The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, July 18, 1935, Image 1
POWER PROJECT
ISAPPROVED
Tliirt3^Teii BffflloB Dollar San-
- tee-Cooper Matt ^Bndaraod ^
l^reaideBt Mottcy To Come Out
of Bif Roiiof Futd. Thousands
To B^Empioyed.
"i,
WMhington, July 16. — Ai^proval of
snotber liagc ptiWic wofriw po<«p«r pro
ject—the propoMd $87,500,000 derel-
opmcnt <m tlie Santee and Cooper riv
ers in South Carolina—wm fiven to
day by President RooseveH.
In a letter to Senator James F.
Byrnes, the president said he will ap
prove a grant of 46 per cent of the es
timated cost with the balance of $20,-
625,000 to be a loan at four per
interest to be amortiaed over a period
of 30 years.
Release of the'funds, however, vms
conditioned upon the constitutionality
of the South Carolina public service
authority, created by the estate legis
lature to pursue the development.
. Under the proposed plans, a huge
hydro-electric plant would be con
structed on Jthe Cooper river near Pi-
nopolis, S. C., and water would be di
verted from the Santee river idto the
Cooper at a point near Manned, S. C.,
to provide greater water power.
President Roosevelt d^ribed the
project as one that not alone
serve to overcome dittos caused by
unemployment in that |«ction, but also
permanently contribi^ to the eednom-
ic development of ^ soutbesst”
The Santee-Coo^r development of
ten has been re^NTe<i
TV A.”
The development,
braces navigfttkm
Coe To iHead
Youth Work
i
Pr^yteriui ODQegu Pntfeamor
' Appointed Director of Nniion-
al Youth Profram In State.
Dr. R. U Coe, professor of education
at PreshyteriaB coUege, has ap
pointed Sq^ Carolina director of the
national youth " adndnistration for
which Prssident Roosevelt has allot
ted $50,000,000 of week reSif funds
to aid young people between 16 and
25-years of age. Announcement of his
api^ntment was made Tues<ky from
Washington by National Administra
tor Williams.
Dr. Coe has been given a lefve of
absence from the college the coming
year to enter this new field of work
in South Carolina for which he is es
pecially qualified. He was notified on
Tuesday that his connection with the
government beesune eff^ive on that
date, bttl^ had received no instructions
yesterday ^as'to the locatione-of his
headquarters and other details of the
work.
Dr. Coe has been a member of tbe
Presbyterian college faculty for sev
eral years. He is an honor graduate
of that institution, of ^ University
of Virginia, and George Peabody Col
lege for Teachers. He holds the de-
of B.A., M.A., and Ph.D.
to as a *‘Little
which also em-
and flood control,
the lower section of
lina from Cotumbia to the
would spread into the Sa-
area in G^orgiu* »
Itor Byrnes said the project will
direct employment' to 18,260
Carolinians during the first
ir of construction and ^that indirect
tpkyyment would be furnished to
other thousamh by purchase of ma-
leriiJs.
PWA engineers estimate the devel
opment wlil create 680,000,000 kflo-
wam howk of stacrrical «Mn
the South Cardina authority can de
liver at 2.2 mills a kilowatt hour suf
ficient to liquidate the loan.
The president, in his letter, said pro
vision would be made Chat from the
amount of the loan there may be de
ducted any amount determined by
Harry L. Hopkim, works progrsss ad
ministrator, as a proper'eredit by rea
son of the employment on the project
of persons who would otherwise be
employed by the works progress ad
ministration.
Byrnea estimated this amount at
$4,000,000, leaving a balance to be re
paid by the state of $16,625,000.
The senator was ela^ over tbe ap
proval of the project and predicted it
woidd prove of vast benefit to ^he en-
tir^tate. He praised the wock of the
public service authority and its en
gineers, Harry Flood and Charles E.
Moorfield.
