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Shtnins'? Pranks Around Kershaw ..,rsh,w experienced an unusual ; 1 storm .Monday morning, ^ctrsca ^v!.tk that 8hot ono bolt frtlouehrul several spots with va^ .ffects. The transformer at ryin?A' er where Zach Parker, one T,ho electricians who has to look , \! such matters, lives, was shot ! ?nd damaged, and another just a ?, more than a block away at the f S T. Taylor suffered like SL'o?a'i in Mr. Taylor's home the * was shit tiered from the meter j ^rtj th<> strainer knocked out of the Ihen- .ink. At the home of L. L. rroxton near Mr. Taylor's, a dresser ? the bedrest *ns struck and dam1 j(js radio moved to some disfl'ce from where it was standing 'Vmi' t'roxton slightly shocked, f -he home of C. P. Mobley, also " arW. Mr. Mobley was standing in Jy-i hack doorway watching the pro-J of the storm when the light-j tig van ;V-? the house on a wire. J. | "Si'WelS's ja.iio was put out of com-1 ,, ;S t>r. ai d Leltoy Croxton nearby was shuck oil. At the Kershaw cotvn nulls the lightning ran through .> building putting several motors out of* commission and fi ightcning he operatives considerably. At his farm a few miles of Kor-1 shaw. Mayor C. F. Clyburn had a cow and two hogs killed by the lightning, and only about a week before he had two mules killed and lost his 5arn and contents, including about) two hundred bushels of corn from the same cause, lightning. At the home of the editor of The Era it struck on the roof of the bath room, at the west end where the out-*! side flue joints the eaves, shot a hole j through the roof, tearing loose a , tueee of ceiling'just above^the heater p:pe, casting the pipe to the middle of the bath-room, tearing a stop1 from the above window and whirling it to the opposite end of the room, tearing'ofT also some plastering from the flue and hurling it through the door into a hallway about twelve feet distant, breaking some lights out of the windows, put out of commission; the light switch in the front hall room, broke the glass frpm the front' room, broke the glass from the front of the meter, cut the connecting wire of the radio in the living room and scorched the wainscoating behind the radio, damaging also the radio, and stopped the watch of ye editor lying or; a chair beside the head of the bed where he was reposing between the open door and window when the bolt made the room livid with light as it struck the roof of the bath room only a >hort distance from the open window.?Kershaw Era. Insult to Injury The dolilist had just called on one of his clients to try to collect a bill for a full set of false teeth he had made for him about a year ago. "Did he pay you?" asked his wife. ''Pay me!" echoed the dentist, scornfully. "NAt only did he refuse to pay me, but he actually had the effrontery to gnash at me?with my teeth!" Mt. Pisgah ___ School News Honor Koll For Eighth Month Grade 1.?Dora Lee Phillips, L. C. Ogburn, Clarence Porman, Harold Hyrd, Ralph' Catoe, Muroe Sullivan, Ianiise Boone, Alvin Holley, Lola Mae Muse ley. Grade 2.-*?Betty Jo Mungo, Louise Roberts, Pauline Bird, Albortine Patoe, Lee Catoe, Thomas Horton, Wade C. llolley, Jr., Huylo Lee, Oletta Haley, Polly Sowell, Mindal Sullivan. Grade J,?Bob Horton, Virginia Lee, Harry Haley, Perry" Baker. Grade -1.?Junior Brown, Etta' Faile, Bernice Roberts, Bennie Joyce, Threatt, Ruby Lee Catoe, Lillie Mae Gardner, Ray Holley. Grade 5.? Nannie Lee Baker, It. lb Baker, Catherine Boone, Dorothy Bird, Bvrnico Johnson, John W. Mangum, Meta Mungo. Grade 0.?Marie Threatt, Gary Sowell. Alone Sowell, Margaret Haley, Charlie Munn, "Coley Carnes, Lula Grace Byrd, Vallerie Brown. Grade 7\?- Margaret Brown, Myitis Catoe, Myrtle Gardner, Elihu Itedick. Grade 8.?-Virginia Richardson, Eva Hasty, Fred B. Horton, Jr., Robert Fletcher, Mattie Mungo, Cleo Elliott. Grade (J.?Cleo Eu banks, Sarah Lee Holley, Virginia Catoe, Pete Mangym, Ira Sowell. Grade 10.?Dorothy Elliott, Masio Candy, Kermit Taylor. Grade 11.?Ruth Raley, Ethel Faile, Claude Phillips, Catherine Johnson. The following pupils received certificates of promotion from the seventh grade: Cleo Baker, Joe Carnes, William Bird, Margaret Brown, Myrtis Catoe, Willie B. Catoe, Clyburn Catoe, K. T. Eubanks, Myrtle Gardner, Gary Holley, Cletis Roberts, Margaret Horton, Robert Mungo, Zinnie Phillips, Elihu Redick, Cora Lee Stroude. The following pupils received state high school diplomas: Ethel Faile, Paul Sowell, Ruth Raley, Clarence Holley, Claude Phillips, Elmer Bradley and Catherine Johnson. COUNTY TREASURER'S ANNUAL REPORT FOR YEAR 1933-1931 (Continued From Page Six) The Texas Co. . 