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McCORMICK, S. G., Thursday, March 29, 1928 Established June 5, 1902
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Urge3 Immediate Cor
porate Tax Reduction
John E. Edgerton Asks That
Poltics Be Adjourned To
Grant Relief That Will Aid
Industry And Business
NEW YORK, March 26.—In an
open letter ntade public today to
Pies'dent Coolidge and to the mem
bers of Congress, John E. Edgerton,
president of the National Associa
tion of Manufacture! a. urges the
passage immediately of a corporate
tax reduction measure on the basis
already suggested Jby the competent
government authorities, holding that
the excess in the income tax returns
over last year jut’fies a sane and
reasonable relief to the only body of
taxpayeis that has had its assess-
tnents increased in the face of reduc
tions for all others.
■ Mr. Edgerton pleads *w*th Congress
• to adjourn politics for the moment
-and grant the relief; takes to task
- those who are making a political
football of the issue, and scores those
: business men who are helping to
block reduction by ^clamoring for an
amount far n excess of what the
country can safely assume.
Mr. Edgerton’s letter to President
Coolidge and the members of Con
gress fellows:
Hon. Calvin Coolidge,
President of the United States,
Washington.. -
My dear Mr. President:
Having traveled the breadth of
the countiy from coast to coast with
in the last five weeks, and having
talked to and with thousands of men
in the manufacturing industries and
various other, lines of business, I be
lieve I can truly say that the great
majority ; of these citizens are' look
ing to you and to Congress for some
measure of coiporate ircome tax re
duction at this session.
Three months ago there seemed to
be 1 ttle division of opinion in Con
gress that the business of the coun
try should receive the benefit of a
reduction ip income taxes, wh ch pre-
1 : minary reports indicated would
show an excess over last year’s re
turns. Now that we are certain of
that excess, we seem, to face a chaotic
situation h* Wash'ngton, brought
about on the c'ae hand by those who
f are seeking to make a political foot-
- ball of the problem, and on the oth-
, er by those who, knowing some re
duction is right and due, are confus-
' ing and endangering the issue by
clamoring for an amount out t>f all
r proport 1 on to what the country can
[ safely stand. And we have another
group that believes we should have
• the conservative reduction of one
and one-half per cent determined by
. those government authorities most
able to judge; and st ; ll another
group that would have no reduction
■ at an.
The National Association of Manu-
I facturers is a non-partisan body. It
carries no brief for any presidential
candidate of either party. It is con-
dimed fundamentally and primarily
• id the industries of the nation and
what effects them. It has thousands
of corporations in its membership
and several million employes who are
dependent upon the continued opera
tion of those industiies. The corpor
ations are the only class cf taxpay
ers that have 'had their taxes increas
ed (raised up to 13 1-2 per cent),
while all others have received reduc-
• tions. Ninety per cent of all the
. business of the ccountry is done in the
. corporate form and the stockholders
number something more than twenty
• million persons—nearly one-third of
all our adult population.
We submit that corporate tax re
duction is the next logical step in
any tax rel ; ef. It would be a great
stimulus to prosperity. Industry
, and business need it, for we are now
passing through an era of acute com
petition consolidation and confus on
—but not consternation. We are un
dergoing a gradual levelling down
' from our hysteria of war inflation of
prees and wages. Manufacturers, as
a whole, and general business, have
accepted their lower profits with lit
tle or no complaint. Consumers have
benefitted by those shaded profits;
but production costs and wages con
tinue at a high peak with no attempt
to crush them down.
Reductions granted to the corpor
ations would mean a corresponding
relief to a vast body of stockholders,
large and small and find their way
to almost every individual in the
country. Moreover, they would block
’a natural tendency toward unusual
unemployment and lower wages, be
cause it inevitably must follow that
many corporations now on the edge
will be able to continue in business
instead of closing down.
