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yOLUHE XXXV ' - ■ - - - ■- ■akaa CUNTON, S. C, THUBSDAY, JULY ,25,1935 SENATE PASSES PATOPBILL New Strcngtli Is 'Ghren AAA LegislsUon To Fsct l^igh Oonrt TiBt Secretary Wallace Armed WHIi New Weapons To Pash Farm Prices Upward. WsshintloDt July 23.—Ebdinc u ludi of arfument, the senate to<^y passed the AAA amendment bill, much cot and patched, but broadeninf and bolstering admini8tratkm4procram for iMreasins farm prices. As"a last-mhaute feature, the sen ate accepted a sweepinf amendment requlrinf Senate approTal of hifher ealaried employes “under this or any other act of confrMs.** The vote for final pasaafe of the J)ill was 64 to 15. It dkme after the senate had wad^ through a tangle of las^-minute amendments, throwing many aside but adopting some. The bill bad two' main purposes—^to ' arm the secretary of agriculture with new weapons to push farm prices up to a' parity with prices of other com modities, either by the processing tax j method or through marketing and crop control agreements; and, secondly, to "prepare for the time when the su preme court will pass on the yalidity of tJjeAA^ program. In anticipation of that date and in an effort to prevent an upset, the amendment bill ^validated all process ing taxes heretofore imposed and rati fied them at their present levels. The section valktoting the rates of the processing taxes heretofore ap plied by the secretary of agriculture was aimed at meeting arguments that they had been ^xed under an uncon stitutional delegation of authority. The amendment read that “the taxes imposed under this title as determined, prescribe^ proclaimed and made ef fective by the proclamation , of the secretary of agriculture or of the pres ident ... are hereby legalised and rat ified and confirmed as fully to all in tents and‘ purposes as if each such tax had been made effective and the rate t^reof fixed specifically by prior act or congress.*’ As a second bulwark, the bill legal- iaed all benefit contracts under whidi farmers have beeh paid about 1700,- 00^006^ . Ihird, the bill outlawed all suits against the government for recovery of processing tax^s paid in the past unless the processor proves he has not shouldered them off upon the consum- «rjpr producer. PassiMre of the AAA bill cleared the way for senate consideration of the onuiibus bank bilL The measure was given first place on tomOirow’s calendar. The farm bill, already pass ed by the house, must go bach to that branch for consideration of senate changes. A senate-house conference probably will be necessary. The Senate today declined to heed a plea by the Cotton Textile institute to reconsider its action in rejecting the provision for using 30 per cent of the ^ tariff revenues for financing export of surplus commodities. However, since the provision had been incorpor ated in the house bill, and later strick en out by the senate, it was a subject for the senate-house conferen^ to consider. The amendment requiring senate ap proval of certain employes under the act and others, was introduced by Sen ator Gore, Democrat, of Oklahoma, and accepted by Chairman Smith, of South Carolina, of _ the agriculture committee, with the comment that “this proposal has been considered around here a great deal and I think / it ought to go to conference for study.” — It went in-without a record vote and with scarcely a voice raised against it. j Under its terms senate approval would be required of any federal em ploye outside of civil service drawing $7,500 or more a year by “act of con gress” or any other employe drawing "-more than $6,000 a year who has “su pervision at the seat govenunent over the' program, work or expendi tures provided for under this or any <^er act of congress,” and “any state or regional administrator” with a ^,600 sakiry. It was a proposal sought by Bepub- Ikans and Democrats alike at various tunes during the session and was slipped into the AAA biH in the con* fused few minuies before its Haul passage. As passed by ’the senate, the bill carried the provision for setting marketing agreements among hand lers but no longer could ^ agree ments include minimum price regula- tiocs. Amendments by Senator ByM, of Virginia, knocked o^ tlmt'provis- km. " Loafers To Be Cut Off Reli^ It Tea Don't BeaA THB CHRONICLB TeaDedYGtei The Newai NUMBER 30 Fanneri Offeri^ Jobs To Notdy Lsof heAfAt, Sayiag They Are **(Hi RcUef .** Washington, July 22.