405.79 Mrs. Lillie M. Dunn 25.00 D. C. Hinson 15.00 McLeod & McLauchlin . . . . 15.00 Burns & Barrett Hardware Company 15.98 Frank Rabon 3.06 S. W. Hogue 105.00 Henry Norris 89.80 S. W. Hogue, Treas 1,152.60 L. R. Jones . . 50.00 Carl Horton 86.94 J. A. McCaskill 25.00 B. .T. Caston . . . 25.00 I. J. McKenzie 25.00 J. T. Ross 25.00 J. A. Roseborough 34.06 Mackey Hardware Company 13.40 Camden Lumber Co 117.88 Total $4,297.30 County Claims Paid April 1934 S. W. Rose $ 75.00 M. M. Reasonover 75.00 Southern Bell Telephone Co. 15.48 The National Cash Register Company 2.02 Burroughs Adding Machine Company 4,35 The Millet -Bryant Pierce Co. 2.00 t The R. I.. Hi van Company .. 127 MS j City Filling station ."7" . . .7 5.-76Shell Eastern Petroleum Corporation . , 121.P1 j CIul!' Relining Company .. .. 501.1*1] Camden Lumber Company .. 54.88 Carl A. Horton 433.09 j Lorick & l.owrance 36,59 I The Leader, Inc lk.7dv K. A. J en kins Ml.ni> Piedmont Coastal Motor Expies Company j Magneto A.* Fleetrie Service, lnc 4.IS j J., 1). Adams Co 101,51 J dell' Hunt Road Machinery Co. 300.41 Catamount Chemical Company 27,25 > City of Camden 32.00 j ,1. M. Villepigue & Co 21.75 Andrew B. Whitakor, M. D. . . 7.50 , Mrs. kathleen B. Watts .. .. 110.87 i S. W.^RoW 55.10 j ,1. 1>. \\'at son fn.oO | J. H. Clyburn M .. 241.21 j Mi.-o Lena M. l.ineborger .. 0?.50; Jenkins Repair Shop ",00 j Camden Hospital ?. .. ,. 1.110.18: L. R. Jones . . . . . x 5, ,;?0 Lewis Chiistmas 199.sOj The Texas Company u>10 The Home Furnishing Co 25.00 J. H. MeI.eod 309.30 (i. F. Cooley .. . Ill >s') | (i. ,\V. Monroe 13.00 j MeLeod ^ McLauchlin . . . . 14.50 j W. W, Caulhen 25.00 B. M. Smith .. ^ 02.50 W. F. Nettles & Son 40.00 ! Carolina Motor Company .. . 34.SO jW. D. Mc Do wall 8.00 ! Zemp & Trotter 35.Off The Kershaw Era .. 10.00 : II. D. Norris 100.40 ! A. L. Cook 30.26 (Catoe Brothers * 2.00 I Clyburn Motor Company ...7 17.30 Kennedy Insurance Agency .. 04.00 I Kershaw County Health Pej partment. 150.00 John S. Davidson 1.75 S. \V. Hogue, Treas. . , . . . . 103.75 S. W. Hogue, Treas 1,285.86 j Holland Office Supply Co. .. 10.00 Western Union Telegraph Co. 17.33 ! W. R. Taylor .. * 00.00 i D. A. West 50.00 I DeKalb Pharmacy 75.00 ' I"). E. Baxley 75.00 j W. T. Redfearn 50.00 J. H. Sowell 50.00 | E. B. Truesdale .. .. .. 50.00 Burns & Barrett 24.12 ! Clyburn Motor Company .. ..545.00 j ? Total .. $7,501.14 County Claims Paid May 1934 1 S. W. Rose $ 75.00 'A. J. Kellv la-50 ) The R. jb. Bryan Company . . 144.40 | l Paramount Chemical Co 14.16 The Waterce Messenger 11.12 (Stevens-Springs Company .. 10.00 (Carolina Motor Company .. . 41.31 | Eichel Department Store 20.71 1 The Texas Company 43.00 A. C. Rose 10.20 | ' Mackey Hardware Company .. 87.32 | j The Galion Iron Works 00.07 | E. A. .Jenkins 10.72 i j S. H. Ross . . .... . . 2.85 | , H. A. Rabon 37.50 j ! M. M. Reasonover 37.50 j G. F. Cooley ;. 128.10' J. H. MeLeod 301.lo City Filling Station 12.00 J. E. Carson . . 22.50 ! 1 J. M. Croxton 22.20 j j S. C. Truesdale 21 -(J0 j j City of Camden 24.76 | Gulf Refining Company . . . . 518.54 i D. E. Baxley 0- 15.00 . Southern Bell Telephone Co. 14.02 j The Kershaw Bra 4.00 i A. L. Cook 1S.60 ] Lewis & Christmas 203.35 G. A. Dowey or Bearer . . . . 10.20 | S. B. Kirkland 10-00 H. D. Norris - 120.25 Miss Lena M. Lineberger .. 62.50 Mrs. Kathleen B. Watts .. . . 122.52 W. B. Faulkenberry 2.70 , L. R. Jones 62.50 iW. B. Porter ... .. 12.50 H. H. (Sanders 12.50 S. W. Hogue 121.54 S. W. Hogue, Treas 1,952.82 Drennan's Garage 17.75 Associated Charities 300.00 Jeff Hunt Road Machinery Company pi.92 Burns & Barrett Hardware Company 31.87 Todd Sales Company 06.00 D. A. Lubricant Company .. 21.13 Jenkins Repair Shop 2.00 J. B. Rush 20 00 Total $5,116.77 RECAPITULATION County Claims Paid July 1st, 1933, To June 1st, 1934. 