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In S 'C. limelight Eighth Week of Assembly Is Over After Argiunents On 'Liquor and Supreme Court. Columbia March _ 6.—Arguments lor a more liberal constitution and a Itricter liquor laV took the limelight ^In the South Carolina general as- aembly during the eighth Wek. ^ The house of represeqtaUves heed- d the cry of its membeFs that the United States supreme court stood in the way of a liberal interpretation of the constitution and passed by a FPANK PARKER INTEREST — 21 Years On the day 1 was born my grand father put $100 in a savings bank to my credit. It was to become mine when I was 21. At that time Eastern savings banks paid .7 per cent inter- 78 to 24 vote a resolution endorsing j gst. My $100 accumulated at that President Roosevelt’s proposal to K-ate, compounded annually, for nine change the judiciary. 'years. Then the interest rate was cut House action threw the proposi tion back into the lap of the senate which had previously approved- a lukewarm endorsement of the' presi- to 6 per cent and stayed there until I reached my majority. A few days after my 2l8t birthday T drew a little more than $.*>50 from dent’s “courageous attitude in placing the bankTlSTy grandfather’s $100 gift the question before the nation.” Next multiplied itself more than five week the^senalQxa.J¥iJl have an oppoir-'times! That was my first practical iunity to pass on the house ments. . « Led’ by such staunch dry.s as Sen ates Lide, of Marion, and I.aney, of 'Chesterfield, a stubborn bloc of senators worked for adoption of a local option provision for the state Debate was fiery but and the senate agreed matter up again Tues- -m of J liquor law.^ inconclusive to take the day night. ■ An unusual ^ction came Thursday when the senate returned Magis trate R. I). Hicks, of Inman, Spar tanburg county, to'the office from which Governor Olin D.. Johnston had suspended him' by disapproving the executive ouster. The move took place in executive session and under the rules sena tors were not allowed to reve^ what happened behind thC ‘closed dooVs. Johnston put the -q^gi.strate out of his job after lengthy hearings at which labor lea<lers charged that Hicks had been unfair to Startex mill W’orkers in ousting them from com pany-owned houses. Attacks bn the workmen’s compen sation act, which Governor Johnston said in his annual message should be either amended or “re-pealed dut- /right,” (jpntihued through the week. —Thursday, at the insistence of sev eral members who charg»;d the‘com merce and manufactures com^it- “lee with unnecessary delay', the house recalled a bill to repeal the compen sation law from the committee. It faces third reading. During the week members intro duced bills to exempt textile mill and railway express employees from the act ^nd'the house . passed a bill to -exempt employees of state and county fairs. The senate broke a precedent of long standing by killing a house- approved 'bill to extend the time for pajpnent of 1936 taxes without a penalty of more than 1 per cent until May 1. „ I Gqvemor John-ston api>ealed to the house in a special message to pass a senate biljJ^ending the life of the temporary iyo&rd of public welfare but the'week’s end found the measure etUl hanging fire. The social legisla tion committee reported a majority on the measure and action was ex pected in the house the first of hext week. . The houses marke<i time on other, Social Security proposals. The sen ate postponed debate on a bill be fore it to inaugurate a $2,000,000 pro gram, and„the house social legislation committee altered the bill it spon.sor- ed so as to bring the counties in for 10 peV cent of the cost. Xl/VUZAU* I»V W money. Nobody can make money at that rate today except by taking risks of loss. Most of the banks that used to pay 6 per cent now pay 2Vi. A hun dred dollars in a savings bank at that rate would grow to only $167.ri8 in 21 years. Money is cheaper than it ever has been in my lifetime-^which is an other way of saying that prices are higheiV— SCHOOL ATTENDANCE LAW ASKED BY POPE ^ SAVINGS — Safe The safest "ffivestment for the ordi nary citizen is a savings bank ac count, especially in a “mutual” bank, such as those of New England, New York, Pennsylvania and some other states. No tiepositor in a mutual bank has lost a cent, I