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VOLUME XXXVIII
CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1938
NUMBER 2
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LEGISLATURE 'Farmers’ Group
BEGINS worst Hold. Meei Here
Pleas For Short Session Matkj
First Assembly Meeting. Ap-j
propriation Bill Introduced. {
Elections This Week.
Annual Meeting of Production
Credit Association Hears Re
ports On Successful Year.
Reports submitted by bfficers nnd
directors of the Clmton Production
Credit association at the annual
tockholders meeting held Tier
Columbia, Jan, stockholders meetmp: neid here on
pr«iKi.nft officer, of both houses 3rd indicatcl that this farm-
a quick conclusion of the session
a
- , , . . - loioicrs cooperative crwlit organization
marked the opening today of the
successful year in 1937.
general assem >. • ,The reports showed an increased vol-
Lieutenant Governor J. E. Harley j business done and, riotwith-
of Barnwell, presiding officer of the standing the recession in farm prices,
senate, welcomed that liody and urg
ed that “we get through with our
work as soon as possible.”
a gotni collection record. __
Complete and detailed reports \vei*e
given to the stockholders at the meet
was
"I see no reason,” he said, “why we png, which was well attende<l by
should stay here as long as usual.” j farmers from Ijauwois and Newberry
Like Speaker Sol Blatt of the house j counties, served by the as-
of representativt»s; Harley suggested:sociation. then.! being 42.’) persons
that the |11.»54,227 general appro- present at the meeting. The financial
priation bill introduced by the w’ays statement of the association was dis
and means committee be given early
attention.—
“We should go home by April 1,
and we can go home by that time,”
Speaker Blatt told the house, “if
county supply bills are introduced
within the next two weeks.”
He urgeil that no “major commit
tee meetings” be held for l^e first
two weeks to allow delegations to
work on their finance bills.
Sw’earing in pf new members
pvompte<l Blatt to pay tribute to “our
g<K)d old friend” the late Represen
tative J .1). Witherspoon of Ijaurens,
who dietl <luring the summer.
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played on a big chart and other in-
ation, etc., were likewise displayed.
Reports were made to the meeting
by C. W. Stone, president; Rex T/an-
ford, secretary-treasurer; Jack H. Da
vis, Sr., ahd Dr. W. C. Brown, mem
bers of the hoanl of diri>ctors.
Jack H. Davis, Sr., was re-elected
to serve on the board of directors.
Others members of the hoard,Whose
termk did not expire this year, arc
C. W. Stone, Clinton; J. T. .McCrackin,
New^berry; K. J. Sloan, Fountain Inn,
and Dr, W. C. Brown, Newberry.
The reports reveaknl that the as-
Phil D. Huff of Laurens, was sworn j sociation made 710 loans for a total
in to succeed Witherspoon, and Paul [of $272,014.00 in 1937.
E. Wilburn of Union, was sworn inj J. Edwin Tiddy, .secretary of the
as Union county -representative U)! Production Crtnlit corporation of Co
succeed J. Frost Walker who resigned.'lunihia, addrwsed the st<K*kholders at
In the senate the oath of office was i the conclusion of the” business session,
administered 4^^WUliam P. Baakin,! Mr. Tiddy stre-sed the fact that the
W. P. Jacote’ Diary ICLUB HEARS OF
Come. From PreM BUZZARD ROOST
Life and Experiences of Foun
der of Clinton lastitutions Re
lated By Son, Dr. Thornwell
Jacobs.
Senator Nicholson and President
Ro.senberg of Greenwood
Chamber of Commerce, Are
Guests of Chamber of Com
merce and Tell of_ New Pow
er Project.
The Jhiiuary me»‘ting of the Cham-
The Diary Of William Phimer Ja
cobs, founder of Thornwelf orphan-
age and Presbyterian college of thisj
city, has just been published in at-j
j tractive‘l>ook form under the editor-! , ^ ,
Jship of Dr. Thornwell Jacobs of Commerce, wa.. hel.i Tues<lay
liuita, (la., a son of the late founder. T^ening at Hotel ( linton, with PriM*"
The diary was begun by Willie Ja-U P- And<‘i\son prt-siding. The
cobs in IS.'iS at the age of 15, when 1been designated by the
he was a school lad in charleston.!
night, with visitors invited from
(Ireenw’ood to give information per
taining to the proj<‘ot.
