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VOLUME xxxvm
CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1938
NUMBER 10
LAUEENSJORQUE
GUESTS OF CLUB
faimesft^sked
Clinton and Laurens Commer
cial Organizations Hold An
nual Meeting Here Tuesday
Night. Rep. J. B. Britton, of
Slimter, Discusses Legislation
and Business.
“The business man is the backbone j
of the nation, and yet he is truly the
forgotten man. No pleas are made
for him; no laws created for his wel-j
fare; and in a world full of ‘isms’ he-
must think intelligently and fight forj
himself,” stated Repre.sentati\se-'J. B. j
Britton of Sumter in an address on
“The Necessity of Go<.h1 Government”
made before a joint meeting of the
Clinton Chamber of Commerce and
the Laurens Business League at Ho
tel ^Clinton Tuesday evening.
Mr. Britton, in opening his address,
gave his reasons for running for the
legislature. Business in 1933 was at
a low ebb; his own business was at a
complete standstill; he realized that
Sawyer Denies House Approves
Law Violated Vote On Whiskey
Begins 30th Year
Says Charge of Governor John
ston Is Untrue That Road
Bond Debt Ei^ceeds Legal
Limit.
I.Awmakers, After Hearing Sug
gestions. Decide To I.«t Peo
ple Speak On Prohibition.
Columbia, Mkrch 3.—The house of *
Columbia, March 8.—Governor Qlin j sifted through a mass|
I). Johnston’s charges that the statel^f fhe ;
highway department exceeded the lt..{ •“'fate lu|ubr law today, finally.approv-.
gal limit of its bonded debt drew a referendum which would givej
complete denial today fn>m Chi.'f ‘^e people a chance to vote on wheth-,
I Highway Commissioner Ben M. Saw-/’** they \vant to return to statewide^
ye c.
prohibition.
The }vopular vote plan was in the
I form of an amendment to a bill to'
‘•limit private j)ossession pf liquor to!
! one gallon. Although the amendment'
I was overwhelmingly appro\‘e<i. the
. , . , * u- I u- u i’iil itself remained to be voted on!
Johnston sent his annual highway . , ,
I ^ ■ , wlnm the house adjourned for the i
I aydit,-to the as^tembly with a j-■
' message charging that “an imjHirtanti" *■
The new gubernatorial accusations
were place! before the general a«-
•^sembly and the house *of ref'resenti-
tives mad.‘ immediati* plans to go
into them.
i state statute has Wni flagrantly vio-i
“It merely submits the question of
L, , , , . ! whether they want litiuor or don’t
’lated at a cost of ^hundreds of thou-! •’ '
SMITH EXPUINS
NEW FARM BILL
Senator Addresses Large Group
of Laurens County Farmers
On 1938 Cotton Program and
Explains Major Provisions of
Measure.
1
business men must begin to run thej
state if business were ever to prosper. [
“The serious troubles of 1933 are!
passed, but today We have a trouble
which is different and even more se
rious; for business, the backbone of
the nation, mu.st be considered in its
legislation. Experimental government
such as we have to<lay calls for intel
ligent thinking. The vast flood of
‘isms’ must be checked.”
As his first major point, the rep
resentative chose the labor question.
“Labor and capital must come to
gether. Bu.siness must have.labor and
Representative J. B. Britton, of
Sumter, appealed for fairness by
the legislature in dealing with bus
iness in an address here Tuesday
night before a joint meeting of the
Clinton Chamber of Commerce and
l.Aarens Business l^eague.
.. I want it.” Representative Grant of!
n* « ^ ,1 . . , i* * 1 e* 1
sands of dollars in interest, and , ,
. , • 1 *• *• . hestcr, author of the referendum
nancial manipulations amounting to
gross irregularities have been carried I t-,’ ^ * * , . , , ,
... .. , .. iiu The amendment would confer up
on just at a.time when it would be' •
. A. » on the voters in the Democratic pn-
to the greate.st p<diticaT advantage of
thts department.”
