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To Ask Tolbert to Make Defense. Washington, Dec. 6.-The Demo cratic national committee issues the following today: "Investigation of charges against Joseph W. Tolbert, to whom Presi dent Harding gave a recess appoint ment as United States marshal for the Western district of South Caro lina, has been undertaken by a new subcommittee of the senate judiciary committee. The charges against Tol bert include one that he was convict ed and fined for misusing funds of the postoffice department when he was postmaster at Ninety Six in 1894. "Members of the new subcommit tee are Senators Colt of Rhode Is land and Brandegee of Connecticut, Republicans, and Senator Overton of North Carolina, Democrat. They suc ceed Senators Shortridge of Califor nia and Ernest of Kentucky, Re publicans, and Senator Ashurst of Arizona, Democrat, to whom the charges were originally referred. "The first committee called Tol bert to appear and defend himself against the charges, being considered, but' he failed to appear. The present committee, it is announced, will in sist on his appearance; It is expected that several witnesses who have writ ten letters decribing Tolbert's alleged .practices in connection with federal patronage in his state will also be summoned. "Senator Dial of South Carolina, by whom the charges were laid before the judiciary committee, believes that the present investigation will result in the rejection of Tolbert's nomina tion. Senator Colt is a former judge, and it is expected that he will be scru pulous in protecting the courts from the reputation of being represented by unworthy attaches. "The record. of the federal court for the Eastern district ol' South Carolina shows that Tolbert was in dicted on nine different counts for taking money from the postoffice at Ninety Six during his term as post master there. It was proved that he used the money in making purchases of produce. After a trial before Judge Brawley, Tolbert was found guilty and fined $50. "As an additional ground for the rejection of Tolbert's nomination it is alleged that he has been peddling federal patronage in South Carolina. Besides being Republican national committeeman for South Carolina, Tolbert is a 'referee' in the distribu tion for the federal appointments so that the Harding administration. It is charged that Tolbert has been col lecting fees of from $200 to $600 from applicants for federal jobs. "At least one witness is expected to testify before the committee that Tolbert had a plan for creating com petition for Federal appointments so that he could increase the amount of his fees. One man wrote in a letter, now in the committee's possession, that Tolbert would promise, on pay ment of a given sum of money, to use his influence in obtaining a federal appointment for one applicant, and then tell another candidate for the same position that he had a rival. When the latter would agree to pay $50 or $100 more than applicant No. 1, Tolbert would back him for the job, it is alleged. "The renewal of the fight against Tolbert's confirmation is expected to disclose to what lengths President Harding is willing to go for a mem ber of the Republican national organ ization. In the face of the charges against Tolbert and notwithstanding the senate's refusal to confirm his first nomination, President Harding has stood pat. When the senate ad journed in September without having approved Tolbert's selection, Presi dent Harding promptly made a recess appointment. "Tolbert's case recalls President Harding's fight for Newberry,. Nat Golstein, E. Mont Riley and others who were under fire. The president ignored the accusations against New berry even when the Republican sen ate practically admitted their truth. He has stood by E. Mont Riley, gov ernor of Pueto Rico, in the face of numerous charges of unfitness for the post he holds. When the senate re fus?d to confirm the appointment of Nat Golstein as collector of internal revenue at St. Louis, the president wrote him a letter expressing admir ation for his good qualities. "Tolbert is more powerful politi cally than either Riley or GoLsiein. He is the oldest member of the Re publican national committee, and for years has been a big influence in Re publican national conventions be cause of his control of negro dele gates from the South." Only One "BROMO QUINCE fo get the genuine, call lor fail name. La. TIVK BROMO QUININE. Lool:forsienature c E. W. GROVE. Cures a Cold in One Day. Stop. cough and headache* and 'vorli s off co'd. 25f Practically All Money From Christmas Seals Spent in the State. Money talks and the funds spent during the last year by the South Carolina Tuberculosis association tell of the effort to do a big work with limited money. The association is a voluntary or ganization supported by the sale of Christmas seals, bonds and a few memberships. It has no appropriation from legislature and is not supported by the state board of health, although working in cooperation with it. The South Carolina organization is affil iated with