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iV.Jl THB CHRONICLE • StriTes To B# • Cleon Nowo- poper. Complete, New^, and ^eHable. If Ton Don’t Road THE CHRONICLE Too Don’t Get The Ncwa. VOLUME XXXVIU CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1938 NUMBER 12 f mi HORGSN PDT I OUT OF TVA' <• Laid To Rest President Roosevelt Dismisses Chairman For Failure To Sup ply Facts. Long Court, Politi cal Battle Now Predicted. liVell Known Merchant Dies Sud denly In Spartanburg Hospital While Undergoing Operation. Large Crowd Attends Services At Church and Grave. Washington, March 22.—President Roosevek summarily dismissed Chait- -man Arthur E. Moi^an of TVA office today, precipitating what many,, * i * ^ balieved would be a bitter contro-1 •'<”?“»' Tb""*!"!'- ‘laid to rest in Rosemont cemetery James Milton Pitts, 72, widely known Clinton merchant and citizen, ^^d^di^^suddehlyTh a Spartanhurg Taxing Policy Highway Survey To 1^ Continued New York Governor Attacks Tax Bill and Sees End To States As Sovereigns. Traffic CStini In State and Coun ty Is Planned for Second Year. Automatic Counters Be Used. Although the Highway Books Favored Above Schools State Obligation Ends With the Three Rs, Editor W. W. Ball Tells Library Convention. Washington, March 21. — Governor. Herbert H. Lehman of New York. Survey’s extensive traffic co\int car whom Franklin D. Roosevelt once I ried on at various points in Laurens called “my strong right arm,” charg-j county and South Carolina has corn ed today that “independent sovereign- pletetl its fir»t-year period, the state ty of the states is threatened by fed^| highway department has decided to versy in the courts and in congress. ^ • For Morgan, long engaged in a guerilla warfare with other directors of the public power agency, w’as ready to resist the chief executive’s order,} and critics of TVA at the Capitol were eager to bare the agency’s in Friday afternoon at 4 o’clock follow ing funeral services held at North Broad Street Methodist church. The services were conducte<l by his eral taxing policies.’ continue the count throughout anojth Planning Charleston, March 19.—South Cai'O- lina would educate its citizens better by spending less money 'on schools and more on books, W. W. Ball, edi tor of. The News and Courier, told members of the South Carolina Li- nermost secrets'in a congressional ih-' vestigation. Mr. Roosevelt elevated Vice-Chair man Harcourt A. Morgan to the chairmanship. He has aligrned himself with Director David E. Lilienthal in opposing the policies of Chairman Morgan. In informed ^omces, it was said that the vacancy on the board might be filled tomorrow, possibly by the appointment of James L Hy, now TVA’s general counsel. At any rate, congress will be of ficially notified of Chairman Morgan’s removal tomorrow. Mr. Roo.sevelt said he would send a message embodying the record of his recent personal in vestigation of the T.V.\ row and in corporating an opinion by Attorney General Cummings citing his au thority for his aation. Even before receiving the message, however,' legislators were quick to praise or blame the president tonight. Senator Bridges, Republican, of New Hampshire, said the dismissal was an act of “the typical diFtator,” while Photo by Nichols JAMFJS MILTON PITTS Speaker Bankhead declared it was “thoroughly justified.” Almost simultaneously with the president’s announcement, made at hi* regular press conference, the houge dealt TVA a vigorous blow. By a vote of 186 to 157 it rejected an amendment to the TVA appropriation bill which would have provided $2,- 613,000 for beginning construction of the Gilbertsville (Ky.) dam. Behind Mr. Roosevelt’s action of today lay the record of his personal investigation of TVA, in which Chair man Morgan refused to take more than a limited > part on the ground that a congressional investigation was needed. Referring to these proceed- iflgs, the president; in a letter to Mor- «* ■ pastor, Dr. J. C. Roper, who was as sisted by three former pastors of the deceased, Rev. W. A. F'airy of Ches- His charge was made in a letter to the senate finance committee, which is studying the house-approved tax revision bill preparatory to senate ac tion upon it. The New York governor said he spoke for_,all states in asking that the federal government agree-le a 50 per cent credit on federal estate tax es “on account of death daties paid to the states and territories.’! Lehman said the house bill’s pro vision for a 16H per cent credit for taxes paid states was equivalent to saying .States had only a onc-sixth HOUSE KILLS PENSION PLAN Proposal To Hitch Farmer Pen sions To Teacher Retirement Plan Meets Defeat. Associ ation President Irks Senators. Columbia, March 22.