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Straps and Jarts. Provision that the league of nations shall exercise geneiul supervision of the Sa&re valley for a period of fifteen years was contained in the settlement of the Sa&rc problem effected last week by the council of four. This important change in the plan for the political administration of the region became known Friday. At the end of the fifteen-year period a plebiscite will be taken to determine the wishes of the inhabitants regarding tne nature form of government. The change was made to avoid annexation and to ? establish the principle of self-determination. France is given economic control of the coal fields of the Saare valley up to an amount to recompense her for the losses sustained from German occupation of the coal fields of Northern France. ? An instance of the deception the Bolshevik government is forced to practice in order to secure reinforcements for its army is contained in information just received in .London. A proclamation was issued at Jfetrograd ordering a trial mobilization of the "first Town Section" for two days to test its state of preparedness. It was stated that the men of the reserve would be permitted to return to their work after two days. When the reservists assembled they were told that as 1'etrograd was unsuitable for manoeuvre purposes they would be taken a short distance out of town. Unsuspectingly the men climbed into box cars, whose doom were then locked, and the men were sent as reinforcements to the western front. There they remain, although the Bolshevik officers naively complain that these reinforcements have not been of much fighting value. Desertions from the Bolshevik ranks and disobedience of orders are reported on the increase in North Russia, also a lack of training among officers and men and deficiency of arms and material. In the Ural district riots are?reported to have occurred owing to the difference of pay between troops at the front and those remaining behind the lines. Anti-Bolshevik sentiment is said to be so pronounced among some 01 me regiments garrisoning Petrograd that the authorities are airaid to take action against disaffected units or to send them to the front. The United States has informed the associated governments that American cable censorship on communications to Central and South America, and to the Orient with the exception of Vladivostok will be abolished April 18. This announcement cuts the gordian knot of trade restrictions through censorship and ends the apparently interminable discussion regarding the future of the censorship in which the American government has been steadily pressing its associates for joint action in lifting or modifying the system based on war requirements. The American representatives in announcing this determination expressed hope that the associated governments would find it possible to follow suit, but made it clear the United States is determined to put an end to this restriction of trade, so far as it is concerned, without further delay. It has already abolished censorship on communications to the entente countries leaving only a censorship on communications to the neutral. It is proposed that this be exercised only once, American cable being censored at the point of departure and allowed to pass without further delay to its distinction. The censorship on mail will continue to be exercised as at present. The associated govern ments consider this necessary to prevent Germany from dissipating securities and other assets for reparation through neutral countries. Demobilization has reduced the total strength oi tne American aixu> below 2,000,000, complete reports to April 8 announced by General March, showed the aggregate strength on that date to be 1,908,506. Since November 11, 686,114 men have sailed for home, and up to April 8 605,772 had been . landed. There have been returned to civil life 1,701,469 officers and men, . 50 per cenbof the officers and 46 per cent, of the men who were in the army when the armistice was signed. Discharge orders now total 1,925,000. Comparing this progress with the demobilization of the Union army following the War Between the States, General March pointed out that the breakup of the War Between the States forces occupied the war department from May, 1865 to November 1866, a total of 1,023,021 officers and men of the volunteers being discharged in that time. After the Spanish War between September 5, 1,898, and June 22, 1899, only 179,397 officers and men were mustered out. Enlistment under the special overseas volunteers system have reached a total of 7,961. It was indicated that the first contingent of 1,000 men of these replacements would start from Camp Meade before May 1. Health conditions in the expeditionary forces. General March said, were "remarkable," less than 12,000 men having1 been entered on the sick reports for the week of March 27. In the United States conditions were described as "very good." ? Official reports to the war department made public by General March, chief of staff, show that the mutiny among the American troops at Archangel was directly due to propaganda circulated by bolsheviki sympathizers among the men, all of the questions asked by the soldiers of their officers having been directly suggested in leaflets urging the Americans to revolt. The mutiny now appears to have'been confined to the members of Company I, 339th infantry, and to have ended when the men entrained for the front. "We have a report from Murmansk," General March said, "to the effect that the organization which was referred to as Company I 339th infantry. The dispatch states: 'It is worthy to note that the questions that were put to the officers by the men were identical with those that the bolsheviki propaganda leaflets advised them to put to them.' "I have not seen this leaflet, but I am very anxious to get it. This is a very striking thing. I have had long experience in the army and I do not recall ever having seen American soldiers who did not want to get into a fight. They always said 'Lead me to it,' and went to it. It is a very important thing. We want to get hold of that bolsheviki pamphlet and find out just what they are up to." The information as to the source of the mutiny, coupled with the fact that no reports of further refusals to do duty have come, led officers to believe that events would show that the single agitator in Company I who was arrested for stubborn refusal.to proceed wun nis company when the others had decided to obey was very largely responsible for what happened. They regard it as almost certain that he would prove to be a man with bolsheviki tendencies and had no doubt that he would be severely punished. The general situation of the forces at Murmansk and Archangel has been improved. General March said., through the reopening of the railroad from Murmansk south, bringing the distant southern outposts into direct touch with headquarters. There is little prospect of a material reduction of the high cost of living, sent soaring to unprecedented heights by the world war, in the opinion of O. P." Austin, statistician of the National City Bajik of New York, who delivered an address here today on "Prices Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow," before the educational conference