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j /■- r. ' THUBSPAt, JULy 4, 1»85 ■'*' • V. ’ ‘ ■! West Clinton News Misses Cerrie Bell Evans and Alma I Cannon were visitors in Anderso|Q Sunday.' ^ . -j Ur. and Mrs. Paul Poster are visit ing relatives im Spartanburg. Lawrence Campbell is visiting his creat-frandmother, Ito. E. T. Thom-^ ton, and Httle fnends, Waiter andCal ▼in Spiers, in Enoree this week. \ Miss Fraxiees Anderson 'spent a days this week with relatives an^ friends in Spartanburg. Misses Wilby and Margruerite Seay iare visithig their sisters in Greenville this week. Mr. and. Mrs. Grady Canfield and daughter, Nell, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Brarwell and children were called to Georgia last week on account of the death of Mrs. Braswell's brother. Mrs. Charlotte Anderson is visiting lalatives in Rutherfordton, N. C. ^ Harold Crow Is spending this week in Rock Hill with his. sister, Mrs. A. M. Nelson, Jr. MIm Tommy Rainey visited her sis- . ter in Augusta, Ga., last week. * Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Howard and fam ily were visitors here Sunday. Little Eliva Joan Davenport attend ed u birthday party in Laurens last areek, given in honor of Sara Frances Prince. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Heath andurhil- dren of Greenville, visited Mrs. J. H. Seay Sunday. Hovey R^ of Lyman, visited his aunt, Mrs. J. D. Word, the past week end. Mrs. D. L. McGee is visiting rela tives in Charlotte this week. Mr. and Mrs. Edd King and little eon, Joe, are ,sjp«nding the week with Mr. King’s parents, Mr.- and Mrs. L W. King. Misses Ernestine.and Yevonne Giles visited friends here Monday. Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Hughes are vis iting their daughter, Sara, in Florida, this week. Friends of Mrs. Fred^shlin will be glad to know she is Trhl^oving follow ing x-ray treatments iii Greenville. WUHl Mrs, Culbertson Dies Mrs.' Lilly Mae Harvey C|ilbertson, of Whitmire, died suddenly Sunday right. She is survived by her husband, H. P. Culbertson, and her mother, Mrs. Harvey Crane ,and two brothers, John and Ben Harvey of Clinton; the fol lowing children: A. C., G. P., Robert and Clarence of Whitmire, Mrs. D. W. Crane, Mrs. Mary Lou Woods of Un ion, and Mrs. Minnie Lee Monroe of Atlanta. Funeral services were held at Calvary Baptist church at 11 o’clock Tuesday morning, conducteds by the Rev. J. R. McKittrick, with Rev. B. L. Wood of Lydia, and Rev. V. McK. Mar lowe assisting. Burial was in Calvary cemetery. Association To Meet Saturday The regular meeting of the Friend ship as.sociation will be held Saturday, July 6, in the community hall (base ment of Bailey Memorial church), at 8 o’clock. The following officers were elected at the la.st meeting of the as sociation: President, Joe Terry; vice- president, Roy Holtzclaw; secretary, A. O. A.shlin; treasurer, C. W. Wind sor. Sick committee, Mrs. Jack Ander son, Ben Campbell, B. W. Cooper. In vestigating committee, in ward five, Mrs. Ursula Blakely and Ott Thomas; in ward si^x, Ralph Spires and Clar ence Oakle^ REXALL \MILK OF MAG- .^ESIA—purest by test. FULL QUART FOR 59c at SMITH’S PHARMACY. Phone 101 — Prompt Delivery Service. PHILCO Radios & Tiities Smith’s Phamiacy DR. A. D. LAUGHUN FOOT SPECIALIST of Spartanburg: will be at Hotel Clinton Every Friday See Dr. Laughlin 'And have your foot troubles ;fDr> reeled permanently. to ^ as V CONGRESS STEWS tQYER TAX PROGRAM Washington, July 1.—As if congress id not-have enough^to worry about already, President Roosevelt has given the boys on Capitol Hill something real to think about in his proposal that they ought to draw pp and enact some new tax bills ibefore they go home. Specifically, be proposes that, in ad dition to the present .estate taxes, congress should put a Ux upon inheri tances ah well, liie estate tax is taken out before anything goes to the heirs. It is the president’s idea, in the case of large estates, to further redistri bute wealth by taxing the heirs on whatever they get And, for good measure, he suggested that it would be desirable to stick on soifte higher taxes on the incomes of big corpor ations. The federal corporation tax now is ISMr pef cent; the president's idea is that this might run pp to 16H per cent on corporate earnings above some unspecified but large annual figure. Many people, are professing surprised at what they regard