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28, we give twenty |
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k True C>p*il?it(?i
I with Mock Hog. Here
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I Buckingham Street,
I Norfolk, Vo. Read It,
"try Mack Nag, then
| tend your* with your
own ood deuler't
pome, oddrei*. If
i, you win your dealer
: uet* on equal price.
S Mack Hog Co*
:j Baltimore, AAd^B^
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jtod iumm*r any mor*. La it lummir, (
ghtf thq |j>*it* hod driv*n Hi* family
gbftoit wild, I r*m*mb*r*d how much b*H*r
Hock Hag wot for oth*r Insects to I d*dd*d
to try U on Hi* mosquitoes. From i
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QUICKER SUB FBI
bp Pay Of State
Offices Is $7,500
Columbia, July 5.?Announcement
it Ben M. Sawyer, chief highway
umlssioner, will now receive a salr
of $6,000 a year, makes him the
jjeit paid bead of a state departnt,
a survey here has revealed. *
The highest salary paid a member
the state's officialdom, however, is
500 and eleven receive that amount.
u are the governor, the superlnd
of the State hospital, two Justs
of the state supreme court and
ren circuit judges.
Ihree justices of the supreme court
ive $6,750, nd seven circuit Judgreceive
$6,750. The reason for
?e differences in the salaries of
members of the judiciary is thiB:
finally, the salaries of all justices
the supreme court, arul' of the eirt
judges was $7,500. Later it was
Inced to $6,750, but those who were
cted under the old scale continue
receive that salary,
n the $6,000 bracket, along with
ryer, are the president^ of the four
tecolleges, the University of South
rolina. Clemson college, Winthrop
lege and The Citadel,
iext to Sawyer among salaries of
irtment heads is th&t received by
iiirman of the state tax_?omWalter
G. Query, whose
isation this year was raised to
and of J. S. Williamson, the
fghway engineer, who also now
s $6,400.
wing are the salaries of deat
heads for the fiscal year
darted July 1:
ighway commissioner ..$6,000
an of tax commission .. 5,400
ilghway engineer (J. S.
imson) 5,400
y General (John M. Dan
5,000
ry-Treasurer "state highcommission
(O. P.
?) 4,800
flloner of agriculture (J.
ones) . 4,000
electric utilities divisublic
service commission
f. Pollard) 4,000
Secretary of state (W. P. Blackwell)
3,600
State treasurer (E. P. Miller) . 3,600
Comptroller General (A. J. Beattie
3,600
Adjutant general (JameH C. Dozler
3,600
State health officer (Dr. James
A. Hayne) .... 3,600
Director rural sanitation and
county health work (I)r. Ben
Wyman) 3,600
General counsel, state tax commission
(Claude K. Wingate) 3,600
Chief bank examiner (E. A.
Wayne) 3,600
Director state aeronautics commission
(Dexter Martin) .... 3,600
Insurance commission (Sam B.
King) 3,600
Two members of state tax commission
(J. P. Derham and
John G. Ttichards, each) .... 3,500
State auditor (J. M. Smith) .. 3,500
Chief game warden (A. A. Richardson)
3,500
Private secretary to the governor
(Roy A. Powell) 3,432
Commissioner of labor (John W.
Nates) 3,200
Director income tax division,
state tax commission (W. R.
Bradley) 3,250
Chairman public service commission
, (Josiah J. Evans .. 3,036
All other salaries are an even $3,000
or less except the following:
Superintendent of the state state
industrial training school ..$5,000
Superintendent state penitentiary
j ... 4,250
Superintendent state tuberculosis
sanitorium 4,000
Dean of state medical college . 3,800
Head of school for deaf and
blind 3,360
Head of John de la Howe
school 3,340
Head of state colored college . 3,240
Grier H. Todd, manager of the telephone
company at Doris, in Horry
county, was electrocuted when he
tried to lift a wire to allow a large
truck to pass. The charged wire
.struck him on the neck, and he fell
dead. He was a native of Horry county
and a prominent business man of
LfOris, 50 years old. He leaves his
wife, several children, and a large
family of kin.