The club a<lopte<l a lesohition in
viting the I.,aurens Hu.sine.ss League,
following an established custom of
in
From that early jieriml it covers his
entire life, year by year, until thd
early morn of September 10, 1917,
when he sudilenly pasised away at his
honn* on the orphanage campus.
In the introducthni the author
.-states:
“Many readers of this volume will
<loubtless consi<ler it to Ik* the story I meeting.
sevtTal year.s past, to l>e guesits of
the Clinton . organization for the
13 Million In | Depository Holds
New Roads Added j Annual Meeting
Commissioner Sawyer’s Report! Directors and Oflicers Reelected
For Year Given. Ijaurens
County Gets $397,004.41 for
Projects.
.State, highway- con.struction coni-
Jr., electtMl to succeed the late R. E.
Dennis of Lee county.
' Members were quick to try to put
the “short session” pleas of their prt*-
siding officers into action, but objec
tions halted definite action.
Ten members ^objected to immediate
consideration of a resolution by Rep
resentative W. R. Harris of Anderson,{credit needs and are aperate<l by
calling for sine die adjournment of!farmers in the interest of farmers.
Pro<luction Oedit as(Kiation is a per
manent, dependable source of credit
for responsible farmers organized on
a cooperative basis. He said associ
ations have systematized farm finan
cing, are farmer controlled and oper
ated, lend money only to farmers,
meet all of the farmer*’ short-term
plctcd and convmcnc»*(l during the cal ,
endar year 19.37 will add $13,000,000 time all members of its hoard of di-
rector.H were re-eliH-ded to serve for
another year. , ’
Members of the Imard are: .Jack H.
Young, C. W. Stone, S. G. Dillard,
W, W. Harris, H. D, Henry, F. M. Bo-
of the most inspiring village pastor
ate in the history of the world. It is
a record covering sixty years, set'
down day by day, pigmenUxl with
every color of the spei-triim, and vocal
with every tom* of feeling. It is ut
terly real; yet strangely ethereal. It
reveals a human soul in constant, in
timate contact with God. and the re
sults thereof,
"It is the story of a lititle boy in
a great city who fell in love with all
good things arui who re.solvtnl to cen
ter his whole life upon obtaining
them, and who did so.
It is the story of a youth to whom
a church, an<l an orphanage, and a
college, and a library, and a printing
office miNant so much in the great
city of Charleston, that hp trans
planted them to “a wide place in the
meeting Tu(‘»day afternoon at which I
For Comiiuf Year. Statement
ShowK Increase In Business.
The Commercial Depository of Clin
ton held its annual stockholders
A resolution was adopted request
ing that an effort be made to re
organize a Merchants’ association in
the city. •
Ernest R. Rosenberg, pn^sident of
the (IriH'nwiMMl ('haniher of Commerce,
was the first speaker of the evening.
He stated that hi* would nut go into
a-,di8cussion of the Buzzard Roost
JU) the capital investment of the state
in its primai'y roail sysU^m, accord
ing to a ivpoit of Chief Highway Com
missioner Ben M. Sawyer, released
during the week.
the assembly not later.<»than midnight
March 7.
Sena1»r Harmon of Lexington, in
troduced a rWKi^utfon in the senate
calling for a short session and no
“extra pay,” but it met an objection
from .Senator Searson of Allendale.
The senate, on Searson’a motion,
referred to its judiciary committee
While the aseociatkm is a local or
ganization, having local control, it
has the advantage of being connected
with a nation-wide system.
Mrs, Annie H. Dunlap of Mounl-
ville, made an interesting talk on
“The Farm Family in the Production
Credit System.”
Constiniction commenced in
193(51 land, D. I, Sheely, John T.'Young,
but completed in 1937 consists of 229 < <>IH‘land.
miles of new hai*d surface, 1.5 mlies of* ^ sul)s<*quent meeting of thr
pavement widening, 112 miles of the T<>U«wi«g ^rfficers were re
earth grading and d.OlKJ feet of new
bridges at a cost of approximately
$4,500,000.
During the year 1937 additional
construction con.sisting of 43H miles
of new hard surface, 40 miles of jiave-
ment widening, 43 miles of earth
grading, 11,575 feet of new Ixridges
and 1,297 feet of bridge reconstruc-
A musical program remlered by the
the resolution which would iMive put dub of the tKate Training school, ...
the general assembly on recoixl “to I under the direction of Mrs. Brooks • t'uu wa** put under way at au
txert every effort to bring the pres-{Owens, was thoroughly enjoywl by all 1approximately $8,000,-
errt session to a close within the 40j present. ! i, • i • io'i7 ♦ =
<lay constitutional limit and refuse tol_ _ - _ _ . .
