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L \ H '4 —fT ■>. I , - /. ..wlii,.. THB CHRONICLE StriTcs To Be a Cldui News* paper,.C^plcte, Neway, ud Reliable* ^ I „. / tL I If Tt»a Don't Read THE CHRONICLB ' Yon Don't Get The News. VOLUME xxxvn CLINTON,-S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1937 4t* ~} I NUMteR 11 TWO CLUBS GATHER AT FE^AL BOARD TO HEAR MIOSSICKI Clinton and Laurens Cfltnroefcial Orsranizations Held ^Annual City Meeting Hertf Tuesday Evening. Occasion Featured By Scholarly Addr^ From President of Slate University. mm" The annual inter-city meeting of the Laurens Bysiness League and Clinton Chamber of Commerce held here at the Mary J^usgrove Tea Room on Tuesday evening, was at tended by 125 members of the two organizations, afid featured by* a erwise called the Civil war. Farm Act Plans August Bench Involve Billion 60 Million For ^il Saving Add ed To Roosevelt's Billion-Dol- lar Budget Proposal. Creates Flurry . (JUSTICE TALKS On 10th Week U. S. Supreme Court Again Re -fuses To Pass On Wagner Act. Takes Recess. Washington, March 13.-^The crop of farm legislation sprouting in con- Thf number of killed end wounded j If™** “'■* *'**'»" '*"* f"' . South CeroHnn 'Confederate soldiers ““"“I'* totaling well over $1.1100.00,-! Wagner labor relations act. causrt Washington; March 15.—The sti- preme court, by refusing today to re view eight new cases involving the a was greater than the number of white voters in this state before the jOOO. ^ I new flurry of discussion about^the Prospective'expenditui-es for agri-',tribunal’s views on the legislation. war. Not only were the South Caro- mounted steadily since, tribunal’s refusal tempoi-anly liniana and the other soldiers of the scholarly address on South Carolina’s Confederacy far outnumbered, but -+o ' j- , past hi.story by Dr. J. Rion McKis-jthey wtre also often well-nigh starv-j®°^^^ sick, president of the University of led and frozen. Clad in rags, living President" Roi$»evelt, mo-s.sage^ early this year. Proposed I govermmmrin\‘VchVorth7eight in effecT lower court rulings for a billion dollars for this pur-1 South Qarolina. imiserably in trenches . uoKheltered 1. ^hen? The meeting was presided over by President L. B. Dillard, who extend-!famine, ed to the Laurens visitot's a mo.sti A South Carolina Confedjjrate sol- cordial welcome, and spoke of the I dier .stepped at a home near fraternal and cooperative spirit exist-1 company was encamped additional sums have i crop insurancOjl cases. Supreme court attaches jioint- od out, however, that the action could Several Important Measures To Receive Attention, Including Money Bill. Columbia,' March 15. — Legislators returned to (^olumbia Tuesday to be gin the 10th week of the general as sembly's session with a number of important matters to give attention. Although thd senate finance com mittee was not expected, to report out the genera! appropriation bill, Chairman S. 'M. Ward having said he doubted if the measure would-be ready before n^xt week, there were ON COURT ROW McReynolds Says Qath Binds Him To Rights of All. Good “ Sportsmanship Cited As Ac cepting Verdicts. Fir^t Judge To Speak. from cold, they wwe even more op->^‘‘‘’' suggested for a^sisitance to tonar normal granary.” drought relief anc, ! a^sisitance to tenants, the “v*air-, ,„t.asure not be interpreted, as reflecting the j several oth(‘r measure of wide in attitude of ju.-^tices toward the | toresf lo be oonsidere<l. 1 Wagner measure. 'p^e house will give third reading It was saiid the court’s opinion on ti> its..!i:i,045,0()0 .social security bill ing between thF two cities. R. T. Wilson, president of the Lau rens club, in response, expressed the pleasure of his organization irt being present. Others voicing similar senti ment from Laurens were L. C. Barks- <&le, secretary, L. S. McMillan, vice- president, and O. L. I.K)ng, a member of the board of directors. Secretary Barksdale during the evening extend ed an invitation to the Clinton club to be their guests at a similar meet ing on the first Tuesday in May^ which was enthu.siasticplly accepted. An enjoyable part of t^.,evening’s program was two sblos by W. G. Coker, of this city, accompanied at the piano by Mrs. .William Brooks Owens." Several guests were present and introduced during the evening. Capt. L.A. Brooks of th^ local OCC camp. .