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WILL PROSECUTE LI ALLEGED TRUST Jos. Kaufman Appointed as Special Assistant U. S. Attorney to In- b< vestigate Building Material , ti Business. bl oi Washington, Oct. 30.?Appoint- se ment of Jos. Kaufman as special as- tc sistant to the district attorney at in New York to conduct a Federal in-! vestigation into the alleged combina-: a] tions in the building materials mar-^ in ket in that city, was announced to-, 01 day by Attorney General Palmer. ! ti This is the Federal government's re first step, in the direction of prosecu- m tion of alleged violation of anti-trust; laws among building material dealers. [ le Department of justice officials said in- j 0( formation gathered by the Uftited1 y< States atcrney's office in New York! 0l had disclosed evidence which they be-: 0( lieved pointed to combinations in vio- j cc iation of the Sherman law and that j 'jj Mr. Kaufman's appointment had been Qi lecommended by United States Attor- ]e ney Caffey as a result of this evi-l aence. Mr. Kuafman will cooperate with| the New York State executive com- hj mittee which is conducting an inves- ^ tigation into the situation. ' , of . SEES VIOLATION JU OF ELECTION LAWS,1" oil ex M V?,L. Plan. On . ? Foot to Buy, Steal and Tear Up Votes in New York City be New York, Oct. 30.?Declaring he ti< had good information that "all kinds ? of violations of the law from mere w< technalities to buying of votes, steal- ] es ing of ballots and deliberate spoiling J lij of ballots by election officials" would Sc be resorted to in four congressional til districtts here next TTuesday, Jules fo J Gerber executive secretary of the en New York county organization of the mi Socialist party today called upon At- th torney General Palmer in a letter to see that the election be carried on in G< accordance with teh law." K re "In the election of 1918,' he wiote ju: "during the canvass of the votes on ce the night of election day, the lights an $J?? % We are c / V I C $6.31 We offer j shop-worn stock durii large numl select your i SI I ? 11 East Side 1 EAGUE OF NATIONS COS' $400,000 A MONTH Th sum of $400,000 a monh v i required to run the League of ^ ons next year, accroding to t jdget approved by the Coun [ the leage made public at Bn ils. This budget will be present ? the League Assembly at its co g session in Geneva. After making appropriations a ^proving a vast outlay aggregj Lg $3,750,000, of which $l,25i ju will De spent oy tne interr onal Laboto Bureau, the Cbun< turned its discussion of ways a eans of protecting minorities. The organization period of t' ague up to July last cost $1,25 )0 and for the second half of tl jar the budget provides $2,50 3C|. The budget provides $30( )0 for the permanent internatior iurt and $200,000 yearly for t aymertt on the hotel bought I eneva, for headquarters of t ague. THE SUPREME TEST ive no liking for jury duty h rain been called to the attenti : the public when four who ha st been called before the Blac sath Justice at Lewisham objei [ to serving and two of them we :cused because they were over t :e limit of sixty years. A collar with poison syringes h en invented for sheep as a prote )n against the sheep-killing coyo' ire turned off and the polling pla left in darkness and while t jhts were out, ballots cast for t cialist candidates were stolen, ai ther substituted by others mark r the Socialist candidates were st< , and either substituted by othe arked for the fusion candidate e ballots were missing." Anticipating a teply from Attorn* ;neral Palmer suggesting that fer the matters 'to the courts stice". Mr. Gerber said legal pr edings after election are "costl d lead to nothing.' PPOF continuing to < ibly great redu you can gi Nothing per suit e? j._ d>>ii e lO<ptl.3 'ou a complete stoi merchandise, but lg the past three rr oer of buyers who ' winter apparel?tl M. A Public Square rS HOUSEWIFE PLACED IN RANK OF EXPERT PROFESSIONAL ,-ilI Chicago, Oct. 28.?The housewife la- had her day and was officially admit;he ted to the ranks of the expert procil fessions today at the breakfast of the us- National Housemakers' Guild. ;ed "It is no worse to stay at home and m- wash dishes that it is to pound a typewriter," Mrs. T. Vernette Morse, exend cutive secretary of the guild, declared at- "Home making is an expert profes0r sion and the woman who stays at la- home and keeps house should receive as much honor and recognition as her nd' sister in the business world or public life." |^g " 1 q More than a half of the employes of [jis the Waltham watch factory are wom0, en, their small and agile hands being )?