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Straps and .facts. " Y Victor L Berger, congressman elect from Wisconsin, and hi3 four associates, who were recently convicted * under the espionage act, have been 13 sentenced to twenty years' imprison- ? ment in the Federal penitentiary at ? Leavenworth, Kan. The sentence was j* pronounced by Judge K. M. Landis. " The convicted men immediately gave ~ notice of appeal to the United States ? supreme court. Judge Landis refused " to grant a motion for arrest of Judg- ? ment pending the perfection of the ap- P peal. Judge Samuel' Aschuler of the J; circuit court, however, signed a writ of J, supercedeas and allowed the men to beU * ,4A" 3 A v" Virv cnim at J2B.000 I ' milieu IU ua11 111 buv aw*** v r . . each, conditioned on a promise to re frain from further violation of the es- c pionage act while at liberty. ^ ? A son was born to Mrs. Francis B. Sayre, daughter of President Wilson, j at the Jefferson hospital, Philadelphia early Sunday morning. Mother and child are doing well. This is the president's fourth grandchild. The fl rat, Francis B. Sayre, Jr., was born in \ the White House on January 17, 1915. The second Eleanor Axson Wilson Sayre, was born at the Jefferson Hos- j pital March 26, 1916. Another grand- i child is Ellen Wilson McAdoo. The j president of course, has been notified, i and It is possible he may stop at Phil- 3 adelphia on his way from Boston, to Washington to see his daughter and second grandson. Sunday night the following message was received by Mrs Sayre from the president: Highly pleased and send affectionate greet- ings." ? Because of the dry law having gone into effect in Michigan, and li- 1 quor to be had in Ohio, there has been a tremendous rush of liquor buyers from Detroit. Mich., down to Toledo, Ohio, during the past week. As many 1 as 15,000 Michiganders went over to t Ohio every day. They went by auto- t mobile, by trolley, by the railroads and f ? of by steamer on me mnc. ..... fleers got busy to stop the traffic and court injunctions were Issued against e the carrying of liquor, the injunction giving the right, of seizure and search. There were numerous conflicts with the officers. The price of liquor in c Toledo was advanced from $3 to 37 a t case, and Toledo retailers sold from $30,000 to $40,000 worth of liquor a c day. The traffic however, has finally t] been curtailed down to the people who ^ carry small quantities so concealed as noL-to be in evidence. The officers are Instructed not to interfere with such, o Return of telephofle and telegraph properties to private management by June SO. was recommended to President Wilson by Charles E. Elmqulst, g president of the National Association tl of Railway and Utilities commission, s in a letter made public in Washington j( Sunday. The recommendation was made Mr. Elmqulst explained, on be- a half of the executive war committee T and of the association which includes t] commissioners of prajtical'y all states. . The net result of six months of operation by the postmaster general of the < wire system," says the latter, "is inferior service and very substantial increase in charge of the public." Discrimlna - * *U/v O tion by Mr. Burleson in ravor 01 wc Bell telephone Interests also was A charged. No- military necessity can C] now be pleaded In support of government control," the letter continued. The George Washington on which r' President Wilson left France on Sun- Q day of last week, was accompanied si during part of the trip by the giant a battleship New Mexico and a number of destroyers. Heavy, stormy weather that proved too much for the destroyers and ewin for the battleship, was encountered during the first days out, c; and it was decided to let the destroyers v fall back In order to the better protect ^ themselves from the heavy seas that t1 were pouring into them from time to time. The New Mexico could not keep a up because of the stiffness of her new p machinery, and it is said also that in a her efforts to go beyond her capacity she stripped one of her giant turbines- ** The president, anxious to get to Bos- n ton by yesterday, requested that the $ George Washington be driven ahead, t and the ship's course was altered to a more northerly route so as to cut off c 200 miles of distance. A number of destroyers were sent out from America to meet the George Washington. ? With the consent of the German _ government, the directors of the North * German Lloyd line have submitted to ti the American authorities a proposal t< for the use of a fleet of big German , liners in taking Americans home * through Hamburg and Bremen. The P Germans say they can carry 50,000 a passengers each trip and can make t] eight trips a year. The present American plan is to send troops through the c Netherlands; but the Germans point k A I" TViifrtVi roll. _ UUl Uiai UUk cue cue ^uvvu ?? - f wayB unprepared to handle the traffic, but the dutch are without suitable building accommodations for the soldiers. It is proposed to use the barracks at Hamburg and Bremen in case the German proposal is accepted. n American authorities say that if the p present American military practice is followed the German ships will be able to carry the Americans home at the rate of 100,000 a trip instead of only 50,000. In case their proposition is ac- tl cepted the Germans propose to take lg back on their return trips to Germany the food stores that are to^be purchas- L ed from America. The German pro- o posals are to be submitted to President m Wilson and it is expected that he will ^ take advantage of them. Kurt Eisner, prime minister of the 12 recently formed independent socialist P state of Bavaria, was assassinated on sj the streets of Munich last Thursday by a young nobleman, Lieutenant Colonel Count Arco Valley. Valley came up a behind Eisner as the latter was on his ti way from the foreign ministry build- T ing to the diet, and shot him twice in n the head. Shortly afterward, while Herr Auer, Bavarian minister of the J1 Interior, was alluding in a speech in ai the Bavarian landtag to the assassina- n tion of Eisner, he also was severely woulded by shots fired at him from the galleries. Count Valley, who killed Eisner, was immediately shot by a guard, and it is said that he was finish ed by the populace. Eisner was the k leader of the revolt by which the v reigning dynasty was overthrown last o November, and has since been at the n head of affairs in Bavaria. At the international conference of socialists in Berne, Switzerland, not long ago, he si accused Emperor William of direct re- p sponsibillty for the world war and said that he knew of his own knowledge that the Germans had treated French a prisoners with unnecessary' and outra- w geous cruelty. He expressed the opin- ^ ion that those who brought on the war should be tried and punished by Ger- 81 man tribunals. He announced himself e as opposed to the German majority so- p cllialists in power at Berlin and accus- tj ed Ebert as being influenced by the old regime. He also said he was op- V posed to the Bolsheviki. A national i? assembly had been elected, but Eisner Ci delayed calling it together, because he tl knew that a majority of it was oppos- ed to him and that one of its first acts w would be to relieve him of