—-Orders to cut offjelief anyone refusixig emfiloyment tonight was the rdief edministration’s reply to wideepread complaints that some of the ne^y preferred the dole to jobe. With a harvest band “revolt” barely curbed in other Western states, the South Dakota relief administration or- dred both state and federal payments stoppec^ until needs for harvest help are filM. Complainte also were made that at Windieeter, Va., and in nearby coun ties, . fanners offering harv^ jobs “are lauri^d at by loafers at stores and filling stations, who say they are ‘on relief’.” * “Any person .on relief who refuses a job,” said Lawrence Westbrook, as sistant relief administrator, “Will be cut off immediately. “We have instructed all state ad- ministraton to purge relief rolls m rapidly as possi^." Announcing that he was “debunk ing” assertions that numerous Balti more relief recipients who rejected jobs, Hopkins recently made public a study asserting that only four people turn^ down jobs without good rea sons. Similar complaints also have been numerous in the berry-picking area of New Jersey, but Hopkins' in vestigators insisted that they were not justified.. Relief officials said state adminisr trators frequently had resorted to cut ting off w^e counties from the dole at harvest time, but that South Dako ta marked the first time this had been done to an entire state. — Complaints that those being sup ported by relief money demanded high wages were especially frequent under the CWA. U was begun wi^ the PWA minimum wage of 40 cents an hour in tha South, ranging up to 60 cents in the North, but the minimum rate later was abandoned because of Southern protests that it was impossible to ob tain enough farm labor. Meanwhile, agriculture department officials said “ that although there might be a “enght** harv^ lidt>or shortage in some statW^ the supply over the county was “ample.” Opens Office In Cohunbia Dr. R. L. Coe of This City To Make Capital Headquarters for State National Youth Work. % THE SEED FROM WHICH GREW THE CONSTITUTION Somehow the states struggled through the firiH five years of the Revolution under their loose and in effective alliance, centering in the Continental Congress. In the mean time, plans for a permanent govern ment were bring debated. Such a plan had been drawn up in 1776, im mediately after the signing of the De claration of Independence. This plan was mnbodied in the Articles of Con federation. The Articles of Confederation were ratified by the thirteen states in 1781, Th^smaller states, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Maryland, and DeleWare, had held back, fearing that the other states, all of whom claimed territorial rights extending westward to the Mississippi river, would dominate by their Massichussetis, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, both of the Carolines and Georgia, at last agreed to let their westward lands be carved up into new states. The others ratifi^ the Articles of Confed eration. ' — Under this new form of government each state remained completely inde pendent. Congress coyld ifct only on: 1. Declaring war or peace and super intending the conduct of war. , 2. Building a navy. 8. Controlling diplomatic relatiohs. 4. Coining money and emitting bills of credit. 6. Establishing Post Offices. 6. Regulating trade with the Indians, 7. Adjusting boundai7 disputes be tween the States. There was no executive authority, no Federal judicial system. The Con gress could, if it desired to^-set up a court of appeal, ^o vote could be car ried in tbe Congreaa without the as sent of majority of state delegations. On all important measurea the votes of nine states were required. This plan did not bring about na tional unity. When the War of the Revolution ended, in 1788, the State of Great Britian signed a treaty rec- ogaishig each of her fennar American Colonies as an independent State, but United IBB gave no recognition Statee as a nation. In 1784 the States claiming West ern lands, ceded 480,000 square miles, lying north of the Ohio River, to the (ingress. (This Northwest Territory later became the states of Ohio, In diana, Illinois, Michigan and Wiscon sin.) . In the meantime, however, thej government under the Articles of Con federation, had practically collapsed, the Congress in 1786 reported the Fed* eration “broke,” with a debt of $42,- 000,000 and no credit. States had to work out their own problems. Since there was no Federal regulation <rf commerce be tween the States, each began to set up protective restrictions against goods coming in from other states. This confused interstate commerce situation was the seed from which grew the Constitution and our Fed eral Government. * * In 1785 the States of Maryland and Virginia appointee) delegates to work out a plan of regulating commerce on Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac Riv er. The delegates met at the home of General George Washington at Mount Vernon, Virginia. They came to a sat isfactory agreement, and proposed a meeting of commissioners from all the States, to work out a system of regu lating commerce between all of them A convention was called to meet 1786 at Annapolis. Only five states sent commissionars. The Annapolis convention asked the Congress to call on all of the States to send commis sioners to a convention in Philadel phia the following Springf “for the sole and express purpose of revising the ArticlesW Confe^jration.” . Tbe call WM made, and on May 25, 1787, fifty-five delegates, represent ing all the thirterii States, met in the hall, under the shi^w of the Liberty Bell, in which the DMlaration of In dependence Jrad becn^^igned eleven years earlier, and drew up the docu ment upon which our F«d<^ Govern ment rests and from which it derives ita powers, the Constitution of the United States of America. _ (Next Week: The Constitution Dieted in Secret Convention). ‘ ^ Issues For 1936 Are Talddg Form Defense of Constitution To Be Heard On Many Stumps In Next Presidential Ci^paign.. Washington^ July 20.