the National Tuberculosis association, to which 5 per cent of the funds derived from seal sales are re turned each year. The national organ ization gives consulting services, na tional legislation, research work, and sets the standard for the state. The preventive and educational ?idea is carried out in all the work of the South Carolina Tuberculosis as sociation. Its main work is to organize health clubs, to establish free clinics for expert examination and early diagnosis, and in getting educational matter before the public. Less than half the returns of the Christmas seal sale are spent by the state headquarters, from 50 to 75 per cent being pent by local county committees. Altogether 95 per cent is spent in South Carolina, and 5 per cent returned to the national. Last year the sela s&le throughout the state was financed, i;he secretary's salary and the salary of a part time stenographer paid, clinic supplies in all unorganized counties furnished and paid for, also the printing and dis tribution of literature, exhibits fi nanced and the expenses of a tuber culosis specialist to address the medi cal association paid. The state organi zation also paid part salaries of the public health nurse in five counties and the salaries of two trained social workers for four months. These work ers conducted free clinics in Oconee, Pickens, Edgefield and Colleton counties.. Anderson, Richland, Greenville and 'Charleston counties ' employed paid secretaries. In Sumetr county funds were used in the county sanitorium; in Florence for the relief and support of patients in sanitariums and at home. York and Spartar.burg counties banked their funds to be used this year to secure a paid worker. Green wood supported a nursa for the full year. Money raised by the Christmas seal sale this December will be spent next year in establishing more free clinics, employing more workers to locate the thousands of undiscovered cases and get them under treatment, to make possible early diagnosis, and to carry on the general educational and preventive program through the schools and press. Prayer for Voters of Country. The National League of Women Voters' campaign to teach voters that exercise of the franchise is a sacred duty and an obligation of conscience has a new champion in Dr. George Horton, poet, novelist and United States Consul General at Smyrna, who is spending a leave of absence in Washington. He has written a prayer for the use of voters and has given it to the National League. A prayer used by the Florida League has been widely circulated and in some cities was read out in churches on the Sun day before election. The League hopes that religious observance of the Sun day ibefore every election will become a national custom. Dr. Horton heart ily favors the movement to establish such a custom and contributes the prayer in the hope that it will prove helpful. It is a brief and simple prayer, for, says the author, emer gencies in which "you have to pray" have taught him the value of un adorned language and to-the-point utterance. The prayer is as follows: "0 God, help us to realize that this vote which we are about to cast is the greatest instrument for good or ill which can be wielded by human hands; that it can set the worthy, however, lowly, in high places and is a thunderbolt to cast down tricksters and tyrants. Help us to vote thought fully, reverently, and prayerfully and with an eye single to the common good. And especially, O God, to whom all minds are an open book, save us from voting for any selfish or dis honest candidate, or for any unpa triotic measure. And this we ask for Jesus' sake. Amen." Trespass Notice. Notice is hereby given that all per sons are forbidden to hunt or in any manner trespass upon my land and that of Limus Perry. The law will be rigidly enforced against those who disregard this notice. R. T. HILL. Standard Divorce Law for AU U. S. to be Sought in Na tional Congress. Washington, Dec. 8.-National uniform marriage and divorce laws -embodied in a twentieth constitu tional amendment-will be sought through the new Congress. Ministerial and reform organiza tions are behind the movement to dig out of the archives of the senate judiciary committee a resolution buried there 19 months. It was intro duced by Senator Wesley L. Jones, of Washington. Some reasons advanced are: The United States grants more di vorces than all other nations com bined. Divorces in America increased 160 per cent in 20 years while population increased 40 per cent. Forty seven states have 47 differ ent divorce codes and Congress en-, acts another for the District of Co lumbia and territories. South Carolina alone does not al low divorce for any cause. New York and the District of Co lumbia grant divorce for one cause only-infidelity-while reasons fori 1 divorce elsewhere run as high as 14 in New Hampshire. Different ?Codes make some people j bigamists and their children illegiti mate in one state and legally married [ and with legitimate offspring, in an- ' other. "This conflict," says Dr. Kenwick ; H. Martin, of