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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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'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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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