of the New York Business Publishers' Association. Mr. Austin attributed the rapid increase in prices to three causes: First the urgent demand by the war for food and raw material for the use of the vast armies in the field; second, the advance in wa^es due to tne increased tusi ui living; third, the enormous Inflation of the world's currency caused by the vast quantities of paper money, put out by the leading countries. Contenting on these factors, he said: "If the governments which have been the chief participants in the world increase in currency should fail to materially reduce that excess .and supply, and if the world's demand for food and manufacturing material is to continue at the present rate, are we justified In expecting a general reduction In prices in the near future? The question, I think, answers itself. There will, of course, pe instances In which there will be material reduc! tions but in general terms the outlook for marked or rapid decline at least in the near future does not seem encouraging." The measure by which the currency of the world has been inflated was shown by the speaker when he said that the warring countries had issued paper money with a face value of $36,000,000,000, or more than the value of all the gold and silver mined in the world since the discovery of America. This does not include eighty billion dollars if sued by the Russian Bolshevik). Meanwhile, during the four years of war, the national debts of the world have advanced from forty billion dollars in 1913 to $220,000,000,000 in 1919. He saw little prospect of an immediate reduction in this inflation in view of the fact that the 1919-1920 budgets of the leading countries of the world call for four times' as much money as those of the year preceding the war. Present indications are. he continued, "that the governments of the world will be compelled to collect In taxes about fifty billion dollars a year as against twelve and a half billions in 1913, or say a billion dollars a week as against a billion dollars a month before the war." ?hf flotkviUc tujuiro Entered at the Postofflce at York as Mall Matter of the Second Class. TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1919. The fact that American intervention was not solely for the purpose of putting the Germans under the heels of the French Is now becoming more and more apparent The choice of Geneva as the "capital of the world," is eminently more prop er man wouia nave oeen me vnuice ui The Hague, Brussels or Paris. Switzerland has no ambition in the direction of domination or expansion. While we do not think that the incorporation of the Monroe doctrine into the constitution of the league of nations makes that doctrine any safer than it was, still it will leave American political objectors even less than they had to stand on. Favorable talk of early peace is most commonly assigned as the reason for the recent stiffening in the price of cotton; but the same condition of affairs at this season in other years would have been taken by more prudent and wary planters as having been brought about with a view to stimulating an increase of acreage. Maybe the cotton market is getting on a healthy basis as it will have to do sooner or later, and maybe the gamblers on the exchange are still playing for suckers, as they have been doing all the while. But whether it is a matter of legitimate prices or only a matter of playing for suckers, there is very little actual cotton moving. The only situation in American history that occurs to us as comparable to that at Archangel the other day, was during the Seminole war when the men under General Jackson wanted to return home before they completed their Job, on the ground that their terms of enlistment had expired. Jackson got on his horse, lined up his men, and riding along the front, threatened to shoot the first man who left ranks. Technically the men were right in their contention, as may be the case with the Americans at Archangel; but American sentiment sustained Jackson then, Just as it will be against these men at Archangel now. That the position of the men at Archangel is unfortunate, there is no question; but it is not becoming in Americans to lie down on their Job in the presence of any duty, however distasteful. A recent cartoon from Life deals with the unsuccessful effort to repeal the daylight saving law. Whatever else may be said of the law there is no question of the fact that by starting the work of the day an hour earlier it is wound up an hour earlier. T^ere was much propaganda over the country to the effect that the law would interfere very materially with farm work, that much \aluable time would be lost by throwing away an hour of daylight, toward the end of the day. As a matter of fact, farmers, in practice care nothing about the law one way or the other, as it does not affect them in the least- The cartoon in question represents three big fat fellows disguised as farmers, walking disconsolately down the railroad track in the direction of home. One of them is labeled "gas trust," the second, "electric light trust," and the third "coal trust," and underneath is the legend, "The hayseeds who tried to have the daylight bill repealed." As to whether it will amount to anything or not, remains tc be seen, but anyhow Judge Gary is entitled to the thanks of taxpayers and busy jurors of York county for what he said yesterday about the uselessness of that February term of court- Judge Mem minger came to Yorkville last summer and stayed around several days without anything to do. Judge Gary had practically the same experience in February. The only use for the September term is to get the circuit judge here to sign orders, which orders might just as well be U ken care of at chambers, and the holding of the court in. February is impracticable, for the reason that at that time the solicitor is always engaged in the engrossing department .'n connection with the session of the general assembly. These two extra sessions are a useless charge on the taxpayers and on that portion nf the eitizenshin of th > county which has to come to the courthouse as jurors with nothing1 to do. But in view of the failure of past efforts for relief, there is not much encouragement to hope that relief will be coming yet. The feeding of the starving people of Petrograd is being urged upon President Wilson by Dr. t ridjoff Nansen, the Arctic explorer, and other prominent subjects of Sweden and citizens of Switzerland. They represent that the people of Petrograd are dying at the rate of 200,000 a month, and that there are no longer in that city any children under two yea~s of age. There are some dreadfully crowded orphanages, all of which are in a horrible condition. The proposition to the president and the big four is to send food on condition that the Bolsheviki cease fighting and permit the distribu tlon of food by the Red Cross. The 1 French are objecting on the ground ' that such an arrangement would con- ] stitute a recognition of the Bolshevik! 