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General Assembly New Session. Efforts to relieve the tax bur; of the people by the adoptior new sources of revenue through v is commonly called the painless traction method and to reduce penses all along the line will probi be the most important work to undertaken by the general assen at the session which begins tomor at high noon. A small advance guard came in night and other members will be arriving this afternoon and toni and by,early tomorrow morning ev member will be present. Political forts will begin to take on new with the early arrivals as there a number of places to be filled by assembly. When J. B. Atkinson, speaker the house, raps for order at noon morrow and Wilson G. Harvey, pr< dent of the Senate, does likewise session that may go down in histi as "stormy" will be off with a ru Only a few changes will be noted the attaches, while four new memb are to be sworn in. D. D. Moise, ne ly elected senator from Sumter, a E. P. McCravev, newly elected sei tor from Pickens, will be the n faces in the senate. Eugene S. Blei succeeds George S. Mower as a i presentative from Newberry cour and J. B. Britton succeeds Mr. Mo from Sumter. The nev/ senators ta the places of Senator Clifton of Su ter and Senator Alexander of Pic ens who died during the year. New Revenue Bills. New revenue measures will among the first bills to be introduce The joint legislative committee i consolidation has already drawn bi covering different phases of its i port and these are to be introduo early in the session. In general the new revenue bil may be summed up as follows: A ti on gasoline and kerosese, and inhei tance tax, a luxury tax, and incon tax, an increase in the corporatic license tax and a small tax on hydr electric power. Taxpayers have bee meeting in the different counties ar a statewide meeting was held in Ci ulmbia to discuss the need for chan; es in the present tax system. Thes meetings have gone on record for tl new sources of revenue. Probably the most concrete recon mendation so far is that by the poir legislative committee. This commi' tee proposes that a tax of two cen! a gallon be placed on gasoline and cent a gallon on kerosene, that th luxury tax incorporate tobaccos theatre tickets soft drinks, auto mobiles, etc., and that the other rec ommendations be largely similar ti the general trend of thought. Unde the recommendations of this com mittee the new sources would brim in $3,435,000 and make possible, i is claimed, the reduction of the stat? levy from 12 to four mills. An eames effort to reduce the millage will b< made, and even if the new source: are not tapped it is practically cer tain that t ie levy will be cut, possi bly to seven or eight mills. Under the proposals of the joini committee it is planned to introduce a bill Tuesday to provide for a tem porary appropriation to pay state officers and employees during Jan uary and February. This would re lieve the necessity of discounting all pay warrants in advance of the ap propriation bill, which policy has been practiced for many years. Three of the new revenue bills that are being advocated passed the house last year and are now either on the senate calendar or in committee rooms. Many other important bills are alston the calendars of the two houses. Number of Elections. Outside of the new revenue meas ures elections will come in for con siderable attention. A successor to the late George W. Gage of the su preme court is to be chosen. This election caused a warm fight last year, but no decision was reached after near 40 ballots. The four can didates in the race last year-and who will be in again at this session -were Senator J. Hardin Marion of Chester, Gen. Milledge L. Bonham of Anderson, Jesse F. Carter of Bam berg and Judge S. W. G. Shipp of Florence. "Dark horse" candidates are being mentioned and the name of Governor Cooper has been frequent ly suggested. The governor will not enter the race, but in case he is chos en anyway it is believed he would accept. Seven circuit judges are to be chos en, the terms of the following expir ing this year: Bowman of the First, Rice of the Second, Wilson of the Third, Mciver of the Fourth, Moore of the Sixth, Gray of the Eighth and Mauldin of the Thirteenth. So far announced opposition has developed against only one judge, Bowman of the First circuit. M. M. Mann, clerk of the senate, will make the race against Judge Bowman. Other important places to be filled include the warehouse commissioner for four years, the insurance com missioner and trustees for the state colleges and some of the penal and charitable institutions. Governor Cooper will deliver his annual message Wednesday, probably at noon. The chief executive will deal largely with appropriations, good roads, schools, the welfare of Con federate veterans and charitable and welfare work. He has already advo cated a $34,000,000 road program for the next six years.