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Washington. Jan. ID.?-An economybout
House Thursday sustained Its
Appropriations Committee In all Its
slashes In the $1,100,187,000 Independent
offices bill, then swung a final
axe at f 150,000.000 In Maritime Commission
contract authorizations.
The onslaught trimmed $04,517,200
front the "bedrock" budget, Just deeper
than the committee recommended.
The 1150.0U0.00U contract power slash
did not affect the total of the bill, as
the eliminated item merely authorized
the Maritime Commission to commit
the amount prior to appropriations,
Narrow !y escaping the economy
hatchet was $40,000,000 included in
the hmlgei lot the Tennessee Valley
Authority l/ost as the Hoy.se approved
all committee cuts wuB a budgeted
$1,070 000 designed to start work on
six Federal building projects In the
District of Columbia that ultimately
would have cost $2.>,820,000
Fussed and sent to the Senate, tlto
bill brought total House below-budget
savings in the first two appropriations
bills to nearly $102,000,000 and staved
off by that amount the budget's close
approach to the $4a,OUO.OuO.OOO legal
debt limit
Sponsored by Veterans of Foreign
Wars, a bill to grant pensions of from
$20 to $60, monthly, to permanently
disabled war veterans was Introduced
and presented to the Committee on
Veteran#' Affairs Wednesday. The
hill would grant pensions for total disability
even though pot arising from
service of the veterans.
Pointing out that --It has been 22
>cars since this country entered the
World War. Representative McCorinack.
of Massachusetts, said the government
following previous wars had
assumed the burden of caring for all
the disabled veterans within about
I won Ly years
The Senate on Thursday approved
unanimously a four-year extension of
the Federal Farm Moratorium Act,
scheduled to expire next March. Senator
Fr.i7.ler of North Dakota, author
of the measure, which now comes to
the House, said extension would enable
thousands ,of farmers to avail
themselves of Federal bankruptcy in
an effort to scale down and re-adjust
their debts.
As 1 am writing tills, news lias Just
come in (hat Senator Borah is still
holding his own. However, reports
are that death will come within a
short time?possibly before you read
thi- Senator Borah was elected to
the 1'tilted States Senate on January
1". lhOT, so he has been a member of
that legislative body for thirty-three
years. He suffered a cerebral hemorrhage
a few days ago.
With President Roosevelt and intimate
friends looking on, Frank Murphy,
new associate justice of the Supreme
Court, and Robert H Jackson,
his successor as Attorney General,
took oath of office Thursday. The
ceremony took place In the Pn-sident's
study on the second floor of
the White House. Once again Murphy
placed his hand on the Bible his
mother gave him when he was graduated
from high school Murphy will
net a lullHedged member of the
Supreme Court until he lakes the lorii:al
judi la. oath, pr?>I .?D1 > January
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C0MMENT8 ON MEN AND THINGS
By Spectator
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The Farmers and Taxpayers league
respectfully presents for your consideration
this address:
Our Htulo Is Interested In both agriculture
and Industry. Our economic,
self-interest Indicates^ that through
further Industrialisation wo can take
up a lot of the slack caused by the
curtailment of agricultural employment.
Furthermore, each unit of Industry
servos our people by offering
employment as well as a market for
products raised locally; and It serves
the State by contributing through taxation.
it Is obviously to the economic
Interest of the State as a political
body and as a body of men and women
that we adopt tho appropriate
means to Induce Industries to come
to South Carolina.
The League has been studying the
larger aspects of the economy of the
State and,, with all deference, invites
consideration Of these definite recommendations
:
That the three-mil^ properly tax be
repealed as was clearly demanded by
the voters;
That the capital Htock tax be reduced
to two mills as a matter of
good faith;
That If the tax on Intangibles be
found to militate against larger revenue
it bo repealed;
That this State take appropriate
action to conform to general practice
in the matter of punitive damages;
That the State take necessary steps
to determine the scope of activities of
its institutions and to correlate their
activities so as to avoid duplication
of effort;
That the State Budget Commission
be empowered to constitute itself a
source of information as t-o prices of
all commodities used by any service,
institution, department or agency of
the State, requiring each ono to submil
a statement of all the needs for
a year. The Commission upon ascertaining
the lowest price obtainable for
each item would inform each service,
which might then inuke all necessary
purchases for itself;
That no new taxes be levied;
That the Legislature provide for a
study of all the public services with a
report suggesting the proper scope of
each in a unified system of governmental
enterprise.
That greater assurance would result
from biennial sessions. You
know, of course, that only in five
states are there annual sessions; 42
have bi-ennial sessions; and the Legislature
of Alabama meets once in
four years.
We reaffirm our opposition to the
election by the General Assembly of
its members to^executlve and judicial
positions, it is not a reflection on the
ability of the members, nor a disparagement
of those chosen, the objection
is soundly conceived as a matter
of ethical stewardship.