—The project ed “ccinstltutional issue” assumed for- midah^e prominence in political calcu lations over the week-end. i New Deal readiness to biattle on.'it, if necessary to perpetuate poJkiesfof tbe past two years, became virtually unquestioned in view of current de-^ velopments. i “ “Economi^elf-government” emerg ed as a possible slogan in 1936, should additional basic Roosevelt enactments meet the doom of NRA * The phrase was used by Secretary Wallace, just after the AAA and the TVA had lost and won respectively in appeiQs courts,'in a Seattle epeech attesting the depth of administration determination. /■ Many economic problems^re nation al, he reminded, and proceeded to state the broad question much in the manner as did Present Roosevelt in the celebrated ^orse and buggy stage” press cotiference. Do federal/powers extend to solu tion of national social and economic problem^? WaJJice did' more. ' For the first timp^ by so high official, he showed New Deal wants wide debates on the issue being drawn” without waiting on Supreme Court decisiqns, that it does not hold the constitution sacrosanct, and counts on farm and labor support against what he teimed “economics obigarchy.” The full import was beng studied at the Capitol today. Skepticism within the Democratic majorities over the governmental and political sound ness was apparent. The skeptics’ lot was made no easier by realization that a cabinet member hardly would make such declarations on * fundamentals without presidential assent. Only this week, as related privately in a strategic congressional quarter, the president was advised to begin curtailment of federal authority, on grounds that the “emergency” had passed. He listened, attentively, it was said, expressed thanks but add ed that hfs mind was unchanged. Pennon Fund ' Totals $10,240 Ai^ual Distribution Made In ' County To Veterans and Wid ows of Civil -War. STATE TO SHARE WPA_^JEaS Jobs for Third of Those On Re» lief Rolls Would Be Provided. Speed Urged In Work. Em* ployment Promised for 12,600 If AU Projects Approvid. Columbia, July 28. — Political sub divisions. of South Carolina, it was dis closed today, have pledged themselves to pay nearly one-third of the cost of pending WPA proj^ts expected to em- pk^ approximately 30 per cent^of per sons on relief rolls. . ^ Lawrence M. Pinckney, statd works progress administrator, announced that local sponsors had agreed to pay $2,092,259 upon 48 projects whose to tal cost was estimated at $5,758,301. Applications for federal funds for the projeot.s, forming the first part of the WPA program in South Caro lina, have been filed at Washington for approval. Pinckney said that if all were ap proved, they would afford jobs for 12,600 of the 38,028 persons now on emergency relief rolls in South Caro lina. His statement was made' at a meet ing of approximately 400 state, coun ty, and municipal'officials here to re ceive suggestions for speeding their requests for WPA and PWA projects. Malcolm J. Miller, regional field agent of the WPA and a former state relief administrator of South ('arolina, told the group that “sponsors of pro jects should contribute most of the material used, all of it if possible, and certainly all non-local lat^r. “The requirement that all sponsors must contribute is not an ironclad ^e, however, and may be set aside in specific instances. “We must, have the progranj ar- rang^ed so that ..we can shift people from one project to another immedi ately upon the completion of the first project.” Miller, a ^ former C/oIumbian, said that while he personally would “like to see the regional offices in Colum-. bia,” the decision did not resc entirely with him. He has charge of 12 South ern states, from Virginia through Louisiana. .Vi Dr. Roger L. Coe, of this city, state director of national youth administra tion, ,opened an office in Columbia Tuesday on the second floor of the National Loan and Exchan^ Bank building. Dr. Coe has been given a leave of absence froip Presbyterian college for the coming year. He was recently ap- polntd state director of the NY A by Natoinal Director Williams of Wash ington, D. C. His headquarters for hia new woric will be in Ck>lumbia instead of this city. Dr. €oe stated Tuesday that for the present only routine matters will be handled by the office and that definite information as to aid to youths of the state must await his return from Washington where he expects to be called soonby the national NYA direc tor for a onfermce. Rhett HiU Held fai Hughes Death Laureiw,‘July 22.