He also called special attention to
the fact that members of congress
from the state. Governor Johnston and
odier state officials had co-operated
to.tbe fullest extent.-
Local Mills Fight
Processing Tax
Clinton and Lydia Mills Enter
Suits Against Government for
Refunds of $501,8351
Sluts seeking refunds of an aggre
gate of $501355 and injunction against
the collection of about $90,000 more
in ^rooesung tAxes levied under tbe
agricukural adjustment act were filed
Monday in Oh^leston in the United
States district court by the Clinton
Cotton Mills and the Lydia Cotton
Mills of this city, a^inst Robert
M. Cooper, collector of internal rove-,
mw for South CaroUna.
The suits attack the constHutionali-
whkh jtji of the AAA.
Judge Frank K. Mytrs, followi^ig
the filing of tbe suit, granted tempor
ary injunctions restraining Cooper
from collecting the unpaid taxes, and
has set a hearing for 11 a. m., July
25, before him in the court at Charles
ton.
The suiU filed show that the Clin
ton Mills are seeking to recover $367,-
884 and the Lydia Mills, $114,451. The
Clints Mills has been required by
Judge" Myers to set aside $40,000
worth of its stock on hand, end the
Lydia Mills $56,000 worth, to secure
payment of approximately those
amounts of taxes which C<;^per is re
strained temporarily from <N^lecting.
T
City Has New
Water Supply
CAUB JONNSQM>
THIRTEEN FREE AND INDEPEN
DENT NATIONS
When w« start to atudy anything,
we must begin at the beginning. The
Constkutkm of tbe United States be
gins with a'preamble. A preamble is
intended to explain the purpose of
whM followe.- The preamble to eur
Constitution does that in 62 words.
“We, the people of the United
States, in order to form a more per
fect Union, establish justice, insure
domestic tranquility, provide for the
common defence, promote the generll
welfare, and secure the blessings qf
liberty to ourselves and our posterity,
do ordain and establish this CONSTI
TUTION for the United SRatea of
America.*'
ITiat explains what the Constitution
was expected to do. It does not, how
ever, explain why tt was necessary to
draw up a Constitution, eleven years
after the English colonies of America
had declared their independence of
Great Britain. The I>eclaration of In
dependence was signed in 1776. The
Constitution was adopted in 1787. Be-
foi^ we can understand the why of
the Constitution, we must understand
what kind of a government we had in
America before there was any Consti
tution.
The very'first phrase of the Consti
tution raises questions. “We, the peo
ple of the United States.” How were
the states united before there was any
Constitution ? What had kept them to
gether throughout the War of the Rev
olution ? What had held them together
after the Revolution and before they
adopted the Con.stitution ? For, as they
expressly stated in the Declaration
of Independence, they were not only
free states, but independent states.
For that matter,' what did they mean
by the word “states,*' in the EKeclara-
tion of Independence and in the Con
stitution itself? When the founding
fathers of the Republic said “state”
they meant exactly what we mean to
day when we say “nation.” In the 18th
centu^ the word “nation” was seldom
used; the word '‘state*’ was always un
derstood as meaning a nation. The
Declaration of Ind^iendenoe, alter de
claring that “these United Colonies
art, and of right ought to be, free and
Independent States,” continues: “and
that all political connection between
them and the STATE of Great Brit
ain k, and ought to be, diwmlved.”
“United States,” then, meant “United
Nations.”
Thirteen independent nations, seek
ing to free themselves from the domi
nation of another nation, fought the
War of the Revolution. They called
their union a “Confederation of
States.” Exactly tha aame meaning
would have been conveyed if thfey had
called it a "League of Nations!’
~ Irr the beginning, this union |of in
dependent states was nothing^ more
than a mutual alliance to carry on the
war. It was almost exactly the same
sort of a “union” ak that between the
allied but independent nations of Eu-
r</pe, for the conduct of the World war
from 1914 to 1919. The American
Clinton Hails
“The Rebel"
New Seaboard Streamliner On
Exhibition Here Friday Made
Big Hit WUh the Public.
For two hours last Friday, a vast
throng of Clinton people, as well as
rnahy from other towns and sections,
saw their first stregbi-lined train
when “The Rebel’ a’rrived here exact
ly at 12:10 and left at 2:00 for Green
wood.