1 government, and not only that, even if the Bolsheviki should agree to cease 1 fighting, that would impose no such 1 obligation on Gen. Denekine, and the 1 Don Cossack government which is try- j ing to put the Bolsheviki out of business. The French, who have billions 1 of francs loaned in Russia, which bil- 1 lions of francs they deem lost unless the Bolsheviki is overthrown, are not 1 inclined to consider any toleration in regard to the matter. Hjalm&r Branting, the Swedish Socialist leader, who 1 is co-operating with Dr. Nansen, proposes as a condition on which Petrograd be revictualed, not only that the Bolsheviki cease fighting; but that they restore the right to hold meetings aud guarantee the liberty of the press and the right of free speech. Information has already been published to the effect that in accordance with an act of congress, discharged ' soldiers are permitted to retain their , uniforms as a gift from the government; but notwithstanding that fact , there recently came from the author!- , ties at Camp Jackson, through Major Carwile, a bulletin to the local boards, instructing that discharged soldiers turn in their uniforms after a specified J time. Mr. J. S. Brice wrote Maj. Carwile, calling attention to the act of ^ congress of February 26, giving the , uniforms to the soldiers and stating , that he could not see that the military ' had anything further to do with the J matter. He sent a copy of the letter to ( Congressman Stevenson, asking that he also take such steps as might be j necessary. Congressman Stevenson immediately took the matter up with , the adjutant general, calling the at- . tention of that official to the fact that the civil laws now take precedence over military orders, and that soldiers who have been discharged from the army are no longer subject to military authority. Following the representations of Congressman Stevenson, the adjutant general sent down another order through regular channels and not long ago the local board received another bulletin revoking the instructions contained in the previous bulletin. Both Mr. Brice and Congressman Stevenson are deserving of credit for having performed a distinct service, both to the discharged soldiers and the public, for the issue goes far beyond the mere donation of government uniforms. It involves the question of where military jurisdiction ends and civil jurisdiction begins. The long drawn deadlock between Director General Hines of the railroad administration, and Secretary Redfield, of the department of commerce, over the question as to whether the railroads will pay the prices fixed by the industrial board for steel rails, has not yet been broken, and the outlook is that the president will have to settle the matter. Director General Hines insists that the prices asked by the steel people are too high, and to accept it will be very unfair to the American public, as well as the railroads. The argument on Mr. Hines's side of the proposition is that the prices fixed by the steel corporation and the department of commerce are far out of proportion to the cost of labor and materials and impose a burden that the railroads would not be justified in imposing upon their own account or upon account of the unfavorable influence they would have on the price of steel all along down the line. Both the railroad people and the steel people are throwing the charge of monopoly, each against the other, and the feeling is quite strong on both sides, especially the feeling of the steel peonle aeainst Mr. Hines, because he will not give way in a matter that can hav6 nc hearing on his own immediate financial interest; but Mr. Hines. feels that he has a reputation to sustain and he is unwilling to yield under circumstances in which he feels that it will eventually develop that the welfare of the whole country has been adversely affected. It is commonly believed that the only hope of a settlement of the deadlock is by and through the president, and the feeling is that whichever way the matter is settled there must be some resignations in the cabinet. Mr. Glass is backing Mr. Hines, and Mr. Redfleld is backing the steel people. Both sides have gone so far that neither thinks it can tfke the back track and therefore if the president backs up the steel people, Messrs. Glass and Hines will probably step down and out, and if the president backs up the railroad administration, Mr. Redfleld will probably feel compelled to quit. Question of Profiteering. Mr. John T. Roddey of Rock Hill, has raised an interesting and important question, and at the same time quite a row, by sending to the local papers over his own proper signature, a communication on the subject of profiteering. The communication, which is reproduced elsewhere in The Enquirer of today, intimates that some Rock Hill merchants might be guilty of the pernicious practice complained of, and Mr. Roddey would have an investigation to ascertain whether or not his intimations have foundation in fact, and if so how much. From editorial comments in the Herald, it appears that that paper is being more or less criticised for having published Mr. Roddey's communication, and the same people who say that Mr. Roddey is a damr.od fool, or something of that kind, are threatening to punish the Herald for its alleged disloyalty to local business by withdrawing their advertising "patronage" and the like. The whole matter is probably one that we could just as easily let alone nri tho frrnnn/1 thnt it (q nnt ntir pnn. cern; but because we see in the questions that have been raised much that . is of interest and importance to the general public, we do not care to ignore any such situation. As to whether Mr. Roddey's intimations against the people of Rock Hill, have any foundation in fact beyond the facts he has stated, we do not know; but from general information we are inclined to think that if there is such a situation in Rock Hill that situation is different from other towns and communities more in degree than otherwise. In raising the question, Mr. Roddey is nat to be censured: but rather is to be commended for the breadth and courage which in this case stand with- ^ out question, especially in the estima- a tion of those who know him best, and those who know him are not a few. t By profiteering is understood to be v meant th? very r?prehensibl? practice it breaking over the bounds of honest percentage into the more questionable realms of stealageEvery Intelligent business man of right principles very well understands that no business can be maintained except upon a basis of a fair and reasonable profit to those who are dependent upon the same, and also it is fair to say that every legitimate business every business that is really worthy of public support is conducted on a basis of fair, resonable and legitimate profit. No man of business who has due regard for right principles will demand for his services or commodities prices beyond a fair and generally accepted margin of profit just because he can. The man who will take such an advantage under any circumstances is not honest. He is an extortioner, and he is not deserving of either support or respect. Wherever the responsibility lies, however, there is no question of the fact that business generally is now in a. very demoralized condition, and while all of us understand that there is onmothlnff rnHlf?allv Wrnnc With the tvhole situation, which something ought to be removed, still it is very well not to Jump at conclusions before we know what we are doing:, lest we make the mistake of visiting condemnation on Innocent heads. , That there is lots