believe, in fifty years or more. And nobody makes a cent profit ' out of mutual savings bank deposits except the depo.sitors. There are more depositors in these banks now than ever before, with more money saved up, and the banks have more assets than ever. I’ve just seen the annual leport of the Nation al Association of Mutual Savings Ranks for the last year. They have nearly 14Vii raiJlion depositorsj each with average deposits of- $706 each. I call them our fourteen million smart est citi'zens. Nobody gets rich quick putting money away in a savings bank, but nobody who does that goes broke quick, oither. Stole PoKce ‘ - ^ C Probe Urged Greenville Grand lury Calls For Inquiry. Several Presented tor Indictment. Greenville, March 8.—The Green ville county'grand jury called todaj^ sweeping legislative investiga tion of the' state constabulary, cov ering the last three years, in a \spe^ cial presentment handed down as general sessions court opened. In the presentment, the following w'ere presented for indictmnt: Lewis G. Prince, member of the Greenville county legislative delegation; J. Fran cis Drake, operator of a ^recreation, center hertej George W. Clapp, busi ness man, and*'C. M. Whisnarft, state constable. The presentment follows: “JBecause^of the numerous rumofs being circulate with respect to tivities pf the Greenville county grand jury in investigating public affairs of Greenville county, the grand jury begs.' leave, in fairness to,all con cerned, to make the foHoiwihg special presentment: ! “We present to the court for in dictment the following per|»ons: “Lewis G. Prince, member of the Greenville county legislative delega tion, for unlawful conspiracy to pro vide protection for illegal gambling devices, for bribery, and obstructing justice. Francis Drake, for unlawful con.<q)iracy to provide protection for illegal gambling devices,.for bribery and obstructing justice. ‘^George W. Clapp, for unlawful con.spiracy to provide protection for illegal gambling devices, for bribery and obstructing justice. “C.. M, Whisnant, for accepting bribes while/ a state uth Garol^na. ' “Thjt grand jury has considerable evidence in affidavit fqnn to! sub stantiate ^hese charges and will turn same over “to the 'solicitor for his use jn drawing indictments and cop- ducting proSwcutions. . ~ “Furthermore, as a considerable portion of the evidence secured^by the grand jury relative to these cases involved also transaictions outside Greenvijle county and concerns vari ous officials and private citiiienslh a number of other-counties, the grand jury begs leave to submit the follow ing re<^mmendation: ‘ “That the Greenville county legisla tive delegation sponsor in the general assembly of , South Carolina a jmnt resolution providing'' for a legisla tive- ifivestigration of the state con stabulary, both as to . appointments and law enforcement activities, over the last three years, said investiga tion to be conducted Jby a committee composed of three members of^tfie house of representativa and three members of the sen9iti?,; to be ap- pointd by the speaker of 'the house and-the president of the senate, spetively, with an appropriation of not less than $10,000 to cover costs of said undertaking.’* T FLOODS KILL 3 Memphis,/Tenn., March 9.^-<^rge Myer, Red Cross regkmal director of disaster relief, announced today his office had recorded 329 deaths, tributable to recent flood waters Tennesspe, .Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama. He point^ out the total included scores who died of exposure and pneiunonia following exposure. RUBBER STAMPS—24-Imv AD sizes apd typea. CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. PhoM 74 BELK’S PRESENT TAXES — You l*sy — You and I and each of our children and grandchildren are paying $100 a year in taxes. The Twentieth Century Fund i-eports that is what the levy of fedeial, state and local govem- mepu^upon every man, woman ind child would come to if the tax burden were evenly distributed. The federal government takes 44 cents of each tax dollar, the states 20 cents and lo cal governments 36 cents. - “But I don’t pay any such amount of tax,” you may say. Loto of folks think that toxes are paid only by the rich and the big co^oration.s. But ask yourself where thefpeople whose name.s are on the tax lists got the money to pay their taxes. You and I pay them. The taxpayers caji get their money for taxes only by .selling things to you and. me and all the r^st. Every time you spend a nickel, the storekeeper or whoever takes your money, is aa unofficial tax-collector.’ Your money pays hisL taxes, the taxes of the pe^le who make whatever yom buy,' and the tax es of your landlord and all the other property owners. Think that over. Columbia; March 9.—^^State Supei'- intendent of Education James H. Hope, in his annual report to the legislature today, pleaded for a com pulsory school attendance law and estimated the state’s monetary loss for absentee pupils at $3,000,000 an- , nuaUy. Such a bill is now before the hoqse education Committee. Still Coughing? No matter how many medicines you have tried for your cough, chest cold or bronchial irntatlon, you can set re lief DOW with Creomulslon. Serious trouble may be brewing and you can not afford to tolte s chance with any thing less than Creomulslon, which goes right to the seat of the-trouble to aid nature to soothe and heal the inflamed membranes as the germ-laden phlegm is loosened and expelled. Even if other remedies have failed, iSont be discouraged, your druggist is authorized to guarantee CreomuIslaD and to refund your money if you are not saUsfled with results from the very first botUe.OetCreomulsionrlghtndw. (Adv.) WORDS — Meanings In my work I have to be careful about the use of words. Like everyone else in the writing trade,jt is impor tant for me to be sure, not so much to use words which everybody under stands as that the reader will under-' stand the word to mean ^ust what I intend it to mean. It’s no literary crime to send readers to the diction ary; that’s good for their intelligence. But when I write a word which in all my experience arnl by all the diction aries means one thing, and find that its meaning ha's beMik*«teimi;ed ^n the public mind to mean something quite different, that’s .serious. ~ I’m thinking now of the. word “Lib eral” in its political sense! It used to mean in politics what it means in oth er relations—generous, tolei'ant, rea sonable. That old meaning seems to have been thrown away, and men call themselves Liberals today who are narrow-minded, intolerant and cer tainly not respectful. of minorities and their rights. Watch Your Kidneys/ •i- BalpThem QeatMe tha Blood' . flC Harmful Body Worto . Yqp Mam art coaataatlr aitartaf) VHtriBattor fr«B tto Mood otnaak. B«l' Msoyi oomUMi la tSolr.work—do jMt act m Nature iatoadod—tail to iaooo Iwvaritteo that. It rotaiaod. may “'^odlTawMmM^ aad m^mi tho Kymptoma auqr ba aacfiag bachadM^ poniatoat hoadaAo, attaen of dimiiMia, fotUac ap al(hta, oaallat. paBama aadar tho oyoor* of aorvono aa.alMy aad idia of <1^ aad atiaacth. Othar Ofaa of Maoy ar Maddor dla> ay ba nwmiap, aoaaty ar taa 1 ba ao doahf that pro^ ia adair tbaa aid—*. Vm Oaaa’f Mb. baao baaa oMalap tba (■ ' . DoaksPills DEVILS It is human nature to believe that an evil spirit actuates everyone who does not agre^ with one. From that it is but a' step to regarding such persons as devils, and the next step is to personify groupa and classes of people as devils. I have heard about the “Money I>evil” ever since boyhood. The money devil was a collective term fhr all bankers and others who tried to col lect their interest on their loans to farmers. The railroads were the pot devil for years of those who blamed them for their persontd misfortunes. It is an eaay way to shift responsi bility, to blame everything that goes wrong on an~t|nd^nary^devil. i PAPER — Mimeograpli, Onion Skin, Carbon Papor, Second Shedta. CHRONICLE PUBUSmNG CO. 74 EASTER PARADE of FASHIONS DO YOUR EASTER SHOPPING NOW. OUR STOCKS ARE COMPLETE, AND DUE TO TRE MENDOUS BUYING POWER, OUR PRICES HAVE NOT ADVANCED. Swing Into Spring With a New Frock From Belk’s BriKht, Gay, Irresistable, New Sprinj; Frocks for Ea.sler—Buy Now! FASHIONABLE PRINTS New and different — so lovety you’ll never "rjow tired of t4iem. Solid paaiel colors. 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SO* special 3^. RUGS! — Another shipment of imported Belgium Rugs. This time we were able, to secure a larger rug at the same price. Size 24x40. aAc SperiaL each „.SrSf READY-MADE FRILLED CURTAINS, - , nAe Basement Special, pair BELK’ STORE CLINTON, SOUTH CAROLINA £ I ■ ,-f, ' V.;: \