—A ootpner’s jury today ordered Rhett Hill held in con nection with the^ death of W. Vt. Hughes, Atlanta rtnerant mechanic, who was fatally hurt when struck by an antonwbile on the highway near Owinga St§{;ion Friday night. Hill was alleged to have been the driver of the car. “Red” Dwings and L. Owings, token into custody during the investigation, were exonerated. Hill was' released on bond. HOW THEY RATE pSaches ARS MOVmG Shipment of Elherta peaches from Laurena oosmty commercial orchards has been' under way for the past week. Sewcral caribada h^ve gone oxA from the orchards of Ralph Copeland, Jack BL Davis and L. M. D. Young of this aeetiott. m iw w»' w* 'ep'sw CENTRAL CAROLINA » W L Joanna .... .••• »••• 4 IFatta .... •••• .>*■ •••■ 6 Ware Shoals .... I Ninety Six — 8 Ginton 2 Greenwood Mathews ... Newberry Laurens... Watts • (voldvine MoUohon . iLyffia r... . MG SIX . 1 . 1 W . 2 . 3 . 0 . 0 . 0 . 0 L 0 0 3 1 1 0 Pet. 800 750 500 500 250 250 200 Pet. ,1000 1000 000 000 000 000 Leuiyns, July 19.—The Laurens county Judge of Probate, Ross D. Young, has received from the Comp troller General and disbursed during the past week $10,240 to veterans and widows of the Civil War. * ' In tbe list are the names of nine veterans, of whom two have died dur ing the year, and 43 widow.*-, of veter ans. The seven surviving veterans, who receive $240 each, are J. P. Cald well, Laurens; A. M. Copeland, Clin ton; J. W. 0)peland, Sr., Clinton; W. P. Davenport, Ware Shoals; A. W. Sims, Waterloo; J. B. Wrij^t, Lan- ford, and W. A. Watts, Ijaurens. Thos. H. Madden of Maddens and J. A. Put nam, of Owings, died during the year. Of the 43 widows only one, Mrs. Virginia Milled, widow of Capt. G.'D. Miller of Ninety Six.Hs lifted as be ing 90 years of age or more and hav ing married prior to or during the v:ar. Mrs. Miller became a bride in February 1865. She receives ?210, the same as a soldier. Mrs. Martha IMbb, widow of,E. M. Babb, is listed ae 90 years of age or more, but is placed in tlM $160 class by reason of the fact that she married after the war. Other widows receive $136 an^ $106.25 according to age. A new name added to the list of widows this year was that of Mrs. Hattie Ridlehoover, widow of L. S. Ridleboover of McCiormick county who enlisted in 1862 in tbe 2nd South Carblina regiment. The pension payments are being made this year in a lump sum rather than quarterly as has beer^thb cus tom for the past several years. opposition had been ignored. This latest was from a Democratic states' rights source. It came at a time when the admin istration was pre.Hsing for greater powers in congress, and with fair success. The president evidence<i his unskilled classifications. confidence publicly; the house voted against adjournment only a day after cheering a Southern Democrat’s de mand that it defer the tax bill and “go home.” - Progress was sure, if slow on the so- cal security bill, the hou.se passed the Han on gold suit's despite protsets of DESTROYED BY FIRE ' The Ball ^ ginnery, located near Barksdale Stotton in this county, was completely, destroyed last week by fire of unknown origin, together with the grist mill, feed mill and saw mill. Tbe loss was estimated at more than $5,000 with no msurance. THE ELITE CLOSES Friends in the city of Miss Iona Blidcely, proprietor of the popular Elite S^p, wdll be sorry to know that she has disposed of her stock of goods to the Mercantile Sales company and retired from business during the past . V “Cyclone Mack” . - Dies Suddenly Bennettsville, July 22. — Baxter F. (Cyclone Mack) McLendon, nationally known exangelist, died suddenly of a heart attack at his home here tonight. McLendon at one timb* was a mem ber of the Methodist conference but resigned years ago ,to enter the evan gelistic field. This work carried him to many parts of the United States. Only a few days ago he returned to his home after conducting his last re vival, a three-week meeting in Okla homa City. McLendon was an evatigelist of the vigorous type, his methods being simi lar to those of Billy Sunday. He had a booming voice that carried easily to the farthest corners of large auditori ums and to ^ the fringes of outdoor crowds. His characteristic dress in cluded a large gray hat and a black Ascot tie; He. is survived i by his wife, Mrs. Rena Ratliff McLendon, and the-fol- lowng children: Dr. Sol McLendon of Columbia, Dana McLendop, B. F. Mc Lendon, Jr., Mrs. Ruth Nelson, Mar garet McLendon, and Walser McLen don, of Bennettsville. the bettor of it in the senate. One by one, such action .seemed not overly important. In the broader sen.se however, each contributed