^ approximately l.IO projects located in
IXClId ITIUIICy 49 counties. In 1937 the highway de-
jiartment did the biggest and ht^st
year's work in its history.
O _ i; (P'7'r non i o'? 1 Almost $400,000 In Laurens County
South Carolina Gets $77,099,127 ^ work commenced
In Last Three Years. , in the county in 1937, follows:
Washington. Jan. 11.-The national I
which was (Jinton of lHb5.
“It is the story of an agcnl man
who.se faith, and love, and courage
were sufficient to conquer sickness,')
and blindneas. ami deafness, and
years, and death.
“And it is the story of a man who
lovoil little chihlren, not only for
their own sake, hut also Invause they
represent ihe future of all that' is
worth while on this earth.”
projwt hut woqhl leave TRaPsubjecU
to-Senator \W^L Nicholson, who i.s
<lue much of the credit for carrying
the umlertaking to a successful con
clusion. Mr. Rosonh(‘rg said he Ivail
been a.sk<*<l to <liscu.ss the set-up and
work of the (IreenwiKid Chamber of
(Commerce and terme<l such organiza
tions as a co-ordinating agency to
get things done. He gave a review of
the activities of the organization he
had headetl for the past three years
vote extra pay.
Members in both bodies quickly
took notice of improvements in the
two meeting halls.
Speaker Blatt called the* house “the
moist beautiful in the United States.”
after a rejKirt was read from the
special committee on improvements
accounting for the $40,000 *pent on
renovation.
Sergeant-at-amvs Zed Hope report
ed on expenditures for improvements
in the senate and was commended by
the body for his work.
As this is a continuing session,
the assembly faced no organization
wor k . —- -
The committee appropriations bill
is about $100,000 less than the total
recommendations of the state budget
commission, and nearly*$150,000 more
than the current appropriations.
The bill also calls for halving the
present five mill state property tax
For This State
electe<l for 1938: Jack H. Young, pres
ident; H. I). Henry, vice-president;
F. M. Bp4nd, scerQtary-treasurer;
Miss Vera Wilson, liookkeeper.
The annual fiixaPcial report submit
ted showe<l that the depository had
enjoycsl the most successful year’s
business since its organisation a few
years ago. The lioani added $1,000 to
its surplus. The statement as of Jan
uary 11th showed ileposits of $271,-
473.98, with total assets of $278,-
648.19.
emergency council reported South y^^k.sdale to Fountain Inn.
and for a five per cent reduction in
all state-paid salaries of $1,500 or
more.
Brought over on the calendars from
last year are more than 100 bills, in-
cluding ”a local option liquor inH, «r
bill to create a state police system,
and a measure to divert an extra cent
of the state gasoline tax to counties
for road construction.
Also brought over from last year
wTa deadlock between the senate and
the house on a bill to fix a minimum
(Continued on paft four)
Carolina had been allocated $77,099,-
127 from relief funds appropriated by
confess in 1935, 1936 and 1937.
Cif this amount, the report showed
$71,523,452 had been actually spent
in ^he state with the remainder of
$5,575,675 unexpended a§ of Decem
ber 31, 1937.
Slightly more than half, or $35,-
868,979 was spent during 1935-36,
with spendings for the 1937 fiscal i
year, which ended last June 30, to
taling $27,030,614. For the first six
months of the current fi.scal year,
the report showed expenditure.s of
Subtotal, $.39,119.81.
U. S. route 76—The construction of
a 75-foot reinforcwl concrete bridge
over the C. & W’. C. railroad and
0.00.3 mile plain concrete pavement
approache.s on West Main street in
Lauren*.
Subtotal, $26,229.94.
Route 56—^The construction of a
210-foot reinforced concrete bridge
over Duncan creek between Clinton
and Enoree river.
.SuJitotal, $15,976.80.
U. S. route. 276—The paving with
plain concrete pavement~of~9.690 miles
from 'Bark.sdale to Greenville county
Training Class For
Methodists Of Area
Rev. J. M. Rast, Editor of The
Advocate, Will Teach Group
January .3()*February 3.
