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t > . / Ttf C&RONICLB Striyci T0 Ei« a Cl^ Newt* CiaipWt«,.Neirij, aad Reliable ■V ;• ■■ j; \ If Too DoD*t Road THE CHRONICLE Ton Don’t Get > The Newik ) VOLUME xxxvn CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1937 REFORM BILL ISREJECTED Senate Judiciary Group De mands Roosevelt’s Measure To Reorsranize Supretpe Court ^ Scrapped. Report Is Writ ten In Scathing Terms. - Publicity Agents Got Half Million NUMBER 24 Brookins Institution Finds Law States Experts Must Be Paid By Specific Appropriation, | Washington, June 13.—The Brook-1 ings ihstitution reported toda^ that the federal government paid “more WMhington, June 14.-The '“'f » judiciary committee today called upon' 1936 fiscal year to persons engaged congress to defeat President I^ose- in'full time 0^^ allocated part-time ‘utterly dangerous* supreme velt’s court reoi*ganization program "so emphatically that its parallel will never agaiil be presented to a free Americui people.’ special! senate^ eommittee headed by i-i The committee majority "presented the most controversial constitutional issue of many years to the senate in a formal report that denounced the administration judiciary bill as tend ing to: - ' ^ 1. Obscure the “real purposes” of the administration. 2. Undermine the American consti tutional system. 3. Punish the supreme court by forcibly and unconstitutionally suIk jeeting it to. the will of the executive department. 4. Break down constitutional safe guards against “autocratic domi nance.” , But .the report, approved by 10 of the 18 members of the committee, was far more than an adverse recommen dation against the bill. Into its pag- 'es went the words'and philosophy of some of the senate’s most famous le gal authorities. In clear, concise language-that only occasionally-4nd«?2tlSrThe Intensity of the senate conflict or the drama of a high hour in constitutional history, the majority report set up the argu ment advanced by the administration in Support of the bill and then sought to demolish it point by point. publicity work The institution, making a study looking. to federal government re^ organization, was engaged by a Senator Byrd, Democrat, Virginia. The report cited the law as say*, ing that nd money appropriated by congress shall be used for paying any publicity expert unless specifi-' cally appropriated for that purpose, k “No specihe appropriations^r pub- llcity experts have been made*” the" report said,‘“but it is safe to say this law did not put an end to any pub licity activities nor has it prevented employment of personnel for that pur pose.” House members, meanwhile, mulled over a phase of the reorganiization proposal submitt^<r^hy another com mittee named by President Roosevelt. Mr. Roosevelt, in transmitting to congress the report of his committee urged that chief executives be given a larger White House staff “so that the President may have a sufficient | group 'of able assistants in his own offi^ to keep “him in closer and easier touch with the widespread af fairs -of administration.” - Legislation now before congress would provide 'six additional assist ant aecretarres*^ for the White House. Some house members said 'today they thought each of the new assist ant secretaries should be a $10,€00- a-year man because the duties w’Ul P A. ’1 FATHER’S DAY Sunday, June 20th 0 A TRIBUTE TO MY DAD You do not ask for honors; You do not look for fame. But you deserve them both because . You always “Play the Game.” You meet each test of’livThg With a heart,that’s always glad; That’s why you’ll ever be to me A pal and my dear ; DAD. • 1 1 . Charges Filed Against Farley Postmaster General Ordered Be fore Federal Judge In Mail Delivery Case. W’ashington, .June 15.—'Postmaster General James A. Farley today was ordered before Federal Judge James M. Proctor June 22 to face legal ac tion brought by the Republic Steel corporation, to compel postal deliver ies of food, clothes and other articles to the company’s strike-<bound plants nCHTlS MADE ON RELIEF BILL Roosevelt Opposes Byrnes Amendment For 40 Per Cent Relief “Put-Up.” Debate Be- - gins On Plan. Waatltfigton, June 15. . President Roosevelt at hi.s^ press conference this afternoon expressed strong opposition to the Byrnes amendment'to the re- -Hef bill requiring individual commu- Pos'taY officials at'NilM’ind" Wa7- P**'' ren, Ohio, recently rejected as “ir regular,.” and refused to handle, pack ages addressed to steel workers in Re own