In view of the favorable growth in
the national income, and the unfor-
. tunate contentions in Washington,
we beg to urge that ydu direct your
specific attention once again to the
subject, and that Congress adjourn
politics for the moment and pass a
rational measure of relief. You and
your advisers have taken a reason
able, conservative position, balancing
the government expenses against the
^government income. You must ad-
^ here to the budget. The figures al
ready suggested (approximately
$150,000,000 in corporate taxes—a
reduction of one and one-half per
cent), will be an appreciable sav-
ig to the taxpayers of the country.
is unfortunate that any group of
isiness men who know a reduction
it and due should jeopardize
$6,500 In. Prizes To
Be Given Pupils And
Teachers In Contest
A State Wide
Poster Contest
School Officials Co-operate
With Highway Education
Board In Seventh National
Safety Contest
WASHINGTON, D. C.. March 28.
—Offermk $6,500 in prizes for the
best essays and lessons on street and
highway safety, the Highway Edu
cation Board is announcing to the
schools the annual safety contest op
en to elementary school pupils and
elementary school teachers of the na
tion. The competit’on is conducted
each year with the active co-opera
tion of the school authorities.
Based on past experience, officials
of the Board say they expect to re
ceive essays, not only from each
state in the Union and viitually
every city of size, but from the ter-
r tc ries and outlying possessions as
well, such as Alaska, the Philippines,
Hawaii. Porto Rico and the Canal
Zone.
The $6,500 in prizes is given by the
National Automobile Chamber of
Commerce, and this year includes
422 state prizes for elementary
school pupils, three nat onal prizes
for pupils, and three national prizes
for teachers, the latter totalling $1-
000 in cash. In addition, the pupil
and the teacher whose essay and les
son respectively are chosen as the
best in the ration are given a trip
to Washington with all expenses paid
no matter from what section of the
countiy they may come.
This year, according to the rules,
pupils are tb write essays of 500
words in length on the subject
“Why We Have and Practice Traf
fic Rules.” Teachers are given the
subject “Objectives and Methods c'f
Education in Street and Highway
Safety,’* on which they are asked to
prepare piact : cal lessons for use,
not alone ; n their own class rooms,
but by other teachers in the class
rooms of the nation as well. Pupils
of the fifth .sixth, seventh and
eighth grades may compete, with
all teachers in the eighth and lower
grades are elegible participants.
In the past six years it is estimat
ed that mere than 2,500,000 elemen
tary school pupils and perhaps half
a million teachers, have written es
says and lessons on the various sub
jects assigned in connection with
these contests, which have proved to
be not only the most susta ned na
tional competitions open to the
schools but among the most popular
as well. An average in excess of
400,000 pupils write essays ea^h
year, it is said, while approx’mately
from 60,000 to 80,000 teachers write
and teach safety lessons to their pu-
pils.
The amount of $6,500 in pr : zes is
divided into three groups, of which
more than half goes to pupils as
state prizes. Altogether, 442 cash
prizes and the same number Of gold,
silver and bronze medals are offered
pupils who find their names on this
safety honor loll of the nation.
Each state and territory is entitled
to one first prize and .one second
prize. The first prize is a gold
medal and a check for fifteen dol
lars; the second award is a silver
medal and a check for ten dollais.
The number of third prizes , bronze
medals and checks for five dollars,
varies in proportion to the element
al y school enrollment, New York,
with its dense population being en
titled to 25, Indiana to eleven
Florida to four and Nevada to one,
to cite certain examples. These
prizes are distributed through the
State Departments of Educat on.
Finally, the essays which are
chosen as best from the states are
entered in competition with each oth
er. The best of these papers earns
for the writer a gold watch and a
trip to Washington with all expenses
paid, while the second and third na
tional awards are handsome gold
watches ctf suitable value and design.
Teachers are not g ! ve n state
prizes, but the three lessons chosen
as best of all those written through
out the nation earn for their writers
chtScks in the amount of $500, $300
and $200 respectively, and the teach
er whose lesson is ranked first also
is invited to come to Washington
as the Beard’s guest.
The third division of the prize
money is set aside for the travel
e'^nses and entertainment of the
pup.! and teacher whose essay and
lesson earn national honors.
Children Of All Schools In Mc
Cormick County Are Invited
To Enter
Agricultural Boy
Makes Profit On
Cotton In 1927
business in general by quibbling for
an excessive amount. In all the dis-
sentions over the exact sum, the
National Association of Manufactur
ers is fully disposed to accept the
figures arrived at by those who are
most competent to reckon them from
the viewpoint of our national finan
cial safety.