Fanners Go To
Polls Saturday
County Precincts Designated
At Which Farmers Will Vote
On Cotton Marketing Quota.
Sawyer’s reply, a formal statement
to the press, said:
labor-8 wrffaro at hoart, and lab»tj„„t,ij,h„.„, , m.rkotina quota!
must reciprocate- with business. The’
remedy to our serious problem is toj^'**’
educate labor and business to the this county Saturday, March 12, as
realization that they must work to- provided in this year’s agriculture
The governor’s charge that the
highway department violatt'd the
statutes with respect to the limita
tions imposed by them u|>on its. in
debtedness is not true.
“The bonds were issued within the
provisions of the .statutes and the
bonds were approved by the state of
ficers as rtHjuired and in the manner
prescriluHl by law. I am preparing
A referendum to determine wheth^'a** official repoi-t on this matter for
.. « ..o ♦v.«-fhe members of the general assem-
er or not cotton grtiwers favor the ,
oiy k
Sawyer, long a target of the gover-
mary election next to be held in the
state of South Carolina the right to
SENATOR E. D. SMITH
With the sounding of tht* gavel last
Friday by Vice-President Garner, Elli
son l>urunt Smith began his 30th
yi^r as U. S. senator from South
Carolina. The senator was sworn in
as a member of the senate on March
A crowtLof several hundred farm
ers that taxed the seating capacity
of the court house, gathered in l^au-
rens Friday morning to hear Senator
1 Elli.son D. Smith, chairman of the
jlJiiited States senate agricultural
j committc'e, ex|>lain the jinivisions of
j the new federal farm program for
j 193S.
The meeting, one of the large.st of
its kind held in recent yea.'s, was pre-
sidisl over by ('ounty -Agent (’. B,
Cannon who, -following preliminary
remarks to the farmers, introductsl
the speaker.
.Senator Smith opened his addre.ss
by giving the legislative history of
the Agricultural Adjustment act sign-
vote^qmn Ihe jm-stion of the con-j4^ 1909. The only other .senator now
Gnuance of the manufacture and salei.^in^ who was there then is William
of alcoholic liquors within the state.” j k. Borah, of Idaho. He went to the
.South Carolina s la.st liquor refer-j two years ahead of
endum was in the primary of 1934, at donator Smith. During the history of
which time a wet majority was shown.]j^ore have been 1,360 sen-
The presmil law, umler whicn private j and only Twelve have .served
dealers are subjwted to a high license ^^an Borah ami Smith. -
and close supervision by the tax com-l .• 7
• ■ . , w <• \N hen Senator A. < . I^atimer died
mission, was enacted as a result of
the popular vote,
in Washington, b'l*!). 20, 1908, seven
\V..t-,l.y on tin. ho,.,o for jwlu'li"!: Durant
most part .iisappoarr,! in Iho votos i >“‘'1
ft»r himself as a friend of the cotton
for the referendum, hut Representa-1, er t e ai. • .
'tiv>- Hon A.lam8,' oli Columbia, | f-rmrT, otforod for tho nom.nat.on A
»n<l that-thw qat»tMt» *1' adjustment acL, If ^oneThird or morc-i
.identical.”
The government of South Carolina
is a huge business enterprise through
whose hands $41,000,000 pass yearly,
he stated. This huge business requires
business men to run it. We would not
trust our bank account to a man who
know.s no business, and yet we trust
the large business of the state to
such men, he stated. , ^
The social security and unemploy- . . . „ u » n- n
ment compensation acts are destroy-; p
of the farmers taking part in the
referendum vote against quotas, they
will not be effective.