power. s, Count Valley, who shot Eisner, was of an aristocratic family of more than 600 years' standing. There seems to be no c doubt of the motive of his hostility to s Eisner. n John Reed, a writer who described c himself as "a revolutionary socialist," told the senate committee investigating v lawless agitation last Friday that he believed the Bolshevik regime in Russia was doing "great work" and that he was a firm advocate of a revolu- v tion in the United States. He follow- A ed his wife. Louise Bryant, on the h stand and like her, denied stories of atrocrities related by previous witnesses. On cross examination. Reed could a not recall mat ne nan sum iu?i ouu- u day In a speech at Yonkers, N. Y., f] that "three million rifles are in the hands of 3.000.000 Russian workmen a and soon 3.000.00C rifles will be in the tl hands of American workmen to do the j, same thin* that is being: done in Rus- . sia." He also said that he could not "imagine" himself stating: in another s speech in New York that he had start- r ed the Bolshevist movement and soon v expected that there would be "something doing" in New York. Baltimore. v Albany. Syracuse, Boston and other cj cities of the east. Reed, who spent j] some time In Russia, freely admitted . that he was employed in the international revolutionary propaganda bureau b of the Bolshevik ministry of foreign affairs In Petrogrrad and told the com- T mlttee that he expected to start an information bureau" in New York soon. " *?' \ * [e said he had discussed the matter ith some persons there and added: ( There are wealthy women in New ork who have nothing else to do ith their money." The witness said 1 e did not speak at the meeting in Washington theater which was large- , r responsible for the present invest iation because he was "considered too isreputable, having been indic ted for . aying things that Senator Johnson as since said in the senate." In the oursc of a long discussion with Sentor Wolcott of Delaware, regarding is belief in respect to law, Reed delared that the will of the people would , e done, if not be peaceful means hen by force. He explained, however, hat his advocacy of a revolution in he United States meant, "not necesarily the employment of force." EIk \lorhvillc inquirer Intered at the Postofflce at York as Mall Matter of the Second Class. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1919, There is too much loafing. Any loafng is too much. Secretary of the Treasury Glass says here was a misunderstanding about he assumed change of purpose as to he bond issue. The bonds will be ofered, he says, }7,000,000,000 of them, a denominations as low as $5C, anddie xpects 'the -issue to be oversubscribed. Cotton spinners, especially southern otton spinners, are growing us impaient about the New York cotton exhange as are southern farmers. It is ime that the exchanges should either e compelled to become in fact what hey try to pretend to be or be wiped ut. At the beginning of last week the eneral assembly thought it had every- , hing in readiness for adjourrment by aturday; but on Friday the house ad- [ turned till 8 o'clock Monday night, nd the senate adjourned until 8 o'clock , 'uesday night It will be seme time tie latter part of the present week beare the session is concluded. We have no objection to Senator Boah's proposition to submit the league f nations proposition to the voters of , Lmerica. In fact, we like the idea, beause as matters now stand we believe tie ratification of the voters who feel , esponsibility can be obtained more uickly than the ratification of the . enate, which seems to think that it is responsibility only unto itself. * * ' 1 The most terribly dangerous tenden- i y of this day is wasteful extrai ag&nce, rhich undermines ths character of the luividual and threatens the future of : he country- Waste is a moral, as well : s an economic crime, and the most i ltiful and hopeless people we have ( re those who are unable to appreclte, or even believe, that there is al- < lost as much virtue in the proper con- ( ervation of material resources as here is in the conservation of phjfeial resources. The house of representatives spent hree hours chasing the yellow dog last ; Yiday night, caught him and then urned him loose. The proposition was o require all dogs to wear collars at 1.25 a year per collar. After the i assage of the bill, several counties < sked for and secured exemption, and hen the friends of the measure, beoming disgusted. Jumped on it and Hied it The yellow dog will not be 1 equired yet awhile to wear a collar. , 0 i 1 We are reproducing the communica- 1 on of Mr. John M. DesChamps as a 1 latter of local interest; but in the re- 1 roduction or course, Mr. ue3unainp? ? leas of the needs of things get exactly le same publicity as if the communiition had been sent to this paper in le first instance. As to whether there i real need for a Republican paper in olumbia or elsewhere is a question of pinion; but we beg to suggest that if [r. DesChamps really thinks so, there i no longer any restriction on the esiblishment of new papers and he is erfectly free to enter the field. He is lid to be a man of wealth, with an iternational reputation as a writer, nd it would seem that these qualiflcaons could be made quite available, he only test as to whether there is eed for a newspaper anywhere, in our ldgment, is the test of public support, nd if Mr. DesChamps desires to sublit his wealth to this test he is very elcome. ? 1 Talcott Williams, director of the ' chool of Journalism at Columbia uni- ' ersity, finds personal motive for the J pposition to the league of nations that ' as been cropping out so strongly in * ne senate. As matters now stand the enator is but one removed from the ' resident, especially in the matter of iternational relations. Xo treaty of 1 ny kind affecting the relations of this 1 /ith any other nation can become inding without the sanction of the enate by a two-thirds vote. That gives 1 ach senator a position of most exalted ' ower. The effect of the league of na10ns would do away with the necessiy for international treaties and there 1 } resentment among the senators beause if the president's plan goes hrough, the importance of the senate rill shrink almost to nothing. The enator will not be over anyb<j(ly then xcept the house. It is to appear to harge these big fellows with such mallness; but It will have to be adlitted that Mr. Williams has had exeptional opportunities and Is far adanced in the study of mankind. Governor Henry' Allen of Kansas, /ho was in command of the Y. M. C. l. secretaries in the Argonne drive, as been figuring in the limelight durng the past week or two by making 11 kinds of charges as to Inefficiency f the American army in that wonderul operation. There were too few irplanes for the proper protection of he men. There was not enough artiljry and too few horses to handle what i here was. Because of the airplane * AI hortage ana inaDimy 10 piu^uij u.ect the fire, many American soldiers fere killed by their own guns. There rere not nearly enough stretchers for ( arrying off the wounded and many of he wounded lay on the ground for < rom 24 to 36 hours before they could e removed, and at times the soldiers > 'ere fighting without ammunition, i he