We believe it will be saner and bet
ter business to pass this year a sum
that s known to be safe and take no
chance of impairment by arbitrarily
demanding a larger amount, than to
choose an amount inconsistent with
the nation's earnings.
As with individuals, so be it with
nations:
When prosperous, be cautious, lest
we be profligate.
Sincerely yours,
JOHN E. 'EDGERTON,
President.
National Association of Manufac
turers.
The children of all the schools of
McCorm ck County are invited to en
ter a State wide health poster ton-
test which is being put on jointly by
the Department of Child Hygiene of
the State Board of Health and the
Child Health Education Service of
the South Carolina Tuberculosis As
sociation.
Subjects assigned are as follows:
Teeth—GradesI-III.
Nutrition—Grades IV-VII.
Prevent'dn of Tuberculosis
or
Pievention of Diptheria
Junior High School
or
High School
Posters may be original or copied,
but what is desired by the promoters,
is that the idea brought out in the
pester shall be the main thing rather
than perfection of execution.
The contest in the <counties closes
May 1, and posters should be sent to
the County Superintendent’s office
befo:e that date- as one use of the
posters is for a display on May Day.
The ncsters winning in each county
will then be forwarded either to Miss
Ada Taylor Graham. Department of
Child Hygiene State Board of Health
Columbia, or to Mbs Nell Whaley,
D'rector of Child Health Education,
South Carolina Tubeiculosis Asso
ciation. Columbia.
Prizes are offered to the winning
schools as follows:
First, for each subject, $3.00.
Second, for each subject, $2.00.
Third, First Aid Kit or Health
Book (cho’ce).
Fourth, Posters.
Note:—Will teachers please mark
“Original” if the pdster idea is
orig nal with the children. The win
ning posters and others will be dis
played at the State Fair at Colum-
b't in October. Please write on the
back of each poster entered, the
name of the child, the grade, school,
and pest office address.
XXX
Nine Farmers Enter
The Cotton Contest
William Robinson Makes Good
Profit On Two Acres
Of Cotton
William Robinson, a pupil in the
local Agr’cultural Class, is another
one that seems to have made a good
ciop last year and realized a good
profit from it. He had as his pro
ject last year two acres of cotton
wh : ch yielded him a total of 2,530
nounds which sold for $223.50. The
total cost of production was $102.94.
If we subtract the cost of producing
the crop from the gross returns he
has a net profit of $120.56.
It will be noted that this woik was
carried on in connection wjth his
work thken up in the agricultural
class and the actual wcTk done be
sides the usual chores on the farm.
In applying his time to such a ctivi-
t'es he found a good way to add to
his finances and at the same t me
carry on his usual studies in other
classes. The project is requ.red of
all boys taking agriculture as a
chance for the boy to put into actual
practice the'se things studied m
school. In other words the practice
must accompany the class work.
WilFam has been in the agricul
tural class two years and has taken
an active interest in those things
which can be used in his farming
practices. He can solve his °^ n
leitilizer problems and f.’gure out the
common problems which - come up on
the average farm. Besides, he :s
abreast with his other classes and
will finish the local high school this
year. If he stays on the farm and
uses his skill he will make a good
farmer. He is go’ng to make good
on cotton again this year.
W. A. MASON, JR..
Agricultural Teacher.
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Once Condemned,
Is Now Free Man
Mr. Branch Thanks
Our Fire Fighters
McCormick Fire Truck Res
ponds To Call From De
. la Howe Schbol
Number 44
Blease Wants Action
On Federal Land
Bank At Columbia
Interest Continues To Grow In
Five Acre Race For This
Year
Interest continues to glow in the
1928 cotton contest, according to
Thos. W. Morgan, County Agent,
who says that to date applications
have been received from nine farmers
of the county to enter the five acre
race for this year. A good many oth
er farmers are also seriously consid
ering the matter, and we shall prob
ably have fifteen or twenty entrants
from the county to enter before the
last date for receiving applications.
Those farmers who have entered
the contest are as follows: E. Han-
vey, Troy; J. J. Hester, Troy; W. D.
Morrah, Troy; S. L. Britt, McCor
mick; W> T. Ramsey., McCormick J
W. L. White McCormick; R. M.
Winn, Plum Branch; W. C. Holley,
Plum Branch and W. O. Covin, Will-
ingten.
