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: ISSUED SEMI'WEKHLY, ^ L. M. GRISTS SONS, p?bii8hc?s. j & <$amilg Dnw^apq: 4or f amotion of lh$ political, ?oqiaI, ^jgn$ulturLal and (Commercial Jntercsls of fhi? $eopl$. ( TERM8^Ji^^,Ei,viNc^ANCE ESTABLISHED 1855 YORK, 8. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1919. NO. 64 ??^gggggggg?^J WILL BE DECIDED ON MERIT Director General Authorized To Take Up Railroad Shopmen's Demands. WILSON IS GIVEN AUTHORITY TO ACT k President Left To Decide At Ht Thinks Best With Difficult Question ?Says Whole Matter At a Standstill Until Employes Return to Work r And Recognize Authority Of Their Organization. ^ President Wilson tonight notified Director General Hlnes that he was authorized to take up the demands of 1 ?Kitrhnr ntiiruou ouuy cm^v/co &vi u>ouv? wages and decide them on their merits, says a Washington dispatch of Thursday night. The president said, that the letter sent him by Senator Cummins, chairman of the committee on interstate commerce^ "had set me free to deal as 1 think best with the difficult question of the wages of certain classes of the railroad employes," but added: "The chief obstacle to a decision has been created by the men themselves. ? "They have gone out on a strike and 9 repudiated the authority of their officers at the very moment when they were urging action in regard to their 9 Interests." The president's decision was announced tonight from the white house in the form of a letter sent by him to pi Mr. Hines. The president said that "until the employes return to work and again recognize the authority of their ? organization, the whole matter must be at a standstill." t?.? n* Dra.iHont'i Letter. The president's letter follows: "I am just in receipt of the letter from Senator Albert B. Cummins, chairman of the senate committee on interstate commerce, which set me free to deal as I think with the difficult question of the wageB of certain classes of railway employes, and I take advantage of the occasion to write you this letter, in order that I may, both in the public interest and in the interests of the railroad employes themselves, make the present situation as clear and definite as possible. "I thought it my duty to lay the question in its present pressing form before the committee of the senate, because I thought I should not act jt upon this matter within the brief in terval of government control remaining, without their acquiescence ahd approval. Senator Cummins' letter, . which speaks the unanimous judgment of the committee, leaves me free and indeed imposes upon me the duty to act _i The question of the wages of railroad shopmen was submitted, you will remember to the board of railroad wages and working conditions of the railroad administration last February, but not reported upon by the board until the 16th. of July. The delay was unavoidable because the board was continuously engaged in the dealing with several wage matters affecting classes of employes who had not previously received consideration. The . board now having apprised us of this inability, at any rate for the time be lng, to agree upon recommendation, it Is clearly our duty to proceed with the matter in the iiope of disposing of it. Hints Authorized to Act "You are therefore authorized to say to the railroad shop employes that the question of wages they have rais- i ed will be taken up and considered on { its merits by the director general in conference with their duly accredited representatives. I hope that you will 1 make it clear to the men concerned that the railroad administration cannot deal with problems of this sort or : with any problems affecting the men, except through the duly chosen international officers or the regularly constituted organization and their authorized committees. A "Masters of so various a nature and ^ affecting so many men cannot be dealt with except in this way. Any action N which brings the authority of the authorized representatives of the organ? lzation into question or discredits it must interfere with, if not prevent, action altogether. The chief obstacle to a decision has been created by the men themselves. "They have gone on strike and re pudiated the authority or tneir 01flcers at the very moment when they were urging action in regard to various interests. "You will remember that a conference between yourself and the authorized representatives of the men was arranged at the instance of these representatives for July 28 to discuss the wage question and the question of the natioinal agreement, but before this conference took place local bodies of railway shopmen took action looking toward a strike on the first of August. As a result of this action, l various strikes actually took place before there was an opportunity to act in a satisfactory or conclusive way with respect to the wages. In the presence of these strikers and the re pudlatlon or tne aumoruy 01 me rey resentatives of the organization concerned there can be no consideration of the matter in controversy. "Until the employes return to work and again recognize the authority of their organization, the whole matter must be at a standstill. ?