Hundreds formed in line to inspect
the t^ree roaches and engine, and
about 50 local citizens rode as special
guests of the company to Greenwood.
The comfortable seat.s and cool; fresh
air, notwithstanding the fact that all
windows were shut tight, made the
journey all too short for the passen-
"The Rebel” is a beauiful sight,
powei‘ed by a six-cylinder diesel en
gine, in its effortless annihilation of
space. First is seen the unbroken,
wide> red badd. extending from the
front to the rear, the bright aluminum
colored top and sides reflecting the
rays of the Soluthern sun. As it nears
the lines blend gracefully with sweep
ing curves. It is nnme<i "The Rebel”
AAA TAX FACES
CRUCIAL TEST
Adminiiiiratloii To. Carry, Pro-
cessing Tax Case To U. S. Su
preme Couc^t.' Triple-A Will
Continue IMtkjor Functions
ud RbUng.
Pending Final
. . , , . . . . to distinguish_.it from traditional
^tes h«d t^ common background of I Qf transportation, providing
havi^ all been subject to the same {^he utmost in comfort, safety and
domination by another nation. But the speed, aYid wilt’*undoubt^ly do much
utmost their leaders had in mind in
4?he way of a union, at the beginning
of the Revolution, was an alliance of
indjependent nations in what they ex
plicitly termed a “League of Friend
ship.”
The only central government that
existed in America for the first five
years of the war with Great' Britain
was the Continental congress,' com
posed of delegates from the thirteen
states. It had so little power or author
ity that it could hardly be called a
government at all. The Continental
congress could borrow money, if any
one would lend it, but could not levy
taxes to repay such loans. It could is
sue requisitions to the separate, etates
for supplies and troops, but it could
not make its acts effeetive.
(Next week: The Seed Fronr Which
Grew the Constitution).
Dr. Laavas
Bequests
Clinton Loses
In Cup Play
Spartanburg * Captures ^mi-
FhuU Tennis Matches In Meet
Here For Mclver Cup.
Says The Laurens Advertiser:
Tbe will of Or. W. H. Dial, filed in
the judge of probate’s office, shows
that he made two bequests of a public
nature. One bequest of $250 wss made
to the Epworth orphanage at Colum
bia, and another <me of $l00 was made
to the Laurens County library. Both
of them have been paid by his execu
tors,. Messrs. Frank A. and J. ITT Dial.
Provision was also made for upkeep
of family plots- in the Laurens and
Chestnut Ridge cemef^es and for the
plot of his serond wife who was buried
at Rock Hill. The remainder of hk es
tate wpf divided among his widow,
chHcken and lus grandchild, Bobbie
Dial, daughter of his son, the late Al
bert Dial.
Dr. Dkl, former mayor of Laurens
and tife-kmg member of the Methodist
church, died at his home here May 31.
The city’s water works extension to
DunoAn’s creric has recently been com
pleted and the town is now provided
with an ample water eopply from this
Aource. The woVk was carried forward
and completed as a Public Works Ad
ministration __ project btx the federal
government, an allocation of $78,t)00
having been made for this purpose
last July.
Ths loan froin the government to
city through the P.W.A. 'i8 to be
financed through bonds issued by tbe
town and sold to the government.
I^le they are not tax bonds, they
must be paid, both principal and in
terest, out qf the eamincs of the
water pluit.
HOW TlffiY RATE
CENTRAL CAROUNA
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WaUa —— -••• •••• •••• $
Joanna — — .... ~.. 5
Ware Bfaoals .... ..~ 5
CaiBton 2
Ninety 9lx 3
Greenwood 1
Mathews —. 1
Pet
800
750
760
400
400
250
. 250
Before a large crowd of^ fans here
Saturday afternoon, the Patk Hills
club of Spartanburg defeated (Tlinton
by 6 to 0 in a semi-final match in the
upper-state play for the Mclvw eup.