of profiteering there is no question. There has never been a more favorable time for such practice never more encouragement and never more temptation, and of all the social and economic problems that confront the public at this time, this probably is laden with the greatest ind most serious danger. But in considering' this question, let us remember that the truth does not lie on the surface; that because one man asks 30 cents for a can of salmon Lhat another man is selling for 25 cents, the 30 cents man is profiteering. There is no more stability in wholesale prices just now than there Is in retail prices, and while there might bo some question as to whether the man who bought his salmon at a time when he could have sold It at 20 cents, is now justified in demanding 30 cents, it is pretty difficult to answer tiim when he asks why he should sell what he has for less than it costs him to get more. The price regulation folks tried to lold each retailer to a fixed profit on ,/1+nal nnct qtvH siirndpHflfl nrfittv well 30 long as they were in control; but low that their control has been reeased, the same rule can no longer se enforced. But that there Is something bad vrong with the whole situation there s no doubt, and in raising the question hat he has raised Mr. Roddey has thown himself anything else than a lamned fool. There is plenty of need for investigation and plenty of room for reform;j vhile the steps Mr. Roddey has pro3oscd are along the right line, and do 10 harm, It will take a great deal nore than that to settle the matter. The process of readjustment of the vhole confused situation will have to some gradually, just as it has devel>ped And when the situation has been slariflcd, it will bo found that thoee people who have adhered closest to lonest business will be most staunchly sntrenched in public respect and eseem. Seed Situation Improving. There las been a marked improvement in he cottonseed situation, according to i statement issued yesterday by the South Carolina Cotton Association, vhich has been working on the seed lituation for some time. The statenent urges the farmers not to make jse of their seed for fertilizer pur30ses, as the mills will make direct jurchases. The statement issued by he association follows in full: "The South Carolina Cotton Asso - iation has held up the question of the :ottonseed situation for quite some irne. They have been trying?to get elief for the seed situation through ivery known source and are very nuch gratified to inform the public hat the seed situation is being reieved to a marked extent. The federal reserve board has rendered every issistance possible in bringing relief o the seed situation. The federal reserve board has backed up the movenent with the United States food adninistration and the division of colateral commodities of the United States food administration in every vay possible. "While some oil has moved, still the nills have been badly blocked. Inormation now brings to light the act that orders are being issued to nills to buy seed and the situation be elieved as fast as possible. "Farmers are urged not to use their ieed for fertilizer purposes, as the nills will make direct purchases. The irnnnsition to store seed and the Dron >sition to sell seed and accept a cerain amount of hulls for the same ire not in line with the straightout purchase of cotton seed which will certainly be made by the mills. This should be a great relief to the farmers as they have already been caused i tremendous loss on account of not icing able to dispose of their seed." ? General Emlliano Zapata, the rebel eader in Southern Mexico, has been tilled by government troops, accordng to an announcement made by the Mexican War Department tonight, rhe announcement confirmed an earler newspaper report of Zapata's leath from Cuautla, in the Statd of Morelos. The announcement says that l part of the 50th Regiment serving inder General Pablo Gonzalez of the Jarranza army returned to Cuautla jeneral Gonzalez's headquarters, tolight with the body of the dead rebel :hief. Later the Mexican government eceived an offlcal bullentin confirmng the press report of Zapata's death. Advices from Morelos say that the leath of Zapata was brought about by strategy. Zapata, with his followers, lad been hiding in an inaccessible nountain region since the government roops had pacified the State of Moreos, which had been the stronghold of Zapata since he began his revolt in 11)09. The rebel chief is said to have aeon killed in an unnamed part of the nountains of Southern Morelos by :roops under command of Colonel juajardo. The war department has [ romotcd the colonel to a generalship 'or his feat. Laurens, April 13: Arthur Floyd, i negro soldier with the 271st infancy regiment, which was recently de-1 mobilized, has received from the French government the Croix del juerre and bronze star for conspicu-1 Thn wo r I jus ana courageous au><v?. jross and citation were received hrough the American war departnent, as Floyd has been in a hospita since he was seriously wounded in the Yrgonne forest last September. His lome address is Laurens, Route 6 He s now at Fort McPherson in a hospitil, as his leg, which was shattered in wo places by shell fire, has not enirely healed. It is said that Floyd, vho was a corporal, was sent out with seventeen men, including several French soldiers, for the purpose of dearing a way to a German nest, and vhile making this exploit the squad vas exposed to terrific machine gun ire, but remained at their work until l number were killed and the corporal ivacuated. So far as known locally, i'loyd is the only negro soldier from his section who has .been honored I'ith the French war cross. ' LOCAJL AFFAIRS, NEW ADVERTISEMENTS M. R. Dickson, Filbert No. 1 Has full blooded Jersey cow and young calf, for sale. A good milker and butter maker. M. R. Dickson, Filbert No. 1 Has Duroc-Jersey stock hog for service. R. S. Riddle, Clover No. 2 Offers Cook's improved cotton seed for sale. $3 bushel. Grace Williams, Clover Will pay reward for return of gold pin lost on road from York to Clover last Tuesday. Howell & Cannon, York No. 4 Have Berkshire pigs, six weeks old. for sale, 17.60. Jones A Fewell Have opened a smith shop to the rear of the old A. R. P. church lot, and solicit your patronage. Miss Lillian Qulnn, Teacher Invites the public to an entertainment at Shady Grove school next Saturday evening. Mrs. John Jones Extends invitation to the public to a box supper at her home near St. Paul's church next Saturday evening. Benefit parsonage improvement. John A. Ratterree Offers a practically new Hackney rubber tired buggy and set of harness for sale. W. E. Feemster, McGonnellsville Can supply Cleveland big boil and Simkin big boll cotton seed at $1.50 bushel. W. E. Feemster, McConnellsville Wants a buyer for a good milk cow with a young calf. T. B. Glenn At Tirzah, is in the market for limited tonnage of cotton seed. Call him on phone at Smith's store or Rock Hill No. 1603. John E. Carroll, Supt. Ed. Gives notice of the regular spring examination of applicants for teachers' certificates, to be held in the courthouse on May 3, beginning at 9 a. m. J. E. Latham, Supervisor Makes statement of funds of Bullock's Creek township roads for information of the public. York Hardware Co. Wants to know