losses were much greater than 1 ley should have been an>l would have i * been if the troops had been supported even by as much war machinery as is commonly employed by the Indo-Chinese, etc. The complaint makes a wonderful story of inefficiency all along the line and leads the unsophisticated reader to wonder how the Americans ever got through with that wonderful drive at all. Major General Traub, who commanded the Thirtyfifth division in the Argonne offensive, has taken occasion to reply to some of Governor Allen's strictures. For one thing, General Traub says that Governor Allen and his secretaries having been sent back a considerable distance with a view to preventing the repetition of leaks that had occurred through Y. M. C. A. secretaries before, the governor was not in a real good posi tion to see things. The general admits that there was shortage In some things; but he makes It clear that there was no shortage In real men, which was the main thing. Also, the general intimates that there were some unavoidable losses on the part of the Americans, a thing that was not to be helped in view of the incalculably bigger losses on the part of the Germans, and taken altogether he seems to be somewhat proud rather than ashamed of what had been accomplished. A private soldier, writing on the subject, tells how at one critical time when it was impossible to bring up both food and ammunition, the men said they preferred ammunition just then, and he goes on to suggent that while he would like to see the whole business investigated, he would much rather have the investigation made by people who were there than by people who had contemplated the situation only from easy chairs a long distance awayHie Assault on Cotton. It is of course recognized among those who would break the price of raw cotton at this juncture that as a part of the operation it is necessary to break the price of cotton goods, especially to the American consumer. Following the legitimate channels of trade, the price of cotton goods is presumably contingent to a greater or less extent on the price of raw cotton, and the price of raw cotton is also contingent upon the price of cotton goods. This, understand, is following the line of legitimate and natural relations. From the gin the cotton goes^to the cotton factor or to the mill through the Local buyer, paying as it goes all the expenses along the line. From the cotton manufacturer the cotton goes to the wholesaler, sometimes straight, "but most generally through various intermediaries, and from the wholesaler to the retailer, through other intermediaries. To the manufactured goods in the hands of the retailer is added all the costs that have been incurred in production, grinning, handling, manufacturing and selling- and of course these costs are numerous ?Mid heavy. The main object of'the gr^at battle now on is to reduce the price of raw material to the pre-war basis, and the reason underlying that object is of tremendous and far-reaching consequence. For instance, for each million that can be taken away from the south and distributed in other parts of the country, other parts of the country are Just that much richer and the south Just that much poorer, while for each million that can be held in the south the south is Just that much richer and its economic Independence of the balance of the country is Just that much more pronuunteu. The preponderance of the wealth and power of this country these United States are now concentrated in the northern states, and broadly speaking the main present and future objects of these northern states are to hold on to and increase those advantages. That the south produces the bulk of the wealth of this country there is no question; but suppose the south should acquire financial power in proportion to the wealth it produces, imagine how the north would fare and feel with present conditions reversed, as rightly and properly they should be. Unless the financial captains of the north can reduce the price of the present cotton crop far below the cost of production, the south will be in a wonderfully fair way to come to its own. This fact has much to do with the present onslaught against the price of raw cotton. This explains in large measure why :he big northern wholesalers of cotton soods are now offering those goods at a less price than that at which for the moment they can be replaced. One man who is now standing out against the big wholesaler is> vhe little retailer. He'has stocks 01 cotton gooas that he bought at war prices and although he can now buy the same goods it greatly reduced prices, he is un- i willing as yet to take more goods at [ess prices until he can get rid of what be still has on hand, and for which he paid the old prices. The wholesaler is urging him to buy at 16 cents more 3f the same goods he already has on hand at a cost of 20 cents, and save himself from heavier loss by calling the average 17 1-2; but as yet he has not been willing to bring himself to that to any considerable extent. The spinner cannot sell anything much right now, because the wholesaler won't buy; but the spinner must go on spinning his cotton and storing it, because, in the first place, there is no wav of realizing as much on his cotton as he paid for it, and in the second place he must keep his organization together as long as possible against a return to better times. It is the wholesaler who is pressing hardest for reduced prices at more or less direct loss to himself; but with a certainty of ultimate advantage in case he succeeds in his present aims. On the other hand everything depends on the will and ability of the farmer to hold, because since the people must eventually have cotton, if the farmer can hold the wholesaler will be compelled to surrender. It Is a Fight. So far as the people of the south are concerned the biggest and most important question of the day is that of getting a fair price for this year's cotton crop, and as to whether they will win depends upon whether they deserve to win. * * -* Inrti />n There is no question ui ?.?? JUi>i.vv of the cause of the people of the south In the mind of The Yorkvllle Enquirer. We think the southern cause is absolutely Just; but as to whether Justice will win Is going to depend on character, self-denial, constancy of our people. That is what we mean by deserting to win. If the people of the i south will fight like brave self-respecting people should fight, they will win, 1 and if they wont do this, they will not j deserve any more than they will get. It is commonly estimated that the cost of producing the present cotton crop was close to thirty cents a pound. That Is what the spinners told the war Industries board In connection with the fixing of the price the government was to pay for the products of the spinners and It Is not far from right. No ???? aA +r\ dlanntA that thp UUC lias C*Ol U 1W vv ? producer is justly entitled to cost and a reasonable profit, for to dispute such a proposition would be absurd. Thirteen million bales of cotton at 36 cents a pound would amount to $2,276,700,000, which would mean a prof-, it of $325,000,000; but 13,000,000 bales at 20 cents a pound would come to only $1,300,000,000, which would mean a net loss to the south of $66,000,000. Now up to this