Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SHANNON, Manager DeKulh Street Telephone 7 imentous Issue ' Decided By Court Jiington, Feb. 18.?Dividing > four, the supreme court to1 effect swept away any govnt or private obligation to pay ionds in gold. tf Justice Hughes, delivering ajority opinion in a courtroom with the realization of an his-| moment, said congress must be 0 deal as it saw fit with mat- j hich would affect the currency,! he court must take account of it economic conditions even in! on contracts. ] renting?with three of his col;s?Justice Mclleynolds said: e constitution is gone." ile invalidating the law saying nment obligations need not be] n gold, the court simultaneously j 1 holders of federal bonds the to sue for redress in the court lims. s right also was denied holders i> old gold certificates, who had it to get $1.69 for each dollar eir certificates. ? government won all along the with regard to private bonds and and municipal gold contracts, each case, by five to four all id, the court upheld the right ngress to regulate the currency, ief Justice Hughes read the maj opinion. reading the views -of the dis-i rs, Justice McReynolds said "the itution has been swept away." reference to the federal gold s, which were held to be an obion that could not be repudiated, lecision took note of potential efon national economy should the rs be allowed to sue for more face value. x i view of the adjustment of the nal economy to the single measof value as established by t/he ation of the congress," the ma' had held, "and the universal ability and Use throughout the ry of the legal tender currency i-eting all engagements, the payof the plaintiff of the amount i he demands would appear to itute not Recoupment of loss in proper sense but an unjustified nment. ?v. laintiff seeks to make his case ' upon the theory that by reason change in the weight of the ' he is entitled to one dollar and -nine cents in the present cur for every dollar promised by 5 <1, regardless of any actual has suffered with respect to -action in which his dollars used. We think that position able." h'*c President Roosevelt withheld elation was evident among -ors both in congress and :'"Vn. are .not concerned with con'r s" said the court, "in the, '.hat consequences, however ?nay excuse an invasion of I 'tional right. ^ire concerned^ with the consti nd power of the congress over the monetary system of the country and its attempted frustration. "Exercising that power, the congress has undertaken to establish a uniform currency, and parity between kinds of currency and to make that currency, dollar for dollar, legal tender for the payment of debts. "In the light of abundant experience, the congress was entitled to chooso'such a uniform monetary system, and to reject - a dual system, with respect to all obligations within the range of the exercise of its constitutional authority. "The contention that these gold clauses are valid contracts and can not be struck down proceeds upon the assumption that private parties, and state and municipalities may make and enforce contracts which may limit that authority. "Dismissing that untenable assumption, the facts must be faced. "We think that it is clearly shown that these (gold) clauses interfere with the exertion of the power granted to the- congress and certainly it is not established that the congress arbitrarily or capriciously decided that such an interference existed." While there was a little uncertainty at the White House as to the exact ruling on federal bonds, there was no indication that presidential action was imminent. The court's position on private bonds applied as well to bonds issued by state and municipalities. 1 Regarding gold certificates, Hughes .specified the court of claims had no jurisdiction. As to whether holders had the right to recover actual damages when gold coin is not paid, the court reminded that tha admitted congress had power to regulate currency and' deliver gold. . As to federal bonds Hughes said the law was not. a valid act When it applied dollar for dollar in payment of government bonds, the question being whether congress can Invalidate the pledge which the government made when ft pledged its credit in issuing bonds. Congress cannot ignore the promise which the government had made, he said, and congress cannot repudiate the government's obligations. But, it developed subsequently,, those who consider themselves to have suffered wrongly from the contested law cannot sue for the additional money they believe their due. "The constitution is gone," McReynolds stated in delivering one of the dissents. His emphatic view was that it cquld not be disclosed at this'time what would be the effect "of what i has been done here this day." He pointed out the solemn promise ! the government had made in the sale) of its bonds that purchasers would! receive payment in gold. ... -ill* "Opinion was in reference to j the federal bonds case. There was no way at the time of telling how many justices joined him, whether there was a division on all the cases. His wo^ds were listened to with rapt attention \)y the crowded courtroom. I Enterprise Building and Loan Association I Member United States B\iilding & Loan League J j? J* J? /I Installment shares sold in Monthly Series. Pay- j I ments One Dollar a Share. Fully Paid Stock at One 1 I Hundred per share pays 5% Annually. i s * jt # V Office Hours Daily 9 A. M. to 3 P. M. 1 |w. R. Zemp, IVetfld**. IxH. Scherik, 9#cy.