> Winning without tbe loss of a set
the Spartanburg club gaihed the fi
nals of, the iqjper-state division and
will meet the winner of the Anderson-
Greenville match on August 8 for the
upper-state title. Greenville and An
derson iptay next week.
Tbe upper-etate winners meet the
lower-state chan>pions for tbe cup,
which is emblematic of team tennis
suprensacy in South Carolina, on Aug
ust n on neutral courts. Charleston is
favored to come through in the lowef
state brackets.
The scores of Saturday’s match
were as follows:
Singles—Peyre Kennedy of Spartan
burg defeated J. F. Jacobs, of Clin
ton, 6-1, 6-1; Bill Child, of Spartan
burg, defeated Taylor Martin, of Clin
ton, 6-0, 6-1; Jim Burnett, of Spartan
burg, d^eated Roger Coe, of Clinton,
6-0, 6-3.
Doublee — Kennedy and Child of
Sputanbuig, defeated Martin and Coe
of dinton, 6-1, 6-1; Burnett and Dunk
Bamskie, of Sparttuibutg, defeated J.
F. Jacobs and W. Pi. Jacobs, of Clin
ton, 6-S, 6-1.
BEES NO DANGER OF
PARALYSIS EPIDEMIC 1
Mrs. T. W. l^nqMon
Buried In Columbia
Funeral Xervices for ’Mrs. T. W.
Simpson of Brunswick, Ga., who died
at a Brunswick hospital last Wednes
day, were held from the First Presby
terian, church of Columbia on last
Thursday morning. The Rev. John H.
Webb of Columbia, conducted the ser
vice, assisteii by Dr. John MeSween of
Chester.
Mrs. Simpson before marriage was
Miss Sallie McGee of Cxilumbia. Her
husband, the Rev. T. W. Simpson, is
pastor of the First ‘Presbyterian
church of Brunswick, and is pleasant
ly known here by many friends. He
is a graduate of Presbyterian college
and a member of its board of trus.f'
tees as one of the Synod of Geo
representatives.
to revolutionize transportation- in this
American railroad re^nai.s.sance.
It is reported unofficially that the
Seaboard has ordered another train of
the same type to be operated between
Atlanta and Washington, which means
that Clinton will be On the streamline
scheilule.
First Forestry
Deed Is Filed
Newberry, July 13.—The first deed
for land purchased by the United
States For^ry service of the Knoree
project was recorded this week in the
office of the clerk of court here.
It consisted of four thousand acres
of land from tbe First Carolinas Joint
Stock Land bank of Columbia. The
consideration was liated as $24,008.40
and it raquirod eight pages of fools
cap paper in the deed ^ok which was
kept by Hugh K. Boyd, clerk of court.
This land lies along Indian Creek in
Newberry county and contains 4’,001
acres, lying mainly on the east side of
the highway about 12 miles from New
berry.
This is the first acreage in the En-
oree forestry unit to be transferred to
the government although thousands
of acres are ubder option. Twenty-four
individuals have held the acreage
above since 1750 and 1800. Two more
similar dee<ls were also recorded.
There are 34 original owners named
in the deed with from 37 to 550 acres
in each parcel. t
School Head
Not Yet Named
Uiwn Sawice 1
^ With Methodists
No public announcement has yet
been rtiade by the newly elected school
board as to the selection pf a superin
tendent of the city schools
coming sesrion. While no
ttatement has been given out by the
trustees, it is known that the position
has been offered to several well known
school men of the state, but declined.
The city.vunion service next Sunday
evening will be held at eight o’clock
at North Broad Street Methodist
church. The pulpit will be occupied by
Rev. Edward Long, pqstor of the First
Baptist church, with % jcordial invita
tion extended all -congregations to
for the unite in this service,
official
Misses Martha and Mildred Whitten,
Oliver Luey and Jack Gasqiie spent
the week-end at Myrtle Beadi. — *
MEN MEET FRIDAY
The men of the church of the First
Presbyterian church will hold their
regular monthly meeting Friday eve
ning at 7:30 in the churcl^ diningconsist of one injection of toxoid
room. An invitation is extended all
men of the congregation to be present.