- Government is Fair. "When federal control of the railroads began, the railroad administration accepted existing agreements between the shopmen's organization and the several railroad companies, and by agreement machinery was created for handling the grievances of the ? shopmen's organization of all the railways, whether they had theretofore had the benefits of definite agreements or not. There can be no question, therefore, of the readiness of the government to deal in a spirit of fairness and by regular methods with any matters the men may bring to their attention. "Concerned and very careful consideration is being given by the entire government to the question of reducing the high cost of living. "I need hardly point out how intimately and directly this matter affects every individual in the nation, and if transportation is interrupted it will be impossible to solve it. This is a time when every employe of the railways should help to make the process of transportation more easy and economical rather than less, and employ es who are on strikes are deliberately delaying a settlement of their wage problems and of their standard of living. They should promptly return to work, and I hope that you will urge upon their representatives the immediate necessity for their doing so. "Cordially and sincerely yours, ^ "WOODROW WILSON." Hines Notifies Unions. Director General Hines notified the unions immediately that the railroad administration was ready to take up th?> ouestion "as soon as the employes returned to work." In a letter to B. M. ^ Jewell, acting president of the railway employes department of the American Federation of Labor, Mr. Hlnes said: "I enclose a letter which I have just received from the president relative to the wage matter. It is obvious that it is the highest importance not only in the interest of the public but in the interest of the employes themselves that they shall immediately re^ turn to work. -- "The situation having been clarified by the definite indication that congress does not wish to take action in the premises, the railroad administration stands ready to take up the wage question on its merits with the ^ duly accredited international officers and their authorized committee as soon as the employes return to work." Probable Affect. The effect of the president's decision, It was believed, would be to put a sudden end to sporadic strikes throughout the country, denounced as illegal by union officials, but involving perhaps 80,000 men and to some extent normal traffic. It was taken for granted also that the menace of a general strike to compel higher wages to meet increased living costs likewise was removed by the president's action. If Director General Hines orders an increase in wages, since the railroad administration now is operating at a loss, either an advance in rates or a congressional appropriation will be necessary to provide the money. The 14 principal railroad unions in a joint communication to the director general have suggested the latter Preceding the making public of the president's letter by only a few hours was an announcement by J. J. Forrester, president of the brotherhood of clerks, freight, express and steamship employes that the 450,000 men of the union would begin balloting tomorrow as to whether they should strike immediately or await further governmental action. Why Decision Was Delayed. Wage demands were submitted by the 500,000 shopmen last February, but other pressing matters before the board of wages and working conditions, affecting employes who had not previously, received consideration, delayed a decision until July 16, and then the board divided, three holding that the increases should not be granted and three holding that additional pay was justified. The amount asked was 25 per cent. Conferences between the shopmen's offices and the director general were arranged, but even before they could be held, men began * to go on strike, which led the president to devote a considerable portion of his letter to condemning their hasty action which violated all agreements. No Funds For Mors Pay. In the face of a growing deficit, Mr. Hines had no