•itated that the fourth anniversary of OCC will be observed April 3-5, with a cordial' invitation extended the bus iness men of the community to visit the camp for a special program to ble presented at that time. t^ean M. W. Brown, of Presbyterian college, was introduced by President DiHaiv!"lin3“spoke of his pleasure in intimately knowing Dr. McKissick, ^be guest speaker, and .said that the oak the ladv who lived there iar which his five pending case.s, which might be j and send it to the senate, which and asked . I dwided two weeks hence, might de-1 has already passed a .swurity bill , The biggest item lecommendod all^the points at issue in the of its own that provided for a pro- R “Could you lend me a frying pan. madam?” i She gladly got it and handed it to him. Noticing that he lingered and hesitated, she said: “Well, sir, can I do anything hiore for you?” — He grinned and answered, “Madam, could—could you lend me a pieccv of meat to fry. in it?” ♦ If ever any people lived at home, they were our South Carolina women of the Confederacy. Shut off from the i^Os^of the world by the Federal anny 'and navy, they displayed marvelous productive industry, ingenuity, 'and resourcefulness. They made countless '•by the agriculture deiiartnient for thousands of articles for their-de*-stored supplies of corn, cotton, and fenders in the army, continually send ing them food, clothing and comforts, often tlepriving themsblves <8f the things they sorely needed. The.se wo men became expert with the spinning wheel, lo^n^and dye pot. For them wives and their children they made dresses of homespun dyed with . pokeberry juice. They made gloves from old stockings, shoes from squirrel skins, buttons from gourds, hats from ryestraw, stationery from wallpaper, ink from a conrbination of bijklls, green persimmons, and •ktate is fortunate in having a man rusty nails, tea from blackberry ' of his character and ability directing leaves, coffee from a concoction of itr foremost educational instittition. Dr. McKiaaiek hir Dr. J. C. Ropee, who spbkF in thejThey carried on at" home with good highest terms of the university head,'^eer and high hope, both as « South Carolinian and edu cator. ^ Dr. McKissick, in his opening re marks,' expressed his pleasure in be- .ing present and his grateful appre ciation of an opportunity to talk to the inter-city group. He delivered a Xhistorical address on South Carolina, depicting the state's true spirit in the greati^ises of the past. He portrayed the Ipl^and hard stru^le of South which he held up as a les son and/^hallenge to guid^and En courage* the people in solving the many perplexing problems which be set the state today. ' Dr. McKissick’s address follows: The lesson which South Carolinians now most need to learn from our past concerns the morale, the spirit of South Carolinians in the great crises . of the state’s past, the spirit of your own forefathers. What was that spirit? Look at the pioneers who settled South Carolina. Their lives were in constant danger from wild beasts, hostile Indians, and deady epidetnids of influenza, malaria, and yellow fever. One of these settlers, an exile from France, Mrs. Judith Manigault, wrote a letter home in which she said of her experiences here: ^ “We endured all it was- possible to endoie. I was six months without rye,, wheat, and sweet potatoes, and sugar from the juijip ittjvatemielone. In the last days of the Confederacy, a South Carolina woman wrote a let ter to a friend in which she said: “We long for our own small sufficiency of wood, corn, and vegetables. Here a struggle unto death, Although IS -tasting bread, besides workixig like a. ter. South Carolinians,displayed "the f \ slave. For three or four years I never halt enough food to satisfy the hun ger that devoured me. And yet accomplisheid greal things in our fa vor, giving- us strength necessary to support these trials.'' That was the story and the spirit not only of one woman, but of vir tually all the people of South Caro lina at that time. Look at the people of South Caro lina in their first great crisis”, the Revolutionary war. 'During the seven long years of that war there was more ligbtinig and bloodsh^ in this state than in any other. One hundred and thirty-seven battles, actions, and engagements took place in Sodth Oatolina, one-hundred and three of whiich were fought by South Caro linians alone. No other state was so completely overrun by the British forest. ' The great Massachusetts historiaiv Bancrc^ nys of tlM part played by South Carolina in the Revolution; “Left mainly to her own resources, it was through the depths of wretch edness tiwi-her* eons' were to bring her bade to her place in the republic; after suffering more and daring more and a4^ving more than the men of any other state." That was the spirit ef Sooth Csip- linians in that great crisia. Look at the people of Sooth Caro lina in her second great erisis, the for Soutbem independence, oth- the neighbors continue to feed us, as you would say, with a spoon. We have fallen upon a new device. We keep a cookery book on the mantelpiece and, when the dinner is deficient we just rei|ul off a pudding or a cream. It does not entirely satisfy the appetite, but perhaps it is as good for'the di gestion.” 