The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, February 17, 1928, Image 2
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Motors to main tain can tin nous improvement,
in every one of i Vh ear divisions, with no interruption
in product ion.
This means that yon enjoy the benefit* of
new engineering developments promptly ?just as
soon as they have lieen thoroughly tested on the
1245-acre Proving (Ground.
It means that you can rune order the new
Chevrolet, Pontine, Oldsmohile, Oakland, liuick,
^jl^aSalle, ('.iidilluc, or (i\1C Truek, and receive
immediate delh cry.
Behind thispoli( \ of continuous improvement
is an organization so widespread and resourceful
that it ean make and sell quality automobiles
more economically than any automobile manufacturer
in the world.
In the north ami south it logs and mills its
own lumber. In the east it makes its own ball
hearings and radiator^. In the middle west it
produces i t s ow 11 plat e glass. Its plants arc busy
in 3.1 important American cities.
From almost 5.000 suppliers, its materials are
obtained?steel by the hundreds of thousands of
tons?wire* by the tens of thousands of miles ?
upholstcn by the acr??nuts, bolts ami washers
by the millions. Its sales and service take place
through 33,000 dealers. More than 27.3,000 families
look directly to General Motors for their livelihood?
almost a million and a half men, women
and children in every community in the land.
Meaning so much to so many, General Motors
has felt a supreme obligation to look ahead.
Are there methods by which General Motors
ears can he better built to better serve?
Are there new ideas which can increase the
utility and pleasure and safety of motoring?
Are there new materials which can add to
owner satisfaction?
Such are the questions that all General Motors
engineers have always asked. The answers have
made it possible, year after year, to offer an increasing
measure of beauty in design, modern
performance, riding comfort and distinct style.
Thus in c> cry price class, from Gadijlac to Chevrolet,
purchasers are constantly benefiting from the
General Motors policy of progress.
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Contingent Ft* Damage 8uit*
Columbia, Feb. 'J The Watt libel
bill came to its death in the seriate
last night after an hour of stormy
debate when the -enato by a 27 to
18 vote struck wit the enacting
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Following the .iltack of Senear
J. F. Williams of Aiken, who declare^
that actual damages thai
might be proved by a plaintiff were
insufficient to compensate him "for
the heartache and anguish caused by
| malicious charges" which might be
easily apologized for. Senator Mil*
lei of Darlington called the Went
measure "an attempt to hamstring
justice and juries of the state in
dealing out punitive damages when
punishment is called for."
i Senator West, author of the nieasI
uru, briefly urged its passag-e. "The
newspapers," he said, "are trying to
give you fairly and squarely in yi
untrammeled and free manner the
news of the day. All they ask is
freedom from punishnvept for a typographical
or clerical mistake
honestly made.
Senator J. K. McDonald likewise
defended the newspaper publishers
from any imputation of malicious
intentions, declaring that "they are
as bad and as good as any other
body of men. The law has repeatedly
held humiliation to be an element
of actual damage. The absence
of malice in any mistake
would have to appear during the
trial." I
Senator \\ illiams denounced the
bill as "a dangerous attempt, inspired
by good intentions because some
libel case verdicts happened to go
Wrong," and moved to strike out
the enacting words.
Hoover "Chooses to Run"
Secretary Hoover on Sunday became
an avowed candidate for the
Republican Presidential nomination
and gave formal permission for his
Ohio supporters to enter his name in
the Ohio primary contest.
Miss Gray Reconsiders
lames H. Hope, State superintendent
of education announced that
.Miss Will Ixju Gray who recently resigned
as supervisor of adult schools,
had withdrawn her resignation and
; wouid continue in the capacity in
i which .she has served, says the Stafo
<>f 1- riday. .Miss Gray offered her
resignation several weeks ago.
Union will soon have its third rayon
mill located there within a year.
1 he new one will employ about 200
hands.