funds to pay more wages. The senate had passed the bill restoring the right of the interstate commerce commission to review rates initiated by the director general and, as it was receiving favorable consideration in the house, he suggested to the president that corgresB should create a commission to order any wage and rate increases. The suggestion was transmitted to the two lnsterstate commerce committees, which, it was thought, transferred the wage problem to the floor of congress until Senator Cummins, reply today gave it back to the chief executive. There was no indication tonight as to how Mr. Hines would proceed to the settlement of tfie wage demands. In view of the wage board's previous consideration of the* question, it was believed that a new tribunal would be constituted for the purpose, with equal representation for labor, the railroads and tne pudiic. GUESSES ABOUT HAY FEVER Protest Against Some Uuproven Notions Concerning the Malady. I have been very much interested in an editorial comment in a recent number of The Journal, (April 19. 1919,) in which it is claimed that hereafter the goldenrod must be cast out of the company of the' flowering plants which are generally supposed to cause the onset of the disease falsely known as hay fever. Whenever I have chanced, in writing or debate, to discuss the alleged specific influence of ;pollen as the solitary source of that affection or to combat the wellnlgh universal popular belief that this particular wild flower is, among others, responsible for its manifestations, is endeavoring to plead its innocense of the charge, I have always turned involuntarily to the descriptive verse of Lowell, in which he paints, with exquisite delicacy, the national flower: rv>"? oAmmnn flnnror that ernwBSt be side the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless goldThe object of this brief note is not to open or disturb the pollen question, but in avoiding it and leaving it, simply to Bay in passing that one by one some of the best known and most conspicuous of the natural objects which by common consent have been regarded as unquestioned causes of the malady and inseparably connected with the mechanism of its attacks have been shown by recent experiment to be pathologically sinless and innocuous. Yesterday it was the rose; today it 1b the roadside's guiltless gold; tomorrow it will be some other equally "well-known" pollen-laden carrier of infection. The term, "hay fever" ia a singularly unfortunate misnomer. Its origin is obscure. It seems to have come into general use in the first quarter of the last century, (somewhere between the years 1819 and 1828.) probably throueh some irresDonsible. unscienti flc, popular medium, and at once became the commonly accepted name for the affection. Had his contemporaries listened to Bostock, who repudiated the employment of the term, we would before this have traveled much further on the road to the solution of the nature of a condition which is not a fever and which is not caused by hay. In the exclusive search for its explanation in the flowery kingdom of plants, we are in grave danger of literally going very far afleld, of losing sight of the complex forces concerned in its production which are inherent in the person himself, and by diverting the mind from more essential etiologic conditions and by introducing an elennnfnoinn intfi thp investiea 1I1CUI VI VVUi.uo>vit **> .... w__ tion of the complaint, we may in a large measure retard the progress of the rapeutlc inquiry. Indeed, in the light of the passing conception of its patholog>r, which at present has possession of the hour, the treatment is inadequate, uncertain, and unsatisfactory, and is carried out often with much trouble, with considerable discomfort and personal inconvenience and some instances with dangerous results. The true character of this remarkable disorder is still elusive, baffling and far off. Through the uncertain and changing atmosphere which surrounds it we as yet see dimly. The solution of the problem must be approached not hastily by one avenue alone, but along many paths of patient search. Let us broaden, not contract, the horizon of our observation Among other things, let us look beyond the nnn nr r>l nPO ?