swing toward the left on the part of Mr. Roosevelt. Anybody who" has stud ied his political past and r^d his speeches during the presidential cam paign, including his inaugural address, has no real ground for surprise; for the idea that wealth is concentrate in a few hands and that the great pools of wealth ought to be broken up for the benefit of everybody, is one that he has frequently and emphaiically expressed. Capitol Hill Questions yp on Capitol Hill the senators and members of congress are asking three questions. Can we or should we try to pass it at this session? What would be the practical effect ujmn the na tional income if we did enact such laws? And, third, but paramount in the minds of the members of both houses, what will be the political effect ? The strong inclination of all but a few extremists in congress is to 4«t the matter lie until the next session, which will begin in January, 1936. The boys want to go home, '^e children are out of school now, and their wives want to get back to their home towns; besides, the Washington weather is getting hotter and hotter. They still have an awful lot of business to clean up before adjournment. To work out anjrthing that will meet the president's idea of. taxes seemingly will lead to endless debate and discussion and maybe keep them here until fall. So, for that and other reasons, it does not seem likely that they will do much on tax. plans except tx> talk about them.'' The answer to -the second question, as to what the practical effect of the new taxes will be, is generally that they will not go very far in making up the budget deficit. At'all times the great bulk of taxation is carried by the middle class, and this middle class, the practicaly economists in congress and administration circles say, would still continue to carry that load. Very wealthy men who have accumulated large fortunes can afford to hire very ex^rt lawyers to show them how to distribute their wealth where they want it to go, (i is pointed out. Good Political Move The paramount question in the minds of everybody in Washington is, really, as to the political effect of the president’s propo.sal. That, in the view of the smartest political observers, should be very wod for Mr. Roosevelt and his chances for re-election. In ef fect, it cuts a good deal of the ground out from un^er the feet of Huey Long, the LaFollette Progressives, and oth-. er radical elements whose slogan is "soak the rich.’’ These riadical Demo crats and Progressives ' seised upon the new proposal, and their threats to “show up’’ the president as insincere unless he demanded immediate action, are believed to^haye influenced him in his insisterfee upon tacking the new LOCAL SILK Mp LEASED Stutz-Hadfield Pjant Now Closed, To Start OpenRkMi Next Heek Under Management of New York Coneem. The Stotz-HiMlfi.eld silk mill cd this ciQr, which has been closed for the past year,, has be^ leased by the board of directors to the Commercial Silly corporation of New York, which operates mill; s^ Altoona, Pa. Thomas Lynch of the Altoona unit, has been in the city several days preparing for the re-ope^ng of the mill. He states that machin ery repairs and other changes in the mill are now under way, and that the management hopes to have the plant ready for operation by early next week. - “ ^ Mr. Lynch further states that the lessee plans to add 70 looms '^nd auxiliary equipment which will mean a doublingthe present capad^ty, and provide employment for about 120 people in t^ very neaf future. ,'’ ' ' . - The Commercial Silk company dyes and prints its own produeto in their Northern mills, and distributes them through their owh sell ing organisation.- - - Jiaisag High Court 'i- Govirnor Will Request Special Sc^IoikTo Pass On Borrowing of Federal Funds. / Washington, July T.