its part to the issue defined by Wallace. Argu; menu that rang e.specially on consti tutionality, are expected to echo in the highest court until practically all the New Deal foundation has been review ed there. ^ Mills’ Hearing In Charleston Today \ . A hearing has been set for today in the United States district court in Charleston on the suit filed July 15th against the collector of internal reve nue for South Carolina by theM^linton and Lydia Cotton Mills of this i^y. The suit brought by the local m|lls asks refunds-amounTtog to $501,^ and an injunction against the collec tion of about $90,000 more tW"pTocess- ing taxes now levied against them. At-the time the suit was filed, Judge Frank Myers granted temporary in- judetions restraining the collector of revenue from collecting the unpaid taxes and fixed July 25th for a hesir- ihg on the complaint in his court. Washington To (^t Pastorate Resififns Position At Second Bap tist Church At I..aurens Ef fective September 1. Laurens, July 22. — The Rev. John H.. Washington formally tendered his resignation Sunday as pastor of the Second Baptist church of Laurens, ef fective September 1. He stated today | the‘ AAA amendments had-- that his plans for the future were in complete at this time. ^ , ' Mr. Washington has been pastor of the Second church for eight years and during this time ho has seen-steady progress made in all departments of the work. In addition he has been ac tively identified with the work of the Laurens association and yrith other church activities, especially with the work of the Baptist young people of the community and the county. Mr. Washington is a native of Lau rens county, a graduate of^ Furman university, Greenville, and of ' the Southern Bapti.st Theological semi nary, Louisville. During his ministry he 1ms held the pastorate of several other churches in his native county, in other counties and the state and for several years he was with one or two •mEftrtant churches in Arkansas. Other speakers at the mealing join ed in stres.sing the needlfor rapid for- Previous similar Icounsel from the »nulation of the program to give jobs a.s quickly as FERA work ends. .Mrs. Margaret Davies, director of women’s work, .said more than 18,006 women must be given job.s as they are the “bread winners” in their families. Pioject.s for them will be divided into J. L. M. Irby, state publie work.s^ administration director, explained the part that the PWA playe<1 in the in terlocking federal program. He point ed out that it could lend funds where the WPA could not, and, also tharif' could handle projects costing more than $25,000. - S. E. Jones Dies . \ _ At Mountville .S. K. Jones, prominent farmer and highly- esteemed citizen, died at his home in Mountville last Thursday following an illness of five weeks. He was the son of A. .MeA. Jones and Nancy Ijeanrian Jones and was *73 years of age. Mr. Jones was an elder in the .Mountville Presbyterian church |•an<^ always took'an active intert*st in mar^ church affairs. He was never riwl, ' V , .Surviving are the following nieces and nephews: .Mrs. .Maggie Griffin, .Miss Nannie Mote.s and .Vliss Bell .Motes, Mounlvill(‘; Karl Griffin, H. T. Jones, and L. G. Jones, .Mountville; W. E. Jone.s, (’loss Hill; Jr-A. Golden, Greenwood;-Mrs. G. W. (’opeland, Clinton, and M. T. Motes. Clinton. F'uneral .services were held Friday morning at 11 o’clock at Head Springs cemetery conducted by the Kev. Fred T. McGill, the Rev, W. 1), Ratchford and the Rev. J. ^ R. ftooten. The nephews sefved as pallbearers. Church Accused | Bdng Indident ’ - Columbia, July 21.—Dr. J. C. Kin- ard, president of Newberry college, said at a temperance^ rally here to night an “indolent church” was re sponsible for the return of legalized liquor. “We jeft the conmletion of the jqb to the government,” ha told a gath ering at Shandon Baptist church here. “We discontinued almost completely! our program of education.” He termed the present'law “under existing conditions about as good as we might expect” but added that ‘‘un der different executive of the state, we may have a different condition.” Gk>vertior Olin D. Johnston is a per sonal and political dry. Union ^Service ' - mth Baptists ■ ' The city union service next Sunday evening will be held at eight o’clock at the First Baptist church. The pul pit will be occupied by Dr^\J. C. Ro per, pastor of North Broad^ street Methodist church, with a cordiaF invi tation extended a|l congregations^ to unite in this service. ' \ RAY INFANT DIES Funeral services for the two-weeks old of Mr. and Mrs. Clayte Ray of this city, who died Sunday night At the local hospital, were held Monday afternoon at three ok:lock from the residence, Rev. Edward Long conduct ing the services. Interment followed in the family burial ground at Hurricane cemetery. Many friends in the city will ^ sympathize with the parents in their ^ sad bereavement. / \ NJr. \