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I y - T /■ PAGE BIGHT / N’ / f ikJuMon tfagood Loses i. . 1 THE CLINTON CBBONICLE. OJNTON. S. b. 7- S ' -r ' ■ ' THURSDAY, FeWaRY 27. 1936 • 1 / / War HerorNative of This / State, Sus|»€Wtl«d For Refer- 7^ - encc To“WTA Stage Money.” \ West ClintonNews Mr. end Mrs. Boyd Norris of Green^ ville, visited relativies here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh. Cunningham visited relatives in Laurens Sunday. , J. J. Smith accompanied Wiron ; Washington, Feb. 24,—M^jor Gen-^ Newberry on a visit Sunday eral’Johnson Hagood was summarily Uq their mother, Mrs. Nancy Smith, relieved from his command of {the j Greer. 8th corps are at Sart Antonio, Tex-1 Mrs. Sam Snelgrove, Mrs. - Clar as, today and ordered by President e^ce Oakley an4 Lester Ivester visit Boosevelt’s direction to proceed to his home and “aijirait orders.’ Hagood in recent testimony before house appropriations sub-commit- the past ^eek with Mr., and Frank^ Reeder in Goldville. r Miss Stella Brpokes of Laurens was the week-ei^ guest of 'Misses Carrie Bell Evan® anl Alma Cannon. ^ Mr. and Mrst Baker McClemmons of Greer spent Sunday with Mr.' and Mrs. J. J. Smith. i. shower was presented.. The recipient received many beautiful and useful ^fts. Kitchen Shower Given With The Sick Friends Of- Mrs. Arthur Howard A kitchen shower was given Friday evening by the young ladies to Mrs. Woodrow Wilson at the home of Mrs. Kate Riddle. Many interesting game's and contests were enjoyed after which I the hostess, assisted by Miss Minnie and Mrs. Joe Davenport are glad to i Carmichael, served delightful re learn they have returned from the freshments. Mrs. Wilson before her Greenwood hospital and both are do- marriage was Miss Anne Carmichael ing nicely. tee suggested that congress take ad vantage Of what he termed “WPA Mrs. R, L. Sanders is ill af^ her ed friends in Greenwood Monday. home suffering from a heart attack. Misses Nellie Harvey, Lillian Braz-j- Mrs. Emma Dunaway is better af- well and Robert Duncan were visit-: ter having pneumonia, ors in Greenville Sunday. I Sorry to report Little Paul and Mr. and Mrs. John Heath and fam-lDoris Arnold are ill at their home on I. Francis Street. Linen Shower Given ,ily and Janjes Seay, of Greenville, stage money ' and use it to improve ^nd Mrs. J. H. Seay Sun housing at army posts. (jay. The Mr,. Fr.nk Elli. of Abl«. community gave a iinen ahower Mnd at Fort Sam^ corn,’ Mr- >”<1 Mrs. Ben MobIeyi,„ Mrs. Rosa K. Marlowe at theLme headquarters of the Eighth _ corps _ I of Mrs. J. H. Whitmire HEALTH HINTS BY CITY HEALTH OFFICER area, was issued on February 21 but not made public until today. No explanation of his removal was forthcoming immediately in war de partment quarters. The order, which appeared in reg ular war department" orders issued' daily, said: “By direction of the president. Major General Johnson Hagood, U. S. Anny, is relieved from assignment to the ^^command of the Eighth corps area and further duty at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Major General Ha good will proceed to his home and await orders. The travel directed is necessary in the military service.’’ The order was Ftgned by General Malin Craig, army chief of sta^f, by order of the secretary .of .war. ■ When asked, the reason for the un expected *5rder, Craig said he Ifad “no comment’’ on what he described as a routine administrative procedure. The chief, of, staff said he nad no iniTW- diate new assignment in mind for Ha good. In his testimony on the war de partment appropriation bill Hagood urged that $1.50,000,000 be used for army housing “At. the pre.sent time,” he said, “there i.s a vast flow of silver—I won’t say geld—spreading 'OUt all over the country like mud. “It will soon dry up without any thing permanent to show for it. I shall not be accused of ^profanity when I say, ‘For God’s sake put some of it into stone and steel.” Hagood said he was “not familiar with the'various pockets in which Uncle Sam keeps his money,” but un derstood that “there is budget money, which is very hard to get; there is PWA money which is not so hard to get; and then there is.af'f.vast quan tity of WPA money • which is very easy to get for trifling projects but almost impossible to get for anything worth- while.”- The general said he called WPA funds “stage money” because “you can pass it around but you.;can not get anything out of it in the end.” “It is hawier'for nPe to get 5 cents to bug a^lead pencil than ta get a thousand dollars to teach hobbies fo CXX; boys,” he testified. “Under WPA I can get $200 to build a gravel walk to the garden house but I can’t get $10 to repair a ‘busted’ steam pipe.” A native of Orangeburg, S. C., Ha good, who holds one of the most dis- tingui8b(^ ^ service records in the army, has been in command of the Eighth corps area since October 4, 1983. He holds the American distinguish ed service medal, the French Legion of Honor and the order of the Crown of Italy, all awarded him for his ser vices during the World war, in which for a while he commanded the 7th regiment of the First Expeditionary brigade of the coast artillery corps. Later' he perfomed various duties in the expeditionary force as com munications, and supply officer. He accompanied the American artny of occupation to Germany and there commanded the artillery^ He lacks a little more than 1 year of having reached the statutory re tirement age of 64. Government Needs ^ Billion Doljafs Secretary Morgenthait'Announc- ' es. March Borrhwing JPlans. Will Be rserin'Rerinancing. Miss Margaret Wallenzine spent‘pyjjjng enjoyed after which the Mosquitoes are man’s Inveterate tormentors and many of them are his On Friday everting the ladies of