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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON. S. C.
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Thamfctf^Ociobef 17, 1940 . Q
A Privote Citizen Spcoks His Mind
SPtaAIOR COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
Dr. Snyder Does Not Methodists' Exclusively.
Punitive Domage Suits Bar To New Industries.
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Fifty years of service to Metho-. bly was a | bri|^t and wholesome
dism, to South Carolina and to hu-1 exception. Indeed, the people of the
inanity is the record of Henry
Interment Here For
Raymond Wood, 10
Raymond Wood, 10 years of^afe,
died at a Lancaster hospital Saturday
afternoon after a week’s illness.
The body was brought here Sun
day ^afternoon and intermefit took
place at Roeemont cemetery. Ftmeral
services were held at two o’clodt at
ML Pisgah in Lancaster.
Raymond was a son of Rev. B. L.
Wood and Mrs. Maude 'Waldrop
Wood, untR recently residents of the
Lydia Mills community where Mr.
Wood was pastor of the Baptist
churA. Besides his parents, the de
ceased ir siurvived by the following
brothers and sisters: B. L. Wood, Jr.,
J. G. Wood, Mrs. Maxine' Thompson
and Miss Maudidine Wood.
15-YEAR YOUTH ’
WINS $1X)00 FOR
PICKING COTTON
son Snyder. Years ago he was the
j pfrscuting enterprises and will act
friendly atmosphere among
brilliant professor and decisively when given the facts,
speaker, carrying a gracious person-;
ality and luminous thought from the-
mountains to the sea. In recent’
years, while still the charming speak-!
on any occasion, he has become one j
of the sages to whom the state i
looks for counsel. *
With all deference we cannot per
mit our Methodist brethren to exer
cise an exclusive option to Dr. Snyd
er, we claim him for the state, and
he becomes one of those who are
enshrined in the hearts of humanity.
Spectator, a Baptist, never knew Dr.
Snyder as narrowly sectarian, on the
contrary, he has always been a tow
ering figure among us, albeit gentle'
and modest always. i
Dr. Snyder, through Wofford col^
lege, has been a great minister in the
Master’s service, but from the pul
pit and platform he. has been as a
guiding light which shineth more
and more unto the perfect day.
P. O. EXAM AimOtTNCED '
The United States civil service
rommission announces an open com
petitive examination for filling the
position of substitute clerk-carrier
in the Clinton postoffice. The receipt
classes of our people is a surer guar
antee of fair t/eatment than any oth- ^ ^ _
er influence, and it es^ercises a wider!of applications closes Oct. 28, 19M.
appeal than any other in making in-j Inf<»mation may be obtained at the
dustry choose our state. I local office.
BlythevlUe, Ark., Oct 15.—Harold
Masm, 15-year-old Sanath, Mo., high
school lad, won the world’s cotton
piddng championship here today,
picking 12f pmindt of cotton in two
hours to beat a field of 1S6 contest
ants from all sections of the cotton
beH.
Mason, youngest contestant in the
field, was awarded 81,000 by the
National Cotton Picking Contest as
sociation of BlythevlUe.
“I never saw so much money be-
JL
fore in aU my life, much leas have
it,” the champicm declared when
Gov. Carl E. Bail^ made the formal
award of the 1,000 one-doUar hills.
*’rm going to save it and go to the
University of Miasouri where I wiU
study agriculture.”
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There are four obstacles which
work against our state in trying to
persuade industries to come here:
the punitive damage practice, annual
sessions of the legislature, high lo
cal taxes, both county and municipal,
a disposition to soak the corpora
tions. All these obstacles to our
development are man-made and can |
be removed.
From the Eiiglish we inherited as
(our law all the old legal doctrines
whi(|h were in effect there until j
these states became independent, j
Among the practices was one jcalled i
Exemplary or Punitive Damages, by I
which a man is sued might be!
charged not only with actual dam- j
ages, but because of certain fraudu- i
lent elements he might also be re-'
quired to pay extra damages for
punishment or to make an example'
of him. In the course of years this!
matter of damages for punishment i
or to make an example of one has!
grown in our state so that regard-1
less of any fraud or peculiar cir- j
cumstances requiring an example thei
plaintiff will ask for both actual and!
punitive damages. |
What has that to do with us? Well.l
if a poor man hits someone with his
car the person who is hit will do well
to get the five, ten or fifty dollars
necessary to cover loss, but if that!
car had been owned by a great cor-|
Annual sessions of our legislature
running from January untilJune
keep all the business interests in
fear, for, until the general assembly
adjourns, it may at any moment—
and especially in final act known as
the free conference committee on the
general appropriation bill — enact
some requirement or impose some
tax which will hamper or hamstring
the business of the state. Forty-two
states have biennial sessions, includ
ing North Carolina, Georgia and Vir-
ginia, but we keep things stirred up
six months in the year. Twice the
people have voted for biennial ses
sions, and twice the legislature has
ignored the popular demand.
Our state taxes are not notably
higher than those of other states,
which is hardly an argument for new
business. If we could tell the world
that our taxes are lower than others
we should have a talking point. U is
the local unit — county and city —
Which is so drastically out of line.
We have piled on services and the
state has contributed to the counties,
assuming heavy obligations of schools
and roads heretofore resting on the
counties. But the counties have im
posed on real estate burdens of tax
ation which make our'state an unln-
vHing field for investment
The hostile attitude of some law
makers has made it seem that noth
ing but a foolish and narrow politi
cal claptrap dctenniiies our regula-
tkms eoocerning business. The mem-
benl>lp of the rocent general assem-!
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A ONCE A YEAR MAMMOTH VALUE EVENT
LAr.AWAT TOVX OHUBTIIAa
Ctlf TI MOW AMD lATX
Thousands of Watches—^Diamonds—^Silverware— Jewelry—Spe<^aUy Priced
NATIONALLY ADVERTISED
WATCH
VALUES
poration or a man with a little prop-'
erty there might have been a suit for
850 as actual damages and $1,000 as
punitive damages. The vice of our
practice is that however innocently L
one may have been at fault the''
wealth or even small means of a man |
may excite some lawyer to result in j
verdicts entirely out of proportion
to the merit of the case. And if the
defendant should be a big cmpor-!
ation all .sense of right, justice, equi
ty and proportion is sometimes
thrown to the winds. This kind *of
practice is not common among thej
members of our bar, but it is too fre- ‘
quent at that. Consider the case ofj
£ big corporation, it mu^ operate i
through individuals, oftentimes our|
friends and neighbors. Usually when'
it injures some one it is the act of I
our neighbor who works for the cor-*
poratioi;. jSo far as he is concerned i
we would a.sk little or nothing, but!
if his act can be charged to the cor-j
poration -then the bill for damages!
swells enormously. If a corporation!
be sued for fifty thousand dollars it *
can never tell whether the jury will
say fifty thousand or five thousand.
The full amount asked for hangs
over the corporation like a note in
the bank. The practice of our state
scares away investors. We should
not let a few lawyers fatten at the*
expense of the development of the
slate.
No one .should object, to fair dam
ages lor injuiies sustamed, but the
pratiiee oi .shaking down a man or
an fcnterpri.se is a prostitution of jus
tice. a.s well a.s an obstacle to the
growth ol the business of our state.
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