Nine polling places with community
committees in charge have been des
ignated by County .Agent C. B. Can
non, and circular letters mailed to
holders of work sheets in 1937 in
forming thenij^ where to vote. The
referendum was called by Secretary
ing busine.ss. Their present rates con
stitute a tax of five per cent on all
' Farmers will vote "yes" or "no" on
the question of whether they favor
'ton crop during the marketing year
, • J u • 1. 8 a marketing quota for their 1938 cot-
business, and business can not operate,. . . , ..
with this large a sum taken out at
this time, and yet the indicattOTT
that the situation will grow constant
ly worse, Mr. Britton .said.
“The outlook for business is the
and colored farmers *are eligible to
vote. No farmer can vote more than
once in the referendum even though
darkest in my recollection,” he said.
“It is even worse than in 1933; and
unless buainesa does something about
it there will be no hope.”
We wonder why mills do not come
he may have been engaged in cotton
production in more than one com
munity, county or state. There shall
nor’s enmity, did not say how soon
his “official nqxirt” would be sub
mitted.
Highway bonds are issued by the
state freasiirer, aftiT apjVrovaT by the
attorney general.
Johnston called on the sol on s to
“act according to their consciences in
behalf of the real interest of the
state of South Carolina and the peo
ple they have sworn themselves to
represent.”
The senate referred the audit and
mes.sage to its highways committee,
while the house ordered -bath printed
in its journal and fixed Wednesday,
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quick tu hall the’result as a ".ll’stiia:! t™* l>l;;<-'-on'l when the
victory for the drys.”
: votes were counted, Smith was on to|)
“While many (divs) would prefer
Presbyterians To
W,090,000
the local Tiptum amendment for the
reasorr that it ^would - have made it
possible for’a number of counties to
have put a legal ban on the sale of
liquor within the next four months,”
Adams said, “the statewide vote gives
'the people an opportunity to express
them.selves sooner than many drys
had hoped for.”
Those registered against the amend
ment were: Speaker Blatt, Represen
tatives Abbott, Farr, Foster, Greer,
Huggins, McKay, Pratt, Prince,"* Saw’-
yer. One hundred favored it.
• Theaction super.seded a pending
proposal for local option. The plan,
with John Gary Evans, of Spartan-
chI by President Roosevelt, and which
became a public law on the IGth day
of February. He pointed* oiit that the
new law is the result of a series of
meetings held over the nation in
which farmers were asked to make
suggestions for a farm program.
“They told me in <'oluinl>ia when I
spoke there that they wanted control .
burgV arid 11. G. TOiett, of <’/harIeston,
portioned to the states and the in-
» farmer is given his allot-
'Every Member Canvass** Opens
March 13. South Carolina*8
Benevolent Share $98,BOB.
be no voting b> proxy or agent. Each
voting place will be open from 9
to South Carolina, and yet the trouble *• II?" , .,, , ,
' The following places will be used
for balloting on the question:
Sullivan township—Hickory Tavern
school. '
» purely political, Representative
Britton emphasized. “$2,000,000 in
vested by the government to bring
new business to the state would re
pay itself even one per cent under
the present government,” he said.
The state legislature is apparently
riding the cotton mills now, but that
is only because they are the biggest
industry. If a bigger one were to
come, they would let the cotton mill
industry alone. At their present rate
they are killing the mills, and when
that is done the vast taxes paid by
the mills will be placed upon the
farmer and the state will be wrecked,
he warned.
“The cotton mills have done more
for South Carolina than any other one
thing,” he said.
Dials township—A|>ercrombie-Ow-
ings store. Gray Court.
Youngs township—Robt. A. Harris
store.
Waterloo township—Center Point
school. '
Laurens township — Agricultural
building. Laurens.
Scuffletown township — Sandy
Springs school.
Cross Hill township—W’m. Miller’s
store, and the colored school. Cross
Hill.
Hunter township—C ity hall, Clin
ton.
Jacks township—Bell’s store, Ren-
Atlanta, March 5.—Seeking pledges
for the support of its work for the
fiscal year beginning April 1, the
Southern Presbyterian church will
launch it.s “every member canvass”
Sunday, March 13. The total sought
is approximately $10,()90,(M)0, includ
ing a provision of $7,670,000 for cur
rent exiienses and $2,420,000 for ben
evolences.
