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STATE CARRIES 11 MUCH INSURANCE Miller Tells of Work of Sinking Fund [ Commission?Insurance in Ef- c feet Close of Last Year Over Nine Million Dollars. j 1 M. J. Miller, secretary of the sink- t ing fund commission, which commis- 0 sion has charge of state insurance of I J public property in South Carolina, is' c sending to all policy holders a book-'r let in which is set forth the work of g the commission together with perti- e nent comments relative to the cele1 " <<rn? n a.: TU? Hnfn. Pra 01 r ire rrevenuuu i/a;, unu-i -c, ber 9. 11 Through the sinking fund commis-j c sion, the state carries all of the insur-j n ance on all public builidrigs in the j & state. According to the booklet being t sent out by Mr. Mil^r, the aomunt of f insurance in effect December 31, 1919 v was $9,811,639 which wa? apportion- h ed as follows: County property, $1,481,783; state ^ property, $3,704,809; public schools, n $4,625,047. Total, $9,811,639. , P At Reasonable Rates. t After giving a br'ef account of the 1 legation enacted ov which the sink- 0 ing fund commission took charge of J the insurance of public buildings, Mr, fi Miller says:. "This insurance is being carried at 2 approximately tariff rates, or the same " rates "that are being employed by reliable stock insurance codpanies. Our A rates are in no case in excess of the tariff rates and in most instances are less than tariff rates. For instance, the rate employed by this commission * rm a rural school building of frame S w f t construction with shingle roof is 1.50 * as against a tariff rate of 1.90. e "The business of state insurance of 1 public property proved extremely b profitable from its inception. The net r profits after deducting all losses and expenses have averaged slightly more g than 90 per cent. This means that ap- a proximatelf 90 cents out of?every dol- r lar paid over the sinking fund com-jV mission as premiums on insurance, h policies issued has actually been sav-j o ed for the assured and placed to their 1 credit in our insurance sinking fund p for the eventual purpose of providing g free insurance for the property in-j ?ured. v Met Opposition. ? ,'As was to be expected the scheme t has met with opposition from various f sources. The insurance companies and,' t! insurance agents naturally opposed it | in the beginning, but it is our belief | a that they have recognized the right a of the organized state government to si insure its own property in any manner it sees fit, which will result in 1 permanent benefit to all the people, c Since the law was amended so as to1 1 require the insurance of all public' school buildingst o be carried by this't commission, considerable opposition's has developed which we believe to be' e largely instigated by the officials of is certain farmers' mutual insurance'n companies operating in this state. s "We have no word of criticism for o these mutual organizations, but it is ii submitted that the state insurance of c public property as at present being e conducted by the sinking fund com- b mission is the very essence of mu- v tualization and if allowed to continue e without being hampered by any class t; of public property being exempted 1 from the provisions of the existing i; law, will shortly reach the limit of b I SOUTHERN RAII ANNOUI Reduced Rounc ?TO GREENWOOD, SO AGGOl PIEDMONT FAIR OCTOBER 20Southcrn Railway will tickets from Seneca, Greer Anderson, and intermedial and return October 19th to trains scheduled to arrive G o'clock noon October 22nd. ing so as to reach original s lore midnight of October 2 R. C. G District Passe Spartar "OUR ARE PROMINENTLY [ MENTIONED FOR BISHOPj Columbia, Oct. 9.?At least fouri >rominent rectors .of the Episcopal hurch are being mentioned as possi>le nominees for the new office of ?ishop to be created by the council of he Episcopal church in South Caroina at its meeting in Columbia next ruesday. The four who are receiving he most consideration at the hands >f the Episcopalians are, Dr. K. G. ^inlayof Columbia, rector of Trinity hurch; Rev. Albert Thomas of Cheaw, Rev. W. H. K. Pendleton of Spartanburg, and Rev. Tracey Walk-j r of York. There is no nominating committee j nd no caucus beforehand regarding! he candidates for bishop in the Epis-; opal church. The council elects from' iominations