'That was the spirit of South Carolinians in that great crisis. Look at, the people of South Caro lina in their third great crisis, the tragic era of reconstruction, the eleven terrible years following the war for Southern independence. What did the South Carolina Confederate soldier find when he came back home after that war? As Henry W. Grady said, he found his house in ruins, his farnis devas tated, his slaves free, his stock killed, his bams empty, his trade destroyed, his money worthless, his social sys tem swept ^away, hi* people, without law or legid status, his comrades slain, and the burdens of others heavy on his shoulders. He was without money, credit, employment, material, or training* In that period of poverty and disas- l'.»37 is $7’(>0,00ji),0(i0’to ^'ontinui' l>one- fit payments under the soil conserva tion act. This is $60,000,000 more than t^e pn'sident sugR*ested in his budget message. Administration 1 leaders have esti mated $12.5,000,000 would he needed for the first year of tenant aid' and $100,000,000 to set up all-risk crop insurance for wheat. Legislation to establish the- “over- un- new disputes. It would thus be necessary to review. Afterms' brief session, to read one opinion and announce orders, the court adj'ourned until March 2U. Dur ing the next fortnight the justices! will jje free to devote, their time to completing opinu^s on the Wagner act cases, on litigation involving the Washington liy\’ establishing mini- provided Tor a pro gram to cost $1,996,000. The seo:!. ate bill was in the hands of the house social legislation committee, which sponsored the measure to be passed in that body. Differences in the two bills must norrnal granary” advocated by St*c- muni wages|j^r women and on other retary Wallace has not yet been in- tnaluced, hut officials privately esti mated it would require a minimum controversies. In the opinion today the court de cided an employee of a municipal water works .system did not have to pay a federal income tax on his of' $100,009,00(1. Lnder thiT; pro- salary. The litigation was brought posal the govarnment would lend on other major farm , products. The cost of measure^ proposed c^- by William Whitloek Brush, former chief engineer of the New York City bureau of water supply, but the be compromised. Another senate approved measure before the house will be the local option ‘ bill that would give coun ties the privilege of voting, on pe tition of 25 per cent of their qauli- fied olector.s, on whether the aale of whiskey would be continued with in their borders. s- Before the senate is tht* house bill to enforce a 40 hour week in the state’s textile mills, but the measure was still in the hands of the com merce and manufacturers committee. United States conference of mayors This group held a hearing on the bill last week and might probably hear pecially for the great plains, area of!decision might affect 200, drought and dust storms,, is more in- (;q() vniployees throughout the definite. Congress already has approved a $50,000,(MK) emergency fund for seed and feed loans to farmers and $?4,- 000,{)00 for rural rehabilitation work of the resettlement administration. Other appropriations for the agii- culture department, the farm credit administration, the resettlement ad ministration, the commo<lity credit administration, the rural electrifica tion administration, and affiliated agricultural agenciei are involved in the total proapattiva .outlay- Federal outlays for the agriculture have averaged near the billion- dollar mark for the past four years. Expenditures by^ the , agricultural department alone in the past four fiscal years Were: 1936: $891,000,- 000; 1935, $1,219,000; 1984, $629J)00,- 000, and 1933, $251,000,000. Thomwell Family Givoi Holidkyl dignity of quiet courage and aelf-re- apecting endurance of privation and hnmiliation.” Two of them typified the spirit of all our people then. Richard H. An derson, who had been a lieutenant geiieral in Lee's army, went |o work as a railroad yard worker. Another crippled ex-Confederate soldier, with his buildings burned, his lands run to wMte, and his livestock stolen, went to work “with a crutch in one hand and a hoe in the other.” He was Major' James Lkle Coker, who be came one of the most successfiti^ bus iness men and one of the most public spirited citizens of our state. In the era of reeonstnKtion South Carolina was controlled by ignorant Negroes, unprincipled carpetbaggers, and traitorous scalawag. A noted Northern writer who visited South Carolina then said that the men who governed South Carolina were lyt different from, or better than, tne men who filled the prisons and peni tentiaries of the world. The largir number of the members of our legis lature were Negroes..^ South Carolina had a Negro speaker of the hbuse of representatives, a Negro tieufenant governor, a Negro associate justice of the si4>reme court. Negroes held state and county offices and were elected to congress. Our black and tan legU- latore of that time- spent and stole ssery eent in the state treasury. At (Continued on page seven) Friday was observed at Thornwell orphanage as a full holiday in honor of the birthday of the institution’s founder, Dr. William Plumer Jacobs, who was born March 15, 1842. The president of the institution, Dr. L Ross Lynn, spoke of Dr. Jacobs’ life and work, following a custom that has been continued since he came to Thornwell. The orphanage first opened for the admission of children in 1875. Since then, for sixty-two years, March 15th, or as close thereto a.s convenient, has been celebrated as a holiday for the children in commemoration of its foimder Jhd president until his death in County Projects In Road 1 Two Laurens county projects are included in bids to bb^'epetwd- March 23 by the state highway department, according to adveitisements published last we^.