Financially, it is the biggest day
in the history of the church. The bud
get is expected to be pledged in one
day by the approximately 493,000
members of the 3,516 churches in the
17 Southern and Southwestern states
which comprise the Southern Presby
terian church, and which is served by
k total of 1,630 ministers.
Of the benevolent fund, approxi
mately $1,375,000 will be applied to
assembly’s causes, apportioned among
in ine run-off and took his .scat while
William iloward Taft was president.
Tillman died in 1918, and since that
time five men have been sent to the
.senate fnim South Carolina, while
i Smith ha.s served as the state’s .senior
'senator. Those were (Thristie Benet,
W. P. Pollock, N. B. Dial, Cole L.
Blease, and the state’s present junior
-aenmtol', James F. Byrnes.
Senator Smith is up for re-election
this summer. He is expt*cUMl to be
opi^o.sed by Governor Olin D. John
ston.
with teeth in it. If you vote for it
now, that is what you will get,” ho
said.
The present cotton legislation,
drafted by a senate-house conference
committee of which Senator Smith
was chairman, provides a national
quota of about 10,.5()<),(i00 hales. The
allotments, he stated, are changed to
an -ac-reage -bams- when - they nre a^r-
Last Meeting
which was not voted on, would have _ . V V I 1
allowed-15-nen-cont of the-qualified I 1 CftCIlCrS~XgOlCr
electors to call an election on the,
question of prohibiting liquor sales in |
any county.
The house did, however, vote 57 to | i^urens County Teachers’ as-
40 against an amendment which would ^^ting of the
hare requireil ^ rather than 15 Pt’** g^hool year in Clinton Saturday as
cent of the electors to call the local I the faculty of the city
ment in acres rather than in hales.
Under the.se provisions, ho said, .South
Carolina will be given an allotment
of 1,278,000 acres and the individual
farmer will be permittwl to grow’ as
much cotton on this acreage as pos
sible.
Stating that the provisions of the
legislation depend on the outcome of
the cotton marketing quota referen
dum m«xt Saturday, Senato’r Smith
outlined the major provisions of the
act as follows:
With the state allotment being
1,278,000 acres, the first two^per cent
. . the 17 synods as follows:
Representative Brittori said that]"®;, . . * r' u • a Alabama, $49,500; Appalachia, $79,-
one of the worst menaces to the na-| . Agent Cannon has issue Arkansas, $32,000; Florida, $60,-
tion’s security lay in John L. Lewis.statement perUinmg, Georgia, $96,500; Kentucky, $62,-
William Green, president of the Fed-ilP _ _ [4)06;^>ouisia7«rr^49,5OO; Mississippi,
eration of Li^or, he said, is really | The marketing quota i.« in eff^t j $,52,000; Missouri, $40,000; North
working for the good of labor and'now according to the Act pused by ^ G^^olina, $284,.500; Oklahoma, $5,500;
business; Lewis is selfish, and he is Congress. The farmer will vote | Memorial, $400; South Car-
building a kingdom for himself. BusV
finess must counter-organize to pro
tect itself against him.
The remedy lies in the hands of
business and it is simple. Elect men
to run your government on these
qualifications: honesty, background,
record, busine.ss sen.se, taxes paid (for
whether or not to reUin the market-j oUna, $98,000; Tennessee, $73,000;
ing quotas. Government officials i $115,600; Virginia, $241,000,
sUte that cotton loans will not be Lnd West Virginia, $35,500.
available in 1938 unless producers j Distribution of the “askings” among
approve cotton marketing quoUs. In;the assembly’s agencies will be as
other words, if the marketing quota
is not voted no money will be loaned
on 1938 cotton regardless of number
a taxpayer will attempt to reduce] of bales produced, or the price. If
taxes and then industry will flock in),'the marketing quota is voted to re-
and the absence of factionalism. ! main in effect, the government will
follows
Foreign mis.sions, $719,583; home
missions, $380,417; Chri.stian educa
tion and ministerial relief, $178,750;
religious education and publication,
option vote.