*pitine narrow biuuj ui unc ...... ? causes into the nervous power that makes their operation possible, and, by viewing if from every angle and from a high vantage ground, let us hope to hasten the coming of the day when the whole subject shall be lifted out of the dust of controversy and out of the darkness of hypothesis into the light of imperishable fact.?John N. Mackenzie in Journal of the American Medical Association. ? Richland county has voted for a $2,000,000 bond issue for road purposes by a majority of about two to one. GARNERED WITH SCISSORS f m News From Within and Without the County. CONDENSED FOR QUICK READING Some Items of Fact, Some of Comment and All Helping to Give an Idea of What Our Neighbors Are Saying and Doing. Rock Hill Record, Aug. 7: Among those who attended the Cotton Con-' vention at Columbia yesterdav were C. W. Ratterree, John E. Craig, Frank J Craig, E. G. Locks, J. P. Williamson, j Adger Huey, H. J. Zlnker, R. 'I. Co a i T T"> Hlneu T "R I wan, Aiex w iiuiui u, o. *s. u.c?.! ?. Johnson, S. R. Spencer and A. A. AIcKeown After a short attack of pneumonia, Luther Tinker died Tuesday morning: at his home in the Wymojo village, aged 34. He leaves a widow. The funeral was held yesterday, with interment at Laurelwood. Mr. and Mrs. U. C. Partlow, who had been living in Columbia, have returned to Rock Hill to live, the former now being connected with the Stegoll Water and Light Co J. I. Hayes, a well-known citizen of this place and superintendent of the yards at the Carhartt Mill died last night of Bright's disease Sam Brice has been appointed to a position with the Citizens Bank, and Trust Co Charles Holroyd, who has been with the Citizens Bank and Trust Co., has been appointed to a position with the Peoples National Bank. Fort Mill Times, Aug. 8: Rev. J. W. H. Dyches, Th. D., returned Saturday after aa absence of four weeks which were spent in Barnwell and Orangeburg counties where he conducted religious services during the entire time, holding 44 meetings The Rev. R, G. McLees, of Chatham, Va., who has been conducting revival services at Bethesda church in this county, was a guest this week of Dr. and Mrs. J. B Elliott ounng uie past week the Wolfe cottage and lot on Spratt street was transferred by Dr. J. Lee Spratt to Mr. Thos. F. Lytle. Mr. Lytle sold a lot In Whlteville Park to Mr. J. Lee Capps whose property the lot adjoined Mrs. Lula Culp Baker, wife of J. White Baker, died at her home in Sprattville shortly after noon Friday and the interment was made at 6 o'clock Saturday day afternoon in New Unity cemetery. The funeral service at the late home of the deceased was conducted by the Rev. J. B. Black Petitions are being circulated among the freeholders asking for an election to be held on the question of issuing bonds for permanent street improvement. Lancaster News, Aug. 8: S. B. Roberts, of the Creek section, has rented the Mike Johnson home on West Gay street and will move his family to Lancaster, at an early date. D. A. Boyd, who has occupied the Johnson home since coming to the city, will move into the Barron dwelling Just across the street from his present residence Herbert A. Hor ton, who has been cashier. of the Springs Banking and Mercantile Company at Heath Springs for a number of years, has resigned his position and will become general manager of the Blaney Mercantile Company, a new firm recently organized by John T. - M ^ Tlnurma n AlaCKey, Ol Lamucu, auu iui. of Blaney. The new firm will do a general merchandising business Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Gregory have returned home from Atlanta, where they attended the funeral of their little grandson, Billie Drake. They were accompanied home by James Stoney Drake, Jr. During the month of July, the home service section of the Lancaster Red Cross handled 220 cases for families of soldiers. This is the largest number of families the local Red Cross has handled during one month's time since its organization. Gastonia Gazette, Aug. 8: Misses Margaret and Sarah Jones of York, S. C., are the guests of Mrs. D. E. McConnell Mrs. H. L. Wright and little son, Herbert, of Clover, S. C., are the guests of Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Campbell At PlSgah church six miles west of Gastonia, there was held Wednesday the first annual conference of the Junior Christian Union of the first district of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church. This district is composed of the unions of the churches of Bessemer City, Crowders Creek, Gastonia, Pisgah and King's Mountain. There were more 'than a hundred young people in attendance. The meeting was presided over by Miss Bessie Bolin, of Crowders Creek Three men, Messrs. J. S. Humphries, T. S. Watterson and R. A. Henry were brought to the City Hospital yesieruay aiicmuuu wn train No. 138, suffiering from wounds received when the automobile in which they were riding was struck by southbound train No. 45 yesterday afternoon near Grover? Misses Mabel and Alberta Rankin spent Wednesday afternoon In Clover, as the guests of Miss