Mr. Morgan would like to urge
that all farmers who are considering
entering the contest this year apply
to him for an application blank as
soon as possible. The names of those
entered will be published throughout
the state soon, and we should be well
represented here in McCormick Coun
ty. The contest is open to all who
have five acres in one field, and who
will plant a variety of cotton guar
anteed to produce one inch staple,
and keep records on operations.
XXX
State Teachers
Meet This Week
Cost Too Much To Give New
Trial, So Man Is Turned
Loose
ATLANTA, Ga., March 24.—After
having heard the sentence of death
passed upon him last May, for the
murder of Beit Donaldson criminal
investigator, Jack Lance today walk
ed from his cell a free man when
Superidr Court Judge John D.
Humphries ordered the indictment
quashed. I *4K 1
The nolle-prosse was made on iec
emendation of Solocitor General
John A. Boykin, follow ng decision
of the state supreme court which
granted Lance a new trial. Boykin
declared that his witnesses were
scattered, that he had been unable
to round them up and that he felt
there was insufficient evidence to
warrant the expense of another trial.
At the same time indictments
against ten others, also charged w’th
the murder in connection with the
death of Donaldson were nolle-pross-
ed. Donaldson was shot to death from
ambush in the rodm of an exclusive
hotel here on July 29, 1926, after he
went to the hotel in response to a
mysterious telephone call. Donaldson
at the time was engaged in round
ing up members of a “bunco syndi
cate” which he had exposed here sev
eral years ago.
Lance was arrested in Jacksonville,
Fla., shortly after the investigation
began and had been in jail here since.
Last may he was found guilty and
sentenced to die in the electric chair.
XXt
Gospel Tent Meeting
Starts Here Sunday
GREENVILLE, March 24.—The
various divisions of the chamber of
commeice convention bureau are now
engaged in completing the last
minutes preparations for the enter
tainment of the South Carolina
Teachers association convention here
Thursday through Saturday of next
week. L. P. Hollis, president of the
association, estimates there will be
approximately 7,000 teachers in at
tendance from every section of the
state.
Charles Withington. chairman of
^he motor coip division, announced
th s morning that Mrs. F. L. Shakel-
ford has completed the organization
of the women’s volunteer motor
corps. More cars are needed with
men drivers for making the night
| trips. The women’s car will be used
for the motor transportation service
during the morning and afternoons
commencing Wednesday afternoon.
More rooms in the pi ivate homes
s*re reeded. r«ccording to H. E. Mc-
i Donald, cha'rman of the housing
d’vision. He has urged that all
housewives and proprietors of room
ing houses having rooms they can
offer for the teachers to telephone
I the chamber of commerce headquart
ers without delay. It is understood
i that each teacher is to pay $1 a day
for lodging while attending the con-
ventioto. » - . . '
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David Brinkman, an evangelist
from North Augusta will pitch his
tent in McCormick near the Post Of
fice. The first meeting will be at
8 o’clock on Sunday, April first, and
continuing each night, except Sat
urday.
Friday nights will be especially
for the young people. These meet
ings are held with the desire that,
through the preaching of the Lord
Jesus Christ many here in McCor-1
mick may know God’s eternal salva- 1
tion as their own. In the preaching,
there will be a heralding fofctih of the
gospel as it is in the word of God.
You will realize more the precious-
ness of your Bible if you tome to
these meetings. Come and see. '
XXX |
Ambulance Struck
By C. & W. C. Train
ANDERSON, March 25.—Today
about 1 o’clock the Charleston &
Western Carclina train struck the
ambulance of G. F. Tolly in which
there were four young men, Ralph
King, Horace Birnie, Arthur Hem
bree and J. B. Hayne. They were tak
en to the hospital suffering from
cuts about the fa^e, bruises and min -1
or i ijimoe 'he f-mbui.. ce was lit
erally torn to pieces.
A patient from the hospital had
been taken home, the young men re
turning when the accident occurred
about two 'miles below' the tity.
Junior Senator Says Persons.