1033 July $ 5,072.81 August 3,437.28 September 10,022.07 October 5,264.59 November 8,211.90 December 19,456.55 1934 January 5,503.65 February 34,374.50 March 4,297.30 April 7,594.14 May 5,116.77 Total $108,352.55 Respectfully submitted, S. W. HOGUE, ? Treasurer Kershaw County SPECIAL TAX NOTICE An Act was passed at last session of Legislature allowing taxpayers in this county ten (10) years to pay their 1932 and back taxes in installments of one-tenth each year provided they pay current year's taxes each year before books close. This applies to real estate and personal property only when listed with real estate. Personal property taxes are in hands of Sheriff for collection as heretofore. Yours reepectfullr, S. W. HOGUE, This is the New Mower the Crowds Admired at A Century of Progress Last Year j Come in and go ooer the entire mower. You'll agree that you have never teen anything like it. v" McCormick-veering No. 7 Endosed-Gear Mower WE are anxious to have all of our friends see the New McCormick-Deering No. 7 Enclosed-Gear dower. We think it is one of the finest pieces of farm equipment we have ever sold! Everybody who has seen it says they never had any idea that a mower could be built as this one is. lor example: The entire operating mechanism, eluding drive gears, differential, and countershafts, is "^srmbled compactlv in an oil-tight gear housing T,ins in a bath of oik There are four high-grade roller * arings. Operation is so smooth and noiseless that fl i can scarcely h? ar the light hum of the sxckle! Special oil sea!- a: the cr.c.s of the r.ain axle and ny* heel shaft, and tnc on-tight gear box prevent leakage and protect all working parts ai'ajr.^t the entrance of d:rr and other abr'i' r' ; .ic. tcriafs. bloating action ^of r a 11 c r bar provides a, . r ? play without disturbing ki^^c registration. WHITAKER & CO. PHONE no. 4 rutledge st. hfcadquakters for international harvester co. equipment ? Gen. Johnson's Textile Statement ZL A (Special to Tho Now York Times) WASHINGTON, June 2.?The announcement by General Johnson on the textile strike settlement follows: "The threatened cotton.textile strike was conditioned on NKA rescind in^ its ow n order restricting machine hours 25 per cent during^the usual Summer slump, \vhjch for the past few years has averaged approximately 2o per Cent decline in production. At present there is a very large surplus of goouV unsohl and disastrous shut-downs were I threatened. The idea of the order was to spread these inevitable reductions over the whole industry equably (with exceptions for the I smaller mills and certain special eases) and thus t*> sustain employment on the widest possible basis. The order prevented shut-downs for long periods by requiring that, reductions be by days instead of weeks or months, except that shutdown. for normal causes, such as inventory, repairs, etc., shall not be prevented. No argument against either the wisdom or tho equity of this order Jlas been presented. On the contrary, labor representatives in the present conference admitted the necessity for this action and that the strike was not against the order at all, hut only to secure 33 1-3 per cent increase in hourly rates of pay and certain other demands. Labor's View of Issues. While NKA is willing to do anything it can compose differences , as they arise, it cannot proceed to any action under tho threat of a ! strike against its own order. Accordingly, the first article of settle- I 1 ment countermands the strike order. j : j Labor representatives in the present conference now concede that I ! the real issues are: ' I j (1) Their right to represent members of their union in collective h V; bargaining: M (2) Certain other grievances alleged to be in violation of the code; * I but principally, j (3) A demand for an increase of 33 1-3 per cent in the labor ele- I ment of the cost of cotton textiles. ! There is no question that labor is entitled to prompt and effective ! relief of any just complaint under 1 and 2. or of the duty of NKA to j insure it. The most effective instrumentality we have as yet tried in | j labor disputes was the President's suggestion in the settlement of the I j automobile strike. j There is already an Industrial Relations Board in the cotton textile I j industry and it has functioned exceptionally well?better, perhaps, ' I than any similar set up, but, to bring it into the field of action of the I j j Wollman Board its powers required further definition and its member- j I ship had to include a