dangerous foes. If they were merely a bothersome plague there would be ample justification for unrelenting warfare against them. When, how ever, it is known thaLa certain kind A candy of mosquito found in houses will con- vey yellow fever and^breakbohe fever frmn infected to .healthy perions and that certain other kinds will disfeemi- nate malaria,’'' no other argument in favor. Of fightidg them is necessary. Swamps, ponds, and marshes are not the Only p^laces which breed mos- NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS MEETING The annual meeting of the stock holders of the Stutz-Hadfield Silk Corporation lyiU be held at the office of the Treasurer*at the plant of.D. E. Tribble Company in Clinton, S. C,, on quitoes. A little rain water in an old can, an uncared-for sewer trap, or an undrained roof gutter,. if 'neglected, will slipply mosquitoes for all Clin ton. . • If every business establishment and Saturday, February-29th, 1938, Mt 11 o’clock A. M. The annual election and such other business as may be consid ered at annual^meeting will be taken up. . C. W. STONE, Dated Feb. 18, 1936. * President. home will clean up their own'prem-'lf You Don’t Read ises, placing the cans and other rub bish in containers near the street where the city wagons will collect it, and fill in or drain small bodies of standing water, reporting the larger bodies to the health department, it will aid materially in mosquitO' con trol. Let" us cooperate and lessen this seasonal nuisance^ < THE CHRONICLE You Don’t Get the NEWS SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLB "The Paper Everybody Reads’* 666 SALVE .for COLDS price Liquid • Tableta 5c^l0c,25c I To Keqi The Record Skaight When th^ Supreme Court of tM United States ordered^the moneys which were held in trust, rp^rned tolhe mills, the step gave rise to public statements which caused misun- derstahdings. , /^The processing tax went into effect August first, 1933. Ibices of cotton goods, which- were increased thereby, dropped back to,the pre-tax level within twenty-eight days.. Witness the price records of a^^standard print cloth construction, 5.35, yards per^ pound, for the following dates: " July 31, 1933 Day before processing tax imposed 6 34c Aug. 8,1933 End of Ist week after processing tax 7 14c i Aug. 28,1933 28 diys after tax went into effect Aug. 31,1933 End of 1st . month of proci^ng tax 6S-S< Thus if is obvious that at the end of the first njonth the prices of cotton goods, had - ^ fallen to a level 1-8 of a cent per yard less thaiupi^ price before the tax went4nto effect. tioh Witness also the record of recent prices of^he same standard print cloth construe^ Jan. 1, 1936 - Jan. 10, ’36*t§-datf Net Decrease Net Decrease V Just before., Supreme Court decision Peri6d 'X following deciaion f July 31, 193S-to date. Re duction in market price Aug. 1,1933-todate. Loea since tax was added 6 3-8^ ^ y X 5 5^’ 1 l-8c or 16.6% Decreaae 1 7.8c or 25% Decreaae % .7 Washington, FeTiT 24. — A billion- ~ dollar/t^hanciiTg program for March was^/announced t^ay by Secretary ^orgenthau, including the new de parture of borrowing then to retire securities maturing a month later. At the same time, the treasury head said "lestimates of federal income pointed to receipts next month of ap proximately the same amount as March 1935, indicating an official ex pectation that the loss in processing taxes -will be about offset by increas es in other items. Prom this is expected to flow a rec ommendation for taxes to provide funds for paying benefits under the revamped fajrm program. Predictions at the capital have been that the tax program would be> submitted either late this week,'or early niext, after Mr. Roosevelt returns from Hyde PaA and discusses the situation with / congressional leaders. March 15 borrowing, Morgenthau announced at a press conference, will include $450,000,(KW to retire securi ties maturing on that date, $559,000,- ., 000 to retire aecurities maturing April 15 annd such new money as may be* needed.' Indication was given that the lait emn may be amall. Prices (p^ yard) quoted are from the Journal of Commerce of New York. Furth^more, during this same period the price of New York spot middling cotton inv created from 10.5c per pound on July 31, 1933 to 11.8c per pound onfFebruary 4,1936, an ipefease of 12.47(^. / During the late summer of 1935, because of the increasing^ doubt as to the constitu tionality of the proces^ing tax, buyers of cotton goods refused to buy without a protec tive clause providing for a refund, of the tax in case it was^ declared unconstitutional. It was therefore necessary to sell goods under a protective clause, or else secure no busi ness to keep the mills running, If the latter course had been pursued it would Kve forced shut-downs for lack of orders, thweby' throwingi:he empl^^^ out of work; and further resulting in a decreased consumption of cotton.- V These refunds will be passed on to each customer, and will result in reduced prices to the consumer. The mills, their customers and their customers’ customers are naturally forced to' thi& by.the lower priced new, tax-free goods which have been made since the decision. ^ " — '1- ■\ imm In a ition, as soon as the tax \yas declared unconstitutional the mills suffered an shrinkage of the value of all goods pn hand and in process. / . / It is clear, therefore, that these funds will be required to protect the mills from direct loss on account of refunds they are under contract to make to customers and to cover the necessary mark-down of goods on hand and in process and to partially compensate the mills for the serious effects of the tax as shown above. The Cotton Manufacturers’ Association of South Carolina v \ V 7^ \ , 7 ’J ■