mbney for WPA relief projects. While the chief executive was planting what some seemed Tlh think public plants. Their action was up- proposal held by Assistant Postmaster General South Carolina ^senator, the It went, too, beyond that province exacting and on the same^ level greatly to remind the supreme court that it must “take account of the ad vancing strides of civilization”; that" if the time comes, the nation by con stitutional amendment may fix defi nite terms for judges or set compul sory retirement age. -But most emphatically, the commit tee majority insisted that the issue tossed into congvwM laK February i J-. RooseVelt wife acciwe'dlJy tlTe Tax Re the pre>,dent must be met and rejeet- as, those perfprmed by present as sistant secretaries. _ ^ Chairman Cochran, Democrat,^Mis souri, said the committee probably would formally start work 'on the re organization plan this w’eek. Group Strikes at Inquiry Washington, Ji^ne 1,3.—President ed in a manner that would protect an independent judiciary as long “as this government stands.” “This (bill) amounts to nothing more than the declaration that when the court stands in the way of a leg islative enactment, the congress?may reverse, the ruling by enlarging the court,” the majority fepor^t said. “It applies force to the judiciary. It is an attempt to im.pose upon the courts a course of action, a liufe of d^iaion which, without that force, without that Jmposition, the judiciary might not'adopt . . . constitutionally, th^ bill can have no sanction. / No amountlof sophistry can cover up thds fact . . . this is the firststime in the history of pui^ country that (such) a proposal haa been so boldly made. - “Let us meet it* Let us set a salu tary precedent that will never be vi olated, , - “Let us, the seventy-fifth congress, in words that will never be diiregarcb ed by any succeeding congress, de clare that we woujd rather have an dndepen^nt ^ court, a fearless court, a court that'will dare to announcj| its honpat opinions in what it believea to be.the defense of the libertiea of the -pet fear or sense of obligation to the appointing power, or fractional .i)ss- eion approves any measure we may enact. —- i “Wa are not judges of the judges. We are not above the constitution.” The majority of the-committee, ap proving the reportj_was: William.H. King, Democrat, Utah; Frederick Van Nuys, Democrat, Indisna; Pat McCar- ran. Democrat, Nevada; Edward R. Burke, Democrat, Nebraska; Tom Connally* Democrat, Texas; Joseph C. night of demanding a congressional expose of wealthy tax dodger? jn or der to cover “loss of face” suffered through reversals to his supreme court and -government reorganization p^grams / h City Schools Faculty Named Superintendent Monts and Pres- ’ ent Teaching Staff Re-elected By Trustees for Next Year. . The teaching staff of the Clinton city schools for the 1937-38 session has been announced by the board of trustees. The schools are headed for the_ third year by W. E. Monts as superintend ent. .Ml principals and teachers of the 1936-3*7 session have heeh reelected to the same posts they held the past year. < . ' The faculties for the four white school? of the district as elected by the trustees- follow: High School Also, 4he institute said, Mr. Roose velt is .seeking through the forth coming inquiry to “camouflage” the treasury’s error in computing esti mated Tevenue in the 1937 fi.scal yearjj Cothran. W. R. Anderson, Jr., principal, MisS I.aura librarian, Miss Azile Li^'mgston, Miss Margaret Sadler, Miss Margaret Culpepper, R. P. Wild er, H. H. Taylor, Miss Rosa Mahaf- fey, .1. P* Tod<l, Miss Frances ,Roper, Miss V’era Burnett, Miss Alice Gainesr Crops Reported, Good In State W. W. Howes on the khound that de-r livery, of the packages would have imperiled the lives of' postal workers. Republic officials protested vigor ously to Farley and volunteered to permit their workers to be deputized to see -that the “mail goes through.” Farley did not reply. John S. Brookes, Jj*., local attorney for the corporation, said after filing ttHiay’s action: ’ ‘•‘Having waited a week for a reply to our letter of June 8 to Mf. Farley and having^ received pone'r/we have no recourse but to resort to such legal action 'as is available to us under the circumstances involved.” Meantime President * Roosevelt, at his press conference, said that if a steel company is willing to make an agreement.verbally, why shouldn’t it be Willing to sign its name to a con tract? The chief executive did not I’reseni Outlook Described As Satisfactory. and failure of the undistributed profits tax to drive income into tax able hands. The institute'forecast these results of the inquiry: . 