representative of labor in the cotton textile in- j dustry. j Auto Agreement the Basis j A basis of settlement was the administrator's agreement to urge j upon this industry such definition and amendment of the Industrial Relations Board as would accord with the President's formula in the > automobile settlement. Labor accepts this and it is believed that this will go far to quiet the present unrest and prevent future disturbance. Labor in this industry is also to be given representation on the I labor advisory board and is to have an adviser to the government mem- ) j bers on the Code Authority. Studies of all assertions of other griev- j I ances are to be continued. j j So much for the first two causes of complaint. As to wages, it is i clear that no such violent increase as 33 1-3 per cent in all wage scales, | if any, can be considered at this time. The rise in the price of cotton I' textiles has been one of the chief consumer complaints. j I Including the processing tax, raw cotton costs have increased 150 j j per cent. There has been a 70 per cent increase in labor costs due to ! : the code and other influences, and an increase of 94 per cent in cost | \ I of labor, material and supplies in cotton textiles. I j A very clear cause of decreased consumption is this increased cost j ] and increased prices which flow from it. In this situation any such j j increase in cost would paralyze production and employment and defeat j the very ends aimed at. | ! Reports Are "Corrected" j The course of negotiations have not been helped by the concurrent j newspaper debate between the parties to them. Fairness to NRA and j to a great industry and to its accomplishments for labor under the NRA j compels me to correct several inaccurate statements which appeared in ! news dispatches yesterday and which were attributed to officials of the I United Textile Workers. I A statement that the administration of the Cotton Textile Code, ; ! "through lack of enforcement has brought it to a point of pre-code con- I j ditions," is simply without foundation in fact. I know of no code un- j der the NRA that is administered more conscientiously and more ef- ! j fectively than this code has been and is administered by its Code j Authority. \ The statement that wages ^have been forced down to lower than 1 ever before" is equally unfounded. The very opposite is true. The- ] j record shows that the present hourly wage rate as well as weekly earn- i | ings adjusted to living costs (real wages) have reached and passed the j ' highest 1929 level. I Between April, 1933, and April 1934, payrolls in this industry in- I I creased over 100 per cent; between March 1933, and April 1934, em- | ployment increased 34 per cent. Average actual weekly earnings in- j j creased between March, 1933, and February, 1934, about 35 per cent. j ; i Points to Gains for Labor I j | The improvement of labor conditions under this code surpasses j that in any other industry, and, in addition to the wage improvements I i ! mentioned, include the wiping out of unfavorable working conditions j . , such as child labor, unconscionable hours and unregulated stretch-out. I The improvements have been retained and, alLr^e time they were j 1 obtained through NRA code hearing and month?f of patient work ! with the Cotton Textile Institute prior to the code, there was no sub- j stantial labor organization in the industry. i i For that \tork the generous co-operation of the industry, with the j 1 steady insistence of NRA, deserves credit. In such circumstances in- I ! sistence that labor in this industry cannot expect protection under the | 5 ! code except through membership in a particular union is also unwar- j i ranted. It is not necessary to be a member of a particular union in( i ! order to enjoy the benefits of the Cotton Textile Code. ' j This is Code No. 1?that of the first industry to answer the Presi- j , dent's early observations on the benefit of the principles of NRA, made ! three weeks before the enactment of the law. vStrictures on the good faith of that industry are unwarranted and unjust." This statement is reprinted by the Cotton Manufacturers' Association of South Carolina, exactly as it appeared in the New York Times except that six of the important points are emphasized by the use of bold faced type. -j ? - - ? a