COMMENTS ON MEN AND THING*'
i (By Spectator)
1'hotographs of people U> public Ufe.
noi only snapshots, but poses ulso,
show tluun grinning or "haw-hawing"
all the time. A constant grin becomes
tiresome ami 1 vote for inoi^i seriousness
during the hot weather.
Well, the calendar says thut July
Is a summer month. So it is, beyond
all peradveuture.
1 walked through a watermelon
puich ' this week, Just to look 'em
over. It was too hot to eat watermelon
in the natural way, so I Just
wanted to feast my eyes. If you walk
through a field to a melon patch
uround mid day and burst one in the
field and then walk back you'll feel
sugary wuter popping out from scalp
to toes und wish you coqld Jump into
a creek somewhere. And if you put
a big melon on your shoulder and
plough your way back?the game isn't
worth the candle.
The Charlotte Observer says (quoting
a government report): That there
is u slight reduction iu the peanut
crop. And next year a campaign year,
too!
1 don't think uny man can make
himself a dictator in this country,
ufter the fashion of Mussolini and Hitler
and Stalin and Kemal, but the
transcendent prestige of Mr. Roosevelt,
growing out of the collapse of
1933, makes it possible to support
anything he advocates and to feel that
his national services have been so
groat that uny proposal of his is of
the very essence of the national welfare.
Many of his plans have miscurried,
though the proposals in themselves
seemed to be highly desirable.
If we would accord the President all
praise for his successes we must
charge him with his failures.
Nothing has been more inspiring
than the President's fresh outlook, his
Judge Johnson '
Is Applauded
(By John K. Aull)
Columbia, July 14.?-Never before in
his recollection during nearly a half
century as an active member of the
bar, says former Senator and former
Governor Cole L. Blease, has a court
house audience applauded and endorsed
by rising vote the remarks
of a presiding Judge in his chnge of
the grand jury, as was the case recently
at Beaufort, following a charge
by Judge J. Henry Johnson, of Allendale.
Nor has any judge's charge he ever
heard surpassed in wiBdom, timeliness
and eloquence that of- Judge
Johnson, affirms Mr. Blease, who it
^was that made the motion before the
audience that the sentiments of the
Judge be endorsed by a rising vote.
The Blease motion, was seconded by
W;--J. Thomas, Esquire, long a prominent
member of the Beaufort bar.
Judge Johnson had taken as- his
.subject in his charge, "Safety of the
South and the Prime Need of Her
Support of the Judicial Branch of the
United States," says Mr. Blease.
At the conclusion of the charge this
unique incident occurred:
Mr.^'Blease, in Beaufort as an attorney
in a pending case, arose and
said, "Your Honor has delivered in
my opinion and experience at the bar
and in politics, the ablest defense of
states' rights and the greatest warning
against social equality that I ever
heard from the rostrum or from the
bench. I wish to congratulate Your
Honor, for I am a strong believer in
BtateB' rights made a strong advocate
of the sentiments expressed by Your
Honor upon all the questions you have
discussed. I have for a long time
wondered why our public officials did
not bring these matters more to the
attention of our people*, and warn
them of the grave dangers we are
facing. This is not a proper place to
8*5 more, and I want to Invade the
rights of the court for a moment and
move that the thanks of this entire
audience be extended to Jud^e Johnson
for his very able and bold discussion
of these matters."
Every white man, woman and child
in the audience arose.from his seat,
recounts Mr, Blease, and hroke out
in spontaneous applause. W. J. Thomas,
Esquire, Joined Mr. Blease in his
appreciation of the Judge Johnson
charge and expressed gratification
that Mr. Blease had made his motion
and put it before Judge Johnson had
time to interrupt.
Waterme>on tn Jar
Henry Evans, farmer of Hoyt'i
Heights, has grown a watermelon In
side a fruit Jar po large that It rnow
fills the top half of the Jar.
> Evans plucked a .melon about th?
slse of a large marble from his vln?
sometime ago and put it in the Jar
filled with water. The melon gren
rapidly and soon was too large to re
more from the Jar. It has completed
tta growth now, Evans says.?Snmtei
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willingness to work on now Hues. <
Mont of our public men have
n t had u new thought in no many
years that the President attracted a ,
large body of enthusiastic Intellect
iiuls. Kut the\ have gone about hoiiih
thing* in such a manlier an to terrorize
men in business and the country
in suffering needlessly because these
men see nothing but unfair competition
and persecution. Sometimes the '
method in bad; sometimes the time
is unpropJtiotis; sometimes the thing
is overdone.