if you are ready to plant, and if so, it wants you to see it for a real cotton planter. Ammunition for fly fighting. G. W. Whltesides A Co., Sharon Call attention to their stock of gents' furnishings, and also to the shoe department. Also want to take your measure for a new spring suit. Hickory Grove High School Commencement exercises on April 17 and 18 Graduating exercises on Thursday evening. Philadelphia School Announces an entertainment by amateurs at the school building on lMdn niarht. A nleaaant evening as ured. Farmers' Hardware ft Supply Co. Expects a car of oats this week and advises you to put in your order now as prices are advancing. York Drug Store Has full line of chocolates and bonbons for the Easter trade. | York Motor Car Co. Is again prepared to supply gasoline in any quantity. Also oils and greases and asks you to see it for spark plugs, tires and tubes. Star Theatre Eddie Polo in "Lure of the Circus" today. A Fox picture on Wednesday, and Edna Goodrich on Thursday. Kirkpatrick-Belk Co. Suggests that you do your Easter shopping now, and offers complete lines of "dress up" goods for your selection. McConnell Dry Goods Co. Announce a big pre-Easter sale of seasonable merchandise, and offer a variety of special prices to make it interesting. J. M. Stroup Talks to men mostly, about the wearing apparel they should have to be correctly dressed for easter. Clothing, straw hats, shirts, neckwear, etc. James Bros. Tell you that they received more mules last week and have a good selection on hand for all comers. Peoples Bank ft Trust Co. Finding it almost impossible to personally see everybody, extends an invitation to you to become one of its patrons. First National Bank, York Emphasizes its ability to protect your funds against loss by fire or theft and invites you to become one of its satisfied depositors. Page four. Loan ft Savings Bank Points out that its patrons are well pleased with its methods of loan money and that it loans to the closest borrowers. AH business given careful attention. See page four. Relly-Taylor Co. Gives additional reasons why Luzianne coffee is worthy of being placed on your table. See page four. York Hardware Co. Is local distributor for the celebrated Rub-er-oid composition roofing and Invites you to see if if you have needs for satisfactory roofing. See page four. Wrigley Calls attention to the very sanitary manner in which all Wrigley chewing gums are packed and handled. Page four. The very awkward and unpleasant circumstance of an automobile running into a funeral procession, occurred near Tirzah last Friday. The driver of the automobile did not quite have the gall to undertake.to blow the procession out of the way; but lacking in the consideration to stop until the road was clear, tried to pass it by without even blowing. One horse began to prance until the buggy it was drawing was thrown out of line against the automobile, with the result of crippling the buggy sufficiently to throw it out of the procession. The occupants of the buggy were in Yorkvillc Saturday morning trying to get information as to the identity of the driver of the car. HERE AND THERE The extensive additions to the Fen| hell infirmary, which have been in progress for the past year; Out wnicn have been very much delayed because of the difficulty of getting labor during the war, are now nearing completion. There will be accommodations for some seventy patients when the additions are completed; but there will not nearly be room enough, Judging from the constantly increasing pressure on the facilities and accommodations of this splendid institution. WITHIN THE TOWN. It would not take a great deal of trouble to have quite an extensive Victory loan rally here on the occasion of the coming of the public speakers with the marine band. Rev. J. Ii. Oates announced in the Associate Reformed church last Sunday night that the town had been assessed J 1.000 for the Jewish relief fund, and up to that time only $600 had been raised. The prevailing discount on agricultural loans is 6 per cent. Most people who are able to borrow at all are able to borrow on the 6 per cent basis. For other bank loans the rate is seldom higher than 7 per cent. The old 8 per cent rate is now pretty nearly a thing of the past, except in purely private loans. The York Hardware company tried the experiment last week of offering a fine line of expensive aluminum ware at about half price, under a plan of exhibiting it in a window until Saturday morning at 9 o'clock. There was a V?lo- /ifnvv/rl on hunrl before the aDDOint v*v'*- "" - ed hour and everything in the window was taken within a very few minutes after the opening of the sale. The crowd was anxious for more. THE VICTORY LOAN. Terms of the Victory loan were announced by Secretary Glass. They arc: Amount, $4,500,000,000, oversubscriptions to be rejected. Interest, 4 3-4 per cent for partially tax exempt notes, convertible into 3 3-4 per cent notes wholly tax exempt. Maturity, four years, with the treasury reserving the privilege of redeeming the notes in three years. The 3 3-4 per cent notes, to be issued later, also may be converted subsequently into 4 3-4 per cent notes. The 4 3-4 per cent securities are to be exempt from state and local taxation, excepting estate'and inheritance taxes, and from normal rates of federal income taxes. The 3 3-4 per cent securities are exempt from all federal state and local taxes except estate and inheritance taxes. The size of the loan j is to be much smaller than has been anticipated by most financial observers. who looked for an issue of about | $6,000,000,000, particularly in view of Secretary Glass' past statements that tho loan would be five or six billions. This will be the last liberty loan, Secretary Glass explains, although there will be other Issues of government securities to finance belated war expenses. These will not be floated uy pupuiui ucuupiuKua. In many communities the selling campaign already has begun actively, without formal acceptance of subscriptions, although the otlleial opening date is April 21, next Monday, and it will eontinue until May 10. CIRCUIT COURT. The spring term of the circuit court for York county, convened yesterday morning, with Judge Frank B. Ciray presiding, Solicitor J. K. Henry rep resent iiyr the state, stenographer Thomas taking the testimony and all the various county court officials at their respective posts. The grand jury was organized by the appointment of Mr. It. A. Barnett, of Rock Hill, as foreman, and after listening to an able and comprehensive charge from the circuit court the jurors turned their attention to consideration of the numerous bills placed in the hands of the solicitor. The first case brought to the attention of the court was that of the state vs. Grant Barrett, charged with assault and battery with Intent to kill. The case was nol prossed by the solicitor on the payment by the defendant of a fine of $15. The case against William Askins, charged with malicious mischief was also compromised on payment of fifteen dollars. Rynum McClain and Will Lemon. pieaa gumy xo tne cnarge or Housebreaking and larceny and were sentenced to the state reformatory for white youths at Florence for a period not exceeding two yearn. The case of the State against Frank Moore, charged with the murder