Recently Convicted At Beau*
fort Were Only The “Goats’*
For The Higher Ups
WASHINGTON, March 24.—
mand for action by the senate banfe*
ing committee on his resolution fotf
an inquiry into the Federal LanJ
Bank at Columbia, S. C., was m. de
in the senate today by Senator
Blease, democrat, South Carolina.
Blease charged ^regularities “if
not corruption” in administration of
the bank and read a list of wit-
r.erses who he said would be ready
to testify to a senate committee.
Senator Fletcher, democrat, Flor
ida. suggested that the committee
bad investigated the bank and that
‘h^ee persons had been convicted in
a recent South Caiolina bank ng
case.
“Those persers were only the goat*
f^r the higher upg,” said Blease-
“They are at Beaufort. I want to
get those at Columbia if thev are
guilty as I have been led to believe.*
The w^ne^ses, Senator Blease
said, who would be ava’Table 'n the
investigation were: Mendel L. Smith,’
Camden. S. C.; J. D. E. Meyer, Char
leston; Ernest Cochran, Charleston;
Edgar A. Brown, Barnwell; David
Mittlq Beaufdrt; F. W. Scheper,
Beaufort; Burt Rodgers, Beaufort;
R. A. Cooner. Waeh ; ngton, D. C.. J.
Swinton WTialey, Little Edisto. S.
C.; Sam Edwards, Latta, S. C.;,F.. J*
Nesmith, Nesbit, S. C.; J. O. Dedvin,
Chattanooga, Tenm; WilFam J.
Thomas, Beaufort; and Niels Christ
en, Beaufort.
On last Friday the administration
budding of the De la Hoiwe School
caught fire in the furnace room. Just
a -tthe time that the building was
tVscovered on fire Mr. Long and his
assistants of the Highway Depart
ment were passing, and they rushed
along with others on the school
grounds to help handle the fire. For- 1
tunately the school had a full tank of
water and the hose already attached
to the fire lines were gotten into ac
tion and these gentlemen along with
some other men who live near the
school extinguished the fire. The
school will probably be damaged to
the extent of two or three thousand
dollars, but this is covered by insu:-
arice.
The fire truck of McCormick gen
erously responded to a call for help
and the force gladly gave their as
sistance as was needed. They stood
ready, although the fire was under
control when the tiuck reached the
school, to bring the acid apparatus
into use. The writer wishes to take
this opportunity to express his deep
gratitude to all of these gentlemen
lor their ready interest and fine
work in the matter of the fiie. Many
other gentlemen of McCormick, Well
ington, Bordeaux and the country
came to the aid of the school. For
all Of this splendid interest the
school has the finest appreciation.
J. B. BRANCH,
Superintendent.,
tXz
Little Boy Dies
From Gas Burns
COLUMBIA, March 24.—Testi
mony that the Intermediate' Credit
Bank of Columbia bad lost more
than a million dollars was given, by
off ciuri of the bank at the .recent
trial of seven former officer- of the
Beaufort Bank ard the South Caro
lina Agricultural Credit Company on!
charges of consp'racy to defraud the
from burns caused by gasoline. On j federal institution. Three of the sev-
Friday the school’s adm’nistration! c n defendants were 'convicted and
Rudolph Campbell Loses Life
In Accident At De la Hoive
Rudolph Campbell, eight year old
lad of the De la Howe School^ died
Saturday night about 10:30 o’clock
buTding was partially burned in
its furnace room and the superin-
scntenced to prison terms.
In their defense, the seven on trial
tendent’s office. Several thousand! sought to show that officials of the
dollars worth of damage was done.; Intermed ate Credit Bank were
Following the fire, the dchool me- j aware oi the ‘rregularities in the^pa-
chanical force used a suction pump.! per which was discounted by the
Beau-
Columb : a institution for the
fort concern.
Mendel Smith was one of de
fense counsel. J. D. E. Meyer pros
ecuted the case as United States Dis-
WILLISTON, March 26.—Joe A.
Morgan local pharmacist, was fqund
Biown was also of defense staff. R.
A. Cooper, of Washington was
cha'rman of the federal farm loaa
board until a few months ago.