time the south has received 35 cents for a very small per cent of its cotton, and a great deal of the cotton has already been sold for less than 30 cents; but assuming that the farmers still have 6,000,000 bales on hand, the fight now is over the question as to whether the. people of this section will stand out for a legitimate profit of say $160,000,000, or allow themselves to be robbed of a sum which bused upon present quotations would amount to $300,000,000 under the actual cost of production, and amounting to $450,000,000 less than they are entitled to. As simply as we can explain it, here is the situation. With the close of the war, the whole world outside of the south, began a raid after property of the southern farmer. It is clear that for each cent per pound out of which the farmer can be beaten, the pirates outside get $30,000,000,* and that is enough to tempt these pirates to the very considerable effort they are making. If the farmer had more cotton than the world needed, he would be in a bad way; but as matters stand now, it is universally recognized that he has not nearly as much cotton as the world is absolutely Obliged to have, and from that standpoint his position is absolutely Impregnable. As illustrating how the fight is up to the farmer and the farmer alone, it is not different to explain how, if the farmer should sell all of the cotton he has at 1 cent a pound the ultimate user would have to pay a charge of not less than 36 cents a pound, assumed to have been allowed as the cost of the raw cotton. This difference will go to the speculators, the spinners, the brokers and the others just the same and the only losers would be the people who produced the raw cotton and the people who use the manufactured product. Another thing. N'ote that while the world is now hungrier for cotton than for any other product of human industry, not excepting food, the only Industrial stagnation to be found anywhere at this time, especially in America, is in cotton manufacturing. All the existing conditions go to show a world-wide conspiracy to prize the raw cotton out of the hands of the farmer at as much below the cost of production as possible in order that the difference may be divided among the different interests that are associated in the effort to pull off the job. The only means the farmer has of defending predicting, and getting the benefit of his own is to hold' on to his cotton until the hungry world force* the Issue against tne pmiw, aitu ?* | the meantime resolutely refuse to Increase the present supply to a point that will put the whole situation In the hands of those who are trying to take his property. With the farmer it Is a fight, a strike, if you will, and the stake is not less than >450,000,000 this year, with other hundreds of millions in years to come. WANTS REPUBLICAN PARTY. Rock Hill Man Writes Remarkable Letter to New York World. The following from the New York World of last Sunday will prove of more or less local interest, not only because the writer is a resident of York county; but because he is more or less well known throughout the state: To me it is a source of genuine pleasure to note the interest you take in the south. The south needs a well-organized, practical and active Republican party over and above every other need. Our .iti??3 u *AA nr0M0H "HIvprqitv sou una. uu is mu-uut oiuvu. w of opinion it too scarce. Our papers are practically all Democratic; hence the south, like a split log, is too one sided to turn over. To advance is practically impossible. "The solid south" is the curse of the south. Take this, my own state it is hopelessly in the ruts. The remedy for our ills is in the hands of the newspapers of the north. Come down and establish papers here right among us that will truly voice the sentiment of the Republican party# and thus open to us your columns) for free interchange of thought, for at present it is well-nigh impossible to get into the papers here unless our views coincide with their political sentiment. All of them are Democratic to a degree and as antediluvian as they are Democratic. The time for a change here in the south has come. The people are ready to advance. A wide-awake Republican daily paper here will help us to advance as nothing else will. I sincerely hope you will think seriously of this and that you may at least be instrumental in getting a wide-awake dally paper, thoroughly Republican in political sentiment but with open columns to the masses for free expression of opinion, set up in our state at Columbia, our capital. This would be a godsend for South Carolina, The time is ripe for it; I believe the paper would succeed. The opportunity is fine. You would have a tremendous field for rendering a lasting and beneficial service. J. M. Deschamps. Rock Hill, S. C.. Feb. 19. Texas in the Fight. At the conference held in Dallas for the purpose of organizing a campaign to secure a reduction of the cotton acreage to be planted In Texas this year of not less than 33 1-3 per cent of that planted in 1918, Judge W. F. Ramsey, of the Federal Reserve Bank was selected as chairman of the campaign and W. C. Barrickman secretary' of the Texas Industrial congTess, was maae secretary. The chairman was authorized to appoint an executive committee, composed of one representative from each of the 31 state senatorial districts and an organization committee in each county, consisting of the chairman of the county Council of defense, a i hanker, and the county agricultural agent. Each county committee is to conduct a local cotton acreage reduction campaign, and to secure signatures of individual farmers to the following pledge: "I hereby pledge myself and those whom I represent, to reduce my cotton acreage for the year ; 1919 not less than 33 1-3 per cent, as compared with the amouuv planted in 1918, and I further pledge myself to use all of my influence to secure a like i reduction by my neighbors." Feb. 22 was agreed upon as "Pledge i Day," and Governor Hobby was re- 1 quested to issue a proclamation calling upon the people of the state to as- 1 Bemble at the schoolhouse in every i school district for the purpose of sign- ] ing this pledge. < LOCi^L AFFAIRS, * m NEW ADVERTISEMENTS Fellutein's Bargain House Will on Friday begin a special stock reducing sale and aski you to watch for further announcements. Logan Lumber Yard Can supply you w^l lime, brick, cement, lumber and lumber pro ducts of all kinds. Red cedar shingles. McConnell Dry Goods Co. Has over a hundrw new spring dresses for the inspection of th, ladles. Prices range from t8.60 to $26. W. E. Ferguson Can supply you with see< Irish potatoes and garden seeds and advise, that you buy seed potatoes early. Sherer ft Quinn Say that right now'is th, time to plant Irish potatoes. They have th, seed potatoes and garden seeds. M. L. Ford, Clover Invites you to buy furni ture and furnishings at Clover where yoi will be sure of getting correct prices. G. W. Whitesides ft Co., Sharon Tell theii customers that now Is the time to buy staph cotton goods, as prices are down somewhat Tailor made clothing. Star Theatre Programme today includes a se rial installment and a comedy. A Fox fea ture for Friday. ?