“This thing of agitating prohibition
and the sale of liquor every four or
five years, causes confusion ...”
Crews, of Columbia, said in support
of his 35 per cent suggestion.
“What is really aimed at is prohi
bition,” he said.
“You can get 15 per cent of your
people back home to sign a petition
to do anything, while 35 per cent*
would get a cross-section that includ
ed the rural folks,” Crews argued.
Bennett, of Marlboro, replied that
the purpose of the 35 per cent amend
ment was “to make a referendum so
.schools.
The program was presided over by
W. E. Monts, superintendent of the
Clinton schools, and retiring president
of the association. The devotional ex
ercises were Ie<l by Dr. J. C. Roper,
pastor of North Broad Street Metho
dist church, with the principal address
delivered by Dr. Dudley Jones of the
college faculty. An enjoyable program
of entertainment was given by a
group of students from the Training
school.
The following officers were elected
for next year: President, A. D. Aber-
difficult that you would not have
one
Mrs. John D. Davis
Loses Mother
crombie, principal of the Mountville
school; vice-president, Mrs. H. S.
Blackwell of the l^jiurens city schools;
secretary-treasurer, J. Leroy Bums,
county superintendent of education.
the program the Clinton
assisted by Mrs. W. E.
I Monts, Mrs. John T. Little, Mrs. J. C.
Friends in the city of Mrs. John D. j Roper, and the home economics class
Davis will .sympathize with her in the j of tho high cla.ss, served a delicious
Jkfier
teachers.
death of “*hel^ mother, Mrs. W1 W.l luncheon to the visitors
Sellers, 79, which occurred Sunday at j
a Florence hospital^ following a criti-!
cal illness. |
Funeral services were held from'
farmers who have not raised cotton
during the past threi* years and who
plan to grow it this year.
'Then three per cent of the county
allotments is divliled amtmg farmers
who are entitled to an allotment of
between five and 1.5 acres.
The act benefits the “little farmer”
in that thosM* who have produced less
than five acres during the past three
years are allowini to plant the highest
number of acr(» in use during one of
these three years, plus the acreage
which was diverted under the soil
conservation program. (Thus if one
acre had been plante<l in 1935, three
in 1,93€ and two in 19.‘17, the farmer
would 'be alloted three acres).
Every farmer who has planted
more than five acres liuring each
year the pa.st three years will he
given a minimum allotment of five
acres.
The remainder of the county allot
ments will be distributed in each
county on. the basis of a unifoi'm,
fixed percentage of the tillable acres
on the farms, deducting from such
tillable acreage such land on which
rice, wheat and tobacco for market
was productMl, provided the allotment
odes not exceed the highest planted
acreage—plus—the—acreage—diverted
DEATH TERMED SUIHDE
Ijaurens, March 7.—A coroner’s jury
.. . T .8 m* J #8 -Monday termed suicide the death of
the remdi-ncc at Ulta Mon^y after-g FqllbrlKht. 68, Sunday
m>on, conduct^ by the Rev. f red | ^
Hay, paator of the D.llon Pre.byte- '
nan chuixh, and the Rev, C Clyde,|^.__
pastor of the Hopewell Presbyterian |
church.
Besides Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Sellers is
survived by a second daughter, Miss
Etta Sue Jailers, Dillon county home
$61,875; Assembly’s Training school,agent, a son, M. M.
“Never vote for a man who is fight-■ on the 1938 catton crop not; $20,62.", andT .American Bible society,’ I-atta, and a sister, Mrs.
ing another man. Vote for the man j less than 52 per cent nor exceeding $13,7.50. * Hilliard of Florence county.
who is fighting for a principle,” he
urg;ed. “Business men should get to
gether and save the situation. It can
be done. It must be done.”
