- ^ Nance. Sim.s, an<l Spearman of Pick-■ ported propress and expansion in its' en';. then pkadevl for pa.ssape of their'work and a briphter outlook for the measure as the means of ktrepinp pominp year, members of the commit- .-ehools open, .•^ayinp it' would place tee said."" I them on a cash basis by September 1,! For the first time iri years the home Meimn^ Day To Be Observed Interesting Profn^m Arranj^ed By IJ. Chapter for Next Wednesday Mominjif. NEW MONEY . BILL DRAWN Free Conference Report Sub mits Measure Totaling; $8,900,- 000 for 18 Months. Many Cuts Made By Conun it t^. Coumbia, .May 2.—The free confer- NATIONAL COTTON WEEK Clinton will pay tribute to her hon-; ored dead on next Wednesday. May, 10th, at the Florida Street scho<d au-! ditoripm at 10:30 o’clock, under thej^"*^® committee on appropriations to- auspipes of the local Stephen D. Le**; morrow will report out an IJf-month chapter. United I>auphters of the; 1^*11 of $8,iM)0,01fl—one that w^ill put 1 Confederacy. The Civil war veterans,; fbe state on a “cash basis,” members I tbeir wive.s, and widows of the Con- announced tonipht. . ' j federate dead, will be dinner puests F'or the first time in ! < cent history, I of honor followinp the exercises. The the report, to be sipned by only five -. .ipraves of the sleeping heroi'.s in the of the six conferees.^ will be on a lower Presl yterian cemetery will be dec- -cnie than either the honse or .senate i orated with wrtnitks of flowers durinp* me.isure sent to confer mce. ' the morninp. / j .Allowance \va.< made by the confer- J,. ‘Chapter, veterans ees to take care of an estimated and friends, will a.sst'mble ait the mon-- $1..300.000 di ficit. “Coh.Vevvalive” es-~ ■ ument at 10 o’clock where m\isic will timates compile*! by .<tuto financial j (»o furnished by the R. O. T. i . ban«i experts of revenue.'^ avaiiaole for ap- ;of the collepe. The linelof march will propriations, above the (ie’iclt, they f.school auditorium j said, was bvivinp a $P.>,00n ' where several .sonps will he sunp and surplus for the IS-month ijeriod.. an addres.s made by W, P._Jacol>s of, No new tad^e.s were include*! in the* this city. .A readinp, “The, Blue an*l report. l I the Gray,” will he piven by Miss Iru'z State- sch<M)l aid lu'-der the 6-0-1 Tucker of-Thornwell orphanape, and law provided f*>r a p' r'.xi of two y '.irs ia selection, “Slet'p, Soldier, SIrep.” by' Put the basis of teache*- nay wn.; re- Mi.ss Burns Browninp. duc*’<i to an averape of $60 mon'^hlv. The followinp comrnittres have been the t,»tal uppropria e<l f-u- this nur- announced for the day: ^ pose was un*!et t*>.. I to he '■lipm y i,* Memorial Imy Kxerci.ses Mrs. Cieo. excess of ^3. lio.o. t) f,, th- jrtus U. KlHs, chairman. Mrs. .1. HampJ i'Kpj,:{3 and l'.*33-:5i. .Stone, Mr'S. A. M. Copidand. Miss Lilly i Salary cuts ranpinp from 10 to 40 an annual cost of $6,455,000. ^^tnee merchants protested at a hearirtfe that they could not absorb the saleKtax. the new nuasure would credit the^wHh half the state, coun ty and city t*xes on their stocks of merchnndi.se in payinp the sales levy. Jeffords, of Darlinpton, said the plan as a whole amounted t6 “tryinp to fool the people of South Carolina with taxes upon taxe.s, usinp the pub lic schools as a “hobby horse.’* Purdy and foreipn mission hoards have added nothinp to their accumulated debts, instead they have actually reduced them. The only board reportInp an in crease in debt is the Christian educa tion and ministerial relief hoard at Loui.svile, Ky, The foreipn mission board is at Na.shVUle. Tenn., and the home board at Atlanta. The committee on woman's w’ork in .Atlanta, is to be limited to $1H,000 spendinp budget and the committee on stew'ardship and finance to $12,000. of Jasper, said the bill would raise $2,000,000 more than necessary ba.s(e4i^ on present appropriations, and Sloan, l\jOVCmOr Ol^HS of Greenville, indicated he woulft at-j rp ■ ■ r .s* tempt to exempt .sugar, meat and I FUCJC IVlCctSllFCI a flour from the lax. j Sims said the plan would operate Columbia, April 20.