- ? * i rit _ J. L. Houston, rraoau jqqkc uivn uuuw that R. B. and Mayme C. Allison have ap plied for letters of administration on the es tate of J. C. Chambers, deceased. York Furniture A Hardware Co. Today openi up a week's 10 per cent reduction sale 01 furniture and house furnishings. Libert] bonds accepted in payment at par. Peoples Bank A Trust Co. Says that neari] 100 people have come to it with their ac counts since it opened a week ago. First National Bank of York Emphasizes th< safety of your funds when deposited it witl it and assures its patrons of every possibii banking consideration. Page four. Loan and Savings Bank Points out that yoi are starting on the road to power when yot make business connections with it Account! of individuals and corporations solicited Se< page four. Kirkpatrick-Belk Co. Suggests that now is i good time to do spring sewing, and invitei you to see its big stock of new spring goods which it will be pleased to show you. T. W. Woods A Son, Richmond Suggest tha Woods's dwarf rape sown now will maki pasture in eight weeks. Page four. Brame Medicine Co. Recommend Vapomenthi as an external application for combattinj croup, la grippe, pneumonia. See page four Wrigley On page four calls attention to thi delicious qualities of Wrigley's chewing gums Sold everywhere. The printer made an error in the at In which G. C. Deese & Company offei a horse, wagon and harness for sale "They may be worth $300," writes Mr Deese, in correcting the error; "bui $100 is all that I am asking." OFFER EXPIRES MARCH 8. Attention is called to the fact thai the time in which subscriptions to The Enquirer will be received at $2.25 ? year expires on Saturday, March 8The principal reason for extending the time from February 1 was thai several of the clubmakers were down with influenza during a period immediately preceding February 1, and it was deemed unfair to them and the subscribers on their clubs to insist or prompt compliance under the circumstances. The situation also involved a fail deal to those who were in competitior for the leading premiums, and for thai reason announcement of the proposed extension was held until after the time limit in the case of the contest then or hand expired and awards were made on a basis of the original offer. There will be no further extension, however, after March 8, and all subscribers who desire the benefit of the club rates are advised to subscribe and pay before March 8. After that date the price of a year's subscription will be strictly $2.50. ABOUT PEOPLE. Miss Lllage Castles of Winthrop college, spent last week-end at her home in Smyrna. Miss Kathleen James and Mr. Rupert James of Union are visiting Mrs, O. E. Grist in Yorkville. o. Ferruaon. nierht policeman, who has been 111 for the past twc weeks, is up and about again; but not Vet able to work. Miss Annie Laurie Witherspoon, whc is teaching at Smyrna, spent the weekend with Miss Gladys Nichols in the Bethel neighborhood. Mr. M. J. Wallace, who has been seriously 111 at his home near Smyrna foi some weeks, was thought to be better yesterday; but Mrs. Wallace is now quite 111. Mr. John A. Ratteree of No. 1 Yorkville, has a telegram from his son Sergeant Sam Ratteree, announcing the safe arrival of the latter from overseas, in New York, and stating that he was being sent to Camp Dix, New Jersey. Mr. C. F. James, formerly superintendent of the Travora cotton mill was a visitor to Yorkville last Saturday. Mr. James is now the owner ol a hosiery mill at Marion, N. C-, and is on the road selling the product of his own and other hosiery mills. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Youngblood, formerly of Yorkville, now of Wars - J 1" VA?b |tl< snoais, spent yesiuiuuj in awi with Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Toungblood They were on their way back to Ware Shoals after an extended stay in the northern market buying goods for the spring and summer trade. Mr. J. A- Shannon of No. 4, Yorkville, left yesterday for Washington and Baltimore. He will visit hh brother-in-law, Mr. F. S. Osborne, ir Washington, for a few days, and aftei that he expects to undergo a minoi surgical operation at the Johns Hopkins hospital. It is his expectation tc be back home in about two weeks. WITHIN THE TOWN The poetofflce observed Washington's birthday as a legal holiday lasl Saturday; but otherwise the day waf not generally observed. The excellent curbing already down and paid for along both sides of Congress street, is a fine start for the construction of a good hard-surfaced roadway with concrete or other foundation. J. S. Mackorell has purchased the Irene Starr residence on Wright avenue. and will move into it within the next few days to make way for Mr. F. C. Riddle, to whom he recently sold his own residence on King's Mountain street. Mr. Mackorell expects to build a handsome residence soon. Bill Dockery, the old fellow who was recently committed to Jail on the charge of receiving stolen goods, has been unable to get the $200 bail bond required for his release. He is in quite a bad way physically, and there is very * - u 4 Vt o + nrmi 1H little reason iu ucncvc cue**. *?w ttvW.M fall to appear at court, if living, In case of his release on bond. "I want to thank you for that paragraph In today's paper about the condition of the streets of the town and the suggestion for the need of improvement,' said Mr. E. A. Hall, of the city council, over the telephone last Friday morning. "I heartily agree with all you have said, and I am sure that the entire council is in full accord. The town is in need of no one thing more than it is in need of first class streets, and there is no one thing, in my opinion, that would contribute more to the common benefit, either from the standpoint of individual comfort or general enhancement of property values. I regret exceedingly that the finances of the town are in such awkward shape as they are in at present; but it seems to me we could do something more than we are doing in such an important matter as this. Every man on the council feels the same way, and if the people will back us up, we will certainly have the streets." HERE AND THERE There have been statements In some of the papers to the effect that as many as eighteen thousand of the automobiles that ware registered last year still renjain without registration tags. Maybe this is so, and maybe it Is not; but even if it is so we are still left to wonder if the situation is really as It would seem. Not long ago attention was called to a certain car in this section that was still running a 1918 tag. The owner, when asked about it, promptly produced a check that he had mailed to the state highway commission some time ago, which check had been paid by the bank before De:ember 81. Just how much of this i kind of thing: there may be over the state there is no telling. In a letter, to the editor of The Enquirer a few days ago, a gentleman in J Spartanburg, a well known lawyer of that city, said: "I have been told that i there is an expert maker of artificial legs in your town, and having need for something in that line for a client of 11 mine, I will thank you to let me know 5 j whether my information is correct, and j If so, to put me in touch with the parijty referred to." The lawyer's inforI mation was entirely correct, and it s' gives the editor of The Enquirer pleas5 j lire not only to tell him what he wants I to know; but Inform others of the j facts, of which most Yorkvllle people are more or less acquainted. The arr'tiflcial leg-maker is Dr. W. E- Erwin, t a Confederate veteran, who lost a leg . 