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HOME BUILDERS ARE ADVISED TO WAIT Transportation, Labor and Financial Situations Must Be Improved, F. T. Miller Says. Washington, Jan. 28.?Home builders were advised to await im- j proved transportation, labor and fin ancial situations in an address today by Franklin T. Miller, assistant to the Senate committee on reconstruc tion before the housing conferencej called by the Chamber of Commerce j of the Unit.ed States. ' "Wait until transportation is am-! plei until you can get a full day's work for a full day's pay and until | your banker will loan you at least 60 percent of the value of the building at six percent without bonus," Mr. I Miller advised. Tax exemption for all new dwell ings for a period of at least 15 years as a means of stimulating building was advocated by Lawson Purdy for mer president of the New York city board of taxes and exemptions. Such an exemption would be a substantial inducement to builders, Mr. Purdy said, adding that it was fully warranted by the present housing . shortage. He advocated that it should apply to all homes built in the next three years. Expansion of private building association opera ' tons throughout the country as a means of increasing opportunities for homebuilding was advocated by K. V Haymaker, former financial adviser to the United States housing corpor ation. Mr. Haymaker urged trade and business association to aid in divert ing capital into building associations t and also advocated establishment of the proposed federal home loan banks to provide a greater source of credit iVl UVUl^ VUIiUVlO* KING ALBERT OFFERS CUP FOR OCEAN RACE New York, Jan. 30.?King Albert of Belgium has offered a cup for an ocean race from Sandy Hook to Os tend, Belgium open to sailing yachts of the world, Baron De Carter, Bel gian ambassador to the United States, announced here today. The* '' race, under the provision laid down by the King, is to start July 4, next. Notice to Taxpayers For the Purpose of Accommodating the Public in the Matter of Mak ing Their Returns, I Will Visit the Places Mentioned Below On The Dates Indicated in Schedule. ALL RETURNS must be made un der oath of personal property re turned at its market value. Persons not making their returns between January 1, 1921 and Feb. ruary 20, 1921, are liable to a penal ty of 50 per cent. This penalty will be enforced against delinquents: for the failure to enforce it heretofore has put on neglect of the law. The returns of those who conform to the law are placed before the Township and County Boards, while those who disregard the law come in after the meeting of the Boards and return to suit themselves. The en forcement of this 50 per cent penal ty Will correct this evil. Returns will not be taken by mail unless they are sworn to before I some proper officer. All improve ments or any transfer of real estate must be reported to the Auditor. Employers are requested to return all their employees after notifying them and getting a statement of their property. All tax returns must be made by school districts. So please look up - your plats and find the number of acres in each school district, also amount of personal property. My Appointments Are as Follows: Calhoun Falls, Tuesday, February 1st. I.owndesville, Wednesday and Thursday, 2nd and 3rd. Donalds Friday and Saturday, Feb ruary 4th and 5th. . Due West, Tuesday and Wednes day, February 8th and 9th. f% Dr. Joseph Hicks will represent me at Calhoun Falls. R. J. Huchinson will represent me at Lowndesville. D. H. Humphries will represent me at Donalds. J. S. Todd will represent me at Due West. E. A. Patterson will represent me , at Antreville. | W. W. Wilson will represent me at level Land. RICHARD SONDLEY, "wk Auditor Abbe. County. WILSON TO WRITE BOOK ON TREATY Ray Stannard Baker Assembles Data. To Begin Work Soon Washington, Jan. 30.?President Wilson is having collected and ar ranged for ready reference all papers and documents in his posses sion relating to the work of the Paris peace conference with a view to the preparation of a book on the peace negotiations. The president in making these preparations, it was learned today, has accepted the volunteered ser vices of Ray Stannard Baker, who was attached to the American peace commission. Mr. Baker during the | past two weeks has spent several hours each day at the White House putting into shape all available data on the peace conference in the pres ident's possession. While it is not ibelieved that the president ' contemplates beginning the actual work of writing or dictat ing the proposed book, during the few remaining weeks of his term of office, it is understood that he has in mind the inauguration of real work shortly after his retirement to private life. It is known that Mr. Baker his only undertaken the task of arranging the material and that his duties do not include in any way the literary work. Friends of the president are un derstood to have urged upon him for some time the desirability of recording from the viewpoint of an 'official American participant events of such monumental importance as took place in Paris during the peace negotiations. They have pointed out that one who played a major role as | he and whose decisions later became [the subject of such violent contro ^ -?