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Railroad Issue Becoming A Washington, March 12.-Se Cummins of Iowa, joint authi the Cummins-Esch railroad ad clares his intention of asking gress for authority to conduct, the assistance of the commerce mittee of the senate, a thoroug vestigation into the railroad ! tion. He will act on the first day o extraordinary session. By that judging from the celerity with ^ developments are rushing to a the inevitable "blow-off" will arrived. Congress and the admini tion at this date realize that s thing must be done to save e the railroads of the country general bankruptcy, or the comn of the country which on accour exorbitant freight traffic, can move with essential smoothness The announcement of the P sylvania rialroad that it will re the wages of its employees wil followed by similar announcem by all other railroads. It is undo edly true that the employees will suffer such reduction without vic protest. It would cause little surj were numerous strikes to be di oped. At any rate there is no q tion but that the situation is seri and that in its present status, it not much longer endure. Cause Uncertain. As previously pointed out in correspondence, nobody knows wi the trouble lies. Because of gen ignorance, Senator Cummins Tegf it as absolutely essential that investigation be had. The intersl commerce commission is autho: for the statement that the condif of railroads grows more distress month by month, and that no red tion in rates could justly "be ore ed; and that freight and passen traffic correspondingly decreases, is reported to Washington each < from each section of the country t producers can not reap even a mod profit when cost of transportation unbearable. Th?. Cummins-Esch act was p posely made exceedingly liberal z generous to the- railroads in or< that they might have an opportun to get on their feet. It is held Senator Cummins and other influ? tial members of congress that if i der that act the railroads can't g good service at fahr Tates, somethi is radically wrong. It is for the pi pose of ascertaining what is wro that Senator Cummins will ask i the .investigation. The consuming and shipping pt lie represent to Washington that th are the victims of organized lab and organized capital, that each is selfish interest, and as result of su selfishness, the ordinary man, affilh ed with neither, must bear an ov increasing burden. It is contend^ that capital opposes the constant d mand of labor for increased wag only on account of its difficulty finding new methods of transferrii the expense involved to the shoul ers of the people; that the conter plated wage reduction by the Pen: sylvania and other railroads is di to the fact that in the present nu ment, the railroads have .absolute! no chance of further oppressing tl people. Blame Put On Lalor. The railroads offer a tentative e: planation by pointing to laws c congress enacted at the demand an as result of the threat of organize labor which reduced hours of wor and increased wages at the same tim? That the money thus involved make the cost of transportation prohibitiv is also an argument. Labor, on the other hand, declare that capital is proverbially selfis: and that railroads can not earn a fai return on their stock because th' stock, well "watered," exists only ii the imagination. Senator Cummin realizes that the time has come whe: the truth must be ascertained. If no one is responsible, and therefore,' the situation can not bt remedied, government supervision ownership, is apparently -inevitable Congress looks with disfavor on the suggestion. The Plumb plan, undei which the government would buy the railroads, permit labor and capital to operate them, and enjoy the re turns without the necessity of making up deficits, has no friend in congress brave enough publicly to announce his affection for the scheme. And, despite the fact that govern ment ownership is more and more discussed as the remedy, it is certain that it will not be attempted prior to the exhaustion of every other re source. It is very probable that in hope of relief, congress will permit the reduction in the number of trunk lines; will, in other words, permit the efficient organizations to absorb the inefficient and unremunerative. At any rate, the railroad problem is the one big problem confronting the government. It promises to re-j main as such until it,is properly solved-and in this process, the peo ple of the nation may express th?ir opinion in a referendum four years hence. The Railroad Situation. The railroad situation is proving a problem-and looming up daily as a greater problem. All sides of it are being discussed-that is, it is being discussed from all angles. One view of it is given in the Manufacturers Record, which paper says: "High freight rates are killing business, and low freight rates, under present conditionns, would kill the railroads. Nominally, the railroads have been returned to private con trol, but as a matter of fact, they are not being operated by their owners, except in name. They are still under the complete domination of the rail road unions, installed in this position by the government. From beginning to end government management of railroads was rotten to the core. The government permitted the establish ment of a system by which the em ployes practically dictate the manage ment of the roads. "Every farmer, merchant and man ufacturer who sees the effect of the high freight rates which now must be paid should realize that he is per sonally responsible for this crime against business to the extent that he permitted the government to turn the railroads over to the railroad em ployes. Officers of railroads have lit tle or no control over their manage ment. They are not real ^managers. They are merely the puppets played upon by railroad employes. So long as the employes can, under govern ment direction, absolutely dominate the management of railroads, lower freight rates and passenger rates are an impossibility. "Railroads, loaded as they are with government extravagance