1 In tha o.lvil war. and who has boon using artificial legs of his own mAke ; ever since. Dr. Erwin Is 82 years of age; but Is In remarkably fine physis cal condition for a man not nearly so - old, and is willing to bet a reasonable - amount that he can outrun any wooden legged man in the world of his size, ' regardless of the other fellow's age, j provided the other fellow wears a leg of any other make than the doctor's. i Dr. Erwln has made many scores of - wooden legs for as many different people and almost always they give satisB faction. He has certain patents as to j foot and ankle movements that are wonderfully satisfactory, and he yields i nothing to anybody in work of this i kind. For a leg he charges anywhere ? up to $75, according to what has to be B fitted. MARKET FOR HOGS. The development of adequate facil1 ities for co-operative marketing of hogs on foot at prices based on ac1 tual values, is a most sensible idea up' on which the Animal Husbandry ExB tension service of Clemson college is now working in co-laboration with the county demonstration agents. I Arrangements are now under way r for initial experiments in York county and of course the necessary prerequisite to success is the immediate and t hearty, co-operation of the farmers who are to be the first and most immediate beneficiaries, in the event of success, provided, of course, they go into it, as many of them no doubt will. t There has been considerable devel! opment of hog raising in this county 1 during the past few years, comparatively spfeaking, to say the least of it. r The attention to hog raising has been more serious and intelligent than ever 1 before, and there has been very con' siderable development along this line; ' Knf ! la nnro nroitv ??nerallv recog ' nlzed that the time has come for an1 other step forward, or there will be several steps backward. Heretofore the bulk of the develop, ment has been confined to the prot ductlon and distribution of pigs. I This is as it should have been, as a (! new industry must crawl before it can ? walk. But obviously the distribution of pigs will soon reach its limit unless ' there is some profitable means of dis| posing of the full grown hogs, i Of course the local market cannot take care of any considerable number ' of hogs. It can take up so many and no more, and obviously, after a farmer has all the hogs he can use, and more than he can sell, he is at the end of > his row, for surplus hogs , under such conditions would be a serious liability rather than an asset A congested condition of the local markets would quickly mean that hogs . could no longer be sold for anything > like what they are worth. That would : mean that the farmers would have to *rop back to raising such hogs as > chey could use themselves, and many would quit doing that To see how ; that is we have only to look back a very short time to the fail of 1917. There is always a market for hogs . somewhere, at some price, and now *1 A+ll . mere tue uuiueiuiu guuu luaiitcu ci?. r very good prices; but none of these markets are close, and all of them call for at least car load lots. There is not a farmer in York county who has ; as many as a car load of hogs, and there are very few single neighborJ hoods that could get up, at short no' tice such a car that it could reasona' bly spare. Even If there were such neighborhoods, there are now no ade quate facilities for marketing such suri plus hogs to advantage. But the demonstration people have f hit upon a plan by which they hope ? to develop something worth while, and ' the satisfactory carrying out of the plan is up to the farmers. Here is the idea. Every man who ; has one or more hogs that he wants to ! sell, weighing from 200 pounds or . more up, should immediately make res port to his banker of the number and ; weights of such hogs. The banker s will keep memoranda ^f the names of such farmers together -dth the number of hogs reported by oh and turn ( the information over to the. demon, stration agents who will then be in a , position to take the next stepa Working in connection with the Ani. mal Husbandry Extension service, the demonstration agent is in easy ] touch with the most advantageous markets, and with information that will facilitate the quick and convenient collection of the 75 or 100 hogs necessary for a car load, he will be In a position to take such further steps as , the situation may justify. Every arrangement having been prei vlously made, the hogs will be loaded in cars, shipped at once to the best market and sold at the top price. The freight and other expenses will be prorated among the owners of the hogs, according to the number of weight of the animals contributed by each, and the net proceeds of the transaction will be apportioned out In the same manner, thus giving to each consignee of a single hog the same ! pro-rata advantage as If he had ' shipped an entire car load, i There are to be no unnecessary expenses, salaries or commissions con- i nected with the transaction. It will 1 1 be considerable trouble and some little expense to the bankers; but they < sec the possibilities of future benefit, ] alike to the farmers as well as themselves and are willing to do their part. < The demonstration agent will do his ! i part because It comes In exact line i with his regular duties, and the Anl- i mal Husbandry Extension service at i Clemson will look after the shipping < and sale of the animals and getting < the proceeds back to the owners for j the same reason. I Now here is the whole plan. We i are giving it on our own motion I and on the authority of the Ex- 1 tension service at Clemson, for the i benefit of all who may be interested. < We want every farmer who has a hog i of 200 pounds or over that he docs not 1 actually need, and for which he has s in sight no immediate market, to lm- I mediately report to Mr. Mitchell or < Col. Spratt at Fort Mill, or to Mr. Dun- t lap. Mr. Cobb or Mr. Shurley at Rock t Hill, or to Mr. Hartness or Mr. Hill at c Sharon, or to Mr. Allison at Hickory l Grove, or to Mr. Page at Clover or to s Mr. Wllkins, Mr. Moore or Mr. Jenkins r - " ' in- loovo thlnes alone I <11 lUrKVllIC, unit o J until they get further Instructions. There is no promise as to what will . he realized on the hogs; but everybody ' can depend upon it that they will get ' the full market price and that is all J they will ask. So get busy. c LOCAL LACONICS ? Transfer of Realty. Mr. John Q- Hall has purchased c * ???