1. Ap intensive driVe against tax payers in the higher brackets. ^ Curtailment of foreign personal holding corporations.^ 3. Sharply increased taxes on non resident aliens. 4. Reteflftion of -the-undistributed corporate profits tax. 6. Consideration of a “most dras tic” change in the revenue act which would require all corporations dis tributing 'dividends to withhold a portion of the dividends for trans mission directly to the treasury. This would eliminate the treasury’s wor- , ... . ... . ..i-ry-about securing the lax an divi- opl., th.1. w . court ttat. out the iudivi*i.l. ' O-Mihouey. loveraiuent pl.uned t« tortitut. William E. Borah, Republican, Idaho; Warren R. Austin, Repiddican, Ver- m^ont; Frederick Steiwer, Republican, Cfeegon; and Carl A. Hatch, Demo crat, Netw Mexico, who- revived the right to vote fpr a compromise proiw posal he <mginated. R^ginrSpeaks Here Sunday i 'The Rev. L. E.'Wiggins,. pastor of Main Street Methodist church, Green- "wood, will preach for the congrega tion of St. John's Lutheran church of this city on Sunday aftemodlb at 4 o’clock. > Mr. Wiggins ia well known in Clin ton where he served North Broad Street Methodist church as pastor for five years. He recently completed a four-year assignment at St. John’s church, Anderson, and at the fall meeting of conference .was sent,*to the Greeinfood chbreh. His friends in the city are invited to hear* him Sun-^ day afternoon. ^ The institute is the largest or ganization of its kind in America. It lists among its 4,000 members some of the nation’s outstanding industriial and professional figures. In a*'state ment issued tonight it joined with President Roosevelt in catigmting tax evaders but pointad-out that it would not be difficult to plug loopholes In the revenue act to meet the situ- F'lorida Street School . — A. B .Godfrey, principal, Mi?s Lily Yarborough, Miss Fllla L. .McCrary, Miss Nancy Owens, .Miss Agnes Da vis, Miss Celia Latimer, Miss Harriet Gray, M iss Ruby Norris, Miss Irene Workman, Miss Marie Smith, Mrs. Myrtle Blakely. Academy Street School H. F. Harris, principal. Miss Eliza beth Copeland, Mrs. L. B. Dillkrd, Mrs. B. B. Ballard, Mias Collette Griffin, Miss Martha Davidson, Mrs. Nene Workman, Mrs. Mollie Donnan, Miss Odetta Mauney, Mias Mary Johnson, Miss Georgia B. Blakely. ' Providence School ‘ Mrs. H. A. Copeland, principal, Miss Margaret Blakely, Miss Lou ^lle Na bors, 'Miss Beatrice Highsmith, Mrs. Eugene Johnson. That the., present South Carolina crop situation is generally satisfac tory,, was reported in the monthly balletin of the United States depart ment of agriculture, rfs released by Frank O. Black and R. C. Light, Columbia agricultural statisticians. The report declared that winter grains are being harvested in good condition with prospects above aver age yield*. Crowing crofts art off to a good start and cultivation is clean with plants having a vigorous appear ance. Prospects for apples were re- porte<l better than'""usual, but peach and pear production below average. In the United States as a whole condition report.? on winter wheat, spring wheat, barley, rye, hay crops and pastures were all below average on June 1, but the deficiencie.s.were almost wholly in the Great Plains area. In mo.st of this area, excejit eastern .Montana, and the northwest ern corner of N{^rth Dakota,* which art* still dry good rains, during the last few^ weeks have materially im- senate'had • under consideration the relief bill carrying an appropriation of -$1,500,000,000. , ' ■ , By agreement between Democratic Floor Leader Robinson and Senator Byrnes, consideration of the matching amendment was carried over until to morrow. It will be the first’Yrder^of business when the senate convenes at noon and extended debate' is exp^ted ^ follow with the South Carolinian waging a fight against recognized odds. If Senator Byrnes fails to secure sufficient votes to. keep the*. 