—Governor Olin D. Johipton of South\C*roltna, an nounced here tonight he^vjll request ^he state supreme court to hold^a spec* ia^ session at an early date to i thev constitutionality of a legislative act empowering state institutions t^ House Defeats . Ro<Mevelt Bill Party Lines Crumble As House UUs ^DeAth Sentence** Clause In Utilities BiU, 216 to 146. improvements. He saufthe question was holding up release ofApproximately 31,000,0()0 in federal funds for improvement at charitable ink^utions and state hospital in SoWh Carolina. *^6 state supreme court liqw is in summer re cess. ' \ The act, passed bv the 193.4 South Carolina legislature,''Empowered state institutions to pledge ^heir assets to secure federal loans. JoHpston said the federal government requested a con stitutionality ruling. Johnston came here to cobfer with Morrow Cooke, federal rural\*lectri- fication director, on the rural electri fication program in South Uar^ina. He said approximately 650 propo: projects in the state were ready f action. The state rural eleftrification\au- thority will meet July 9, the governor said, adding he wanted to be able to make a comprehensive report on what steps should be taken next. Johnson also conferred with Harry L Hopkins, federal, relief and works progress administrator. He said relief and proposed projects under the now program were discussed.^ The governor- tomorrow will sed Thomas E. MacDonald, federal roads chief, relative to the federal road pro gram in the state and also had an en gagement at the textile labor relations board to discuss labor conditions. A strike of two or three hundred textile workers has been in progress at the Tucapau Manufacturing com pany at Tucapau, S. C., Johnson said, adding Jhat he wanted to see if steps could be taken to end the trouble. The governor was a dinner guest tonight of Senator and Mrs. James F. Byrnes. Washington, July 1. — A stunning defeat by his big house Democratic majority ibday spoiled President Roosevelt to renewed efforts to write a "death aentenoe" for un necessary utility holding companies. Immediately after the 216 to 146 act empowering siaie insmuiions w ^ - y . borr^f«l«i.l funds for p.rm.n.nt ished New Deal objective, Mr. Roose velt conferred with Representative Sawyer Still —Holding Fort Chief Highway Commissioner Continues To Hold Office De spite Veto of Salary. MAKE YOUR OWN WAVE SET Wave your hair at home for a pcniHrl New fanprovDd WUdroot Wave iPowdar aoakee a pint of profkwlonal wave eti iar l(A~ApintBlQrllc.YoaiDalBeroar I act by Mhring powder wAk Wldteielrii Approved by QoodBonm- baepkig toemi. Mtiiple AeMkne la W I L D R O O T WAVf POWDER MAOItfM wenififf 1 extending the “nui- taxe,8 to the sance taxe As a ^ of political strategy, it does not ^mdke much difference whether 1%^ to carry out the president’s plan a^ a adopted at this session or not. G. O. P. Going Cooaervative ~ It is becoming more dear from day to day that the cleavage between the two parties in 1936 will be shah[>Iy de fined, with the Republican party dis tinctly on the conservative side. Fol lowing the action of the “Grass Roots’’ convention in Springfield, Illinois, the recent meeting of the “Young. Repub licans” of New York went on record for a distinctively conservative plat form. ^ In the meantime, congress has pass ed the biggest tax bill ever enacted in the United States, the social security act, which taxes the payroll of every employer and the pay envelope of ev ery wage earner, to provide a fund for unemployment insurance, and for old age pensions. Instead of the Townsemi plan for $200 a month for everybody over 65, the govemn^ent has embark ed upoiT an' old age pension plan for persons over 65 who have po,resources of their own, begipning at $30 a month, half to be paid tby the govern ment and half by the respective states. States can contribute more if they Columbia, June 29.—While the close of South parolina’s fiscal year con- fix>nted ^state agencies and a number of epiployees with changes, Chief Hi^way Commissioner Ben M. Saw yer was expected in official circles to continue in office unaffected. Exercise the executive veto pow er which eliminated the chief commis sioner’s $4,000 salary from the appro priation bill, however, was i expected to terminate the state service of five assistant state bank examiners and to leave the state board of bank control without funds. The state game and fish commission obtained authoritative status Monday by legislative enactment as a new fiscal year begins in state affairs. Chairman Charles 0. Hearon of the highway commission, said at Spartan burg that Sawyer would continue in his capacity of chief commissioner so far as he knew. — Rankin, df^ilsissippi, who then rush ed back to tho Capitol to try to re build the partyVJines which crumbled today. Outwardly, Mr." Rqosevelfa only comment, through a secH^ry, was -an expression of hope that tl^ “death- sentence” bill would win on ^ final vote tomorrow. At that time a nikition will be