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I ? Explains Attitude on Teacher's Salaries Laurens, S. C. Feb. 23, 1934 Editor the Wateree Messenger: An erroneous interpretation on the part of some about my attitude concerning an increase in teachers' salaries has gone out as a result of thei quotation of certain passages from my lotter to the Honorable J. A. Spruill. For that reason I consider it wise to publish the entire text of the lotter tor tho correct information <if the citizenship generally.' Of course I could- have gone to the General Assembly and said to that body you must do so and 90, thereby, probably arousing a hostility which would bo very hard to overcome. It has ahuays been my opinion that a smooth, gentlemanly approach to a business proposition is soundest. C. K. WRIGHT. The text of"the letter follows: Laurens, S. C., Jan. 31, 1934. Honorable J. Spruill, State House, v ' Columbia, South Carolina. My dear Mr. Spruill: This lotter, 1 assure oou, is written out of a spirit of cooperation and patriotic service. There is at this time, so I am informed, a Bill pending in the General Assembly whereby teachers' salaries would bo raised ten per cent for next year, ami it is about this that I write. The true teacher of tho State is not only concerned about the welfare of the schools, but in addition to this institution, she is concerned about the welfare of all legitimate departments of State government. We are therofre, not asking for anything this year which will in any way placs in jeopardy the credit of the State, its taxing system, or any of its governmental functions. However, if those close to the facts feel that teachers can be paid a little more without placing any extra burden upon the taxpayers of the State, and at the same time carry on the other depart* ' ments of state, then there will be no more appreciative body than will be the teachers. On the other hand, if the General Assembly feel that there can be no increase at this time, the. teachers will' carry on. We realize more fully than any other group that the children of the State must not become vagrants upon the streets and highways and a charge upon society. We J.now that the schools must bi kept open. We have demonstrated that principle over the past two years when the school would certainly have closed but for the high patriotic service of the teachers. Many of us went month after month without compensation, or the hope of compensa:<<n. We are willing to sacrifice again if the State calls Upon us to do it., Wo leave the case in the hands of our friends in the General Assembly, feeling that they will do the best they can for the State at large. If there is any information which I can give, or if there is any suggestion which you desire from the teachers, I shall be pleased to cooperate with you. With kind personal regards and best wishes, 1 am Cordially yours, C. K. WRIGHT,' 1'resident S. C. Education Association "The Three Invisible Powers" This will be the themo next Sunday, morning for the Men's Bible Class at the Methodist 'Sunday school. Notwithstanding the inclement weather, there were about fifty men present last Sunday and heard Dr. Wimber;y's great address of "Things Colossal." It was a message that the men will not soon forget. These address-! s are, of such intense interest and *ower,' that anyone who misses them will miss something worthwhile. We 1,ope to have a full class attendance next Sunday. Let .everyone invite .mi'one not now attending. Hour, '< a. m.-?Jack Moore, secretary. Honor Roll For Midway Grade 1.?William Horton, Laura U-e Henry, Demmie Young, Betty West. Grade 2.?Myrtle Corbett, Sarah Davis, Sarah Catherine Watkins, John McCoy, Perry Lee McCoy, Ralph Young. Grade 3.?Colene H*ll. Grade 6.?Pauline Catoe, Lurmell Elliott, Myrtle Horton, Lewis Lea West. Grade 6.?Archie Gordon, Ferris Joyner, J. R. Teal, Margaret West, Margaret Yarborough. Grade 7.?Thelma Brannon, Mary Evelyn Hunnicutt, Elizabeth McCoy, Roddy Rozier, Dolly Stokes. ' Grade 8.?Margarette Andersen, Emily McCoy. Grade 9.?Etehlyne Corbett, Ruth Walters. Grade 10.?Willie C. Andersont Oralie Brannon, Martha Moaeley, Thelma Stokes, Blanche Threatt, * ? f ' 1 ? J ? ? 9J :'* **" ' ~ Nobody's Business Written fer TSe CfcreaieU by Geo M?Gee,> Copyrigfct, IMS. WORSE THAN STATIC . .iSome folks think that if a follow can write a pieco for the newspapers every day....he can speak in public, preach a funeral, preside at a school commencement, and lust but not .least ?give a radio program. ..A friend who did not know that. 1 could not talk face to face into a microphone convinced mo that I should uppear on a few programs to be arranged by him. 1 fell for his dope, and undertook the stunt a few nights ago. ih *? , J hashed up a dozen notes that I thought I could make a 12-mipute speech with. .,/just jotted down a word here and there on a card. The time arrived; I was introduced. That microphono looked n lileo a 44-Colt pistol pointing