-The State of Monday. Judge Rice Speaks Out on Law Enforcement. Spartanburg, Jan. 6.-Judge Hayne F. Rice, in sessions court yes terday afternoon in his general charge tothe grand jury, took occa sion to pay special attention to the crime wave which is sweeping over the country. He said that there is more killing now than ever before in the recollection of the members of the grand jury. Crime is on the in crease, he said, rather than the de crease. It is said for the good of the sta-ce to realize that they have a re sponsibility to the state. It is often said that justice can not be had in the courts, and unfortu aately that is true in many instances, he said. He cited several instances in cases tried before him where a man had been shot in the back, yet the jury turned the killer loose because he entered a plea- of self defense when they did not believe the testi mony themselves. He said that the other judges had doubtless had simi lar cases. With the juries turning guilty men loose, there is no safety for one's self or for one's family. A little liquor and a pistol are all that is needed to make a dead man these days, he continued. In regard to carrying pistols, the court said that a law abiding citizen will not carry a pistol and often the man who is law abiding is at the mercy of the man who has the pistol and if he is killed, the jury will be lieve a hatched up case of self-de-, fense when the dead man did not have a chance in the world. He said that he believed in 95 per cent of the cases of homicide, the dead man had no chance, most cases amounting to assassination. The tendency is to lay the blame on the lawyers and the court, but the man who passes on the guilt or in nocence of the man killer is the jury. The state of South Carolina does not want to see an innocent man convict ed, and there is not a judge on the bench, he said, who would not set a verdict aside which, he believed, did injustice to a defendant. If an in nocent man should be convicted, the coui-t would give him a new trial. The penalty for toting a pistol is not sufficient. He says the penalty should be at least $500 and improson mcnt for six or eight months so as to" make it worth while not to carry one. He said that the juries in Spar tanburg were the best he had seen in South Carolina, that they were of the best men of the county and com mended the jury commissioners for selecting the best. Alleged Robber of Trenton Bank Arrested in N. C. Greenwood, Jan. 6.-Horace An drews, one of the alleged robbers of the Bank of Trenton, in Edgefield county, who escaped from Gleen wood county officers last August, has been captured at Rutherford, N. C., and will be brought to the Green wood county jail, according to long distance messages to Sheriff White from Rutherford. According to Sheriff White, An drews made a full confession of the robbery of the Bank of Trenton in the fall of 1920, implicating three others, Will Harper, John Harper and a man named Hayes whose first name he did not know. Andrews claimed that he and Hayes watched while the two Harpers blasted their way into the bank. After Andrews escaped, Will Harper, who was being held in the Greenwood county jail, demanded a preliminary hearing and was released for lack of evidence against him. In the robbery of the Bank of Trenton, Mrs. B. R. Tillman, mother of Major Henry C. Tillman, of Green wood, lost a large amount of silver, valuable jewelry and documents. None of the stolen articles have ever been recovered. WANTED: Men or women to take orders among friends and neighbors for the genuine guaranteed hosiery, full line for men. women and chil dren. Eliminates darning. We pay 75c an hour spare time, or $36.00 a week for full time. Experience un necesssary. Write International Stocking Mills, Morristown, Pa. 11-2-lOt. To Prevent Blood Poisoning ipply at once the -wonderful old reliable DR. PORTER'S ANTISEPTIC HEALING OIL, a sur rical dressing that relieves pain and heals at he same tiaic Not A Uniment, .iso. s^Nina Bonus Bill is Ready. While no agreement has been reached by Republican leaders at Washington as to methods of raising the large sum needed to carry out the provisions of the proposed sol diers' bonus bill, Senator McCumber of North Dakota, announced a day or two since that a bonus bill must be passed at this session of congress. The plain reason for applying the whip on this measure is that Repub licans hope to stave off defeat for not having adjusted the soldier prob lem already. As the sponser