1 he President's proposal to make
changes in the Supreme Court is unfortunate,
untimely* und threatening
to the Independence of the great
court, which should be above and beyond
all the tumult of political pas
slon. 1 do not defend any of the justices,
ami I cannot understand the
about-face of the court on some questions
within one yeur; hut the principle
at stake is whether the Supreme
Court is to be u part of the President's
entourage, or whether it shall
continue as an independent body, far
removed from the turmoil of political
movements, to which citizens may
present their causes confident of a
fair, calm, unbiased hearing. That
Mr. Roosevelt may believe to the contrary
Is no reason why we should sacrifice
our principles of government,
greatly though we may respect him.
Mr. Roosevelt Is loyal to his friends,
U great quality, yet one which has
borne some bad fruit in recent
months. Mr. Roosevelt has extolled
the greatness of Mr. Parley, his political
manager. We are Just learning
ihlngs about the campaign which Mr. i
Parley managed. It is said that John ,
L. Lewis contributed five hundred
thousand dollars to that campaign and
made a loan of fifty thousand dollars '
more. Mr. Lewis has bluntly called
on (ho President to back him up; he
has advertised in handbills that the '
President was with him in his fight. '
Now, if a corporation contributes a '
half million dollars to n political campaign
It expects something for the
money, eh? So the law prohibits that.
Then wha did Mr. Lewis expect?
What did Mr. Parley promise Mr.
Lewis? What has Mr. Lewis received?
That is the same Mr. Parley who
brought in the colored minister to 1
pray and the colored lawyer to speak.
He has boasted that he had the Senators
In the bag when it conies to the
court Issues. He seems to think the
Democratic party belongs to him, the
Tammany politician.
I he issue before Congress is not
whether the President Is always right
and the court sometimes right, but
whether the President is to be the
one will, the one power, in this na- 1
tion, imposing his will irresistibly on
both Congress and the Supreme Court
as though they wero his Irresponsible
puppets.
Well, I'll admit that we've had
weather hot enough to discourage the
boll weevil. In fact even an ambitious
man lost his zeal to do great deeds
and loom large on the horizon. Small
deeds and a few of them sufficed for
even the most vimful of people.
Well, how's this:
Five Woonsocket mills are preparing
for one of the strangest battles
of the sexes In history?a three-month
test to determine whether the male
or the female Is the best spinner.
Ten weeks ago approximately 800
workers In the five mills went on
strike for shorter hours, higher wages
and an agreement that men would be
hired In the future Instead of women
whenever there was a vacancy.
The mills engage In two sorts of
spinning?mule spinning and frame
spinning. The mill managements admit
that men are better mule spinners,
but recently the tendency has
been to shift to frame splnnlhg. Woman
can produce more work on frames,
the managements contend, but the
men dispute.
So an arbitration board which settled
all matters except the question
of male or female supremacy, arranged
that In about three weeks the men
and women will compete over a three
month period. If, after a three-month
trial, the men demonstrate that they
can produce on spinning frames as
effectively as the women, then male
workers will be employed exclusively
J>n one of the two major shifts In op'
eration In each of the five mills.
The mills will keep an exact record
1 of the work produced by both sides,
and at the end of the three-month period
the board of arbitration will decide
the question of supremacy.
Mills Involved are the Bonin Spinning
company, Fall Yarn mills, Beli
mont Worsted company, River mills,
- Inc.. and Woonsocket Spinning comt
pany. v
In frame spinning the operator
i stands in front of the machine and
> handles the spindles. In mule spin,
ning, the operator must be strong and
t agile, for he is called upon to stop
over a mowing beam, about knee high,
I which moves In and out. HI male splnr
ed ss It spins, producing a better and
king the yawn is strstched and twist*
v*
more expensive thread."
When the new crop of cotton comes
:>n the murket the carry-over from
last year will be about 4,400,000 bales
?four million, four hundred thousand
bales, about a million less than the
curry-over in 1936 when the new crop
came on. In 1932 the carry-over was
9,580,000 bales. Home consumption
of cotton this year is expected to es-.
tublish an all-time high record of 7,800,b00
bales. To keep us from feeling
too happy the government fears
that our cotton export business will
be less than last year.