—Hundreds of school teachers jammed legislative chambers to<iay to see the house of er year. The meg who do the counting will} ag^in tabulate the traffic at 108 i “key” stations (so nametl In'cause they are at intersections of “key” "-Ibrapr a,^ia1ion lart niffM at a ban- ropraaentativas rojoct 5 proposal to quet at the Foi*t Sumtc'r hotel. . , w. , . bitch farmer pensions to the teacher Approximately 200 members and guests of the association attended the opening session of the seventeenth annual convention yeitenlay after roads). The schedule has been so ar- . ,,, , • .. j i.- . , noon in the green owm of the Dock ranged that, during the yeaf which +hejiter the “key” count covers, traffic will r « r n • "v,* ia 7 4^v. k T a j a • ^ , - 4 Mr. Ball m his a<ldre.ss at the ban- be counted twice for every week-day ;> ^ right to e.state“Taxes. The New Yorker , 1 rru *• e • v,a'90t*t said the obligation of the state and Sunday. The counting of night , . -a v. a ua -a i . !.»• L * n w 1- a- 1 lends when it has taught its people traffic, however, will be discontinue<l. ... , .. i • u -ai. i-a. ’ ’ to read, write and cipher with a lit tle fluency.” Automatic photo-eUHrtric counters, originally placed on certain impor tant roads throughout the state to make oontimiou.s 24-hour counts, have The primary obligation of the state is to insure"literacy bt'cause the in- h«»on. moved to other roads to get a picture of traffic there. lieutenant traffic count on rural roads is governor of his state when Mr. Roose. oxpande<l by data gathere<l velt, then governor, called him niy representative stations all over the strong _nght arm. He differtnl pub- licly with the president last year over the Iloo.si'velt court reorganization hill, calling it “a greatly dangerous precedent.” j Spokesnu-n for a major segment of' business and industry appeared in person before the senate committee nee, Rjev. L. E. Wiggins of Green- w-ood, ajul H. Chambora--^^f^pru^ate investment channels, and twlay to urge that it take a chance on lowering tax rates in the hope of stimulating business and thus actual ly increasing government income. “If you lose, you can’t lose much,” said Ellsworth C. Alvord, tax expert for the Chamber of Commerce of the .United States. “If you win, your gains are enormous.” Alvord, one-time treasury official, conD'nded that recent increases in federal taxes iiad scared money out ducte<l until November. The purpose of all of these traffic counts is to compute the actual ve hicle miles on every raad in Laurens county and South Carolina. By mak ing such a comjdete count as it dm*s, and by making other fact-finding' strumentality of the state is the writ- ten or printed ballot, he said. Exactly how far the state should go in edu cation is not for the uninforaied per son to say, hut the state now is try ing to carry an educational system "far beyond its financial rt'sourcos.” “Once a youth is literate, his eyes opened, nothing can prevent him from going as far as he wishes in educa tion,” Mr. Hall said. “The fact is that the public does not differentiate bo tween e<lucati(m and literacy. There reti rement plan, aiid .to hear senatora- attack Education Association Presi dent Brockman for his opposition to a state-supported »iine-month school term. By 6T ter 29 the tionse tabled the amendment by Representatives Mc Kay of Florence, Wincho.ster Smith of Barnwell, and Reynolds of Oconee, which would have provider! a $300 annual peii.siuii for OtT-year^til falTn^ ers after 30 years work. The vote came after a talk to the house by M. E. BnK'kTnan,^ president of the teachers ’ass<K’iation, and af- ... . •. u- u i>ossihly less real education in sUHbM, th,. stat(..w„le Man. ,-„,,.li„a amone the whitn pno- n.ne bm v..y la R.-tlniK .nformalion by ■„ j,,, which the laiail i.yaU>ni,a may bn plan.|f.„, at Inaat 25 per cent of the white people could ncMl from 20 to 50 years in advance. Church Women To Meet In Greenwood CHemson college. The four pastors rfpoke briefly of the warm friendship of Mr. Pitts, of his services and de votion to his church, family and friends, and of his fine qualities as a man. The church auditorium, Sunday school department atfd balcony were filled to capacity by friend.s and ac quaintances of his native home and other places. Business houses in the city closed for the services as a last mark of 4‘espegt to one who had been gan, cited reasons for removing him as follow’s: closely identified with the business life of the community for a long pe- into tax-exempt securities. He ar gued that substitution of a flat tax rate on corporate income for the pres ent undistributed profits tax would turn loose a flood of investment funds whose owners now fear the future. By question*,'^</hairman Harri.son, Democrat, of Mississippi, o^ the com mittee indicate great interest in suggestions for a flat tax rate, on in comes of corporations, in place of present gradUate<l taxes, but he men- tioned an 18 iser”cefir taiTlhslead of Openly making grave and libelous i years. The mass of beautiful at t charges qf dishonesty and want