of the bill in the senate, Senator McCumber says sen timent for a bonus bill is more pro nounced in congress now than at any time since that issue arose. The chief difficulty is to raise the money-a drawback to many plans to raise money by congressmen and citizen alike. Mr. McCumber said he hoped that a part of the allied debt might be applied to paying the bonus, but members of the senate finance com mittee have opposed that plan. It appears that leading members of the congress and members of the American Legion practically have agreed upon the Fordney bonus bill introduced in the house of represen tatives some months ago. That meas ure provides the following options: 1. Adjusted service pay, at the rate of $1 a day for home service and $1.25 a day for foreign service. The maximum is $500 for a man without overseas service and $625 for a man with overseas service. 2. A paid up 20-year endowment policy of insurance. The face value of this policy will be 3.33 times the amount that would be received in cash if that option were taken. 3. Vocational training aid of $1.25 a day while taking a course. The amount thus paid in no case would exceed 140 per cent of what would have been paid in cash. 4. Farm or home aid: To be lim ited to 140 per cent of what would be paid under option No. 1, if the mon ey is used to purchase, improve or make payments on approved farm, city or surburban home. 5. Land settlement providing the establishing of reclamation proj ects for the development and im provement of vacant land. This may be government land or may be pur chased by the government. If possi ble the projects will be located in each State, the State paying part of the purchase price of private " land bought for this purpose. Various and varied estimates have been made by experts as to the amount of money needed to carry out the provisions of the Fordney bill, ranging from $3,500,000,000 to $5,000,000,000. This tremendous sum will be taken up from the pockets of private individual and corporation alike. It may be said that no Ameri can is opposed to a pension system for all the wounded and the diseased as a result of their far service, but we have never been in favor bf add nig another great burden to the tax payer at large to give a certain sum to all seiwice men. The service men, at large do not want that kind of law, but congress must hand the le gion the sop from the people in or der to try to save its own bacon that is the crux of the whole thing. -Columbia Record. ' Southern Politics. There is one thing about Southern politics that we have noticed; it has prevailed for years. That is the effort to keep the people dissatisfied by per suading them that they are imposed upon. It is the Mark Anthony style, over the dead body of Caesar, who, while protesting he did not want to "stir their hearts to sudden mutiny," was adroitly trying to do that very thing. Usually the man who wants office at the South goes in for "re form." He is not always, we may say not usually, clear in what he is going to reform or how he is going to re form anything; but he finds all the faults possible against the govern ment, and none of its good points, and blazes away in a determined ef fort to stir up the people against the existing condition of things. There is very often much that is true in what he says, fur no government is perfect, and when one sets about to find fault with any human institution he can find more or less to harp on. The evident purpose nf this kind of politics is to make the people dis satisfied with their own government, and therefore anxious for a change just anything so it is a change. The result is that the people are kept in a political ferment a large portion of their time, for there is always some thing wrong that needs reforming and always sly politicians ready and anxious to undertake the job at so much per annum. Southern politicians seem to go on the theory that what ever is is wrong. We might specify; but what's the use?-Newberry Observer. I CUT DOWN LOSSES BY FIRE Recommendation? That Should Be Heeded by Every Dweller in City or Country. Rod all tall buildings, using stand ard equipment and see that It is prop erly installed. Inspect every inch of rodding at least once a year. Put up "no smoking" signs about barns and outbuildings, and enforce them. Ventilate the barn, but also see that tight doors and windows are provided against the Invasion of sparks and blizzards. If you have nothing to fight fire with, get something If only a bunch of buckets. . Do not put the well pump too close to the barn-you may need that water to save your property some night. Get non-freezing pumps. Know where the ax ls, and have two ladders on hand long enough to reach