-^Both are under the U. S. works program, being a bridge project in the city of Laurens, ^nd the other being a road project on the Greenville jiighway. The brHljge project refers to the [foverhead bridge on Weat Main street over the Greenville branch of the C. and W. C. railroad. The specifica tions indicate a cement structure with steel reinforcement. The road project calls for reloca tion and earth grading of youte 76 between Barksdale and Fountain Inn, a distance of 9.267 miles. Laurens Hoqrital Aindliary Formed country. Justice Sutherland delivered the .seven-to-two opinion. Justice Rob erts joined by Justice Brandeis read a dissenting opinion contending that “the claimed exemption'may well ex tend to millions of persons” em ployed by municipal subdivisions and to “hundreds of thousands” of simi lar employees of federal agencies. Exorcises Recall t!!o9!^e Founder Dr. Jacobs' Memory Honored On Birthday With Addrdhs By John A^ Law of Spartanburg. Presbyterian college celebrated Founder’s day Monday morning at which time John A. I^aw, bf Spartan burg, addressed the student body in a spM)al chapel service. March - commemorates* the birthday of Rev, William Plumer Ja cobs, D.D., 1A..’D., for 47 years pas^ tor of the First Presbyterian church and founder'of the college and Thorn well orphanage. Dr. Jacobs died in September, 1917. He was the grand father of the present president of the college, William P.'^Jacobs. Mr. Law is one of the most promi nent figures in banking and manufac turing fields ini South Carolina and the South. He long has been connect ed with a number of outstanding en terprises in the state and has Seen a member of the executive board of the American Cotton Manufacturers aa- sociation. He has been iintimately^as sociated with the Jacobs family for a number’ of years and his remarks about the founder of P. C. were given from fir»i,-hand knowledge. Mr. Law spoke of the relationship between, his father, Dr. John Law, and Dr. Jacobs. He stated that his fathe^ ^d Jn many places in his diary"^ade reference to the wonder ful work of Dr. Jacobs. The two were pictured as men who had grWn up together and had been intimately as sociated with one another even in their later years. Mr. Law showed that the conditions under which Dr. Jacobs labored had been trying ones, even though that was a day of progression in which he did hi^great work here. He spoke briefly of the relations of Dr. Law and Dr. Jacobs in Charleston where Dr. Jacobs attended the Col lege of Charleston and Dr. Law was a student; at The Citadel at the same time. Laurena, March 15. — A Woman’s auxiliary to’ the Laurens County hos pital has been organized for the pur pose of cooperating with the super- Presbyterian Men To Meet Tonight The monthly meeting of the Men- of-the-Church organization of the First Presbyterian church wilj be held at the churEh toniglht at 7:30 further discus.sions on the proposal liefore Importing it. Bills to authorize construction of another state office 'building, to “tighten” enforcepient of the liquor law and to set up a probation and parole system in the st^te were scheduled for consideration in the senate. The house also had an identical! 'bill to create a probation ary system. The controversy over the work men’s compensation act will be aired in the house which was sat to de bate one of the proposals to repeal the law. The last day of the legislative week, Friday, will mark the ^d of the constitutional limitation of 40 days for members to be paid, the constitution prescribing legialators' salaries'^ at $10 per day for 40 days. DuBose To Lead Hare "I* A scries of special services will be conducte<l at the First Proabyterian church of this city from March 29th through April 2nd, it is announced by the pastor, Dr. D. J. Woods.. The leader ftr the services will be the Rev. Henry Wade DuBose, D.D., pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Spartanburg, who is known by many people in the,city, and ranks as one of the most prominent minis ters in the Presbyterian church. Dr. DuBose is chairman of the board of trustees of Presbyterian college. He will speak each night<»at 7:30, with an invitation extended the congrega tion and general public to be present. Preparatory to the meeting cottage prayer-meetings will be held during the week March 22-26th. Washington,March 16. — Justice McReynolds of the suprebie court told- a small fraternity audience tonight that tha “evidence of good sports- manship” was to accept, the outcome of a “fair tribunal.” For the first time since President