of T. R. Penninger at Sharon was continued until the July term of the court, on motion of the solicitor, who gave no reason for his action. Francis Mortimer plead guilty to the charge of forgery in two cases and was sentenced to eighteen months on the chaingang in each case, the sentence in the second case to begin on the expiration of the sentence of the first. Louis Seagle, plead guilty to the charge of forgery and was sentenced to eighteen months on the chaingang. In the case of Ross Davis, convicted of violation of the prohibition law, the court imposed a sentence of four months on the public work or a fine of $100. In the case of the state against Dock Boheler and Babe McCleave, charged with the violation of the prohibition law, the jury found the verdict -of not guilty. The defendants were arrested at a still between 1 and 2 o'clock in the morning: but they denied having any connection with the still or the dispension of moonshine, and state being unable to show to the contrary, the jqry found as stated. The case of Will Young charged with rape has not yet been reported by the grand jury; but the matter will be disposed of in some manner at the present term of the court. Tho crsnd itirv hnH not finished the work in hand when court suspended business last nignt, and it will have still other indictments to pass upon this morning: before It can submit its final presentment and be discharged from further attendance. ABOUT PEOPLE. Dr. M. J. Walker is out of town for a few days on business. Mrs. W. C. Whitesides, of McConnellsville, is visiting: friends and relatives in Gastonia. Miss Annie L. Dickson, of Columbia, is visiting the family of Mr. J. C. Dickson on No. 1, Yorkville. , Mr. Roland Wood of Gainesville, Ga., visited relatives and friends on Yorkville R. F. D. No. 1, last week. Mr. James D. Grist, who is engaged in newspaper work in Greenville, spent Sunday in Yorkville, on a visit to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Grist. Dr. W. C. Whitesides of McConnellsville is attending the State Medical association, this week, which meets in ? mce.. ivirs. E. W. Long, and children and Miss Wilma Quinn, of Charlotte, spent the week end in Yorkville with their parents Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Quinn. Rrtolr Hill UoralH MnnHnv W <1 Duncan is seriously ill at his home on East Black street. Mr. Duncan is one of the best known citizens of the town and is a salesman at Eflrd's store. Among the York county boy3 who arrived in Charleston on board the Powatan last Thursday, were Martin W. McCarter of Clover, and Ralph E. Castles, of Hickory Grove. Mrs. W. D. Glenn of Yorkville, who has been undergoing treatment in the Fennell infirmary for several weeks, is getting along nicely, and expects to be back home shortly. Miss Clementine Wallace of Yorkville, a recent graduate of Mrs. Shannon's shorthand school, left last Friday morning for Alcolu, S. C., to take a position with the D. W. Alderman & Sons Lumber company. The News and Courier of yesterday announced the arrival of the following nn t hp Martha. Wnahinnrtnn SnnrtflV! Robert Bradshaw and Robert M. Sandifer of Yorkville; James W. Steele, Thomas Lineberger, Rock Hill, i Boyce Plaxco of Bethany, who was badly crippled in a motor cycle accident in France, looks now as if he will recover entirely without a limp or even a disfiguring scar. He says he is able to do a day's plowing and he is doing it. The trouble with Mr. T. Howard Riddle was a bad case of appendicitis, and the information upon which it was stated that there was doubt about the matter, was incorrect. His physician had diagnosed the trouble. Mr. Riddle was operated upon at the Fennell infirmary Thursday evening and is getting along nicely. He will, in all probability, be up and about within a week or twe. Sergeant Thomas P. Moore, recently back from France, where he has been with the American expeditionary forces, is spending a few days with relatives and friends in Yorkville, Sergeant Moore was with the 311th Infantry, 78th Division, and was in the St. Mihiel and Argonne offensives, but having been wounded in the foot on N'ovember 1, was not in line at the signing or the armistice on iNovemoer Uth. S. Edward Lowry of Yorkville, carrier on R. F. D. No. 3, who was badly crippled in a runaway accident a few weeks ago, is going to be all right again- A representative of The Enquirer called upon him in Rock Hill last Friday. His right hip, which was badly fractured, was tightly cased in plaster," so tightly, in fact, that he cannot move it He was quite cheerful, however, and is taking the situation philosophically. Many of his friends were apprehensive that he would never walk again; but Dr. Fennell has no fears along that line. "He's getting along Just as nicely as we could hope for," said the doctor, "I am expecting him to go back to work again in Ave or six weeks if he wants to. It is possible that he may have a slight limp, but it will be nothing worse than that." TOO MUCH COURT. During a most able and comprehensive charge to the grand Jury yesterday on matters in general, Judge Frank B. Gary took occasion to especially call the attention of the grand Jury to the fact that this county is being subjected to the burden of holding at least one term of the court that is entirely unnecessary. Under the old schedule, the circuit court for York county convened three times a year, in April, July and November, and although sessions business was generally heavier and civil business lighter in those days, the three terms were generally found to be ample. Following the Fishing creek wreck, and the large number of dkmage suits growing out of that circumstance, and later the Catawba power cas?s, and further development of the damage I. : .1""to Ti-r.ro nnaspd n mend SUIl II1UUOU J, UV.VU V. -W Ing the law as to the time of holding courts so as to provide for extra terms of l he court of common pleas, first in February and later in September. These terms were tucked on at the beginning of the circuit, the week before the opening of court in Winnsboro, so that the judge could come to this county at the beginning of his round and wind up here at tne close 01 his itinerary. Although some few cases have been tried from time to time at these extra terms, they have been the exception, rather than the rule. Judges and jurors would come, no cases would be ready, the court would break down, jurors would be dismissed and Judges would go home with nothing done. Such business as might just as easily have been transacted in September and February, would be held over until November and April. After having seen the same old i thine y?