presented individually' I nd spontaneously. The members of j he church, however, are giving cart-! ul consideration to leading ministers, j rith a view to nominations. The new i ishop will be Bishop Coadjutor. In addition to the election of the ishop coadjutor, the council which leets in Columbia next Tuesday will! ( irobably give consideration, it is said t o the report of a committee hand- t ing the matter of dividing the state 1 f South Carolina into two councils. . lowever, this will not be acted on ( inally, it is stated. | Ta. 4-Uav?A will Kn okollf I I it lb bLclLCU tiiat laidc nui WW uuvmv 50 churchmen to attend the meeting n Columbia. MONARCHISTS AND DEMOCRATS PLAN AGAINST RUSSIA Berlin, Oct. 7.?A union between he Monarchists and the Democratic roups "outside of Russia against the Leds in a fair way of being effectd on the basis that if Lenine and 'rotzky are overthrown, Russia will e reconstructed into a federated epublic of several large states. At a secret meeting of these roups in Vienna this week, a gener1 program was mapped out for the econquest of Russia. The leaders nth whom I talked expressed the ope that winter would prove victor ver the "Communist Napoleon" * * 1 ' "? i T? _ i I'OtzKy, as u nas Deen over duiuiarte, but they were riot * over sanuine. They declared that if the Bolsheists made peace with Holland and Ingland, enabling them to get food hey would throw all their military : orces against Baron Wrangel and heir plans would come to naught. ccumulation and provide free insurnce for all public property ,in the tate. Since the law went into effect in j 900 the rate of insurance has in- * reased from 73.75 to $280,817.82 in 919. "The public school buildings, particularly those buildings of frame con truction, are fortunate in being takn in under the provisions of the inurance act at this time, as it will be oted that the assets of the insurance inking fund were nearly one-fourth f a million dollars when these buildngs were admitted. This means, of } ourse, that they will receive the benfits of this amount which has already een accumulated on the date theyi fere admitted. It is conservatively stimated that the limit of accumulaion will be reached within ten years | 'his estimate is no wild hazard, but * 3 based on a careful analysis of the t usiness for the past 20 years." .WAY SYSTEM \TCES I Trip Fares | ? t UTH CAROLINA JNT ASSOCIATION 21-22, 1920. sell reduced round trip Greenville, Newberry, r j stations to Greenwood 21st inclusive, and for Ireenwood before twelve with final limit returnstarting point on or be4th, 1920. OTNER, jnger Agent. lburg, S. G. . jj Dorothy Gish ! jSsiik r ^ ^ ^ ^ * ^ ^ ^ ^ jjj ^ ^ * I ^ This is Dainty Dorothy Gish, the I >opular "movie" star, who recently |t ;ailed on the "Imperator" for a vaca-jt Ion abroad. Miss Gish's work on the 1 a tcreen is familiar to millions who rely>n motion pictures for their chiefly imusem??? i ? > ' ? Ojt THE ROMANCE OF WORDS S Is "JAZZ." j 0 LIKE many another word, j; "jazz" has slipped into the j ^ English?or rather, into the | American?language like the ? mule of which Mark Twain | wrote that it was "without : r pride of ancestry or hope of | g posterity." I Jazz is not a derived word. i It was coined and, according to , * Lieut. James Reese-Europe, U. S. A., who conducted one of ( the jazziest jazz bands, it owes its origin to a man named Razz, 1 a whose musical organization was j famous In New Orleans some J * 15 years ago. Razz is reputed | to have been the first to realize I the harmony and appealing | quality wnicn resiues in saw phones, trombones, snare drums ; and the like, when played with a snap and dash. So he specialized In this kind of syncopated music and his fame spread throughout the South,, Imitator^ springing up in vari- " <. ous sections. One of these which toured Missouri and the middle West, styled Itself the I "Jass-band"?slightly altering 7 the name of the original lead- v er. In the course of a year or [ so the final "s's" were changed to "z's." Jazz-hands made their appearance from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and "jazz" slipped into the language and even into j the dictionaries. j (Copyright.) J {< ' II > c o yv nn | I /N | Ml (XttMii JMLANPWGILU&b (Copyright.) SHAMELESS CONFESSION. 4 IVe're bound to own the truth, although It makes our pride rise up and fret;.