It is said that Southern Whites
should spend $2.35 a week tfor food,
unless producing their own food on
the farm.
South Carolina needB a Btate police
force. There is no doubt of that. But
this question arises: Are we to ere-j
ate Just another commission and Just
another group of salaried people? As I
time proves the need for some things
it also proves that some others are
out-of-date. May we not make a study
of our governmental structure so as
to modernize it, bring it up to presentday
conditions, instead of Just tacking
on something new? If the present
police set-up in the counties and
cities is inadequate shall we address
ourselves to a study of the whole matter,
or Just create one more overlap*
ping organization at the taxpayers' expense?
Just look at what we are doing.
Sheriffs are not often engaged personally
in making arrests; they have
deputies and rural policemen and
state highway patrolmen and governor's
constables and magistrates con
stables, ad Infinitum. Now aro we to
add to th 1h u Htato police system, Just
super-Impose another structure on a
sort of fulling foundation? The sheriffs
used to collect delinquent taxes.
Now we have apodal tux collectors.
In the next depression we shall probably
have special deputies to tax collectors
and then welfare workers to
stimulate thel.r morals, in the meantime
keeping up the whole organization
without a break.
It is timely to look Into our business
of government.
A permanent commission (without
pay) might be set up to adviBo the
legislature how and whete to make
adjustments so that the state may
provide adequately for all Important
needs without adding to the cruzyquilt
pattern we already have.
If we add a few more public services
the man without some kind of
public Job, or pension, will wear a
badge of distinction.
What we really need in South Carolina
is a commanding leadership to
put us in the forefront of economic
progress. A reduction in the cost of
government is a prime requisite.
The strength of the President grows
as the supinenes8 of Congress increases.
In matters of legislatlbn Congress
is supreme and independent, theoretically;
but Congress seems unable to
decide even on. its own leaders with- out
seeking guidance, or asking permission,
from the White House.
Dictatorships develop from weak
parliaments. Our Congress is weak
and helpless except when under the
spur and lash of the President.
\ Why is a Congress, anyhow?
I REPORT OF CONDITION OF
MERCHANTS AND FARMERS BANK
OCATED AT BETHUNE, S. C., AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINE8S
I ON JUNE 30, 1937
I ' A8SET8
ft. balances with other hanks, and cash items in process of
collection '
ft# States Government obligation, direct and fully guaran- ^ ^ ^
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fc""'! '"counts .".'.V.V.'.V12,24162
HI "lis 2
H?tng house owned, furniture and fixtures 10 261 83
Er real estate owned \ . *839 70
t assets
1^ ASSETS , ? 94'247-44
LIABILITIES AND CAPITAL
ftj'is of individuals, partnerships, and corporations:
Kfmaml deposit,, * Soie'89
Byline deposits evidenced by savings pass books 8 835 06
EAker time deposits 3*206 83
J. county, and municipal deposits y
Pjwi and officers' checks, letters of credit and travelers
jjecks sold for cash, and amounts due to Federal Reserve 670 03
(transit account) ak'q'qYs7 *
|XbnKu""T:~LIABILITIES
EXCLUDING CAPITAL ACCOUNT I 66,261.08
ftjjltal stock and capital notes and debentures
* 1*9.86'36 27,986.36
K ta capital account ? qi 247 44
LIABILITIES AND CAPITAL *
Re so. 1937, the required legal reserve against d?P?8^ ?f ^f^J-irve
Int to - -RSe-tB re^x,rtert above wblCh Wefe e,,glble reserve
W plV2K'I;?'9ca8hier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear
I?* ab?ve statement Is true, and that It fully ?d
P[je state of the several matters herein contained and set forth, to
^ knowledge and belief. i p, g R1ERR.
ftct-"~"-Attest:
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I John T. Stevens > . Directors.
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ft,. gtate aI South Carina, Oonnty of Chesterjeld
C0rp lo and Rubccrlbed before me this 13th d^ of.JJlJ, 1W7, and
certify that I am not an officer or dlreetor of Sin Jin*
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