The Dr. Douglas Matter.
i t^uite a bit of excitement and disj
cussion was liad last week in the
legislature over The matter of the
j salary of Dr. Douglas, president of
the South Carolina University. It
was several months after the death
i of Dr. Melton, president of the Uni.
vcrsity, that the trustees learned that
: Dr. D. M. Douglas, president at the
time of the P'vsbyterian College of
>outh Carolina was available for the
\ acant po.-itio: Upon opening nego!
tuitions, it was warned that it would
j be necessary meet certain offer;
j made Dr. Douglas by his trustees
I ami i! he were he secured it would
j take a good salar y. Cql. Jas G. Pad
| gett. a memb r ,.f the board of trusj
tees by virun- !' his position as
chairman of the -enate committee or
education, made the motion that hisalary
be fixed at $10,000 per yea'
and he be tendered the position athat
salary. This was done and Dr
Douglas accepted.
, 1 he matter came up in the budget
j recommendation at the session of thi
legi-.ature in 1027, and the ways an<
means committee of the house re
duoed the salary to $7,500. Tht
senate finance committee raised it ti
S10.U00 and it is said that later th<
free conference committee restore:
the item to what the house had pass
ied,
Douglas states that he was no'
notified of the action of the free con
i fere nee committee and accepted th<
t salary of $10,000. He was advisor
' by Governor Richards in December
^'s sahc'y had been fixed a
$7,;>00 after he had already accepter
the $10,000 agreed upon by th
trustees.
Governor Richards, piqued at a;
editorial in The State last week sen
la special message to the legislature
d? nouncing The State and claimint
Tat Dr. Douglas approved claims fo
1 - own salary at $10,000 when hi
^' v he sn.'u .d have received onl;
|0. The State claimed that a
I1" Douglas had been promised $10.
"" -alary by the trustees of th<
1 ' rsity that The State wa> houhv
' > eat act anil that such salar
- . i have been provided by tH
, 1('~ -v.ure, and that the g .vcrno
have been bound by ;ha
, .ust h.s he stated he was b..un<
b> .i j mmise made a convict n thi
iH-nu. ;ary by officials of the petii
tent .a; \ that if he behaved he wi,u|.
led.
1F , diacussion has resulted .*
, mur' . mharrassment to the head o
the State University as well as t(
all concerned. Governor Richards i
not without responsibility in thi
matterr He Is chairman of the boari
of trustees of the University, and a.<
such should have been informed a
to what waa being done. If he knev
that the salary of Dr. Douglas ha<
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been fixed at $7,500 he should not
have silently permitted it to be paid
the entire year and in December first
advised Dr. Douglas after the $10,000
salary had been all paid. No one
! believes that Dr. Douglas would have
I accepted a penny more than had been
finally agreed upon.
Another thing which is after all
responsible for the mix-up was the
veto in 1927 of Governor Richards
of the salary for the secretary of the
budget commission and the elimination
of this agent of the State whose
business it was to see that the budget
was expended as it was enacted
into law. With no secretary of the
budget commission to advise heads of
the State departments of the appropriations
is it any wonder that wrong
amounts should have been paid out?
Perhaps a further checking of the
different departments will reveal additional
discrepancies. "Sir Walter"
Duncan was paid it is understood,
some $2,000 or $2,500 salary for a
two-months job of preparing the
budget, and this amount added to
what was paid in error to Dr. Douglas,
if error it* he, would offset the
amount ^aved by the Governor's veto
of the salary of the budget secretary.
If there is to be a budget for 1
operating the State then there should
be a budget secretary, or some officer
charged with the responsibility
of seeing that the items appropriated
are properly expended, else there
might be additional error? more costly
and more disastrous than the one
under discussion.
As to the matter of the State's being
bound by the trustees of the University*
we think there is no question.
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There certainly is a moral obKgati*
if not a legal one for the appropritting
body of the general assembly t?
mak^ good the promises of its officers,
just as Governor Richarit
made good the promise of t^e peti-H
tentiary officials in the parole of >
dangerous criminal. The questiM
now is not whether or not $10,000?
too large a salary to pay the head tl
the University, but whether or
the moral obligation of the State i?
to be ignored. Rather than send I
message to the legislature condemt-/
ing The State - for upholding^w^
honor of the State, it would see?;
more appropriate for a message urging
the general assembly to see tW
the good name of the State wefc
protected and the promises of J?..
agents carried out.?Walterboro Pw?
and Standard.
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