That floor taxes on stocks of merchandise
should not be assessed on a
basis of forty-two per cent of Invoice
price, or actual value, but on the
same percentage of value as applies
to other taxable property.
That the League earnestly suggests
ihut through proper expedition of
' legislative matters adjournment might
be had without giving .rise to the
question of extra pay, which always
comes up during protracted sessions.
The League congratulates the State
that so many earnest men are devoting
their time to the public service
qnd it asks to be permitted to cooi>erate
with them in their work for the
people All of us realize that the
fullest development of the citizenship
of tlie State is contingent on a larger
income per capita. The only sound
pole > js to foster conditions which,
pr mom industrial and commercial ac*i\i->
so that prosperous^!vestment|
iii require the services of all who
k work " |
a feneration ago farms were
bought and developed, homes built
and property repaired through savings.
or local loans secured by gilti-dge
security. Today, with our banks
full of money, comparatively few are
[qualified to borrow. All about us
nearly all building, repairing, painting
and buying are financed or guaranteed
by the Government. During all
the years since the coming of tho
boll weevil we have gradually consumed
or lost thq savings of earlier
>< a:s as well as tho stake left to us
by our fathers.
The greatest problem before us.
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gentlemen, is our low individual In*
rinip In the former day when unfot
red competition was tho rule and
Nch enterprise made all the rules for
itself such a matter would not properly
bo submitted to your honorable
body, but laws and regulations aro
the Mile today, and while such regu:?ry
powers are Intended to serve
the people it is sometimes true that
changing conditions require a change
of law We do not think it a problem
of easy solution, but we do earnestly
suggest that money Is made where
money is; and that employment and
high wages thrive where there Is demand
for labor. We recommend,
therefore, that we . give earnest
thought to such measures ' as will
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make possible the employment of our
people and will Increase the demand
for the things produced here.
We observe the trend to greater
commitments and heavier expenditures
entirely without regard to the;
wealth or income of the people.^ Every
informed person knows that the
world markets are in such a state of
confusion and uncertainty as to be un-.
predictable. Some things are high
and others incredibly low. yet longrange
planning and spending have fastened
on us as though no clouds were
in the sky. State institutions and
counties carry out programs of building
which require larger expenditures
as a matter of course, with no thought
apparently, beyond the ambition or
impulse of the promoters.
All the spending and all tin? taxing
might be atoned for if they stimulated
production and promoted earning
power. Unfortunately the converse
is true. So, gentlemen, we face a fact
of fundamental concern. We should
restrain the ^pending until earning
catches up wfth it. Instead of the
perennial hunt for new rejtenue we
earnestly submit that a prudent
course, would be to reduce our commitments
and clear the path of every
obstacle to investment here so that
we may earn our way, rather than
continue to spend our capital resources.
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Wo spend for state, county and municipal
government about a hundred
million dollars?more than twenty per
cent of our Income; we send out of
the $tate more money for motor vehicles
and insurance than the vaiue of
all our crops and livestock. This Is
mentioned to Illustrate that throughj
constant sale of capital assets, such 'asj
land and timber we are robbing the
future.
On the other hand, the wages paid
by the textile industry of seventy million
dollars, and the millions paid by
pulp mills, furniture factories and other
industries are what keep us solvent
and point the way of development and j
nccncmlc wfcll-belng.
British Tars Badly
Treated By Germans
London. , Jan. 10.?Three hundred
or more British seameu captured at
aea were imprisoned aboard a German
tanker In conditions "recalling the
days of slave-trading" when the vessel
was a supply ship for the pocket battleship
Admiral Graf Bpee, a British
statement charged today. ~T'
Naval sources said the tauker had
not been reported for more than a
month and while a search for her was
being pressed, It was possible she
might have reached a German port.
Conditions on the tanker were described
by British merchant skippers
who were liberated from the Admiral
Graf Bpee when she was trapped In
Montevideo harbor last month. They
arrived hero this week.
The British statement asserted the
prison quarters were crowded, rations
were insufficient, smoking was forbidden
and British officers wore humiliated
before Fast India crewmen who
"were given preferential treatment at
every turn."
It said the prisoners were forced to
sleep on mattresses covered with lice
and other verntin.
The food, it added, was "scarce and
bad" and the water ration for drinking
and washing was a quart daily.
When the Admiral Graf Spec ran
Into Montevideo harbor December 13
after a running battle With three British
cruisers taken from the nine raider
merchantmen.
They were pledged to secrepy about
what had happened aboard the German
pocket battleship and therefore
the whereabouts of other members of
the crews of the raided ships was not
made public immediately.
The T7 alleged members of the
"Christian Front," captured by F. B.
r. agents in New York Saturday night,
after news leaked out that they intended
to bomb and blast their way
into control of the United States government,
are being held In $50,000 bail
each?a total of $850,000.