—^Preponents of WHAT GOING OFF THE GOLD STANDARD MEANS TO FARMER Yarborough, Miss Isjui.so Kern, Mrs John T. Little. Veterans’ Dinner- Mrs.,^J: M. Pitts, chairman, Miis. W. H. Shands, Mrs. J. W. .Milam, Mrs. .Mary .Arthur. Mrs. W. M. McMillan. Decoration.s man, . Mrs'. per cent wen* inclu*!e<l. That a fight w«)ul(l lie mH<le in tl.a .senate against the new bil was inJi- cate.«l by refusaj of .'senator S. .M. Ward, chairman f’()f the finance com- m:ttee. to .sign the report. The other -\I^rs. T. J. I^ake, chair-ifjvf conft*ree.s. Senators Fdgar Brown John Yarboroi^h, Mrs. \V. D. 'Burnett and Representa- ENLARGED MARKETS, HIGHER PRODUCTS PRICES, AND ABILITY TO PAY OLD DEBTS. Henry M. Young, Miss Maude Pear- tive.s .Neville Bennett, chairman of the • .son, Mrs.-^W. J. Duncan, Mrs. Minnie and means committee, E. I,, f Adair, Miss Julia Ferguson. | Fishburne and W. .M. Crenshaw, is- i Lsued the followinp statement: -^\Ve realize that this lull is dra.s- By PRANK PARKER .<?TOCKBRIDGE Written S|>ecially for The Chronicle 4 grammar and high schools for eight months without state aid from pres ent revenue sourees, w'ould “relieve even the corporations of more than is put bn them in new taxes,” and would j vreight take off the four-mill levy and all .-ijieciaL school taxes oh property. Thurmond of Edgefield, third mem ber of the subcommittee, opposed the sales lax in a minority report. He ad- v*>cated an increased income tax with exemptions lowered to $1,500 and $H00 and percentages increased to three. The United States of .America has | factory products in many important “gone off the gold standatxl.” ThaC lines. - j .sounds shocking to |>eopre who fea* It seems highly im|Mirtant, then, to 11 change, and it takes .some mental get the highest possible prices for adjusting on the part of the rest ofyihese goods in the world market. But U.S who have not yet beciime accus- when foreign nations have let their College Group On Visit Here (.'ommitlee Fron Southern As sociation of Colleges Inspects Presbyterian College. tic and revolutionary, but we have written ft at a figure in keeping with Ithe times and ability of the taxpayer to pay. We feel, that every patriotic .A committre of four men from the restrictions Opon truck operations in South Carolina counted a legislative ^ victory conclusive today when Gover-^l nor Blackw'ood .sighed an act imiting of trucks to 20,000 the effect he? What poqnds. I about inflat Southern servant of the 'state who is affected by these cuts should be willing to co- o|)erate with us to the end that when the IK-month fiscal! period is con cluded the state, for the first time in many years, will .stand on a ca.sh tomfd to the rapidity with which ev- money dcpieelate they cannot buy .a| ( aeeeral-d.ya onOhe Preshyte-! a lioi.We erythinK is ehanKin* Unlay. ^ much or pay as e<h« a pnee. so Ion, I inspect-, ,te ^ hiU^s imdev'sfS rvaT 'K,o" f* V*' ""r 'loH-r on ^ K"lii | ,he work of the colIcKC. The men' ' unde,, too,! Id? Whatisthepurimse? What will basis. On the other hand. wiCh their j ^ Mcfain. president of has it to do with'cheap money, they can puKiuce at lessj p,.; y. ion: What is m-, cost than we can and .sell their goo<is 1 1 a » it.,: The act, vigorously^^pjw.sed by anyway^ Who will it benefit to us for our gold dollars cheaper than! truck line operators, farmers,, andj*od who will it hurt? Those are ihe lumbermen, was advocated by repre- i questions on the tip of everylnHly s of the laatin department at the Uni- wa.s to authorize the bu*lget commission to scale expenditures to revenue. , .Although not officially confirmed, 4ne bill was believe* 1 t«> i»H4u*le an ap- sentatives of the railroads and high way engineers in a sharp legislative battle. It pa.ssed after being amended to tongue. In Sequence The United States went off. the irirld standard on .March 4, when l*res- we can produce them when costs are measure*! in gold. , How I’roducer Is Helped all Georgia; Dr. T. H. J*<*k, j for countv farm and homo “ 'now vice-president of Emoiir «niver-' ^^d to allow colleges to u-e . Isity and recently elected president tuition fee.s, iiicreasing I .S„i„yom.offyoldweh.Veehe.p.!