40 per cent provision in the bill he may re duce the ^mount to 30 per cent. The pre.sident said at his press con ference such limitation as proposed by the South Carolina senator would work a hardship on some communi ties, because no two communities atx‘ in the same position, either with re mention any sU-el company Tyllarmrr^^jj.Vf His remarks were in response-to a:, question of whether Republic’s re While the provisions of the amend ment might work out in the majority fu.sal to sign an agreement with thel‘^^ cases, he said, in others it would C. I. . O. vji^ted the spirit of the Wagner labor^yelations law. [ The president said it is common sense to ask if a fellow is willing to make an agreement verbally, why shouldn’t he be willing to put,^ his name to it. He added that everyone was hopeful the strike situation will he straightened out. He revealed that he and Secretary result in hardship—as do all hard and fast rule.'*. Another thing the president objects to, he sai<l, is that he, or a commi.?-. sion set up by him, ik made the court of* last resort in judging whether a community is bankrupt or whether it should raise‘its taxes to meet the itP crea.-^ed relief load the bill would im pose if the Byrnes amendment was A . 'I, of Ijabor Frances Perkins disc’u.ssed the situation hut that .she had nothing to report. • The amendment provides for a waivt-r of the 40 jier cent regulation^ if a. WI’A project sponsornhow.^ it cannot pfrssibly raise taxes or qthcr- wi.'e bear it.? . jM-rcentage — which w • f f ? I amounts to taking a “paupei ’.s oath,” in oession Mere, the president .said. 31 r., Roosevelt indicated he thought Young People Int«?rinediate ConfereiiC€ Opened [the legislation shouldn’t leave it up Tue.sday At College. To Be!‘!’ conmiission, to say to 'the mayor of one city that he’d h.ove to raise taxe.s, or get no federal relief, Followed By Yoting* People’s Week. The . Intermediate conference, held annually under ^the auspices of the .SyiKHi of South ('arolina, convened at Presbyterian college Tuesday evening with a capacity enrollment of-325. As was the ca.se last year, a number of proved prospects for,, pastures and applicants were turned down for a for crops still growing 'and will pro- Daniel Explaii:^ Duties Of Board ation outlined by the chief executive (projn'aTir. Columbia, June 12.,.— The South Carolina board of ptibli^^elfare is charged with administering the $3,- 000,000 public welfare program— an3rthing resembling a social security in hia recent message to' congress. The institute noted re^rts that 50 fraud actions and then pointed out that an arverage *200 rach suits are brought each year, “without bally hoo.” The amount the treasury will recover the institute predicts, “will not offset its error in estimating tax receipts.” — “It must appear, therefore, that the tax evasion scare is mSffly i Ctl flage to recapture the- sharp loss in public adulation f a presi^nt’s ion.’/ Thomas H, Daniek.atate public wel fare directofj' called attention to this Friday, s^ing the erroneous impres sion existed. ,j He explained that his agency would administer to the needy, adding that social security in its strict term ap plied to unemployment compensation and old age retirement deductions from income of workers. , * PRESBYTERIAN ME] TO MEET KNIGHT The June meeting jst the Men-of- the-Churoh organiz^n of % FirsUfoi^June; as follows Presbyterian chureo will be held in the church dini^ *roora department this evening afr 7:30. “Batter Ways the Bible Sb^d Be Taught” is the subject of ,tM program which will follow serving of dinner. Dr. L. IBL Lynn of the orphanage, will be the epf^er., Since tUa ia tW laal meeting of the organization taitil Ssp- teinlmr,’a*ft(lL^tteiidanee ia ur^ by tba cominittee In charge. i Cleric Of Court mote the planting of late crops. How ever, taking the region as a whole there has been considerable loss of winter wheat and early crops and pastures haye had a poor start. The repeated droughts have also depleted the reserves of subsoil moisture and so thinned the stand in pastures, ranges and hay . lands that it will be some years before these areas show the usual proportion of desir able grasses. Prospects for fruits appear to be slightly better than usual for this season of the year and productiion seems well distributed with no ex cessive supplies in sight. There should bi somewhat more than the usual supply of apples and pears in most producing sections. Peaches were hurt by late frosts from South Caro lina to Mississippi. ■> ' Canip Head Is Changed Again Captain L. A. Brooks, head of the CCC camp near here for the past sev eral months, has been relieved of this assignment and has returned to his home in Atlanta. Lieutenant Wm. S. Cobble of At lanta, has been sent here as new com- ufisndeh of the camp. - —^ ' lack of accommodation? on the cam pus. The intermWiates range in age from