- especially adapted to the delicate lal ^,0^ required. ;hei at , SMALL PROFITS MADE he i ON FARMS REPORTS SHOW | Washington, Oct. 30.?Comparaj tively few farmers have made large j [as profits these recent years of high! prices, if figures brought out in a! on ! survey of three localities by the Uni- j ve ted States department of agriculture can be taken as indicative of the ' :t- country as a whole. ire The figures on farm profits, coverhe ing seven years in two areas and five years in a third were made public by the department Monday. They show: as That comparatively few of the far;C mers in the groups studied have been te. making large profits during the re? cent years of compartively high iC- prices. he That their average return on inhe vestment increased from about 4 per nd cent in 1912 to 7 per cent in 19l8. ed That most of the farmers are mak>1 ing less than S500 cash per year over rs and above the things the farm furor nshes toward the family living, which however, constitute a very important ey factor. he These facts brought out in this reof port are of special significance, since e- they represent the jesults of continy, uous studies of the same farms ex- i tending over a longer period of time ] > ITDNIl jffer you the pick i ctionsW/iy pay et them here at pr I Sh< % per ] 10 $2.80 to ck of new merchandi: a guaranteed reduction lonths. The goods a have visited our ston le lines are still complet kNDERS( than do any other such investigation thus far completed by the depart ment. Indicate Trend of Farm Returns. Specialists of the office of fain management and farm economics who have conducted these investiga tions, say that while the results wil not justify making flat generaliza tions as to what farm profits are fo the country as a whole, they believ they should have weight in the con sideration of the general problem as indicative of the trend of farn returns in representative farming sec tions. The three groups of farm studie are in Washington county, Ohio, (2! farms,) hill country, 7 years, Clintoi county Indiana (100 farms, corn bel 7 years), and Dane county, Wiscon sin (69 farms, dairy region 5 years.] Representatives of the departmen visited these farms year after year taking records covering the farm bus iness under the following heads: Distribution of farm area; eta] yields; amount of work, stock and o: other livestock; amount of labor us ed; amount and distribution of tarn capital; amount and distribution o receipts and expenses; value of th family living obtained from the farm amounts of the more important prod ucts sold and precies received. From the figures tnus obtained tb farm income (receipts less expenses and the labor income (farm incom less 5 per cent on investment) hav teen computed for each farm an< for each group of farms. One Group Made $610 a Year. The average farm income of h twenty-five farmers visited Washing ton county, Ohio, for the seven year 1912-18 was $610; the labor incom $276; the return on investment, 4j per cent. In addition to the farm in come the farmers had food, fuel an< house rent, estimated to be worth on the average, $359 per year. Fo 1912 he farm income of these farm averaged $456, and for 1918 the av erage was $719. These farms are ii a hilly secion, where he soil is not es pecially fertile. The one hundred farmers in Clin ton county, Indiana, being on bettei land than the Ohio farmers, made i UtUI Pir? cor ni of the season's ! more for the s< in/DC tUnt mill c 11 IV^V/O tl 1Mb M/lib UW >es pair 411.95 se to select from, of the price of ne re moving fast and ; during the past 1 :e and we are addim DN CO s correspondingly better showing* in t " Their farm incomes averaged $1,826 conr for the seven years, 1910 and 1913- ^ea per 18, and their labor incomes $558. Rett ! ove I turn on capital was 5.7 and food, ^vc fuel and house rent furnished by the the 1 farm $425. The arevage farm income fan flioco forme inproocn^ frnm $1 9Q9 - ..iv*v?uvu wx 9 L'UII] r in 1910 to $2,978 in 1918. to i e The farm income of the sixty Wis- vest . consin farms averaged $1,293 for the j; i, six years, 1913-18, the labor income m $408 and return on investment?de. termined by deducting from the farm caSf income the value of the farmer's la- in? s bor?was 4.1 per cent. The average witl 5 farm income ranged from $1,079 in cre? a 1913 to $1,990 in 1918. On most of in \ I these farms the principal source of chai income is dairying. tun I Some Had no Labor Income. larg k Of the 185 farms in the three areas the , none made a labor income of $1,000 ger, for every year of the study, but eigh- thin teen in the Indiana area and seven terr 5 ? f pHHHHBiHi I Abbeville Can 9 M e m 18 Candy rni I Fruits tUJ St T e! m ice ^ream = s B Cigarettes , g B Tobaccos - H Cigars. Can r I ^ Whole Trinity St. / ? ' ? ^TINUES TO KN' T YOUR DOOR merchandise at rer ime goods, when irprise you ? Underweai per garment A4 4 /v . /hn -fl $i.iyto$o.i This is not a sale of olc w goods bought and pla I we are really surprised ew days. Come in tod< 1 to our stock daily. MP A NY rn V AA mt mmmm -m mmm Abbeville, South C< ;he Wisconsin area made labor inle averaging more than $1000 per r for the period. Four farmers (2 cent of the entire number) made r SfiOft lnhrvr incnmp pvurv vpar. iraging labor income and loss over whole time, 15 per cent of the ners failed to make any labor inie at all. Ten per cent failed even nake 5 per cent, interest on in;ment in any year of the study, epartemnt specialists point out ; though farm incomes in most js showed a marked increase durthe years 1916-18 as compared i incomes for 1912-15, these inises are more apparent than real, iew of the decrease in the pursing power of the dollar. The lover for the recent years was ;er than for the earlier yearf, tarf returns were relatively little lar, if measured, in terms of the gs it would buy rather than in ns of dollars and cents. IdyKitche^l V iigh-Class NFECT10NS i 4ome-Made dies and Cream aale Retail ===== ! Abbeville, S. C. ??MM ==T* : \ > y OCK i 1 ?11 L ? 1 nark- I i 6 \ 1-style, iced in at the ly and irolina ?r?