The Clinton area of the Methmlist
church announce.s a staiulard C-hris-
tian leadership training clasa to he
held at Bailey Memorial church, be
ginning .January 30 and continuing
through Fiduuary .3. The class will
he a branch of the Greenwood dis
trict training school, ar*d will be for
the benefit of Broad Street, Jiailey
Ijaurens, Jan. 8. —■ At the January Memorial, I^ydia, Ix'esville, Hopewell,
Laurens League
Names Officers
$8,623,675. _
Where the $71,523,452 has gone I** t jin';" peaT fountain Inm
shown by the follownng statistics from : j^ubtotal, $230,489.60.
the report: i Route 56—The bituminous surfac-
H^^y^^;^s an^d ing of 9.624 miles from Clinton to a
pidilic buiraings, $7,841,411,, 4 5 north of Enoree river,
housing projects, $1,874,^7; public Joint county project—Laurens coun-
#
TeU It To The
World
TRe first nile of salesmanship
is that if you have anything to
sell, don’t keep it a secret. Tell
it to the world! That, in Gin-
ton’s trade area, means to ad
vertise it in THE CHRONICLE.
Every week this paper goes in
to the homps of this community
where your prospective 1938
customers reside.
The More People Yon -Telhr
the More You Will Sell!
The most successful Clinton
firms in 1938 will be those who
through effective idyertisijngL-Ll
tell the buying piriblic constant
ly what they have to sell, the
values they have to offer, the
service 4hey are prepared to
give.
recreational facilities, $3,091,733; con
servation work, $13,076,555; electric,
water and sewerage i projects, $1,885,-
890; transportation facilities, $1,786,-
802; educational projects, $6,082,827;
goods and miscellaneous projects, $8,-
808,572; rural resettlement and di
rect relief, $6,182,603; administrative
expenses, $291,660; grants for re-
' lief, $8,537,561. -
Tax Collections
Show Increase
Collections of state and county
taxes for 1937 showed an increase of
about $8,000 over 1936 at the close!
of the year, according to fijfures of
County Treasurer D. R. Simpson. The
total for 1937 was $309,585.61, and
for 1936 to the same date was $301,-
<638.42.
ty’s share, $85,188.29.
Total for county, $397,004.44.
AIRPORT SEEKS $74,000
Laurens, Jan. 8—Chairman of the
airport committee here, L. C. Barks
dale, today said he had filed an ap
plication with the WPA office at Co
lumbia for $74,000 with which to com
plete the local field, which has been
under construction for two years.
mooting Thursday night of the Ijiu-
rons Bu.sines.s league, officers and di
rectors were eli'ctinl for the cuiTont
year, and the annual report of the
seerrtary set for next meeting.
L. S. McMillan, vice-president dur
ing the past year, was promoted to
the office of president. He succeeds
R. T. Wilson. Joe SniiTK>^as named
aus vice-president, - and -the following
members constitute the board of di
rectors: R. T. Wilson, H. D. Gray,
R. E. Babb, C.,P.. Roper, C. F. Flem
ing and O. L. I/ong.
At a session of the directorate, L.
C. Barksdale was elected as secre
tary for his l/)th con.secutiye year.
First Conference
Sunday At Kinards
♦
The first quarterly conference of
the Kinard.s charge of the Methodist
church will be beld on Sunday after
noon at the Kinards Methodist church,
beginning at 3:30 o’clock.
The Rev. W. B. Garrett, presiding
elder of the Greenwood district, will
preach and preside over the confer
ence. Goldville, Kinards, Sardis, and
Hopewell Methodist churches will
participate.
The jiublic 3n cordially invited to
attend this conference and to hear
Rev. Mr. Garrett.
Goldville, Renno, an<l Kinards Meth
odist churches.
The title of the class will bo, “The
Methodist and His Church.” The
teacher will he Rev. J. M. Hast, inli-
tor of the iChristian Advocate, pub-
lishwl in Columbia. The text 'hook to
be ust*d is ‘The Methodist and Hi*
Church,” by Dr. Gilb<‘rt T. Rowe, of
Duke university.
A large number of church work
ers in this area are expected to take
advantage of this opiportunity for
study.
Teachers Hold
Monthly Meet
I KIWANIS MEETING TODAY
The first Kiwanis meeting of the
new year will be held this evening
'at Hotel Clinton at 7:39 at, which
time new officers will be inducted
into office, committees named, and
plans outlined for the organization’.s
work. D. C. Heustess is ihe club’s
retiring president, and will be suc
ceeded for *38 by R. E. Ferguson.