* Mr Frank C. Riddle, the J. W. s Nell residence, three miles north of t Yorkvllle, and that portion of the farm s that lies east of the King's Mountain t road. The purchase price was $125 an C acre, the record of land prices in this t immediate vicinity. I Red Cross Activities. ? Although the activities of the local f branches of the Red Cross have been t very considerably slackened since the t promulgation of the order some time c ago to "cease knitting," some of the t workers are still busy. The Yorkville g chapter has recently shipped to Atlan- d ta 2,564 articles made by itself and the r Sharon, Hickory Grove, McConnells- p vllle, Bullock's Creek and Filbert branches. The "cease knitting" order has been superceded by another request to get busy again to fill requirements of knitted and sewed garments at the rate of a million a month for the destitute people of Europe. Committed for Murder. L- Godfrey, white, was committed to Jail last Friday to await trial at the approaching term of the court of sessions, charged with the slaying of Will Holehouser. During an altercation between Godfrey and Molehouser at the Carhartt mill in Rock Hill on December 6, last, Godfrey struck Holehouser on the head with a maul. Holehouser was laaen 10 me nospiiai ana uoairey was taken to jail. Later it began to appear that Holehouser would recover, and there waa arranged a compromise by which Godfrey jk&b released from jail. Holehouser died in Lancaster on Wednesday. The jury said his death was the result of the injuries, sustained at the hands of Godfrey, and accordingly Godfrey.was recommitted to await trial. Drowned in Sugar Creek. Mr. A. O. Anderson, and Charley McNeally, the latter aged ten, were drowned in Sugar Creek at Balles's bridge two miles east of Fort. Mill Sunday morning, as the result of an automobile accident. Mr. McNeally for several years superintendent of the Fort Mill manufacturing company, was leaving for Charlotte in an automobile to take a train for Selma, Ala,, where he had taken a position. Mr. Anderson, and his son and two sons of Mr. McNeally were in the car, the Andersons goingfor company and goingto bring the car back. Sugar Creek had been very much swollen by the rains an J the approaches were slippery and dangerous. Mr. McNeally was driving. The car skidded as it was going on to the bridge and plunged into the creek. Mr. McNeally and one of his sons and Mr. Anderson's son were able to disengage themselves from the car; but the other two were carried down. It was two hours before their bodies could be recovered. ' TAXABLE INCOMES. Salaries, Wages and Commissions Mum Be Reported. Collectors of internal revenue are receiving frequent inquiries as to the amount to be included under "gross income" in their income tax returns. In making out his return of gross income, the taxpayer is required to account for practically every dollar he received during 1918. The following items must be reported: Salaries, wages and commissions for personal services, including bonuses. Interest received on notes and deposits in banks Including saving banks. Dividends on stock, whether received in cash or stock. Only dividends paid out of earnings or profits accrued since March 1, 1913, are taxable, but dividends are deemed to be distributed out of the most recently accumulated earnings. Profits resulting from purchases and sales of property, real or personal. If the property was purchased before March 1, 1913, the profit is based on the difference between the selling price and the fair market value as of March 1, 1913. Profit from stock market transac UV1M. Income received from fiduciaries, that is amounts received from Income of estates, trusts, etc., through trustees, administrators or executors. Net partnership profits, whether divided or distfibuted or not Royalties 'from mines, oil and gas wells, patents, copyright and franchises. The following items are not taxable and need not be included in the return: Property received as a gift or by will or inheritance. It must be understood, however, that the income derived from such property is taxable. Freceeds of life insurance policies. Returns of p rem rums on life endowment and annuity policies. Interests on securities issued under the provisions of the federal farm act of July 17, 1916. Amounts received through accident pr health insurance or under workmen's compensation acts, plus the amount of damages received* whether by suit or agreement on account of such injuries or sickness. Amounts received during the war by a person in the military or naval forces for active service, up to J3,6(f0. Interest on obligations of any state or political subdivision of a state, such as a city, county, town or village, and the District of CoiuraDia, interests on obligations of the United States is exempt, except that interest on obligations issued after September 1, 1917, is exempt onW to the extent provided by the Liberty loan acts. Interest on Liberty bonds to the par value of $6,000 is exempt from all taxation. Holders of large amounts of Liberty bonds are advised to consult their bankers or collectors of internal revenue as to their interest exemptions. MERE-MENTION New York Ironworkers, shipbuilders, longshoreman, stationary firemen and other tradesmen have passed a resolution to strike in July to make effective the slogan of no beer no work Vlthough Premier Clemenceau was undoubtedly shot through the lungs, he declined to go to bed except at bedtime and now it is given but that he will recover. Mathias Erzberger, head of the German armistice commission, has been told that for the present no German prisoners will be repatriated except the badly wounded or seriously sick Emile Cottin, the would-br * - * niAmanpfiflii \ q to cLSScLSSin Ui nciiiiui uiciuvuvvuwi - ? be tried by court martial instead of by the civil court. It is given out that the Panama and Suez canals are not to be regarded as international waterways under the Jurisdiction of the league of nations, because each belongs entirely to one country. ? A resolution presented by Caxdinal Gibbons for the peace congress to apply to Ireland the doctrine of national self-determination and a declaration of principles demanded that if any league of nations be created, all features which may Infringe on the traditional American policy, including the Monroe doctrine, shall be eliminated, were adopted, unanimously in Philadelphia last "Sunday at the closing session of the convention of the Irish race in America. The declaration says a. state of war exists between England a.nd Ireland, "which, in the interests of the peace of the world, the peace conference can not ignore." In support of the movement to bring freedom to Ireland, the convention pledged to raise within six months $1,000,000, but oefore Justice Daniel F. Cohalan of :he New York supreme court, chair nan of the convention, completed tne calling of a list of states and cities, nore than $1,250,000 had been pledged ;o the cause. Delegates from many states, representing a large number of rlsh organizations, crowded the academy of music when Cardinal Gibbons irose at the afternoon session and in . i few words presented the resolution :alling for the right of Ireland to se- j cct its form of government. Applause ( iwept the crowd as the cardinal slowly ead the paper. While the German national assem)ly has been holding open meetings . leveral committees have found time to | liscuss the draft of a new German con- , ititution as prepared by Hugo Pre- , iss a member of the cabinet. The !raft has now passed on second readng. The original few paragraphs lave been cut up and expanded into 109 taragraphs which cover every point ' arefully. The new draft consists of I even divisions; rno nrst division, enitled "The Nation and Its Component < itates," provided that the national 1 erritory shall consist of the former lerman states as well as other states hat may after a plebiscite de3lre to " >e incorporated with Germany. The lag of the new republic will be black, ed and gold. The second article of the Irst provision provides that the execu- j lve power lies with the people. The hird article says the generally ac- l epted rules of international law shall >e a basic part of the German law. \ Succeeding articles provide for the | lefense of the nation and cover colo- i tial questions, customs duties and tubllc transportation. 