The speaker was introduced by
William P. Jacobs, president of Pres-
county.
75 per cent of the parity price. That jhe budget for benevolences and 1
means that the government will loan current expenses was set by the Gen-! $2*000 Agaifl GlVCll
between eight and 12 cents per pound eral Assembly of the Southern Pres- » r* g. g.
on cotton this fall if the marketing byterian church at its meeting in! I*OF ^OttOll ^0111681
quota is still in effect. If the mark
eting quota is in effect, a farmer is
May, 1937, at Montreat, N. C., andi
the “canvass,’’ will be supervised by! W. P. Jacobs, of this city, secre-
byterian college, who in his introduc-: P®*^Itted to produce and market tax committee on steward^ship and fi-1 tary-treasurer of the South Carolina
tion emphasized the saneness.,and the!free all cotton produced on the al-| nance, of which Dr. B. k. Tenney, of
»>
leveling influence of this prominent acres. It is hoped that each
man in politics and in business in 'CMt a vote based upon his best busi-
Atlanta, is executive secretary.
the state.
About 80 people attended the joint
meeting. President W. R. Andersoni;^®^ cotton farmer
farmer producing cotton in 1937 will j LOCAL RED CROSS
ness judgment as to what might be
Jr., of the Clinton organization, in
welcoming the vi.«iting club, express
ed his pleasure that the business men
of Clinton and Laurens were creat
ing a spirit of friendly cooperation.
Joc'F. Smith, president of the Lau
rens dvt>, in replying, suggested that
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KIWANIANS TO HEAR LANEY
The Kiwanis dub wiB have aa its
guest speaker this evening at 7:30,
State Senator Gco^ K. Laney of
Cheaterndd. The program will be in
diarge of the committee on public
affairs.
DRIVE COMPLETED
J. J. Cornwell, chairman of the lo
cal Red Cross membership drive wag
ed here last fall, announces that the
campaign has been completed and a
total of $611.10 raised in this com
munity. This amount is the second
highest ever raised in the Clinton-
GoMville area, the chairman stated.
Cotton Manufacturer.s association, has
notified D. W. Watkins, Clemson col
lege extension service director, that
the association will again this year!
contribute $2,000 for prizes in a five- *
acre cotton improvement contest.
Largely as a result of the contest,
over 90_per cent of the state’s cotton
crop is now 15-16 inch or longer sta
ple and 70 per cent one inch or long
er, aa compared with only 20 per cent
of 16-16 inch or longer in 1926. An
other result, it is stated, is larger and
more economical production per acre.
DRIVE CAREFULLY
SAVE A LIFE!
So Far This Year There
’ Have Been—
3
FATALITIES
from
AUTOMOBII^
ACCIDENTS
in
LAURENS
COUNTY
Let*s Strive To Blake
1938 a Safe Year On
the Highways.
This date last year, •.
during the past three years.
The Commoility Oedit corporation
would be required to supply loans to
farmers when cotton reaches 52 per
cent of parity or below this figure,
thus keeping the market price qbove
8 cents per pound.
A penalty of 2 cents per pound
would be provide<l for all cotton sold
from acreage in excess of the allotted
number of acres.
The legislation differs from the
Bankhead act in that a farmer is
given the beneflt-s of fertile, soil and
good farming methods, since the al
lotment is made in acres ami not in
Godfrey Named
Chamber Head
At the .March meeting of the Cham-
i her of Commerce held Tuesday night,
the report of the nominating com
mittee for 'the year was adopted and
the following officers duly eli*cted:
President, A. B. (Jodfrey.
Vice-President, A. L. Shepard.
Secretary, Dr. D. O. Rhame, Jr.
Tfrii»urer,--C. F. Winn.
Additional directors: W.‘R. Ander
son, W. E- Johnson, W. R. Pitts, A.
B. Galloway, and John W. Little.
The newly elected officers will be
irfdneted, into office at the April
meeting.
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