Red Cross To
Sponsor Campaign
Boaton, July 16.—/The^ .processing"
tax end floor taxes of the agiiculta-^
ral adjustment^ict, tmder which ^l|e
federal governm^ had collected ap^^
proximatel3r-$906,000,000 and expect
ed to collect an additional $700,Odb,-
000 were declared unronstitutional to
day by the United States Circuit
Court. ' *
The court’^ ruling was based upon
a teat case brought by the Hooaac
MHls Corporation, which sought to es
cape payment of $81,694.
The, processing tax and the floor
tax, the latter a levy upon finished
goods on hand when thetgx became
effective,' were considolrod^he back
bone of the AAA. „
With funds thus derived, the secre-'
tary of agricultui’e rompensateil farm
ers and grow'ers for curtailing crops
and live stock pro<lu^ion.
The circuit court found, in brief,
that congix'ss had no authorities to
regulate products which were in the
control of the state; that the tax was
an improjier delegation otviuiwer, and
that if the charge was a tax, it was a
direct'tax, not ai)portion<'<l, and if_an
excise tax, it was .not uniform.
The circuit court’s ruling was close
ly followed by announcement at Wash
ington that the .governjtufnt^^ would
take prompt appeal to the supreme
court.
Attorney General Cummings said the
Hoosac case probably would control
more than 200 other suits on file in
various federal courts attacking the
taxes and seeking refunds and injunc
tions against payments.
The federal government was moving
to balk recovery of money already
paid in the outIawe<l taxes.
Amendments to the AAA pending at
the national capitol would throw pend
ing suits out of court and prevent
filing of new suits. The government
cannot be sued without consent of con
gress.
Approval of Jhe circuit court's opin
ion was found: in the New England
textile industry. The National Asso
ciation of Cotton Manufacturers is-
sue<l a statement in which Dexter Ste
vens, chairman of the Noi'thern‘'Cot-_
ton Mills |>olicy committee, said.he
hoped the court’.s decision would "go a
long way toward halting the wave^bX
liquidation among New England cot
ton mills, to which the processing tax
was a big contributing factor.”
“Millions of dollars,” ho said, "have
been draineil from .New England col-
ton mills to finance this vast lupgram
and the stemming of this flow of mon
ey will have a beneficial effect.”
.lames .Sinclair, pre.sident of the Fall
River Cotton Manufacturers As.socia-
tion, said elimination of tHc tax would
regulate prices "and will not have
I price cutting in the future.”
The Netional Red Cross, in cooper
ation with local Red Cross chapters
and boards of health, is now arranging
a campaign for the prevention of diph
theria in Laurens county. All children
between_ages of one year and ten
years, unable to pay "for such service,
will be inoculate<l against diphtheria,
with the roneent of their jiarents, at
times and places to be announced lat
er. Toxoid will be furnished by the Red
Cross, and the work will be done by
local 'physicians, free oT charge.
A Red CroM nurse and organizer
will be here a week or two ahead to
complete all arrangements, and assist
in the work. It is estimated that three
thousand children in the county will
be eligible for this vaccination which
P. C. Unit Wins'
At Fort McClellan
College Is Awarded General Pro
ficiency Cup For Fourth Time
In Six Years.
Eight Per Cent More Land In
Cotton Cultivation Than In 1934
Lydia ...■
MoUohoo-
GoldvHle .
Newherry
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LEAGUE
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Columbia, July 15.—Expressing tbe
view that infantile pavalyaia appeared
to be spreading northward from cen
tral North C^arolina into 'Virginia, Dr.
Jamn A. Hayae, Sooth (^ni^ina
health offieer, aaaerted today there
was not *^he aligiiteet reason" to bo
alanaed at reports of caaet iik ^Ms
state.