“ra!'v^^ ‘ ened our dollar to meet the other cheap moneys of the world, and al in ee of; tuition and Vcholai Nhip.s. Should the free conference re >-rt fgur. five, siv .nd raven per cent'fix the maximum *eight at 20.000 in- idetlt Kooravelt declar^ an embaiKo ready coiiimmlity prices have hcRun t-j (heir slay on the campus] l7.„,7r'“7'u, which he said would raise $1,000,000. 'stead of lO.OOO pounds. Haximuin on shipments of (-old abroad and cal'-, rise. In other words, we have sUrted; i By levying $2,666,000 in new Uxesilength was reduced from Ho to 35 aH hoarded gold back into the Fe*l-1 on a program of infation cur-j general survey of the work on income, corporations, utilities, and j feet, which was .said to eliminate allj^ral Reserve hanks. Since then we'rency, which is merely anotherj way j.|jrrie<l on here intangibles, Thurmond said grammar j except two-wheel trailers. (have shipped no gold abroad except'of saying increasing price-s. , purpose of the investigating schools could he operated seven j The act does not apply to busies.; on contracts already entered into, j The gold embargoes a very niiW i committee is to ascertain whether the and^^ioce then nobody holding a goUl cer-i form of inflation. It is certain to be ' months and high schools eight. He re-'lumber,- telephone, ' telegraph. lied on $1,000,000 from present tax-power company trucks. Vehicles sources and $1,191,000 from the con-1 ready licensed in the state are al- ex- stitutional three-mill levy to raise the balance of $4,857,076 he estimated necessary. Both plans were offered as revenue riders to a house education bill which would increase the teacher “load,” or empted through December 31, 1934. Farmers and Ir-mbermen opposed the measure at a hearing before the governor Thursday on grounds . it would leave them “at the mercy of the j railroads” in making shipment number of pupils 4ind cut state aid:charges. for teachers’ salaries to an average j of $60 monthly. A commodity tax pro-1 _ _ ^ ^ - posal ^ .Smw was pushed aside to (VlCOWiSUll i360kS make way for them. ] Scrutiny of expense accounts of all | .state officials for the years 1931 and 1032 was ordered by^ the house. Rep-i . x.i_ • m> Iwash»n|fto%vMay4w-Tr»Ghairman resentalives M itherspoon. Lane, Mel-1 » ^ ette, Glymph and McLure were ap pointed a to tificate or other paper maney calling followed by other form.s, directly ap- for payment in gold has been able to|p]icable to our internal affairs. It get gold for it. Vi’e still have the gold,; makes no difference, really, what the nearly half of all the gold there is in j value of the dollar is in foreign mon- the world, more thafv. four., thou.sand i ey except when we tleal in foreign million dollars of it in our treasury; trade, because a dollar at a low value and banks, but we havjp stojY^il using i will pay a debt incurred in dollars it. ■ ' " “ ' j when they were at* high value. the The purpose of - our action is^s farmer or protlucer who gets more Birmingham, executive secretary the Southern a.Hsociation. During their stay on the 1 11 - ( week would be in lirder. Otherv e, the session may be extended sev. .al week.s. The conferees wrote the ne\y .ill from an lS-nu>nth measivc of .