Child Run Over
By Train, Lives
To Tell Story
which was operated by a small gaso-
oline engine, to clear the basement
of water. A large can containing
gasol'ne was set near the engine and
pump while the cleaning up was be-1
ing effected. Thiee little boys, about I trict Attorney while Ernest Cochraa
nine years of age, including the j presided over the trial as United
Campbell child, wishing to play, took States district judge. Edgar A.
the can and ran to the woods, where "
they poured out the gasoline and
struck a match to it. The result was
the ignition of the clothing cf Rud
olph. As soon as it was d : scovered
he was af’re, several of the large
boys raced to his rescue and tore his
clothing from him. Immediately he
was taken to the school nurse and
doctors were summoned. Everything
was done for his comfort and cure
that could possibly be done. Fortun
ately the hyperdermics gave him re
lief from the fearful burns until he
passed away several hours later. Fa
ther and grandfather were at his
bedside. Gerald Campbell, his broth
el# is a pupil at the school.
The body was taken to Greenwood
and funeral services were (conducted
at West Side Baptist Church Mon
day afternoon at 2:30 o’clock by Rev.
W. H. Bie:s. Interment followed in
Coronaca.
tXJ
Youjig Druggist
Drives Car Off
Edisto Bridge
Joe A. Morgan Drowns In
Edisto River
DOTHAN, Ala., March .26—Obvey
Wright three years old, has been run
over by a train and lives to tell the
tale.
Engineer C. B. Oliver saw what he
thought was a bundle of clothing ia
the middle of the track as he aoded
more speed to the Atlantic Coast
Line passenger train he was driving.
Within 100 feet of it the “bundle*
turned out to be a sleepinsr ch^d.
Olivei Jammed cn the brakes ani$
‘ dosed his eyes, knowing it was hopelM
less. . . ,
Almost crazed with hdrror. Olivet!
ran the full length of h : s train when!
it finally did grind to a stop.
And there he found the yougsteP
—not a mangled mass as he expected
—but a lustly bawling baby boy*
Engineer Ol'ver carried the child to'
Newville, nearby, and Obvey was
taken to his mother .who, busy
with household duties had not missed
him.
XXX ' '
1
at 5 p. m. today in the driver’s seac HP
—„k;i q Koon ! AWU VjrrCCIiVY UUU.
Children Lose
Lives In Branch
of an automobile which had been
driven from the bridge over the Ed'S-
to River on the Springfield-Willis-
ton road into the waters of the
stream, swollen by recent lains. The
car was submerged, lying on its side,
and was located only after a search.
Mr. Morgan was formerly employ- GREENWOOD, March 24.—Ruby*
cd as pharmacist at both Spartan- nine, and Otis, seven, children of Mr*
burg and Greenville. ! and Mrs. H. L. Bolton of the Green-
Rescue of the body, after the | wood mill village were drowned id
wreckage had been located, was af-. four feet of water in a culvert undel '
fected by heroic efforts on the part the Piedmont and Northern railway
of Charles \\|hite, C. H. Trotti and near the city limits late this after-
Q. A. Kennedy, Jr., of Williston and, noofri. Accompanied by the othev
Jim Jumper, of Springfield. j children the brother and sister wentj
The young druggist left his fath-, “to walk a mile” the mother sakL
er s home in Springfield at about The little girl fell into the small
8:40 p. m. Sunday for Williston. stream and as she cried frantically
While crossing the Edisto bridge, he for help the boy jumped to her res
in some manner lost control of his cue. Their companions gave the
machine and it plunged through the alarm and when found Ruby and Oti*
railing into the middle of the river, were Clasped in each others arms. ,
Friends began a search for him tXl-
when he did not appear at his work ‘
as usual and the river was diagged;
when it was found that the bridge;
railing had been tom away. ! I want to thank those who render-
'"he funeral will be held in Spring- ed valuable services in putting out
•", ■ [ Tuesday at 5 p. m. Mr. Morgan the fire on the Sandove: store l u Id-
leaves his father, Reece Morgan, two ing yesterday.
brothers, Judso n and H. A. Morgan, Also want to thank the fire de-
and three sisters, Mrs. Rebecca Mor- partment of McCormick and other*
gan. Mrs. Frank Sally and Miss Kate I who offered their services.
Morgan, all of Springfield. I ' J. CHAS. TALBERT. ,
Card of Thanks
J*