into my face. ..The first thing happened was.... my mouth got so dry I couldn't even whisper; the next trouble came when my tongue clove to the roof of my mouth, and then I began to sweat great drops of perspiration. I couldn't think what a single word on my card meant. .. I began to mumble something in French; I shifted to Portugese, and a minute later, I was using soft Spanish and Yiddish words every now and then. Anyway, what I was saying was all Dutch to me. I finally worked back to English, the only language that I can use at all, and that poorly. ..If that microphono had jumped at me, or sneezed in my face, or simply said "Ouch," I would have lit out the window at my left, and I am sure I would have been running yet. I was never so scared in my life. Standing up there talking into that little hole was too much for me. . .1 got thru at last. I was wringing wet. My -hair was standing right straight up on top of my bald head. The second night, I wasn't quite so pitiful with fright. 1 showed some improvement with the third effort. People are wonderful institutions. Lots of my friends, thru sympathy, no doubt?told me that. ."We certainly enjoyed your talk."v Think of nice folks who are willing to stretch the truth a yard or so to help a guy feel that mebbe he did say a few good things o^er the radio after all. GO GET 'EM JOHNSON . . A man from a collecting agency called at my office the other day and endeavored to prove that he and his folks could collect any debt . . . regardless of age, color, what for, Why, when and by whom contracted, dead or alive. . . He showed some statements where he had actually sued a lawyer and collected $55,000. I believed nearly everything he said till he told that. He got $20.00 from a corpse, and followed 2 men and 3 women as far a's Egypt, and held them with a mandamus till they came -across with a board ibill amounting to $4.35. . . He was no respector of persons, firms, institutions, or character. He made a preacher pay a grocery bill that had been running 22 years. He said further that he could collect a reasonable sized debt from a politician, provided, of course, that the said politician was still in office or trying to get in. (No chance at all when they are out.) . . He had a stack of testimonials as high as my knee. He wore a detective's badge concealed under his coat and that kept me scared put nigh to death all of the time. I am horribly afraid of the law. He intimated that his agency could get money out of rich folks on grocery bills, funeral accounts and even for doctors' bills, and so forth. Of course, I didn't believe that. . .His charges were as follows: $50.00 down when the accounts were sent in. After he had collected $500.00, he said I could deduct the $50.00 from my last remittance. He explained how he went after delinquent accounts. He first wrote them a white letter; that was followed in 10 days with a blue letter, and if no cash was forthcoming, he then wrote them a red letter. Then he quit; if a man or woman or farmer won't pay an account after receiving hia "red letter" the account waa then considered n. g., and loat. ..He told one big one that made me think he was a complete fake. He said that hia firm had collected newspaper subscriptions 2 years after the newspaper had been stopped, and had also collected $4.00 from a man who couldn't read for a magazine that he had never seen. I have been knowing for years and years that the only way (generally speaking) for a newspaper to get paid at all for a subscription is and was , . . collect in advance, and get the cash?not a 1-t' 'v".Y ' ? . 7 Greensboro Badly Hurt by Freeze-Up "Greensboro, C., Fob. 27?Greensboro began to return to normal today after one of the greatest frecze-ups in its history. As stock-taking began indications were that damage would mount into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. The city emerged from 24-hours of helplessness this morning as electrical service was resumed, and its residents began to sum up their experiences. It was the first time cities in this area, uccustomod to comparatively mild weather, and unprepared for blizzards, had been so tied up since the days of dependence on , modern foqpis of cooking, communication and transportation. I Shortage of food Was the greatest menace from Sunday night until this morning. With electric refrigerators and stoves not working, the supply of gas running short, a real emergency was faced for a few hours. For 15 hours every house and business establishment was dark. Were without electricity, scores of families were forced from their homes when oil burning furnaces -were put out of commission by tho power failure. Thousands had not even their work to warm them as manufacturing plants, except for a small number with auxiliary power plants, could not operate. Street traffic was badly hampered and workers in the taller buildings were forced to climb as many as 17 stories to candle and lamp-lit offices, where