* +re**. Lights of New York by L. L. STEVENSON Vuiilrucl bridge players hflio lako part in t<~unuuu<-ii(s hu\e tinny pot bui tTMtiiirns, according to .Mrs. Arthur II. Loueks?bIio was Miss Mabel pierson whyj she wub in tin* Detroit mayor's ollice in (lie administration of the late Oscar II. Mini?the l.nrclimoiit bridge teacher. For Instance, I*. Hal Sims?"he who give# slupa"-^-ltas a rocking chair In which he Bits while he plays. His initials are curved In the handles so there Is no mistaking the chair. Well, a lot of other tournament players have also adopted rocking chairs. They lake them with them from table to table. The last big tournament was played In the convention hall at Ashury Park. The lloor Is concrete and the scraping rockers made quite a racket. That wasn't all. The regular chairs were of metul. and as they had to he moved to other tables, I he din was increased accordingly, * * * At that same tournament, there was the woman who had a pug dog?OJUe of the real old-fashioned kind seen so seldom nowadays?in her arms while she played. The dog, Mrs. I/otieks said, seemed to know bridge as when the opponents were considering their hands, it would growl, am] when the opponents got uti to a slam, it would hark excitedly. While the play was going on, It would sleep contentedly, and being a pug, of course It snored. When the pug wasn't sleeping. It kept Its eyes fixed on those who were playing against its mistress. * ? Also learned what "pulling a coffee house" Is. It means stampeding opponents into making a wrong bid or passing u game-going possibility, it is done in various manners. One woman did It by arriving late ut the table where she was to piny and having a luncheon delivered to her and her companion during tiie bidding, (lentlc game, tournament contract with everything dependent on muthematica and Intellectual acumen, eh, what? Curious thing, but the drouth has had an effect on the toys that will surround the next Christmas trees. Newspaper headlines?and the talk of elders?has stimulated y^ung America's Interest in farm life, according to the experts. So, at a recent showing by the Toy association, construction sets that formerly featured historical log cabins or skyscrapers or bridges now offer complete burnyards for five-yearolds to build along with authentic housing for cows, bogs, sheep and horso3 as well as proper fencing. Rven electric train sets are now equipped with pasture and barnyard scenes to line the tracks and gas stations five the landscape a further tonch of realism. P * * Sheep and cow a are popular In the push and pull Jtfitepory. They come in wood, Metal end composition and some have real skins and voices. There are dolls In farm costumes and tractors, dump carts, trucks and farm wagons. Oh, yes. Starving cattle, the experts say, here renewed young America's interest to the cowboy. So many ten-gallOP hats, furred pants, holsters and lassos were on display. fc ..AA' little white iifo, I made reference to the varied tasks performed by the police emergency squad. A nQvel one was recently added to the - list. A twenty-three-months*old baby got her head caught between the bars of her crib. All efforts to free her having failed, the emergency squad was called. Within a few minutes she was free, the police merely having snwed one of the bars. That Isn't all, however. While the other coppers were at work, ?ne the baby stories to keep her mind off her troubles. And he did It so well that he got sway only by telling the baby he had to go home and tell a story to his own little girl! ?. Bell Ryndtc&te.?WNU Service. Three-Foot Arrowhead Discovered in Illinois Lynn Center, 111.?A huge nrrowhend weighing 58 pounds and measuring 30 inches hi -> length by 10 Inches in width, which Is believed to have been used In Indian Ceremonials, was found recently by Itussell Charisen of Lynn .Center. He believes it Is the largest arrowhead in existence. The stone Is fashioned from a light brown rock and bears the traditional convex bump on one side and concave depression on the other. Seattle Starts Erection of Largest Arboretum Seattle.?