and government inefficiency and govern ment permission to railroad unions to run every detail of the railroad business, are headed down the road to ruin unless a change takes place. "The ruination of the railroads would only intensify the inadequacy of transportation facilities. . "If railroads should be turned back to government control, conditions would be ten times worse. We would simply have the mistakes and the in efficiency and higher rates intensified. Every well-wisher of the country, every man who ships a pound of freight, every man whose business is hampered by railroad impoverish ment and railroad inefficiency, may well pray to be delivered from gov ernment ownership, or government control, or the control of railroad brotherhoods. "Without a repeal of the Adamson Law, and all other unwise legislation which takes the control of railroads out of teh hands of their owners and puts is into the hands of incompetent and radical railroad-union men, a i more and more desperate transpor tation condition is inevitable. "Until the country comes to a full realization of this situation and forc es a repeal of the unwise railroad leg islation, put through by a socialistic administration, dominated by rank, radical labor unions, we can have no safety for business of any kind. Augusta Chronicle. Young Rockefeller on Selection of Wife. New York, March 13.-"Every man should be exceedingly careful in the selection of his wife," John D. Rockefeller, Jr., today told the men's Bible Class of the Fifth Avenue Bap tist church. He used as his text the story of Samson and how he went to the Philistines foi* a wife. "Too many young men and wo men," said Mr. Rockefeller, "look up on marriage as a mere adventure to last for a day or two. They are at tracted by their mutual personal charms and blindly go into a relation intended to last a lifetime without having learned whether or not their common attributes render such a companionship possible. "In too many cases the result is disaster, scandal and the breaking up of a home. "A man should be careful about the differences of race, religion and even nationality. The differing ideals might not assimilate readily and dis sentions must follow. It is necessary to consider all the varied elements entering into marriage relations.." Mr. Rockefeller took occasion to score the man who, living an out ward moral life, insisted that his pri vate affairs must not be scrutinized. "No man's life," he .declared, "is private. A man taking such a stand makes a grave mistake regarding the service he owes to mankind." Eggs For Hatching. Wycoff and Barron Strain White Leghorns, $1.5o per setting. $1.75 if by parcel post. Mrs. GEO. F. MIMS. 2-23-tf South Carolina Imported $111 000,000 of Food From the West. Columbia, March 13.-South Car olinians imported $111,000,000 worth of food and foodstuffs from the West last year according to figures com piled by the committee' on banking, legislation and warehousing of the South Carolina division of the Ameri can Cotton Association; The importa tion of this enormous amount of food stuffs into the state was made neces sary by the eagerness of the farmers to raise cotton, many of them plant ing seventeen acres to the plow. In a statement issued yesterday the association declared that there was no reason for the farmers of the state to be panic-stricken over the fact that price which cotton is now bringing forbids them planting over a half crop of it next year. It is de clared that a study of the figures col lected by the committee on banking, legislation and warehouses of the as sociation ought to convihce them that a diversification of crops in South Carolina will prove profitable. According to the committee state ment the importation of food and foodstuffs into South Carolina from the West last year as follows: Corn, $15,000,000; mixed feeds, $13,000,000; hay $12,000,000; oats, $10,000,000; flour, $20,000,000; beef $15,000,000; bacon, $20,000,000; eggs and butter, $3,000,000; canned goods, $13,000,000, making a grand total of $111,000,00-0. . "These figures," says the associa tion, "are purchases from this state only and every item must be paid for in cash before the goods are de livered, together with the freight. This amount could be spent at home if the farmers of South Carolina would get their minds off of cotton for a few minutes." Wireless Links Poland With America. Schenectady, N. Y., March 13. America is soon to be linked with Poland by direct wireless service, it was announced today at the local of fices of the General Electric com pany. The General Electric company is manufacturing the apparatus which is to be installed at Warsaw as the Polish end of the new system by the Radio Corporation of America. The American end of the system will be the high-powered wireless station at New Brunswick, N. J. The new wireless will enable Po-' land to communicate direct with the United States without relaying or foreign censorship for the first time in history. About 20 per cent of the Polish people are' in this country, it is estimated. Why Colds Are Dangerous. It is the serious diseases that colds lead to that makes them dangerous. They prepare the system for the re ception and development of the germs of influenza, pneumonia, tuberculosis, dyphtheria, scarlet fever, whooping cough and measles. You are much more likely to contract these diseases when you have a cold. For that rea son you should get rid of every cold as quickly as possible. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy will help you. It is widely known as a cure for bad colds. Notice of Final Discharge. To All Whom These Presents May Concern: Whereas, H. W. Kenner has made application unto this Court for Final Discharge as Administrator in re the Estate of W. B. Kenner deceas?d, on this the 14 day of February, 1921 These Are Therefore, to cite any and all kindred, creditors or parties interested to show cause before me at my office at Edgefield Court House, South Carolina, on the 18th day of March, 1921, at ll' o'clock a. m., why said order of Discharge should not be granted. W. T. KINNAIRD, Probate Judge, E. Co. Edgefield, S. C., February 14, 1921. Lombard* Foundry, Machine, Boiler Works and Mill Supply House AUGUSTA GEORGIA Cotton Oil, Gin, Saw, Grist, Cane, Shingle Mill, Machinery Supplies and Repairs, Shafting. Pulleys, Hangers, Grate Bars, Pumps, Pipe, Valves and Fittings, Injectors, Belting, Packing Hose, etc. Cast every day. GASOLINE AND KEROSENE ENGINES Pumping, Wood Sawing and Feed Grinding Outfits. Lever and Thompson Barred Rocks best layers and brooders. Coop of 4 hens and 1 cockerel for $5.00. Mrs. P. N. LOTT. 3-9-2t. DYED By NELLIE F. BROWN. (? 1921, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) The rural delivery had just come. There were no letters today ; the farm paper for dad, a circular for Dick, ad vertising chick ?eed, the daily paper from the city, and two magazines. Mrs. Merritt glanced over the head lines of the news, and then picked up one of the magazines for a peep at its contents. It waa charmingly illus trated, but after a moment or twd Mrs. Merritt flung lt down with some thing like a snort of disgust Td like, for once, to read some thing real good and homelike," she exclaimed. "A body would think, from all the magazines nowadays, that everyone lived in New York city or on a Western ranch. Why don't they ever write stories about real people people that live in New England, like us, for instance, or-" "Because," flashed Lucile stormily, not waiting for her mother to finish, "because nothing ever happens in this dead-and-alive town. We wash on Monday and iron Tuesday, and go to the Ladies' Aid once a month Wednes day, and we boil sap in spring and pick berries in summer and make pickles in the fall--" ?m "Mercy! What a blue streak you are in!" expostulated her mother good naturedly. "And with ? party at Rose Wilder's this very night!" ."That's just it!" walled Lucille. "I haven't a thing to wear, and there'll be all the summer folks." "Jour green batiste is pretty," said her mother. "That!" cried Lucille. -Tve had lt three years, and everyone knows it was white with a pink figure once, and that I boiled it out and dyed it green. And those soap-dyes fade so, everyone knows when it has been freshly washed and dyed again. I couldn't find any green only in a new kind the last time I weat to the city, and this kind has to be bolled." "I'm sorry," said Mrs. Merritt "but 'what can't be cured must be endured.' You know we decided this summer that we'd go without everything we could to buy the washing machine. Go get your dress and do the best you can with it. I'm sorry I haven't had time to fix your white dress, but that's torn pretty bad." Mrs. Merritt's philosophy was al ways to make the best of things, and Lucille tried to make It hers as she brought down her seersucker batiste, ripped off the wide white collar and cuffs, and surveyed rather scornfully its faded green folds. The mixing of the dye was rather "messy," but at length It was ready, and Lucille dropped the dress in, damp from washing. The directions said, "stir constantly," but who ever follows dyeing mles explicitly? Besides, Lucille had the dishes to wash, so contented herself with a poke now and then with her wooden dye sticks. But alas, the dishes done, she lifted out the dress and found it mottled with all shades of green, from light yellow-greei to deep olive. "Oh, for v's sake." ejaculated the girl. "It's i now. And at least it was wlv ?'?cl I could have got lots mo- . of lt." "Never u heerlly said Mrs Merritt, cabed urm to comfort, con sole and counsel. "Put it in strong soapsuds and boll It out white and start again." But Lucille was discouraged. She shook her head, blt her lip to hold back the lump in her throat, and hur ried off toward the barn. "Poor child," murmured her mother sympathetically. And splash, went the kettle of green dye down the sink spout, hiss went a stream of hot wa ter into a tin tub, slivers of strong yel low soap followed, and pop went the dress again, Into a soap bath this time. "When Lucille came back from her walk down the lane her head was high and her eyes bright, but they shone brighter yet as Mrs. Merritt lifted from the hot suds the wet, clinging folds of a dainty blue gown-the soft dull blue of old rugs and tapestries. "Why, mother, how did you do it?" cried Lucille, and "Did you ever!" burst from Mrs. Merritt. "Why, it's a real pastel shade," ex ulted Lucille, who had caught the light through a single thickness, which, as everyone knows, shows the shade the goods will be when dry. "Take It out, quick, before It turns anything else." "It will be lovely-" "No one would ever guess-" "With my lace fichu-" "And some flowers-" "Japanese honeysuckle-" "You've got a blue feather just that shade-" "I'll retrlm my white hat-" "There," said her mother. "Don't ever say nothing happens in this place. Tm sure this ls good enough for a story." So here ls the story. You'll notice there isn't any young man in it. But there are always young men at parties. So perhaps you can guess the sequel. If you can't you have no Imagination at all. , A Modern Courtship. She-One more question. He-Yes, dear, I am listening. She-Will you love me when Tm old? He-Well-er-this Is a practical age, you know, dear. At any rate, Til see that you get adequate alimony. Questions fop You Which bank is the best bank for you? Which bank will take care of you in time of need? These questions are not hard to answer. The good, strong trustworthy, accommodating bank is the one you want to do business with. We feel that we have such a bank, one that is modern and oilers you every necessary banking facility, a bank solid enough to take care of you at all times and under all circum stances. The Bank of Trenton, S. .C All; checks drawn on The Bank of Trenton can be cleared free of ?x change through the Federal Reserve Bank. .!<:;.>:< : >:?* . M I M.: >:<. >.( I >:< : i:< I >:< : ttl >:< : M I >:< : >:< ; >:< ; Barrett & Company ! (INCORPORATED) j j COTTON FACTORS ! 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