they found themselves practically helpless through lack of telephones. Hotel and cafe men suffered nightmares, theaters were closed entirely, and silence held its greatest sway in years as radios stood idle and orchestras had no.light by which to road their scores. J Ninety-Nine Years Given to Kidnapers Chicago, Feb. ' 23.?With Roger Touhy and two others sentenced to 99 years, the state of Illinois embarked today on a relentless search to corral other members of the Touhy gang for the $70,000 John Factor kidnaping. While Touhy, Albert Kator, and Gus Schaefer raged in their cells, Prosecutor Wilbert F. Crowley announced every state in the union would be asked to assit in a hunt for .Charles "Ice Wagon" Connors, Joe Silvers and other members of Touhy's notorious band of desperadoes. The three convicts will not be eligible for parole until 33 years are served. Each is in his thirties. In their cells today, they maintained loudly that- they were innocent. Crowley indicated Isaac Costner and W. A. Henrichsen, who became state's witnesses, might never have to stand trial for the kidnaping. But indicated there would be no mercy for Basil "The Owl" Banghart, captured with Costner in Baltimore recently. Banghart, allegedly active in the' Factor kidnaping, refused to testify for the state. Robert S. Mebane Dead . Chester, Feb. 2(L?-Robert S. Meb- , ane, Sr., former president of the Re- ] public Cotton Mills at Great Falls, died in Pittsburgh, Pa., said word received here today. Tentative funeral arrangements call for services at Greensboro, N. C., "Wednesday. Mr. Mebane formerly was a banker at Great Falls, and recently had been connected with the U. S. Chamber of Commerce at Washington. Among survivors are his widow, , the former Miss Mira Hun; a son, Robert S. Mebane, Jr., and a daughter, Miss Miranda Mebane, check. I did not subscribe for this service . . .as everybody that I have credited during the past 25 years have paid their bills promptly when due. (Please don't wake me up). NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND1 CREDITORS All parties indebted to the estate of John Mickle, deceased, are hereby notified to mako payment to the undersized, and all parties, if any, having claims against the said estate will present them likewise, duly attested, within the time prescribed by Law. J. H. McLEOD, Executor of the Estate of John Mickle. Camden, S. C., February 27th, 1934. 49->52sb FINAL DISCHARGE Notice is hereby given that one month fropi thia date, on the twentythird day of March, 1934, at eleven o'clock a. m., I will make to the Probate Court of Kershaw County my final accounting and return as Guardian of the person and eatate of James Kirkland Clyburn, deceased, and on the same date I will apply to the said court for a final discharge aa said Guardian. W. R. CLYBURN, Guardian of the Person and Estate of James Kirkland Clyburn, J. Camden, ?. C., Feb. 23, 1934. _ , / * 4 - : . ifi IT* *V_L 'p * S ^ _ ^ ^ " m ^ tv ^ _ >??.it,' j f? Passenger Plane Wrecked In Utah ?- I Salt Lake City, Feb. 25.?The bodies of seven men and a woman were found tonight in the wreckage of a United Air liner which crashed on a flight from Salt Lake City to Cheyenne, Wyo. Rescue parties pushed through the snow from 'Salt Lake City after the smashed airplane was sighted from the air at dusk, and flashed back the I news that the craft's five passengers urfd crew of three were dead. , Pilot Lloyd Anderson, a 32-yearold flier with V.OOO hours' experience, apparently had brushed the plane against a knoll in seeking to surmount the Wasatch mountains or the plane had developed mechanical trouble in the murky weather Friday. Apparently the group met death instantly. The body of Miss Mary Carter, the stewardess, was found intact. Those of the two pilots and the Ave passengers were mangled. The wreckage was found only 20 miles from Salt Lake City at the top of Parley's canyon, leading out of the Salt Lake Valley. Searching parties had covered hundreds of squard miles in hunting the lost ship during the previous 60 hours. Pilot Don Broughton and Co-pilot Crfcighton H. Geer, aboard one of the even planes that pressed the search today in the face of hazardous flying weather, were preparing to return to their base here when they sighted the missing craft, lying nose down. Government expenditures for the fiscal year have passed the $4,000,000,000 mark. n 4 ' '-'T-Z" * " a; - - 7? BPS3taBC?~??*-t? J- ? ' " 1 ? Capt. Ecldie Rickenbaker, mail flyer, crossed from Los Angeles to Newark, N. J., Monday in 13 hours and 4 minutes in a bi-motored transport plane, lowering the record for that typo of plane about seven hours. He brought 200 pounds of mail and made only three stops for fuel. I II I / ' ==== ~m Three Georgia brothers met in Atlanta en route north to buy goods. They met friends and in a fashionable apartment house room they took "small sips" with these friends. When . 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