---- !* *** !? TTwifft/J Qf at/kc on/1 vcrsy UUI'll Hi UilC UiiUWM MVMWW m*iv? I abroad, could not afford to lose the opportunity of settling before the world the motives behind the many disputed decisions, as involve Shan tung, Fiume, Danzig, the Anglo Franco-American alliance and the Russian questino. I Officials close to the president have said recently that whatever the president might write after his retirement from the White House would not be autobiographical in form as the president's preference has always been toward history as form of literary expression. One version of the events which took place at Paris from an official American viewpoint, already is in course of publication. Announce ment was made several weeks ago that Former Secretary of State Lan sing, one of the American commis sioners, had prepared a book which takes issue in severaj important chapters with decisions made by the president. This book is to be releas ed to the public March 5, the day after President Wilson retires from office. TREASURER CONFESSES ROBBERY OF $15,000 Marion, 0., Feb. 1.?H. C. Forry Marion county treasurer, today confessed, police say, that he em bezzled approximately $15,000 while serving as treasurer and depu ty treasurer and that he staged a fake hold-up last Wednesday to cov er a theft of more than $14,000 which he expected to use in making prood his shortage. PEOPLE OF OUR TOWN <1 \ 1 O ? 1 7 hr o a (l. a. ?S?. 0?v 9 ? ? ? P fee j3o azzpt _ 0=^ c=> ffrrmi f / ^7/Z7Def7Ii This Poor Burdock, is all Worked Up, for thetfe's a Stranger in town and he doesn't Know her Name, nor Where she's From, nor Why she Came, nor How Long she's Going to Stay, and the Suspense is Killing Him. The Only Explanation for the Volunteer Detec tive Is that he Must have been dropped on his Bean when a Babe. REAL ESTATE IS SAFE AND SURE INVESTMENT | Wars May Come and Wart May Go, But Real Estate Will Never Be Annihilated. From Greensboro News. Arthur Brisbane, the financial ex pert, says: "There has never been since the world began a country more secure for holders of property than the United States." Of all property, the most stable, the most secure, is real estate. It is tangible and can be seen;no manipu ' nations can make it fade away. It | may have periods of depression, but I the general trend is upward. Real es j tate in a growing city becomes more j valuable each year. Wars may come | and wars may go, but real estate will i ' novor ho annihilated. Ralph S. Towle, of Louisville, Ky., | I writing for publication recently, con- j isiders real estate brokers a boon to, I i mankind in that, by persistence, they i induce people to invest in homes and | other real estate ventures who might otherwise lose some of the best op portunities of a lifetime in the matter of investment. Considering it as an investment, he says: j "The public has no better friends than the real estate brokers, although individuals may sometimes think that they are a trifle persistent in their ( efforts to induce one to make a pur chase. In reality this is where they do the greatest good, not only for the i . city in which they live, but for the | man to whom they sell the property, > , and this is especially true in the case' of a home. ! "The great majority of people are too slow to realize the importance of becoming home owners, and the ef forts of real estate dealers have in J?4-a r?nvnV?Qon HrVlA ' QUCCU WIU UDailUD lu yuivimov *??*w otherwise would have let splendid op-1 iportunities pass. I "It is especially important that all ' young people become home owners at the earliest time possible, because in | j the strength of their youth they will have no trouble meeting their pay ments on a home, and in a few years 1 they will have it paid for. On the other hand, if they fail to buy, the years will pass and find them living up all they make. ^ "An advantage which real' estate j enjoys was brought out by a Hebrew merchant who has always been a ! large investor of real estate. One 1 night at a club he was cornered by I a crowd of h s friends and ir^ited to 1 invest some money in a new muua ; trial proposition, which had all the ! prospects of being an exceptional in i estment. 