over the eaves of the tallest buildings. Talk over with the family just what each ls to do In case of a fire In home, barn or field. Keep oils out of the house and barns. "Stagger" your buildings with refer ence to the prevailing winds. Do not let a fire in one building wipe out your entire place. Watch for spontaneous combustion In the barn. Cut the weeds and do not "bank up" the house with dead herbage. Keep matches in ?. metal box away from children, mice and rats. Never leave an outdoor fire for the night nor leave an Indoor fire without safeguarding your home from fire. Do not stack crops close to build ings and see that your road from pike to house and barns is In good shape. Conserve your water supply. CARELESS DRIVER WARNED Instructions to motorists who dis regard signs merely calling attention to steep hills or railroad crossings must be explicit, according to the Trav elers' Standard. Any novice should be able to make a safe crossing if he follows the advice set forth by this warning near Ithaca, N. Y. Grow Flowers With Vegetables. There is no reason why dowers and vegetables should not he grown to gether. It is difficult to draw the line, anyway. The dahl in, now one of the most popular flowers, was originally planted with the intention of using tl?e tubers as a potato substitute. The scarlet runner hean, grown by the acre on the farms of England, is most often used In America as a climbing vine around the house; In fact, there are many persons not aware the beans are good to eat The ideal garden Is one which com bines flowers, vegetables and fruit Such a garden should have a place (Si every farm and back of every sub urban home. Oftentimes the vegetable plot can be surrounded with a border planted on two sides with small fruit like raspberries, currants, gooseberries and grapes, and on the other two sides with annual and perennial flowers. May Restrain Billboards. Many people, especially those thut go down to the country In motorcars, will welcome the efforts that are be ing made in Maine to deal more faithfully than ever with the billboard. If an amendment to the state bill board regulations now before the .sen ate is carried, no billboard or advertis ing sign may in future be erected at any point where It can obstruct the view of a curve or ungle. It is a good amendment so far ns It froes. A better one would be to abolish the billboard In th-? country, altogether. Chrlstiun Science Monitor. Four-Handed Twin-Grand Piano. A twin-grand plano, the first of Its kind ever constructed, was recently demonstrated at an orchestral con cert, nt Leipzig, Germany. This novel Instrument, of which a photograph appeal's In Popular Mechanics Maga zine, Is like two grand pianos placed end to end and inclosed In one frame, excepting that It has only ono soundboard. Consequently, the key boards are at opposite ends,- and the playo::s lace one another. The sound board Is constructed so that there 1B BO mtermjnglipg oj ms4 TOff? _u County Treasurer's Notice. The County Treasurer's office will be open for the purpose of receiving taxes from the fifteenth day of Oc tober, 1921 to the fifteenth day of March, 1922. All taxes shall be due and pay able between the fifteenth day of October, 1921 and December the thirty first, 1921. That when taxes charged shall not be paid by December the thirty first, 1921 the County Auditer shall pro ceed to add a penalty of one per cent, for January and if taxes are not paid on or before February the first 1922, the County Auditor will proceed to add two per cent, and five per cent additional, from the first of March to the fifteenth of March, after which time all unpaid taxes will be collected by the Sheriff. The tax levies for 1921 are as fol lows : Mills For State purposes_12 For Ordinary County__11 For Past Indebtedness_5 For Constitutional School tax_3 For Antioch _8 For Bacon School District_14 For Blocker _8 For Blocker. Limestone_4 For Colliers _?4 For Flat Rock_8 For Oak Grove_3 For Red Hill_8 For Edgefield _10 For Elmwood No. 8_8 For Elmwood No. 9_2 For Elmwood No. 30 _2 For Hibler _._8 For Elmwood L. C. _1_3 For Harmony_3 For Johnston_15 For Meriwether (Gregg) _2 For Moss _3 For Brunson School_4 For Ropers_2 For Shaw_4 For Sweetwater_"_4 For Talbert _.8 For Trenton _14 For Wards _ 8 For Wards No. 33._4 For Blocker R. R. (portion_6 For Elmwood R. (portion_6 For Johnston R. R._3 For Pickens R. R._3 For Wise R. R._3 For Corporation_30% All male citizens between the ages of 21 and 60 years, except those exempt by law, are liable to a poll tax of One Dollar each. All owners of dogs are required to pay the sum of $1.25 for each dog of the age of six months or older. 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