4 ; CLOVER CULLINQ8. Correapondence of The Yorkville Enquirer. Clover, February 22.?Mr and Mrs. Joe Matthews of Greensboro, N. C., who were married Tuesday , February 18, spent a few days here this week with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Matthews. Mr. William A. Matthews of Charlotte, N. C., spent Thursday here with home people. Mr. Will Petty and daughter, Miss Bertie, of Bowling Green, spent Thursday here with the family of Mr. J. J. Wilson. Mrs. Rena Enloe, of Greenville, N. C., is spending the week end here with the family of Mr. W. M. Matthews. Messrs. Christopher and Hamby Alien, who have been In the navy for the past several months bave received their honorable discharges and are spending a while here with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Allen. Mr. Willie Wilson, of Clarksburg, West Virglna, visited the family of hla uncle, Mr. James Wilson here this week. Miss Bertha Jackson, of Bethel, visited Miss Delia McCully here this week. Mr. James Faulkner, who is station* ed at a military camp in Massachusetts, is spending: a twenty days furlough with his mother Mrs. Violet Faulkner on R F. D. No. 4. Mrs. H. L. Wright and son Herbert are visiting in Yorkville this week. Messrs. Ebbie Matthews and Robert Adams, who have positions with the Southern Power company, are spending a few days here with relatives. The Clover and Lowell basketball teams played a game on Friday afternoon at Lowell, and the Clover team was defeated, the score being 28 to 10 in favor of Lowell. This being a holiday, the postofflce is observing holiday hours and the rural carriers are taking a day off. 4 Mr. M. L. Ford was a business visitor to Charlotte Thursday. The depot has been covered with a new tin roof. The Christian Endeavor society of the Presbyterian church was delightfully entertained on Friday evening at a George Washington party, with Miss Mary Beam guard as hostess. The house was prettily decorated with flags. After several games were enJoyed, delicious refreshments were served. There were about 75 people, who enjoyed the hospitality of Miss Beamguard. Fined for Going to Church. Three members of the Baptist church at Murray, Kentucky, have paid fines and the cases of three others have been taken under submission by Judge Dhllllna In thn Pnllnimv omintv rnnrf as the result of the violation of the so-called influenza ban laid down in Murray by the state board of health. The alleged violation grew out of their attendance at church. George Tidwell and Lee Wicker compromised their cases prior to going to trial and paid fines of $50 each. George Hepburn was tried by a jury and fined $10. The cases of Galen McBrlde, E. B. Holland, and W. H. Jones were taken under submission. The Rev. H. Boyce Taylor; who was fined $100 on two occasions for holding church services in deflnance of the board of health's order, has been given until April 10 in which to settle the fine, with the alternative of going to JaiL ? Canadian, Italian, Serbian and Russian Karelian troops in an offensive movement southward along the Murmansk railway on February 19 pushed forward thirty-five miles, writes an Associated Press correspondent from Archangel, capturing considerable railway material and 50 prisoners and inflicting heavy losses on the bolshevik. While other troops moved through the woods on skis, outflanking the enemy at a bridge near the village of Ceglshl, the Serbians attacked frontally along the railroad and drove the enemy beyond the brid e after considerable fighting. The allies now occupy the village of Ceglshl, which is approximately 80 miles south of So- , rotzka. All sectors on the Archangel front, so far as reports to headquarters indicate, are quiet Not one shot has been fired in the last 10 days. Th? weather has been intensely cold. Peasants coming into the Allied lines from bolshevik territory declare that several bolshevik commands have muntinied and refuse to stay at the front 7 The 371 Infantry, composed of negroes, fresh from the battlefields of France, which arrived at Camp Jackson Friday, paraded through the streets of Columbia Friday. The regiment suffered casualties of 1,008 men and 50 officers in the Champagne offensive. The organization is made up of North Carolina and South Carolina men, with white officers. Eighty-five of the 1,450 members of the regiment wear French decorations and many others American decorations for gallantry in action. The regiment was attached to a French division commanded by General Boybet, who highly complimented them. Dr. D. M. Douglass, president of Presbyterian college at Clinton, has received notice from the war department of the granting of an application he recently made for the establishment of a reserve officers' training corps in connection with his Institution. OBITUARY , * Died In Fort Mill, on February 22, Mr. JAMES H. POTTS, aged 71 years. He was a Confederate veteran. The following children survive: Mrs. Eunice Downs of Pineville; Mrs. T. E. Sharpe of Greenville, S. C.; J. H. Potts, Jr., or wasnington, u. v;.; d. an. ruia of Steel Creek, N. C., and Mrs. Dovle J. Erwin and John S. Potts of Fort Mill. $he Cotton JRarh^t. Monday, February 24, 1919. Sharon 26 Yorkvllle - 26 MISCELLANEOUS WANTS. FOR SALE THREE Fresh Milk Cows and fourteen nice Shoats for sale at once. See MYRTLE HALL, or phone 219. Wright avenue, Yorkvllle. 16 2t j FOR SERVICE REGISTERED Poland-China and ** Hampshire stock hogs. Phone 246 or call opposite Travora cotton mill. 16 4t* A. M. TAYLOR. FOR SALE OIX-Horse Power Woodsaw Outfit and ^ 12-horse power Portable Engine (both International). Prices and terms reasonable. See me at once. 16 2t* F. C. BLACK, York, S. C. LOST OR STOLEN LTOUND Bitch, white with black spots and tan ears, named Queen. Missing since January 30. Will appreciate Information and pay reward for recovery. M. E. STANTON, 16 3t* York R. F. D. 6. ^ ? run salei A LIMITED amount of Genuine Cleveland Big Boll Cotton SeedFor further Information a!hd prices iddrejs M. H. BLAIR, R. F. D. 2, Sharon, S. C. 12 4t t 4 TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS A LL persons Indebted to the estate of H. C. Mouzon, deceased, are hereby notified to make payment to tne vised to present the same, duly authenticated, within the time prescribed by law. A. M. BRABHAM, Admr. Estate of H. C. Mouzon. Feb. 14, 1919. 13 f 3t FOR FINAL DISCHARGE. LFAVTNG made Final Settlement with the Probate Court of York county. is Executor of the estate of Polodo. e Witherspoon, deceased. notice is hereby given that on February 26, 1919, at g 11 o'clock a. m., I will make appllca- , tlon to said court for my discharge from all further liability In connvCtlcn with said estate. W- I. WITHERSPOON, Ian 31-19 9 6t* Executor. - * *