An explosion of terrific force wrecked
a powder unit of the duPont company
at Gibbstown, N. J., Wednesday,
of last week, killing two men and injuring
a third. The explosion was in
the nitroglycerine department and
the force of the explosion was felt 20
miles away. The cauBe of the blowup
is a mystery, many believing it due
to foreign spies, while others lean to
the opinion that it was due to accident
inside the plant.
So prone are book borrowers of
London libraries to using strips of bacon
as bookmarks that 1,500 books annually
are withdrawn from library
shelves because they have become
hopelessly greasy.
One grain of marquis wheat, planted
by Dr. Charles Saunders in 1303,
increased to 300,000,000 bushels in
1918, In North America alone.
Of the 2,000 known kinds of germs
and bacteria, only about 100 are believed
to be harmful. The other 1,300
varieties are necessary to life in one
manner or another.
It Is estimated the average diner on
an airliner travels one hundred miles
while he la eating lunch or dinner. ?
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New Newspaper
Without Advertising
New York, Jan. 14.?A flve-ceut evening
paper without paid advertising
will make Its debut In New York^ probably
on June 1, Hal pit McAllister Ingersoll,
president of the Publications
Research, Inc., announced today.
As yet* unnamed, the paper will be
slightly smaller lu size than exlstiug <
tabloids and will, he said, be extensively
Illustrated and printed lu J}lack
with a seooud color on a new type of
stock. Fast drying magazine Ink will
be used.
Ingersoll's statement said the operating
company has been capitalized
at $1,500,000 which was raised privately.
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"Because the publishers feel that
the editorial' organization of the paper
deserves their fullest effort lu the
early stages, no advertising will be
carried or solicited," the statement
said. "The price of five cents will
cover oxponsos.
"In place of advertising, however,'
the projected paper will treat advertising
us, news, and carry a digest of
advertised items as a service to the
readers. Tho features will not be
sold to advertisers."
hllaborating on radical lnnova-'
tloila," planned for the paper, the
statement said;
"I^ews will be highly departmentalized,
much of it briefed for quick
reading. Background, Interpretation
and significance will be given more
consideration than has been customary
in newspapers and the editors
will attempt to manltain a long term
view. Display will be minimized.
"The paper will have no political
affiliations or obligations. Then con-'
vontlonal features will be absent, but|
a number of original newsbased fea*'
tures and specialties have been devised."
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Ingersoll, wno has been working on1
plans for the projected paper for sev-j
eral years, will serve as president o^
the company and editor of the paper.;
Other officers and executives Include
Donald F. Stewart, treasurer; William
Baunirucker, Jr., now with the
New York Daily News, business man-!
ager; George Lyon, formerly with the
Scripps-Howard organization, managing
editor.
Ingersoll, a former mining englnoer,
resigned as publisher of Time magazine
last April to develop the new
publication. He was vice president
and general manager of Time, Inc.,
when Life magazine was started by
that company. Before that he was
managing editor of Fortune magazine
during Its first five years.
Among subscribers to the company's
stock the announcement listed:
Howard Bonbrlght, of Deh-olt; Chester
Bowles, president of Benton and
Bowles Advertising Agency; Marshall
| Field; Mrs. Louis Gimbel, George
1 Huntington Hartford; Deerlng Howe;
I John L. Loeb; Leasing J. Rosenwald;
Harry Scherman, Mrs. Marlon R.
Stern, Mrs. Dorothy Thompson Lewis;
John Hay Whitney; Ira J. Williams,
Jr., of Philadelphia; Dwlght
JJeere Wiman, Garrad Winston and
Phillip K. Wrigiey.
America first refined iron in 1645,
but not until 1736 waa the first steel
produced by Joseph Hlgby, of Connecticut.
NOTICE OF ELECTION *
The first Municipal Democratic Primary
for the purpose of electing a
Mayor and Six Aldermen in the City
of Camden, 8. C., will be held on
Tuesday. March B, 1940. Thq polls
will open at 8:00 a. m. and remain
open until 5:00 p. ill.
y No entries will be accepted by the
Committee after 6:00 p, m. Thursday,
February 15, 1940. All assessments
must be paid to the Chairman of the
Executive Committee, and all pledges
and statements of expenses must be
filed by the candidates with the Clerk
of Court and the Chairman of the
Democratic Executive Committee
prior to 6:00 p. m. of February 15,
1940. ,
The books of enrollment will open
Monday, January 29, 1940, apd will
close at 6:00 p. on., Thursday, February
15, 1940. .The Books of Enrollment
will be located at the following
places in the various Wards:
Ward No. 1?W. F. Nettles Store.
Ward No. 2.?City FHUpg Station.
Ward No. 3.?City Drdg Store.