of integrity against your fellow-direc tors without reasonable excuse or jus tification. . “Obstructing^ the work of the Ten nessee Valley authority. “Refusing to s;A>mit to the demand of your chief executive for facts up on vl^hich yon relied in openly making' grave and libelous charges of dishon esty and want of integrity against your fellow-directors and refusing to respond to questions of the chief ex ecutive relating to charges of obstruc tion made against you by your fellow- directors.” The president added: “I have taken note of the fact that you have not presented to me in per son or in writing any reason why T should not remove you.” Roosevelt asked that this be done at the close of his hearings yes terday. Morgan, however, telling newsmen he had no idea of comply ing, left Washington for his home in Yellow Springs, Ohio, last night. Mofgaii CkiPps Wood Yellow Springs, Ohio, March 22.— A terse “weW, that’s that!” was Ar thur E. Morgan’s comment today on his removal as TVA chairman. He indicated he would take no im mediate steps to oppose the presi dent’s action. 'Only a few hours before, he had; precipitated his removal by again j v • blurttly defying President Roosevelt’s yid business men, authority to oust him. Mr. Rooeevelt had given Morgan until 2:30 p.m. today to state “any Wf Mason” why he should not be re moved, and at that hour the raw- boned, six-foot engineer, 59 years old, was in his shirt sleeves, chopping trees at his home here. “No action on my part is neces- eary,” he said a* the deadline passed. Puttering about his garden, he re marked to newsmen: “I think I was guilty of contumacy before and I’m here to get the rec ords.” He declined to elaborate or disclose the nature of the records. Morgan planned to leave for Chi cago tonight on a business trip of an ' undisclosed nature. floral offerings at the home, the church and the grave, bespoke the esteem in which he was held by a host of friends who joined with the family in mourning his death. Active pallbearers were: R. G. Mur phy, R. C. Adair, P. M. Pitts, J. H. Pitts, Jr., S. A. (Pitts, Andy B. Young, F^ C. Pinson and. Joe Duncan of De catur, Ala. The honorary escort con sisted of the board of stewards and trustees of Broad Street Methodist church and other close friends of the family. Clinton friend* and relatives were shocked and saddened to learn Thurs day at noon of the sudden death of Mr. Pitts in the General hospital in Spartanburg, while undergoing an op eration. He had been a patient there a week preceding his passing. Mr. Pitts was bom near the pres ent site of the State Training school on October 20, 1865. He was a son of R. Griffin PHts and Martha H. Mea dors Pitts, both of whom passed away in the summer of 1911. He was a grandson of Paichal M. Meadors and Sarah Meadors, one df the pidheer and beloved families of this section who died in 1873 and 1868, respec tively. 'In 1903 Mr. Pitts purchased the general mercantile business of N. A. Young and for the past 35 years had operated the business in the same lo cation in the hotel block. He was one of the city’s most successful mer- a man of sound judgment and an untiring worker. His interests in the city were varied. Mr. Pitts was a Methodist by faith, and for 30 years had served Broad Street Methodist church as a steward and trustee. He gave liberally of his time and means to his church, was a regular and helpful ^tendant at its services, and always \ook an active interest in its work. the maximum rate of 15 per cent sug gested by the chamber spokesmen. Harrison voiced opposition to add ing processing taxes on farm pro ducts to the revenue bill. Senator Pope, Democrat, of Idaho, has proposed “tariff equalization fees” on cotton, wheat, field com, rice, tobacco and synthetic fibers. The Idaho senator said in a state ment that the proposed levies were needed to increase farm incomes, es pecially in the cotton belt. Annual Meeting]: of Woman’s Auxiliary ^f -SoutK Carolina Presbytery Be Held Tuesday. not rea<l or write. “The state teems with men and women who have won Mips’ in the various colleges but it is doubtful if the percentage among them i»f imIu- cated people i.s comparable with hold- ersL.. of -diploma s t h i rty-fivo-<n^ -forty years ago.” Mr. Ball cited Benjamin Franklin, Ben Tillman and others who, with " The annual meeting of the South! Carolina presbyterial will be held I to read and with access to next Tue.s<lay, March 29, at the Firstl educatiM themselves. Those ter Representative McFa<ldin of Clar endon, said: “1 think if you are successful in voting down the amendments, the bill will pass.” Ho termed the farmer pension amendment “so absurd as to make this hill inapplicable to the purposes for which it was drafteiL” A vote for- the amendment would he “the worst vote ever cast for the farming intei- osts of Sleuth Carolina,” .McFudden asserttsi. Brockman thanked the house