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THE CLINTON CBBONICLE. OJNTON. S. b.
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THURSDAY, FeWaRY 27. 1936 •
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War HerorNative of This
/ State, Sus|»€Wtl«d For Refer-
7^ - encc To“WTA Stage Money.”
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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
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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^ <
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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
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Aug. 28,1933
28 diys after
tax went into
effect
Aug. 31,1933
End of 1st .
month of
proci^ng tax
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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.
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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
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July 31, 193S-to date. Re
duction in market price
Aug. 1,1933-todate. Loea
since tax was added
6 3-8^ ^
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5 5^’
1 l-8c or
16.6% Decreaae
1 7.8c or
25% Decreaae
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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.-
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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. ^ " —
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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
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