made. \Jo substitute the senate abolition bill for the house regulatory plan and a roll call will be taken as was not the case today. But despite Rankin’s "confidence” of ultimate victory and intimation that Mr. Roosevelt may issue a statement seeking to rally his shattered, forces, leaders looked for little change in the line-up. They estinuted that "putting the heat” for three weeks added fly a handful of Democratic votes 127 originally polled as favor ing the "death sentence.” The\ote was in a chanAer whole Republieims are outnumbered more thab thrMKto one. It was taken in an atmokphereXmade electric by an in tense cloakro^ campaign, exception al bitterness i^ebate, changes of lob bying hurled a^nst both the White House and utilityXmterests, and open warnings that D^ocrats crossing President Roosevelt’s^ishes wouid^ called to account at thVpoIls. The fight was not ow for either winners or losers. The utuity bill, af ter a final ballot probably\omorrow, must go to conference with the senate. The issue there will be whether the senate and Roosevelt-approved provis ions to abolish all “unnecessary” hold ing companies by 1942 should stand— it was this provision the houM defeat- uage leaving abolition discretiohary uage levaing abolition diperetiondry with the securities commission should prevail. Senator Wheeler, Democrat, of Mon tana, who will head the senate conferr ees, said after the house vote that the measure would be brought into line with Mr. Roosevelt’s wishes or “dead locked.” The White House had no im mediate comment. The floor and galleries were tense when the voting was reached today^ Representative Eicher, Democrat, of Iowa, offered his amendmont to sub stitute the senate’s “death sentence” for the house interstate commerce committee’s regulation of holding com panies. MoUohonrHalts Lydia’s Streak want’to. lure ^ the labor lobby. the Wagner labor disputes bill slips .through in spite of the fact that near ly everyone in Washington believes it is unconsHtutional. There is a sugges tion that her^ AgRin is good politksl strategy, as it may line up organised labor l^hind a movement to amend the Constitution, a movement which looms up stronger from week to week as a probable issue in the 1936 cam paign. The outlook for the public utilities holdipg companies bill now is that while it will be gener^j^ly drastic it will not contain the "d which President Roose for, ’Ibis is one of the in which the lower house has taken a definite and apparently firm stand against the president’s desires. Like wise, material modifications are ex- ^>ected to be made in the. administra- t[on’s banking bill before it is finally .enacted, although its general purpose iliittd effect will hot bo materially im paired. h sentence” has asked few instances Newberry, ^une 9.-^ollohbh broke Lydia’s winning streak Saturday as the Clinton boys crumbled in the field and Jackson doled out two hits. Jaekson also Jed his team at bit with three white E, Smith had a hom er and a single. Moates and Beden- baugh led in the field. MoUohon J4" 16 0 Lydia- 12 9 Jackson and Cromer'; Emery, Mills and Crocker. HOW MUCH^ Taxcg does the oateide printing salesman or his employers pay in Clinton? he or his firm contribute to the jrelfare of our city? ^ HOW MUCH- lyi e i HOW MUCH- I Does he or tiii^ firm do to. keep Clinton on the n map? \ HOW D Interest does he take |n the affairs of this com munity? * 1 i 0 I 0 I Q i B a a !_Newberry took Watts, .18 to 7, as Brennan coasted behind a big lead. Bouknight had four out of ^ve, while G. TayloT had a double and triple. Brooks led the losers. Newberry 13 14 2 Watts 7 11 0 Bible, Brownlee and IfpCraw; Bren nan and Bouknight. Laurens pulled a surprise when they eked a .5 to 4 win over GoldviUe. Good kept his hits scattered but bis stq^ port was spotted. Laurens .... 5 7 4 Goklville 4 9 0 Good and Chumley; Green and Cole man. KOTOX SPECIAL-rHox of 4S w^ersoft Kotf^ for 79 cents SMITH'S PHARMACY. 101 ^imApt DefiTery SerH^ — st •X:- a a a W MUCH— f Money does he or the printers do the wmit spend wHh the Clinton merchant^ \ v> HQWMUCH- Publicity does he gi^e worthwhile moTem^tets and J \ ~~ indiridua] busijieaa enterpHaea? YoiurHome News^ * paper Printiiig^"^ Establishment —Pays taxes lir Clinton. ---GiYes employment to heads and membra., of fami- whose earnings are spent in Clinton. 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