$9^151,- work done at the college, the general • ^ i*2-,nonlh .senate bill- of spirit of the school and the records of. its graduates merit' its retention on j ’* ’ «/ the list of colleges approved by the j Southern association. The visit of ‘ ^|^3wCCn Books committee to the campu.s determined!' the school’s rating on the first two* points. . j I’resbyterjan college has been on the i Heavy Schedule _ _ „ . J . u • I . , L- X- L- approved list of the a.Hsociation .since Dr. .MeSween will have his ha-d.s fraildent RooraveltM.*^. to b.w , „ ,,, for h.s commodity ran pay h.. ,f^i,. ,|uH„x thr m-xt iilx oevk.s v.ith jabout higher pricra. TTiv first place it' dollar debts with thi^^m, evbn though„„ find- no le.ss than six coMiinrn. emont s -r- !hasaffected prieesislnfo^ignt^.jthey are eheaper dollars. - „f ,hr inspectors here last week mons and eivh. .■„,nn,..,i,-..ni,.nt n| ^ ,1 ‘ .J for the principal use of gold as money j Inflation will help the debtor Wss ,,^, indications ad dresses on his srheilule. .-timdav he Plane Increase]| because It.w.n l.».e les* .wheat, cot.;,^,, P *i„ „t,lirits raling. An! preached the -cniion a! the. Wax''a-,. commodi y ton, shoes or what have you to 1^* imprtivement over, the conditions N, t*., high srSool coiiin'cnccmcnt. and the necessary diumber of dollars with, inspection in'next Sundav which JtsO nations. It is the rtne which every nation in the worhl ac cepts as money. 'Swain, of the house miliUry affairs .immedifitely we went off gQl*L <*om- „r™ . TOmrtittee'of 'investiKatiini"’"'"''"^'- minlity priies in internafional- trade make the probe with a SiiOO appro-1l-'v-begap to rise in terms of dollars. Fori • •lid* wnrlfs. nrn<ri-Am nnu.- h<>m(r I _ . in its journa I. columnist, vot^ ‘to return ert Quillen, Fountain Inn editor and *u r* i- \i\n\ South Carolina had failed to forpilten the l^**^^* . „f! built forrthe army if his recjornmen a prohibition referendum h,II fram the .sV . was hIo<?ked by objection of i hpuse Semite drys. and the chamber debated I ^Kra/al a bill to re-sirict further issuance of, OCllOOl stale highway bonds without reaching a vote. - i .A hill to apprtipriate $10,000 for a.i. • , —— slate exhibit at the Chicago world fair * I.j>urens, April 27,-^.At a other words, they bid prices up. . i ware.- ' In Farm l*roducl-s TWftlllErS V^VOll III j -It-may seCm^ to some' tha't we in I America are not concerne<l ‘wOh whaf j happens in foreign trade. Rut it is j-fi om our .sales overseas .that a very •T* a. Irlai ge nart of the money eonu- 1 enn 5hOrten6d pays for our farm prmlucts. Mon { which the mjuirejnents other- I wi.se to bt* accredited. U. Contest pays lor our ; than half of all cotton grown m ..Amer- . i In a state e.s.say contest siK»n-*ored ^'^i5^1lL^I'ry^4dwf‘^Unite4 iiaughte of the. Con- MR. MAHAFFEY IMPROVINi; Friends of Rev..J. K. Mahaffey wilF be glad t*> learn that he is conval^s-; 'Cing at his homt'^on K.^t'arolina ave nue, after an illne.ss of s4*veraL days. Chamber Meets Tuesday Night fe<leracy, .Sara Frances Bald>vin won first place,- Madeline Ca.'*:<iano\);^. sesr- as .«wr w : - ^ - . . - - meeting ) ICO must.be sold abroad if the gr<*w- Ivoui.se ('hamhers third, _ rejected after the finance co'lfiit- IVednesday night of the*board of trus-. ers of the South are not to suffer. In representatives from the eiehth and littee reported it considered the pur-i tees :#)f the Laurens city schools, it .Texas alone, it has been figui^l ^^tit, grades of the Clinton' high w^s decided to' close the'current ses- the loss To the entire state frotn Ihe mittee reporteo poee “laudable” but cpuld “not rec- , u . ommend any appropriation .k . on ac-'sioTi Uro weeks earlier than had'heenjlow price of cotton m the export trade . .from the second group, l^ih and 'rount of the financial condition' of the scheduled. Curtailment of the’ term j has been state.*^ A bUl b vUle, to JS Senator Sloan of Gre^n- Bell was n^e.