Roosevelt subn^ted his proposal to ^reorganize th^court. a'Tiieniber of that body expressed some of his own view.s on the, relationship of the court to the jfovernnient. McReynolds, speaking extenipor- aneously at a haniiuet'of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, ileclai'ed: “I have taken an oath to do justice to the b^t of my ability, to do jus tice to rich and poor alike. That ob ligation I try not to forge-t. “I try to protect the backw’oodsiiian in the hills of Georgia as well as the man of wealth in a mansion on Fifth avenue. And I have the same oliliga- tion to the man in the nVansion on Fifth avenue as to the humblest man in any walk of life.” Without referring slirectly to ad- 'ministration cases before the court in the last four years, Justice .McKey- nolds said it sometimes was the jirac- tice of attorneys, after losing a case, to complain of the unfairness of thb court. ‘IBut the evidence of good sport manship,” he said, “is that a man who has had a chance to present a fair tribunal must be a good sport and ac cept the outcome.” He wars repeatedly interrupted dur ing his speech by applause. “Courts only dwide things that aie submitted to them^’ the ju.stice con tinued in his rathe/ high-pitched voice, “and only things that are in dispute come before them. “Thousands and thousands of things come before them that ai>e .settled to the general satisfaction. If things come that are not settled to the sat isfaction of all, put yourself in the place oi court- and see if you could have done better,” He paused momentarily near ^ the. end of his speech, then said ; “I should like to be optiinistic. I should like to tell you that thV situ ation is rosy. 1 can’L But I like to believe in the courage of the Am«ui--> can people, anl I hope they may make a solution -of" which they may be proud." , He said the United States under its form of government had “succeed- jed beyond the understanding” of the Club Nominates Officers For-Year At the monthly meeting of the Chamber of Commerce held Tuesday evening, the nominating committee previously appointed to 'bring in rec ommendations.^ for officers and direc tors for the ensuing year submitted its report, the following nominations being placed before the organization to be voted upon at the April meet ing: President, Dri Felder Smith. Vice-President, S. W. Sumerel. Secretary, C. F. Winn. Treasurer, B. R. Fnller. Additional directors: L. B. Dillard, E. D. Craig, W. R. Anderson, Jr., J. H. Pitts, Jr., and Dr. J, C. Roper. intendent in the general welfare of f ^^e com- the institution. At the organization ‘“^ited to be present both for meeting:,.ifrt. H. W. Kiser >f Watts .the supper and an ‘"tej^tin^ro- Millir was I elected president; Mrs. W. A. Moorhead of 'Goldville, vke-presi dent; Mrs. Dial Gray of Laurens, sec retary, and Mrs. P. E. Cannon, also of Laureiys, treasurer. i Mrs. J. W. Crawford spent a few days last 'week in Oamden with her skier, Mrs. C. E, Watts. 4: gram that will follow, Prof. H E. Sturgeon as leader. Tonight’s gathering marks the closing meetiikT of the church year, and neSr offieers will be inducted ipto office.' L B. Dillard is the retiring preeidimt, with Heath Copeland recex^ nominated as his successor for the coming year as president . / / r o \ DEATHS from AUTOMOBILE ^ACCIDENTS ^ in* LAURENS COUNTY 1937 Let’s Strive To Make Tliia m Safe Tear On Hi^waja.' men who sat in the constitutional convention. He declared he saw “clouds ,in the sky” and .said the na tion was “not without its dangers.” Baptists Meet In — Laurens Today Annual Conference To Be Held For County Church Group. Rev. W. N. Long, of This City, On Program. The annual conference of the Lau rens Baptist a.ssociation will be held at the First Baptist church of Lau rens today, it has been announced by the executive committee, A qiecial program has been ar ranged for the morning services and a conference of the representatiiMs uf. j ^B-fehe'churehes is plannne'd for the afternoon. The executive committee has '^eai - nestly requested that every church ia the a^ociation be repre.-o-nted by the pastor and also some ofThe lay mem bers. Following k the program: 10:16—Song and Praise Service, Rev. John L. Bobo 10:46—God's Plan of Giving, _ Rev. W, D. Spinie.^ 11:15—Special Music, First Church, Laurens 11:25—-Address—Rev. W. N. Long ll:’65-^ng. 12:00—Inispiratiional Me.isage, Rev. A. B. Langston 12:30—.Adjournment for lunch. 1:30—General Conferences. Exclies In Favear 0^ Higher Taxes Washington, March 16.—A .'■ugges- tion by chairman Marriner S. Eccles, of the federal reserve board, that the i government increase taxes on income I and profit If-necessary to balance the budget met a cool reception today on Capitol Hfll. Wall street bankers and several econoorista .endorsed his goal, but ex- preslsw iess enthusiasm about his sngNited, methods. The chainnun, in a 8ta4em<^t last night, said it ivould be better to jack up federal in''' Tie to meet outgo tiian to keep tiie emment in the red. . K