Ward No. 4.?Camden Chronicle.
Ward No. 5.?DeKalb Pharmacy.
Ward No. 6.?Carolina Motor Company.
. Location of boxes for voting will be
as follows: ," /
Ward No. 1.?City Recorder's Court
Room. ? o
Ward No. 2.?City Filling Station.
Ward No. 3.?Langston Motor Company.
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Ward No. 4.?J. T. Nettles residence.
Ward No. 5.?Dr. R. E. Stevenson's
residence.
Ward No. 6.?'G. E. Taylor's residency.
Managers of Election
Ward *No. 1.?Mrs. Belle Strak, Joe
Goodale, W. C. Stewart.
Ward No. 2?Ney Billings. Mrs.
Clyburn Smith, Mrs! Roy Mathis.
Ward No. 3.?Wiley Sheorn, Mrs.
Ixittie Vaughan, Miss Geneva Jones,
Mrs. C. B. Rogers, Mrs. Fred Stokes.
Ward No. 4.?Boykin Rhame, Clarkson
Rhame, Miss I^oulie Whitaker.
Ward No. 5.?Mrs. T. Lee Little,
Mrs. Jane Willlford, Mrs. W. O. Hay,
Mrs. R. E. Stevenson.
Ward No, 6.?G. E.'Taylor, W. Craig
Clyburn, Mrs. Ila Mae Campbell. 's ->
DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE
L. H. JONES, Secretary
WARD CLUB8 REORGANIZE
At a meeting of the Ward Clubs
held last Monday night, January 22,
1940, for the purpose of reorganizing
the Municipal Democratic Clubs, the
following Executive Committeemen
and Enrollment Committeemen werei
elected to serve for the coming primary
election in the City of Carqddn,*
S. C. :
~ Chairman rfnd"~CSmmflieem"anal-~
Large?Harold W. Funderburk. *
Secretary?L* H. Jones.
Ward "No. l.--Blease Shirley.
Ward No. 2.?A. G. Hugglns.
Ward No. 3.?M. H. Heyman.
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Ward No. 4.?John T. Nettles, Sr.
Ward No. 5.?W, L. Ooodale.
Warjl No. ?.?T. C. Gladden.
Enrollment Committee:
Ward No. 1.?President, H. T,Jfourham;
Mrs. Iimz Hliisoii, 1,011 EThWuWard
No. 2.?President, W. B. Toi
ter; ' Clyburn Smith, Williford Nei
man. 1
Ward 3.?President, S. W. VanLi
dlngham; J. B. MoManus, La?t
Campbell. v
Ward No. 4.?President, Ejyi
Rhame; Clarkson Rhame, .Miss Loi
Wh.ltaker, ? _ , a
Ward No. 5.?President, Mrs. T. L
Little; Mrs. Jane Williford, Mrs,
ior; Capers Zemp, Mrs, S. C. Clybui
DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE
OOMMITTffl
City of Catnden, S. C.
L, H. JONES, Secrets^
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SUMMONS FOR RELIEFJ
State of South Caorltna
' County of- Kershaw
(Court of Common Pleas) 1
B. P. Truesdale, Plaintiff
against .
Mary Jane Carter, Thomas Carta!
Henry Carter, Agnes Carter oi9
Lucy Carter Richardson, Frank (|H
tor, Annie t1 Cartefj the unknoJM
heirs, devisees oc assigns of fi!
Dempsey, and also all other p*n!
unknown, herein collectively
nated as John Doe, claiming!
tight; title, interest in, or lien u!
the real estate described in V
complaint herein, Defendants.
To the Defendants- Above Named:*
You are hereby summoned and tl
quired to answer the oompl&lnUfl
this action, of which a copy is hsfl
with served upon you, ,gnd to seri^B
copy of the answer to the said c|H
plaint on the subscriber at his off!
in the City of Camden, South Ca!
Una, within twenty (20) days at!
service thereof, exclusive of the difl
of Such service, and if you fall to ifl
ewer the complaint , within the tl^|
aforesaid, the plaintiff in this acti!
will1 apply to the Court for the reUM
demanded In the complaint,
HENRY SAVAGE, JR.,
Plaintiff** Attorney I
Camden, South Carolina,,
December 27, 1939
To the absent ant |or non-reside!
Defendants, and all other perao!
named as Defendants herein, coll!
tively designated as John Doe:
Notice is hereby given that the or!
inaX .summons, ot which the foregot!
is a copy, and the original compli!
herein were duly filed in the office J
the Clerk of Court for Kershaw Col!
ty, on the 16th day of January, 194lfl
HENRY SAVAGE, JR., M
Plaintiff's Attorney
Johann Schmidt, a German, vfl
shot In the heart during the WoiM
war, and still lives with the bullet!?
bedded in his heart, carrying on !
daily work normally.? .
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