-Construction of a vast arboretum, claimed to be one of the largest in the world, Is under way at Seattle. The municipal project, covering"200 acros, will contain almost all varieties of trees and plants which will grow In the Puget sound area. 1 Family of 4 Lives Two Years on $200 Seattle.?That fhey. their two children and a housekeeper have lived very comfortably on a total - Income of $200, is'the modest claim of Mr. and 'Mrs. Parrnr Bum. Mr. ' 'Burn, -a nutslcftfftrttnd Mrs. Burn, * vrttor, work ht|Iy enough each ! year to meet their scant demands. . They Uve on a -small island of the I iheautlftil Had tftian group, with a 1 va## * -gdtiJefi and a sea fujl of fish its provide their rocnla. 4y - , !?_ Arthur Seniors Roche, 51, short story writer and novelist, died at his home at West l'alm Reach, Fla., after an illness uf two weeks with heart disease. Heroic work by physicians and nurses saved the lives of 42 patients when fire destroyed a hospital at Murray, Ky., Sunday. Property loss is estimated at $150,000. Catholic Bishop Bares of Berlin, issued a proclamation on Sunday against the "abuse of alcohol." He declared that the consumption of alcohol is increasing "omindtisly." A 13-year-old boy of Buffalo, N. Y., is dead as the result of being choked to death when the leash of a dog with which he was playing, got wound around his neck, fiee in the state capitol at Richmond. Flemington, N. J., now has the appearances of a deserted village, following' the end of the Hauptmann trial. Three Dollar Motor License Tag Bill Columbia, Feb. 20.?A bill to enact $3 motor vehicle licenses in line with Governor Olin D. Johnston's sweeping highway reorganisation program was introduced totlay in the house of representatives Lightning Leave* Freak Trail Through Domicile Gr'oton, Conn.?Lightning left d I freak trail through Ernest* Blackington's home. Striking a tree, it dug a ditch to the porch, pushed a cart 15 feet, split the kitchen linoleum, then smashed a door casing, followed a water pipe to the sink, twisting the pipe near a faucet, tore a moulding on a screen door, knocked plnster from the celling, and left through the roof, displacing shingles and leaving two large holes. I BASIC SLAG I I THE 6-in-l SOIL BUILDER I Average Analysis J I Total Phosphoric Acid 8 to 10% Manganese Oxide 3% | ( Iron Oxide 18.50% (Equivalent to 6% Mun^aneae Sulphate) j | Silica 8.00% Fineness thru 100-meah screen ,. Over 80.00% flj II Magnesium Qxide (Lime) 6.50% This product is offered as a Soil Builder and j Calcium Oxide (Lime) 45.85% Soil Conditioner j I Springs & Shannon, inc. Whitaker & Co. I I Sole Agents for Kershaw County I ' ' - - - f" i- -r Highest Yield1 ost cotton *M oorn 9w*wm the Bouih w^ll envy $he rec-< ords made last seteon fcy Iff. A- P. Johns of Toccoa, peoijfla, pictured above. Op ap gcre, gf cotton' * J*10| staple, ht obtained a yfeld "of 1,876 lbs. of and pf ?fd. result vm ft net gain of on the acre. On his cotton, Mr. Johns used 4tf> lhs. of a 4-10-4 fertiliser ft njanlipg and Si4?rdresse4 > stub !06 ibis, of American nitrate 6f soda. With the same application on an acre of corn, he made 169 bu. of Hastings Prolific at a net gain of %|140,65. ... Both damonatratione were eon-' - i ?????I?WP51 4uote4 Wfidef the supervision of the American Cotton Association and ' flejttor Farming Campaign. Ool. Jfarvle Jordan, Managing Director of the Aaipclatpm ?Ud that ftU of the Association's rpsultf last sea op prove the ?piHe pf tefonsive culture. "There are two things I'm sure qf," Col Jordan remarked, "Anh t^ey we that fe g44therperp have to adopt intensive fillip* ip the field ana have to support our home Industries. When I look at a result like this, i^ado with our own Southern nitrate of so4a, think . we have a combination the WujuIo 'world can't beat." mmmmmmmmmmm fr- ? -?si YOU'RE ON "The Scene of Action" WHEN YOU READ THE STATE DAILY AND SUNDAY \ Try to visualize, if you can, the hundreds of interesting "goings-on" throughout the world every 24 hours . . . and you'll appreciate just how effective the many news-gathering agencies of The State must be in order to enable you to sit in your home each morning and read of their every detail . . . permitting you to picture them as vividly as | if you were on "the scene of action." 28,000 families (perhaps over 100,000 people) rely on The State to bring them the NEWS of the world. Happenings across the oceans, State and National Legislative reports, sports, society, financial and general news are brought to you every morning, week day and Sunday! j Both children and grown-ups alike read The State with enthusiasm, finding it the most interesting newspaper in South Carolina. Only $9 a year will bring you South Carolina's Leading Newspaper daily and Sunday?less than 2 l-2c per day?and you'll And it the greatest investment you've ever made for yourself and your family. THE STATE 1 > Columbia, S. C. mah. rour suascaiption todayi |jj i