twelve to fifteen, with their conference continuing through next Tuesday morning, June 22nd, The Rev. B. .Si Hodges of Union, is direc tor for the week. The faculty, which include? a number of prominent young mini.sters and teachers of the denomination, was announced in last week’s paper. The Young People’s week will open on the 22nd at the completion of the intermediate conference. It will be directed by the Rev. F. B. Mayes of Beaufort. “Facing Today With the Living Christ” will be the theme of both con ferences, to be emphasized daily. VETERANS’ PENSION BE PAID DIRECT Comptroller-^ General A. J. Beattie has announced that, beginning July 1, Confederate pensions would be paid directly to the veterans and their widows. The .payments, which will be made monthly, have been through the, coun ty proba^ judges, in the past. TTie changed method of payment was aitthorized in the 1937-38 ^neral appropriation act. COPELAND’S HORSE WINS IN GREENVILLE SHOW — — ^— George A. Copeland’s three-year-old 1^ I m O 1 k'elding, “Black Clqjid,” won second^ nrlHlCCS I.IVO O&ICSl event for five-gaited hoi'ses in the Greenville horse show iasT week. The local horse competed against animals from various parts of the South. Clerk; of (3ourt Thos. W. Bennett conduced two legal sales in front of the court house on Mon^y, salesday Alice Leopard vs Janie Leopard, et al, 19.45 acres near Lanford St^ tion, sold to R. T. Wilson, attorney^ rfor $100. Federal Land Bank vs O. S. Strib- ling, et al., 109 acres near Waterloo, told, to R. E. Babb, attorney, for $500. Sheriff C. W. Wiei^ffpld under tax foreclosure *a half acre teJa near CUnton W OUie Wadsworth f<F $40.83. \ \ \ LOCAL KIWANIANS TO ATTEND CONVENTION f: F. C. Pinson and C. C. Giles will represent the- Clinton Kiwanis club at the 21 st annual convention, of Ki- anis International which.:cwriU- open jone 20th in Indianap<riia^ Indiana. will leave Saturday by automo- ile for the meeting which continues hrough the 24th. '■ W • • - , -■ / ■ DRIVE CAREFULLY - SAVE A LIFE! . DEATHS from AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS in LAURENS* 'Y COUNTY i987 ' Lei^„Slriye To Make'”^ ^ This a Safe Year On'. the Highways. / and lo give to another city what amount? to a “certificate of bank ruptcy,” ah<l allow it to gel the re lief. Thisi was* one in.<tance whtu’e the .r I^resident ojipo.'-ed dtdegation of con gressional power to the executive branch of the government and no doubt this point will be rai.sed in the' senate debate tomorrow. vStmator Byrnes’ position was fur ther weakened today by the action of the senate when administration forces struck from the bill the Adams amendment cutting off all unobligat ed balances. This would have the ef fect of reducing the relief appropri ation approximately $200,000,000 ami. the senate defeated the amendment, which like the Byrne? amendment was approved by the appropriations con^mittee, by a vo(e of 53 to 25. This vote, however, does not 'indi cate division of the opinion in the sbnate regarding the Byrnes proposal^' The South Carolinian has much greater, support for his amendment. The fact, however, that Senator Ken neth McKellar, Tennessee Democrat, led the fight against - the Adams amendment and raised one question of supporting the president, just a.s'ite will, when he ' argues against the* Byrnes amendment, points to the overriding of the appropriations com mittee on both proposals. Support for the Byrnes amendment developed yesterday frorn unexpected quarters when the Washington News, a liberal newspaper of the Scripps- Howard chain, published^ ah editorial strongly urging the requirement for WPA sponsors to put up 40 per cent of the cost. The News’ editor, who is a strong supporter of New Deal ob jectives contended that the only way to assure proper admir^^istration of 1 relief funds was to require the'd<tiSl r»l^ V- ' communities to put up a larger por of their oWn money as propokt'd in the Byrnes amendment. Senator E. D. Smith advised his of fice today that he intended to rem,ain in South Carolina the rest of the week but asked that he be paired for the Byrnes amendment and also for any amendment to reduce the relief ap propriation to a billion dollars. TO SPEAK SUNDAY ^ The Rev. W. B. (Jarrett of Green wood; presiding elder of the Greeny- wood dietrict, will CK?eupy thb pulpit of‘North Broad__ Street Methodist church of this city Sunday mooting at 11:()0 o’clock. All nwmhere of the congregation are inyitetfHo be pres et »■ '\ f \, t. 4 \ %