*r after y?ar, th? grand Jury tl in 1916 made the following recommandatlon: t) "During th? several years past there ci has been provision for two weeks of c< circuit court In February and two ^ weeks In September, preliminary to the 8J regular spring and fall terms, respec- a tively. It has been our observation f< more frequently than otherwise the ex- ? tra terms have fallen down with but a small amount of business and some- t< iniiva win* nunc, i iic expense in very ^ heavy, and, in our opinion, quite use- ^ less. We recommend that the legislative t, delegation investiga te the matter, and X take such steps as may seem proper in P the Interest of both efficiency and econ- ? omy in the transaction of the legal bus- v iness of the country. We would further e recommend that in case the legislative 11 delegation docs not deem it wise to " abolish the extra February and Sep- v tember terms the laws be so amended 0 as to provide that a sufficient part of ? each term be devoted to general sesions business to clear the jail of pris- j oners." tl At the following session of the gen- a eral assembly, in order to give further tt color excuse for the September term, r the law was so amended as to permit p the transaction cf general sessions bus- y iness at that time. <j But there has been no general ses- ^ alnna hnainooo In annfomhs. w>WMW ? AM MV|/V?iUUVt| CA^t ^71 Q possibly once or twice, for the reason b that there has been no special demand for such business, the solicitor gener- b ally finding himself in a position to 4 avoid coming around by continuing the t few cases that might be pending, until p November. b In his charge to the grand Jury yes- e terday, Judge Gary called attention to p how entirely useless was the February n term, at which no sessions business n may now be transacted under the law, t and suggested how much better it 1 would be if the criminal cases now pending could have been disposed of c then. His idea seemed to be that the ^ February term might be abolished en- u tirely, or if it is not abolished entirely p there should nt lenjaf ho r?twiH?rfon tnr clearing the jail of prisoners at that v time. a LOCAL LACONICS t Seaboard Connection. t "What Rock Hill needs more than v any other one thing," said Dr. 1 Wallace FenneH, in the presence of the t reporter the other day," is a direct v connection with the Seaboard Air Line, t We were in a fair way to get that con- v nection when this war broke out; but o of course everything had to be stopped for the time. Now we want to renew 1: the effort and get th&t connection." * Victory Loan Campaign- t Among the features of the pending v Victory loan campaign, will be a can- t vass of the Fifth congressional district by several speakers, accompanied by the United States marine band . from Paris Island. The party is to visit the towns in the district as follows: Galfney, April 21; Yorkville, April 22; Rock Hill, April 23; Chester, April 24; Winnsboro, April 25; Lan- t caster, April 28, and Cheraw, April 30. . At some of the places the visit of the band and speekers will be made the occasion of military and civic parades . and other demonstrations. Broke Up Still- v Magistrate R. L. A. Smith and Con- a stable Floyd Stevenson, accompanied 0 by a posse, broke up a whisky dis- ' tillcry at a point about three miles ? north of Hickory Grove Thursday a night. The distilling outfit was of gal- 1 vanized iron of about sixty gallons 8 capacity, equipped wun a copper ~ worm. The raiding party got within c a short distance of throe men who 0 were operating the still; but made no c captures. About five hundred gallons ^ of beer were destroyed and a quart a of liquor, "singlings" was seized. ? Rabid Dog Makes Big Trouble. d Mr. J. L. Aycock, of Rock Hill, No. s 1, who is in Yorkvllle in attendance on II the court of general sessions as a Ju- v ror, told the Enquirer yesterday of a c visit of a mad dog to his place some G six weeks ago, with consequences that E have been quite expensive. It appears h that the rabid animal came at night b ran amuck over the plantation, biting ji cows goats and perhaps other animals, t Within nine days after the visit of the g dog, several goats went mad and oth- tl era followed until ten out of the flock v of thirty had been killed. Also Mr. o Aycock found it necessary to kill a f cow, which he had been keeping under g observation since the visit of the mad y dog. Entering the pasture to look at h the animal, Mr. Aycock took with him s an old rifle barrel that he had been c iiaino? aa a hor -aHth whlnli tn Q the gate.- The cow attacked him with- e out warning and he killed it with the F rifle barrel. The same dog that bit the n cows and goats on his place bit dogs v belonging to neighbors and most of the g dogs so bitten left their homes and u failed to come back. C =====? K SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? ? T. B. Thackston, deputy state ware- P house commissioner, died in the Bap- 4 tist hospital in Columbia last Friday if night, after an illness of about two weeks He was about 80 years of age. ? C "ney, April 12: Jonas Scruggs, a Stat onstable, who is one of the c tnor tive officers in Cherokee coun- s ty, ' /ke up a cock fight near the line 0 between Cherokee and Spartanburg w the first of the week. The sports had P assembled and had pulled off several b fights before the officer arrived. Sev- t] oral dead cocks and a number of live ? birds told the tale of the main. As the k place where the meet was held is s within less than three miles of a E church, it is probable that the partici- t' pants will be prosecuted. h ' m * i. CLOVER CULLINGS. d 1( Correspondence of The Yorkville Enquirer. ? Clover, April 12: Miss Ruth McClaln j. returned Thursday from Charlotte i. where she visited the family of her 5 brother Mr. Howard McClain. Misses Margaret Parrott and Jean ^ Pressley are spending the week-end _i in Due West. Among the visitors in Gastonia f( Wednesday were Mesdamcs W. P. ^ Smith, James A. Page, Misses Ida w Adams, Margaret and Nina Ford. cl Misses Emily Dulin and Martha u Smith attended the Senior-Junior reception at the Presbyterian college, i. Clinton, S. C. r( Mr. Mac Ferguson, who has been in military training at Camp Jackson, s( has received his discharge and accept- g( ed his former position in the Clover q bank. w Rev. John L. Yandle visited Rev. J. is E. Berryhill, Friday night. ,, Airs. W. T. Wood returned Tuesday u. from Rock Hill where she visited rela- w tives. ai Rev. W. P. Grier assisted Dr. Gallo- gt way with a meeting in Gastonia this 'jj week. ec Among the soldiers who have re- r>( turned to their respective homes dur: /Info n fn \fooaro Tnm ill^ 1CW U<X? O Ulb luvotji kj# A VS.. w Robinson, James Hedgepath, Leslie tj, Ritch, Leslie Dale, Stanford Allen, w Isaac Hopper, and Sam Brison. ' cc Mr. and Mrs, E Meek Dickson of cj Yorkvillo No. 5 spem the week-end here _ with the family of Mr. J. F. Currence. Miss Frances Campbell of Route 3 spent Saturday with Miss Virginia Campbell. The following Clover people attended an old time singing in the Beth n< Shiloh section Monday night: Misses M Ella and Agnes Youngblood, Messrs. w XV. N. Jackson, George W. Knox, and Walter B. Moore. Mrs. W. Meek Adams of Gastonla recently visited relatives in town. - - H bj MERE-MENTION M E< Eugene V. Debs, entered the West Vir- y ginia penitentiary last Sunday to be- B( gin a ten year sentence for violation of the espionage act Mrs. Phoebe "" Hearst, widow of the late George Hearst, of California, died at Pleasanton, California, last Sunday, aged 76 ? years. She was the mother of W. R. Hearst, who was at her bedside when she died Premier Lloyd George has found it necessary to hurry home from Paris on account of disturbed political conditions In England Kernel Bey ie Turkish general on whom was fl^ed le responsibility for the late Armer.m massacres, was hanged In Stamoul a few days ago for that specific rime, after trial by the Turkish ourts Secretary Heater of the rew Orleans cotton exchange, estlmatd the amount of cotton brought into Ight for the week ending last Friday, t 117,516 bales, against 108,014 bales * or the same week last year Sen tor James A. Reed of Mlmourl, claims hat the Monroe doctrine amendment 3 the league of nations constitution is o be put down to the credit of the rltlcs of the text as published... 