1 he merchant turned the i proposition down cold, saying that 1 all h;s money went into real estate. I When asked why he preferred real I estate to stocks he stated: 'My boy, I God has qu;t making more land; and( as the number of people increase so Joes the value of land increase, but j them presses print too many of them j stocks a .\ ear for Mr. Goldstein,' and with a wave of the hand he left his friends stanuing and viewing a real I estate propos.t on from an entirely I different angle." j | It is estimated that two years are required for the Gulf Stream water j i to travel from Florida to the coast' of Norway. ANIMALS SMOTHER Tn nFATH IN PARS I ; Thirty-three Mules and Horses Die. Ccming to Columbia Raleigh, N. C., Jan. 30.?Thirty- j three horses and mules, property of 1 the United States government, were removed from box cars here today, having smothered to death between Norlina and Raleigh, while they were en route from Camp Lee to I Camp Jackson at Columbia, S. C. According to railroad officials, the dead animals were in a shipment of i 185 horses and mules loaded in closed box cars by direction of a ! captain in the quartermaster corps, j U. S. A., who is said to have ex ; pressed the desire that the animals be kept warm. The shipment left , Jfetersourg saturciay nignt in cnar^e of Private H. Adams, accompanied ; by another soldier and two civilians. Examination of the cars en route, it is said, revealed the fact that the animals were suffering. An attempt , to unload the cars at Norlina was i ! made but the shipment was continue to Raleigh with car doors partly , open when it was found that there ' were no facilities for unloading at Norlina. i SLOW PROGRESS FOR INDUSTRY Washintgon, Feb. 1:?Industrial operations have not increased suffi ciently to effect a material reduction in the widespread unemployment prevalent a month ago, according to the review of business and financial l conditions of the country for Janu-j ary, issued tonight by the1 federal i reserve board. A slight increase In the activity; of leading New England industries' during the month probably has brought a mesaure of relief there .the review said, but in the South and West, the situation has become more acute. In the San Francisco district, previously slightly affected, the iDoarci reportea unemployment to De abnormally great^for this season. Wage reductions have continued, the board said, and the curtail ment has spread to sections of the country where wage rates have hitherto been maintained at high level. About 100,000 textile mill workers in New England have suf fered wage cuts averaging 22 1-2 per cent.,, the review added, and while redutcions in the boot and shoe industry have not been so large they have been extensive. Unemployment in the New York district increased by about 4 per cent in January, the review- said. Some textile mills have dropped a considerable number of employees during the month. Unemployment was likewise ^widespread among longshoremen, freight handlers dock workers and seamen, while there | were runner reaucuuns in irun ?uu steel plants, the board added. Textile mills in the Richmond district resumed work in January, j but in the tyuilding trades and in the1 ranks of unskilled labor, the review I said, a serious lick of employment) existed there. The number of employed has in creased decidedly in the Atlantic district *ind idleness has become; widespread in the ranks of the un-1 skilled. In many lines wage reduc-! tions have already been made. Prices of certain staples, notably grains, cotton and other agricultu ral products rose aarly in January, f the board reported, but later in the month declined again. Other leading commodities, however, such as crude and refined oils and bitumi nous coal not greatly affected in eariler months were increasingly weak and iron and steel continued to decline. Financially the month has been encouraging, the board , declared. Slacking in the demand for credit COUNTY SA1 r\rrnrvi UIL^iUl Upon something you hence. Then work towai 'Many people daily rea they have been striving, to reach goals farther on, They make this progn cess in saving and bankin income. We welcome the acc people. We Pay 5 Per on Saving | County Sa Sound :: Sa Abbeville, I ft33$3S^S$$$$$333$5$33$$S$$S$$^ HALL KINDSJOF lOding Mater and SUPPLIES' Supply C v. H. JACKSON, Mg resulted in a material reduction it the total outstanding volume of cir culation amounting in the montii tc about $50,000,000 while gold hold ings increased to about $25*00^ 000. In private finance, the board sue the month has been a period of im provement of value in most cLhkp of securities. SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSStt ti i i i '< 1, S ' 1 SSSgy v^INGS BANK 7 wnw mA 11V/ want to do a few years 'd that goal. Lch goals toward which and make new decisions' ess becauuse of their suc g regularly a part of their ;ounts of all ambitious ' Cent. Interest s Deposits vings Bank fp :: Servire " i S. Carolina r \J t LJll A