Pittsburgh, a leader of the National Reform Bureau, "tends ; to break down respect for those iaws 1 themselves and to their loose inter pretation. This tends to lessen re- , spect for marriage." Figures to be presented to Con- , gress show divorces today are in ex- i cess of one to every nine marriages. ] The rate is growing. Los Angeles is 3 at top speed ; six years ago the divorce ] rate there was one to every five mar- .j riages, now 5 to ll. Statistics covering 30 years show 1 total marriages in America decreased during two years (1894 and 1904) ' and divorces increased each year. La- ^ test figures show in one year, 1,040,-. j 778 marriages as aganist 112,036 di-' ] vorces. Women obtain seven of every ] ten divorces. ] Ten years previously the divorce j total of the country was 72,062 and i 20 years previously 42,937. The in- ] crease in ten years was 55 per cent ] and in 20 years 160 per cent. Seek National Standard. The movement for a twentieth ] amendment aims toward a national ] standard below which no state, may J go although any state may enforce j more rigid standards. It has been suggested New York's ; law-permitting divorce for infideli- ] ty only-be made the natior*1 stan- . dard. j Supporting this plan are statistics .' showing there was a 20 per cent de- ] crease in divorce last year in New ] York city over the previous year, as J against a five per cent decrease in } marriages. -t Figures also show the number of ; divorces! per 100,000 is only half as '. 'much in New York as in the United j State as a whole. Twentieth Amendment. Senator Jones' resolution propos- ? ing to amend the constitution fol- i lows : "Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the ; United States of America in Con- . gress assembled (two thirds of each - house concurring tuerein), that the following amendment to the consti tution of the United States be pro posed to the several states which when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states, shall be valid and binding as a part of the constitution of the Unites States: "Congress shall have the power to establish and enforce by appropriate legislation uniform laws as to mar riage and divorce: Provided, that every state may by law exclude, as to its citizens duly domiciled there in, any or all causes for absolute di vorce in such laws mentioned.' Green Succeeds Joseph Tolbert Anderson, Dec. 6.-Nelson R. Green, former sheriff of Anderson county, took the oath of office as United States marshal for the Wes tern district of Souh Carolina, here at 3 o'clock this afternoon and im mediately assumed the duties of of fice, succeeding Joseph W. Tolbert. The term of Mr. Tolbert, who was not confirmed at the recent special ses sion of congress, expired with the doing of the extra session and Mr. Green was appointed today by Fed eral Judge H. H. Watkins, who was advised by District Attorney Cochran that the United States attorney gen eral had informed him that the judge had the power to make an appoint ment to fill such a vacancy. Mr. Green will hold office until his successor is appointed by President Harding. Ia the Tate on a station to station call between 8:30 p. m. and 4:30 a. m. For A Five Minute Talk To all points within a radius of 78 mil ec Night Rates On station to station calla are aar? prisingly low; the service ls quick and clear. Station to a ta ti cn calla cmnaot IM MTW-J ?Ask about this service. For other rates Call Long Distance 'County Treasurer's Notice. r The County Treasurer's office will be open for purpose of receiving taxes from the fifteenth day of No vember, 1922 to the fifteenth day of March, 1923. All taxes shall he due and pay able between the fifteenth day of October, 1922 and December the tbirty-fiirst, 1922. . That when taxes charged shall not be paid by December the thirty-first, 1922 the County Auditor shall pro seed to add a penalty of one per cent., for January and if taxes are ?tot paid on or before February the first, 1923, 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 1922 are as fol lows: Mills For State purposes_7% For Ordinary County_8 For Past Indebtedness_3% 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 FbVElmw?od L. C._3 For Hibler_.8 For Harmony_- _.. - 3 For Johnston - --19 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 Blocker No. 33-4 For Blocker R. R. (portion)-6 For Elmwood R. 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 dog are required to pay the sum of $1.25 for each dog of the age of six months or older. This is not included in the property tax but a tag must be purchased from the County Treasurer for each dog dur ing January of each year. The law prescribes that all male citizens between the ages of 18 and 55 years must pay $4.00 commuta tion tax. No commutation is included in the property tax. So ask for road tax receipt when you desire to pay road tax. Time for paying road tax will expire February 1, 1923. J. L. PRINCE, County Treasurer, E. Co. 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 J. S. 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