'he California senate has withdrawn n anti-Japanese bill out of deference a the wishes of President Wilson 71111am J. Bryan says the Democratic arty Is In need of a leader who Is a trong man on the dry side, and also woman suffragist In a general ote the British coal miners have givn a majority vote In favor of acceptag recent proposals from the governaent The London Times of yeserday, says that the total Indemnity rhlch Germany must pay Is $60,000.00,000. to be paid In a period covering 0 years. Saxon War Minister Killed by Soliers.?Herr Neurlng, war minister In he government of Saxony, was killed t Dresden last Saturday by dlsgrunled soldiers to whom the minister had efused a hearing, according to a Copenhagen dispatch. The war ministry ras stormed by demonstrators, who ragged out Herr Neurlng and threw lm Into the Elbe, where he was shot nd killed as he tried to swim to the ank. Wounded patients In the Dresden lospitals, says the Dresden dispatch etailing the occurrence, collected In he morning In the theatre square to protest against an order Issued by Herr eurlng to the effect that the woundd in the future should receive only ieacq time pay. Five or six hundred * tien formed a procession to the war ninlstry and sent a deputation to see he minister, who refused, however, o receive them. Upon this the crowd, Incited by ommuni8tlc speakers, stormed the enrance to the building. The sentries ised their weapons, but were overtowered. Government troops were ummoned, but they declared they ^ rould not attack the crowd and narched off after surrendering their rma. An excited crowd meanwhile had hronged the square in front of the luilding and machine guns posted at arious points were firing on the mln9try. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon he demonstrators had forced their ray into the main building, followed he war minister to the upper story, rhere he had fled,- and dragged him iut into the street. After the minister had been severey maltreated by the crowd he was lurled from the bridge into the river. rVhen he tried to swim to the bank he demonstrators fired at him and rithin a few moments he disappeared mder the water. Geneva, Switzerland, has been seected as the capital of the league of lations, much to the disappointment f the French people, whose hearts rere set on the selection of Brussels. 'here seems to be no doubt of the fact hat it was the attitude of President ytlson that led to the selection of Geleva. "You will not dare to choose a lty as the capital of the league of naions which incarnates the enmity beween races a city which has been rronged, doubtless, but which makes reconciliation betwe a tho people >/ Europe more distant by the very ' wrongs it has suffered," President Vilson is reported to have said to the Alatrotoa fn qer oiroingf thn ion In Brussels. Paul Hym&n'a' BelIan minister of foreign affairs, partiularly resented the fact that the subommittee deliberating upon the choice f the seat of the league never disussed the offer made by Burgomaster lax of Brussels of the Egmont palce~> "Had London Paris, Rome r Washington been considered," said I. Hymans," we would have wlthrawn with good grace. But when a mall city is decided on w^ feel that : is Belgium'^ right from a military ' lew that Brussels should have been hosen. Had Zurich fought off the lerman hordes for fourteen days, had (erne been occupied Aug. 20, 1914; ad Geneva withstood the terrific bomardment to which Antwerp was subjcted, had the Swiss army battled for our years along the Rhine as the Bellans fought and died among the Tger, hen we would understand why Geneva ,'ould be chosen." France was the nly one of the great powers to vote or Brussels as the seat of the league, iignor Orlando, the Italian premier, rho spoke for cnly two minutes, said ? e was bound by the decision of the ubcommlttee. When the vote wac ailed for Great Britain, the United States, Japan and Italy, with two votes ach, and Serbia, Greece, Brazil and oland, each with one vote, chose Geieva, a total of twelve votes. Fiance irith two votes, and China, Czechoslovakia, Portugal and Belgium made ip the minority of six votes. Thus ieneva became the capital of the lea ue or nations, r orraer ineuua ?i uw . imericans shunned them along the oulevards and In the chamber of deiutles, following the vote, and the uerry was freciuently heard: "When 3 President Wilson returning home?" ? Discussion of the Monroe doctrine mendment by the league of nations ommisslon last Thursday night is de- ^ cribed by those present as having been f a dramatic character, concluding rith a speech by President Wilson dereciating the opposition which had een expressed and upholding the docrine as one of the great bulwarks gainst absolutism. The debate came ite in the session, after other ubjects had been passed upon. The tritish attitude had been in doubt unil the last, but Lord Robert Cecil umed the scales by announcing that e saw no objection to the amendment i the form presented by the presient. M. Larnaude, of the French delation, followed Lord Roberts with hiortinns to insertlnar the Monroe doc rine. The Chinese also offered objction to the amendment on the round that Its language was so ex?nded that it might validate certain rinciples and claims affecting 'Jhiese affairs. The president paid the losest attention to the opposition to le amendment and jotted down notes >r a reply. In his speech the presient spoke with great earnestness and ith some evidence of feeling. He delared the Monroe doctrine was en- ^ nciated to combat the holy alliance nd to hold back the threat of absoitism which was then menacing Eu>pe and seeking to spread its absolute ower to the western hemisphere. It ;rved its purpose in keeping this ab>lute power from the western world. ne of the greatest purposes, he said, as to maintain territorial and potical integrity, and, having served its reat purpose in the western world, it as now being brought to the lands hich had felt the hand of absolutism id militarism. It was a source of irprise and discouragement, the present said, to hear opposition express i to such a doctrine and such a pur>se. The president's speech closed ie discussion. There was no vote and hen there were no further remarks ie chairman said the amendment ould be considered adopted. The tmmission then took up the next arti- ajh e of the covenant. OBITUARY Died At her home in Tirzah, Wed?sday, April 9, 1919, of heart trouble, 4 rs. SARAH ELIZABETH SMITH, if! of J. W. Smith, aged 60 years, esides her husband she leaves the llowing children: Joe, Frank, Sam, >sse, Roddey, Carl, Mrs. Ebenezer dwards, Mrs. Lutle Forbes, and Mrs. enry Barnett. She is also survived r the following sister and brothers: rs. John Hughes, and John, Walter, d and Hamilton Chambers, all of ork county. The interment was at sth-Shiloh, Friday afternoon. ?he (Eotton jRarhet. Monday, April 14, 1919. fc Clover 27 J Bowling Green 271 Filbert _....27| Yorkvllle 271