Joanna Cotton Mills Employes
C^ven $40,000 Bonus For Year
The 900 employes of the Joanna Cotton Mills, Goldvillft, r^eived
a profit-sharing bonus of 5 per cent on Tuesday covering their wage
earnings for the year 1937.
The distribution, which amounted to app^^imately $40,000, went
to all employes on the mills’ payroll for the year just ended.
The profit-sharing plan was inaugurated by the mills for the first
time this yMr, W. A Moorhead, local manager, stated yesterday. A
similar plan has been in operation by the present owners of the Gold
ville property in their Chicago plants for several years. Under the
bonus plan Mr. Moorhead states, it is the policy of the mill owners to
let its employes, as well as its stockholders, share in the earnings.
Ijaurens, Jan. 8. — The January
meeting of the Ijaurens County Teach
ers’ a.ssociatiun was held Saturday in
the— auditorium of the high achool
building here, with W. E. Monts, of
Clinton, president, presiding.
The principal a<Jdres« before the
teacher body was by Dr. Roswell C.
Long, Preab^rian minister of Green
wood, Hi* siibjeot was “Citizenship.”
Using the general theme, “The
Teaching arnl Disciplining of Problem
Children,” guest educators discussed
the topic in departmental meetings.
Dr. Clarence Hamr^p of Presbyte
rian college faculty, led the discus
sion with the _high sohool teacher
group; Mias “Amy Muse, of the State
'Training school. ClintorL the elemen-
l^tary unit, and Mrs. J. A. ^uattlebaum
I of the Olympia school, Columbia, the
primary group.
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S. C. Fecbral Income
Taxes Reveal Gain
Columbia, Jan. 8.—^A total of $1,-
960,706 In federal income tax collec
tions in South Carolina for last month
was reported today by Internal Rev
enue (Collector R. M. Cooper.
Cooper .said this was by far the
peak for any month since the fiscal
{year opened July 1. It more than dou
bled the $458,583 total of December,
1936.
Other collections were about the
same as for December, 1936.
an<l jKiintisI out various ways in which
it is working for and contributing to
the industrial, commercial, agricul-
an<I moral development of
Greenwood and the entire county.
Speaking briefly of Buzzard Roost,
he isaid he hoped its Tt‘crcational pos-
sihilitic** would bt* developinl. Green
wood, laurens ami Newberry coun-
tie.s should get together, he said, anJ
nationally advertise the cheap po\vef"“
to he available and work to locate new
industries and ptsyple in the area,
Senator Nicholson, the ^second
speaker, stated that work on Buzzard
Roost would begin alxiut March first
to 'be completed within one year. The
dam will b<> 85 feet high, he said, with
the bridge on Salmia river one-fourth
to one-half mile long. Ttie primary
purpose of the enter|)i ise, (he sena
tor states!. Is to provlh* cheap elec
tricity, He charged that the power
companies have made more money
during the past ffity years than any
other business. In di'fense of the New
Ib'al gift, a.s it was termed, he citeil
two\sch(K)ls of thought on the dc'vel-
opment of resources; exploitation of
the natural gifts for the gain of in
dividuals, and the utilization of such
natural a«.sets for the benefit of the
people.
This project, when completed. Sen
ator Nicholson *ai<l, will make it jio-s-
sihle for munici)>alities like ('linton
to buy power 50 i>er cent cheaper
than at present. Your cotton mills
here in Clinton are manufacturing
their own power through their own
plant becau.se they can make it cheap
er than the power companies would
sell it, he assi'rbMl. The speaker said
that the greatest need today is to ile-
velop the country. Much is heard
about conditions in cotton mill conimu-
oHitw, he said, Rut dt^clared they are
ten tintes ibotter there than in the
rural area*. We .should do (’verything
we can, he stated to help the rural
districts. "T' -
It is time for Greenwood, Ijaurens
and Newberry counties to get togeth-
er and make thesi* cv)unties the best
place in South Carolina in which to
live, he «aid. We must pull together,
thinking only of the good of the jieo-
ple and the counties. And while in-
dastrial growth is essential, he said,
we must not neglect the moral tone
of the people. We must not lose
(Continue*! on i^e six)
DRIVE CAREFULLY
SAVE A LIFE!
So Far This Year There
Have Been
o
FATALITIES
from
AUTOMOBILE
ACCIDENTS
in
LAURENS“
COUNTY
Let’s Strive To Make
1938 a Safe Year On
the Highways.
This date last year, 0.
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