on be half of “the y,611 teachers of the .Kouth Carolina I'<lucation association for what you have done for us. "A few years ago there wasn’t the same feeling. existing between the teachers an<l the general asseembly ” he said. as Presbyterian church in Greenw‘HMl, beginning with a session at 10 a.m., and concluding with devotional ser vlet's at 4 o’clock in the afternoon. Dr. H. Kerr Taylor, Nashville, Ten-’ nessee, educational .secretary of for eign missions of the Presbyterian church, U. S., will be the principal spealter: H^ Will bring & missionary Baptists To Meet In Laurens Today The spring meeting of the Laurens County Baptist association will be held this morning at the First Bap tist church of Laurens. The one-day session will be presided over by the association’s moderator. Dr. A. B. Langston. The program will open at 10:30 with devotional exercises led by the Rev. E. J. Ingle. 'The general theme will be “Financing the Kingdom,” un der two headings, “Spiritual Plan,” by the Rev. J. H. Byrd; and 'Tfari’i FHnancial Obligation,” by the Rev. W. N. Long of this city. The Rev. J. L. Bobo will conduct devotional 8 at the opening of the af ternoon session, beginning at 'At 1:30 Dr. J. W. Beagle of the home mission board, Atlanta, will address the assembly, and at 2 o’clock the Rev. W. S. Bropke, of Columbia, will speak. A number of Clinton peoi>le will attend the meeting. Hudson Named ' College Orator Dugald V Hudson, of Greenville, a sophomore at Presbyterian college, has been selected to represent the college at the South Carolina oratori- address during the morning session. Miss Janil? McGaughey, of Atlanta, Ga., diri*ctor of spiritual development in women’s work of the church, will conduct Bible study hours in both the morning and afternoon gatherings. Other features of the day’s meeting includes an addre.ss by Mrs. ('arl Bramlett, Laurens, synodiWl presi dent; installation of officers by Dr. Roswell C. Ixmg, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, GrbenWood; and closing devotional exorcises by the Rev. E. P. Moye, pastor of Watts Mill Presbyterian church. Mrs. C. A. Calcate, .Ni*wberry, pres ident of the presbyterial, will preside at the meeting. The executive board of the presbyterial will meet at 9 o’clock on the morning of the 29th at the Greenwoorl church. The South Carolina presbyterial comprises all Presbyterian auxiliaries of Abbeville, Laurens, Greenwood, and Nowberry counties. Officers of the organization are: Mrs. C. A. Calcote, Newberry, -presi dent; Mrs. H. W. Kiser, Laurens, vice-president; Mrs. A. T. Neely, cor responding secretary; Mrs. R. C. Adaifj, Clinton, r(*cording secretary; Miss Fannie Mi^auj^nri, Newberry, treasurer; Mrs. J. D. Denny, Cross Hill, historian. Trustee Vacancy Not Yet FOled In the death of Mr. Pitt* this com- caJ -contest which will be held at The munhy loses a citizen who has played for the past 40 years an unc«tenta- tious but forceful part in the religi- Citadel, Charleston, on fhe evening of April 1st. Mr. Hudson is a member of the de- ous, civic and business life of Clin-j^a^*’^^f team and has had considerable ton. His acquaintanceship was wide, | public speaking at sev- his close friends were numerous. He'eral forensic tournaments during the was a man who had a positive genius CROMER AGAINST RAISE Dr. Morpin, former president of for fwn^hip He was one who enjoy Antioch eol!e«e here, received , jed l.fea^d,valued the fnendsh.ps he noisy reception when he returned to-j*^®<^e. He Iov6d his family, he loved ,^1,^ balloting in the senate last day. Stacked on his old desk were I bis friends. In his home, in his church,; week on the measure to increase the telegrams urging him, he said, to at bis place of busine'ss, and about j pensions of judges from one-balf of past two years. “stick” to his guns." “Without Exception,” commented Morgan, “the messages have been of a complimentary and congratulatory nature.” ’ the streets where he loved to mix and. their salaries to two-thirds. Senator mingle with men—he will be sorely a. Cromer of Laurens county was lAissed. Clinton in his passing loses a loyal and honored citizen who served (Continued on page eight) among the majority that voted against the measure, according to a report in The State. The recent death of W. E. Dillard, of this city, created a vacancy in the board of school trustees of Hunter district No. 5. Under the present law the vacancy will be filled by appoint ment by the county board of educa tion for the unexpired term. No an nouncement has been made by that body as * regards the appointment. Members of the board are R. E. Babb, Rev. J. A. Martin, C, K. Wright and J. Leroy Bums, all of I.aurens, and R. E. Sadler of this city. Members of the local board since Mr. Dillard’s death are W. C. Oxfley, chairman, C. N. Maupey, E. D. Craig and George W. Holman. Their term of office will expire next year. who can