^r iVa've knocked about a lot, and no'*-1 Woman has tried to steal ua yet. 0 0 0 Why a Bachelor Is. "Why did you never marry?" "Well, you see, whenever I bought mythlng I always saw something I Iked better, right afterward. I was ifrald it would be that way In marlage, so I just didn't." ^ ' THE SCIENTIFIC FARMER I "Mary, you've simply get te keep our children in better health or not let them play round my sanitary dairy barn* I" He Wanted to Know. j "Paw?" ri; "Yes, Gervase." "Is having a crick in your back anjh hlng like having a stream-lined , >ody?" FINNIGIN FILOSOFY If yes let to-morra go by wid? oat bavin' added a partide a? ' joy to tBiywan'i life, I Hirer wahnt ya*"V shpake t' m# agia! '1 " ? rj] Hurvfl, Nothin'l . "Did young Daubsfelgh ever get any',| if his paintings bung?" j "Hung? I should say so. His clga-* ette advertisements are hanging In eviry tobacconist's in the country." 0 i ... . Y What tne spmnx says, if By Newton Newkirk. "Every employer pays 'lis emabout." f %iii i ii ' *< 5APTISTS TO SPEND \V MILLIONS IN SOUTH Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 7.?Eleven nillion dollars for new buildings and pe iquipment will be spent on the edu- Cj ational institutions owned by Sou- re hem Baptists during the next four m rears it is announced at the head- N< [uarters of that organization here, nc Approximately the same amount '^ rill be spent duing that period in m' th ifting the debts upon those mstitu- qc ions and increasing their endow- m, nent funds. hi] Of this building fund, $2,275,000 kc rill go to what are known as the Southern Baptist Theological Semi- di iary at Louisville, Ky., Southwes- an ern Baptist Theological Seminary, ? \>rt Worth, Texas, Baptist Bible I 1 nstitute, New Orleans, La., and Japtist Theological Seminary for j J ;J; Jegroes at Nashville, Tenn., while ;); here will be expended upon new wildings at the Baptist colleges rithin the several states compris- jjl he territorv of the Southern Bao-lls: ist Convention the following j|; .mounts: Alabama, $275,000; Arkansas, jj! 1525,000; Georgia, $450,000; Sou- 'ij hern Illinois $115,000; Kentucky, jjj 130,000; Louisana, $400,000; Misisippi, $575,000; Missouri, $600,>00; North Carolina, $8^5,000; <jj )klahoma, $300,000; South Caroina, $725,000; Tennessee, $530,- lj! i00; Texas, $2,250,000; and Vir- ;j: rinia $570,000. ;i; More than 20,000 pupils haVe en- jjj oiled in the Baptist schools and eminaries of the South this season, ill of the institutions reporting the leaviest registrations in their hisory. 9 :j; The Old Testament was collected jj; ,nd arranged by Ezra, 450 B. C. ^ ivy I ABBEVILLE FRIDi The Besl1 Tob GREEN\ A The Gate ses) fron I donatec Mei School Childre EST FEELING HEAT AS SOUTH SHIVE Washington, Oct. 7.?While tc matures today in Virginia and 1 irolinas were "shivery" and adings contniued below normal ost sections of the South, orthwestern states reported >ramlly warm weather for Oc sr. At Bismarck, N. D., the th ometer registered 92 degrees e maximum, a temperature wh curs only at intervals in midsu er in the far South. It. was ghest ever recorded in North I >ta in October. Somewhat warmer weather is cated for the Southeast Thursc id Friday. The New.... VICTOR For Octobei HEAI McMurray 0 \Yvi Game ?f e Played c Local Fielc fILLE HI vs BBEVHi Receipts ( i this game 1 to the A Tiorial Hos n 15c; Every - ? GIRLS AT COLLEGE RS PICKING COTTON :m- Red Springs, N. C., Oct. 7.?Acceptthe ing an offer from L. J. Bright, promitjje nent cotton grower here, and 250 . Flora Macdonald college girls yesterday put on a campaign setting the the goal at $500. Mr. Bright is offering ab" $1.50 per . 100 pounds. The students . to- have formed two teams?a white and er- a blue, under the leadership of Miss at Bamhardt of Harrisburg and Miss ich Brogden of Calypso, and are out to tm- make a record for cotton picking, the j Yesterday afternoon seven trucks Da- carried the students to the field, three hours being devoted to the work, in- with 2,400 pounds the result of the lay first picking. The campaign will last ten days. i v irvj ! v {11 . ,.' nmnnnn j KLlUKDo | " * " i: .?-? r Have Arrived j | ' i THEM Drug Company i ' -i; ? ' 2 ; ' y m r?r i r I ^1? lv I > . jH the Season I ^ i )ir me gh I ? HIGH I less expen- I 1 will be 1 bbeville I pital I body Else 75c I