«»ary, it was said, because pf; the state lack, of funds to complete the year. In consequence of this decision, C. Telephone company^ to pot into effe?c^- K. Wright,, superintendent, announces -over $400 for every fafpily in eleventh grades, Robert Mcl^ees won ' first place, Maiij’ -Glynn Chambers Almost half of the mctiey which to- second, and .Ada .*>110 .Allen th ini. The bacco growers get for their crop' subject/of the essay was “J. E. B. comes from foreign rales. We normal-] Stuart, , Confederate General.” The a 20 per cent rate reduction ordered j that it has been nepesrary to revise I ly sell abroad from a quarter to a eighth and ninth grade papers were by the state rtiht>i^ commis’sion '.w’as jthe”^rograHi for the closing exercises.; third of all the lard w e produce,'about, graded - by Miss A^rgaret Clary of sept to third reading* , The'annual seknfon, will be preached! one-sixth, of our wheat and abo^t the the history depai tmcfit of the orphan- j at the First Methodist church Sun-j same share of our apple crop, more age high,school. CapL R. E. Wy.>or of ftf' • am ' % » * m m m a'' ■ * .> • WV* -1.4'** .11 M t- m Annie Donald of WiIliamston,j day evening. May 7, and commence spent the wfdk-epd ’ here with F. M. ment exercises wil be held. Friday fiolniid and family. | night. May 12. than half of oqr turpentine, gasolineltlte Presbyterianeollege faculty, grad- and benzoI,over a third of our copper, m the tenth and, eleventh grade pa- and from a quarter to one-half of bur pars. . • Joanna Mills Names Directors \ .Me.ssrs. William Byrd and F. •A. Neal of New Yurk^and W. H. and W. F. Regnery of Chicago, are ih Goldville this week for the annual meeting of the Jo anna Cotton Mills. These four gentlemen, together writh W. A. .Moorhead, local manager of the plant, were elected Tuesday m the new hoard of directors of the Thill. Story Contest At Lydia School The annual ■ story-telling’ contest was held at Provklcnce* school on Tuestlay, April 25. Claude Ci'ocker, of the third grade, won first place, and IVoodrow’ McLendon, of the fifth grade, came second. The judges were f Misses Floy Owings, Lillian Brown and Irene Workman. i» .‘11 u I i • • he will go to Union .se.rnr- to J^^1L_W111 hmnjnels^^g^^^^^ visitors. i nary, Riehnioml, Va.. to doliver a <er- emhtor class hecau.se, althongli they |whatsoeverTh'af thefmon.^(5tK?^ wm get then- »ntere.st and P^ncipal j will not meet the suhjeefive ’ liver sennon.s are: Rowland (N. C.) •lie works nroeram now beinir draft-**; I • t J***'^**'’ j test it has been submitted to by Ihejhigh sch*K>I. Lineolnton i(\) high priation for expenses. I InclX^ $118 ol)0^ fo^^ am^^ as any paDons pa|»er money those dollars NyiU not buy much ; a.ssociation,” raid Dr. John .'.school, Clem.son college and Thom- The hijuse after refusing to aiVnla^hanisr roL, i represent as much real; pre.sulent of the college, .well orphanage high .school. 1 a criticism of it by Rob-. airplane hangar -constiuc-ipje ^ho have that money, begin to wealth. ^ ■ Formerly, .schools which did not (Commencement add»e.s.-*es will be s*id!for something else - w-heau 10-f- We have as benentuanes of mfla-(f^e req,uiremenU of the ma.Ie at Cross Anchor,* Gastonia. N.. Democrat saidj bacco. cotton, lard.j*teeJ or other noi^ion the farmers who wiU get more'endowment were bar-!C.. ( linton. Newberry. Estill, Monti- the wage-^^j fc(,m membership, hut rec**ntly a cello. .MountvUle and at the Mcl-eod increased change has been n\ade to all*»w schools ‘ inl irmaiy, Flo^rcnce. ^ 111. .—, I^A_U.IlHlluyn Oil liiqptr m (H ~~ I ratlxor. I ! ''• reduce Uxes and had inaugurated in 1926. He -'und ies„ of them than'it did before. Inf ^ about 950 additional planes w’ouhi be The .May meetm;^ of the Chamber of Commerce will be held at the Mary .Musgrove Tea Room next Tuesday' ♦•vening at 7:30 with the newly elect- .*<1 officei-s in charge.. .A 11 mmbers lire urge*! to be present ly President ('raig since this is the 1:^1 meeting - of the new year. li'JlUtmw 1.. BnWMleSMMttis C; •$