afford higher tMucation are fortunate hut th«;|re is no obligation of the state to furbish it free, even if it bad the money. “The whole education systenr of the United States is opposeil to the Euro pean idea, which is .selective,” Mr. Ball said. “Ours is mass. —-21f-JJiii__yLate of South Carolina would turn about face on its policy of free education in high schools ami colleges and spend a large portion of the money thus released in distribu tion of books, the probable result in a few years would be more genuine education than exists now. “Instead of flinging children at books it were better to fling books at chihlren—and fling them at adults, too.” Big Increase In Cotton Ginnings Brockman was .scbisluled to speak to a joint a.ssembly of the house and sepate, but when the teachers n'cess- e<l their -convention session to visit the legi.slative chambers, all available seats and standing room were taken so that there was no room to receive the senators in the house chamber. The senate was also fUnided by vis iting school marms when Senator R- M. Jefferies, chaimian of the educa tion committee, arose with the asser tion that he was “not^^illing to ig-' nore certain criticisms of members of-rthe general-assembly” in Brock man’s annual address to the tMluca- tion association yestiuday. / Census figures show .30,830 bales of cotton ginne<l and to be ginned in I,iaurens county from the crop of 1937 through March Ist, according to Mar vin W, Sanders, special agent of the bureau of the census. This was an iiicrease of 9,051 bales over ginnings for the same period la.st year, the report at that time showing 21,779 bales had been ginned in the county. Presiding Elder Sunday Rev. W. B. Garrett, presiding elder of the Greenwoo<l district, will preach at Broad Street Methodist church at 7:30 on Sunday evening, March 27. Immediately after the sermon the second quarterly conference will be held. AN stewards, trustees, and other officials of the church are expected to be present. The entire church member ship is invited. Farmers To Be Kiwanis Guests TonighUwiM be observed by the lo cal Kiwanis club as “farmers night,” following its annual custom. Invita tions to forty farmers in the com munity 'have been extended, with an out-of-town speaker invited to ad dress the guests on problems per taining to agriculture. DRIVE CAREFULLY SAVE A LIFE! So Far This Year There Have Been 3 FATALITIES from AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS in ' LAURENS COUNTY Let’s Strive To Make 1938 a Safe Year On the Highways. This date last year, 0. Jefferies found it “very regrettable to me” that Brockman opposed the effort to provide a state-supported nine-month s<‘hool terrP. “I can’t believe his speech reflected the feelings of the majority of the teachers. Why is there any (>l)jr*ction to the school .system of the state be ing on a huriget plan like any -other 4e-partnu*-nt —of ^ the —state govem^ - mrnt?” Jefferies asked. He said he felt the tea<-hers favor- 1 ed a nine-month school term and pay ment of their salaries by the state from indirect taxes. Laney, of Chesterfield, siipplement- tMl Jefferies’ remarks with the obser vation that teachers are “no longer dependent on the property tax for their salary. The burden is too heavy on property and we have got to get away from that tax on property and relieve the bende<l back of the prop erty owner.” He said Brockman’s remarks were well-intended but that “he’s wrong.” Leppard, of Greenville, reiterated his charge that schools frequently were made a “political football,” as he defended BrockmanV view. Until Leppard said, “we stop play ing politics, I sort of agree with Mr. Brockman” that some degree of local authority be left to the schools. Senator Harman, of Lexington, a member of the education association, said he did not “feel that Mr. Brock man expressed the sentiment.^ of all the members of the eilucation associ ation.” He added that he felt the new association president, Edward W. Rushton, of Batesburg, would take a different attitude. Williams, of Aiken, held that “.stan dards” of the remote rural schools I Jcould be raised by state legislation and this, he assertni, “is-what the state of .South Carolina has been do ing.” Williams said he was sure Brock man would be “in the thick of the fight” to 7aise education standards in the .state. The senate .refused to concur in house amendments to the resolution by Senator Stukes, of Clarendon, asking the highway department to re frain from enforcing the 20,000-pound 90-inch truck limitation law pending pas.sage of a bill for higher limits. The house .sought to specify lack of oftforci'ment only on tinicks under 30,000 pounds and 90 inches. Ordereil ratified by the senate were bills to validate reimbursement '« .J' issued by counties for flua/Kiug agreements entered into previeusly with the highway^department; direct (Continued on page eight)