The acreage of cotton in cultivation
on July 1 in South Carolina is esti
mated at 1,420,000 acree by the crop
repotting board of the United States
depMtment of agriculture. F. 0. Black,
statistician, announced yesterday. This
is 8 per cent more than was in culti
vation a year ago but is 22 per cent
less than that of July 1, 1983, and 23
per eent below the average acreage for
the five years 1929-1933. With the ex-
eeptiaa of laet year’s 1315300 plant
ed acreage, the 1,420,0(M) acreage of
IftiM year is the state’s smalls since
adken 1305,j[)00 acres were bur-
vested.
The acreage of cotton in cultivation
in the United States on July 1 ii esti
mated by tbe crop reporting board td
be 29,166,000 ^acres, which is 4.6 per
cent more than the acreage on Jidy 1,
1984, but 28.6 per cent less than the
average acreage for the 5-year period
1929-1988^ in spite of the increase over
last year’s acreage, it is the smallest
since 1906.
Increases are showri for all major
states except Oklahoma, ranging from
4 per cent in North Carolina to 10 per
cent in Louisiana. A decrease of 7 per
cent is estimated for Oklahoma, due
Fulton Goes To
South
The Rev. C. Darby Fulton, D.D., of
Nashville, Tenn, left Spartanburg last
Thursday night for New York from
which port be sailed for South Amer
ica for a stay of several months. While
away Dr. Fulton will visit about 25
mission stations of the Southern Pres
byterian church in South America.
During Dr. Fulton’s absence from
this country, Mrs. Fulton and children
partly to unfavorable weather condi . , ., , . „
tiom for planting and partly to a rela- ^ of her father, H. E
tively high percentage of Acreage un- R»venel, m Spartanburg.
the 1984 acreage, with the exception of August
der contract wite the agricultural ad
justment administration for the first
time. In all states increases permitted
produceors who signed two-year acre
age reduction contracts last year are
partly offset by reductions made by
producers^offering contracts' this year
for i8le first time.
The acreage of Bima Egryptian long
staple cotton in Arizona is ^imated'
at 33,000 acres, compared with 28,000
acres in 1934. • -
No report on 'probable production of
lint win be ma^ by tbe board until
U be
t k
Ross Lynn b
Camp Leader
The Presbyterian (’ollepre K.O.T.C.
unit at Fort McClellan, Ala., aprain
won the general proficiency cup given
to the unit from the Fourth Corps area
having the best record at the six-
wcek.s’ (?Dt‘anipm.ent ,hel<l there every
.summer for infantry R.O.T.t’. colleges.
This i.s the fourth time within the
[a.st six year.s and the sixth time since
1926 that Presbyterian college boys
haVT won the cup. No 0thW"college in
the Fourth corps (which includos-Aho
states of North Carolina, South Caro
lina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mis-
si-ssippi, Ix)ulsiana and Tennes.see) has
won the cup more than three times in
the thirteen years it has bee^ given.
In addition the Presbyteriah College
Reserve Officers Training 'Corps unit
won the rifle marksmanship champion
ship of the camp and the machine gun
.trophy., Thomas T. Upshur, of Sum
ter, and Lee S. Quarterman, of Char
leston, made the Fourth Corps R.O.T.C.
rifle team and will be sent to Camp
Perry, Ohio, to compete in the nation
al rifle matehes there this summer.
These matches attract hundreds of in
dividuals and teams from all parts of
the United States and from other
countries.
Ross M. Lynn, of this city, is spend
ing the, pummer at Wiley, Ga., whej-e
he is director at Dixie Camps of a
large group of small boys. *171680
camps are in the Blue Ridge moupr
tains of North Geoi'gia.' During the
scli^l yeqr Mr, Lynn is professor and
assi^nt acetic director at the Dar
lington SelM^for Boys, Rome, Ga.
TAKES COACHING POST
Harry Bolick of this city, member
of this year’s graduating cla.s.s at Pres
byterian college, has accepted the po
sition of Coach at the High Point,
N. C., high school for the coming ses
sion. Bolick was an all-.state fullback
last year and made quite an outstand
ing record as an athlete while in col
lege here. iT
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