Edith Jackson Mr. Preston Goforth, of the Bethany section, was a visitor in the city Wednesday. Chester Reporter, Aug. 7 : Mr. C. N. Allen, of Latta, has accepted the position of instructor of manual training in the Chester public schools The public will be glad to learn that Prof. D. L. Rambo will return to Chester to resume the position of principal of the graded schools, which he held prior to accepting the superintendency at York. Prof. Rambo is one of the ablest teachers that Chester has ever had. and a splendid citizen, who takes a deep interest in the community and its welfare; and he and his family who are spending the summer as usual at Trappe, Pa., will he given a hearty welcome u|>on their return Thirtynine of the sixty or more members of tho Chester-York-Cherokee Guernsey Association attended the annual meeting at the court house in this city Tuesday and heard a most excellent address by Mr. A Westergaard along the lines of practical interest in the breeder and owner of dairy cattle There was a picnic at the home of Mrs. Lydia Lewis in the Halsellville section Tuesday in honor of Mrs. Lewis' eightieth birthday, and the occasion passed off most pleasantly for all who were present Mr. A. H. Wherry, Jr. closed a trade Monday for the Melton property opposite the postofflce, now rented to Mrs. Martha Russell for a hoarding house, and when he gets possession on January 1st expects to build a large and up-to-date garage. Mrs. Bersha Holley Walker, one of Chester's most estimated women, dropped dead Tuesday at the supper table. Mrs. Walker was seemingly as well as usual, and had just partaken of a hearty meal, when without any intimation whatsoever the summons came, and she passed away. Funeral services were held at Bethel M. E. church yesterday afternoon by the pastor, Rev. C. C. Herbert, followed by Inter IIlL'llt 111 ?iVCi giccu tvtucvviji Gaffney Ledger, Aug. 7: Sixty-six pupils, 51 at Cherokee Avenue and 15 at West End, have enrolled in the city adult illiterate schools organized here by Miss Mary Bramlett, who was appointed for this work by Superintendent of Education J. L. Walker. This was the number that reported at the first session Monday. It is desired to have at least lOO^pupils in these two schools and further efforts are being made to secure additional scholars. Teachers for this increased number are available. The following are serving P8 'eachers at Cherokee Avenue: Miss Mary Bramlett, Miss Alma Hamrick, Miss Jessie Lipscomb, Mrs. Oliver Byers and Miss Hattie Loe Littlejohn. The West End teachers are Miss Amy Gaffney and Miss Louise Tolleson. The meeting at Cherokee Avenue Monday night was a very enthusiastic one. The Gaffney band furnished music for the occasion and ice cream given by the Gaffney Manufacturing Company was served. Addresses were made by L. G. Potter, Dr. W. C. Hamrick, S. R. Chandler, the Rev. J. M. Hamrick and E. R. Cash. While these schools are being conducted for the adults, a majority of the pupils enrolled in the city schools are between the ages of 16 and 18 years. Anyone above 14 years of age can attend, but it is the desire of the authorities to have more older people enrolled It occurs to us that it was a rather improper thing to do to attempt to work up a sentiment against Prof. Witherspoon while he was away from the city. How was it fair? Is it the manly thing to stab a man in the back? Is it brave to seek to take advantage of a man during his absence? No wonder the whole miserable attempt is meeting with no success. Most people are brave and honest? and if they have a grievance against a man they are going to fight him in the open and not assault him in the dark. The methods of the midnight assassin are not approved by right thinking people Clerk of Court T. M. Cladwell yesterday said that there are large numbers of Cherokee county soldiers who have not yet had their discharge recorded in hia. office in the book secured for that purpose. Cherokee furnished more men in the recent war in proportion to population than any other county in the United States with the exception of one, according to official records. The registration book was secured for the purpose of making a permanent record of the service given to the country by the men of this county The One Price Cash Store on Granard street was robbed Wednesday night, the change in two cash drawers, amounting to $5, be- . ing taken. It is thought that some articles of clothing were taken also, although this could not be definitely ascertained yesterday morning. GAMBLE PUT IN PERCENTAGE. Farmer May Know from Averages His Crop Chances in 100. A -? 1 - J> - ~t ? ?1 ~ ..AAH U /\. single iarnier 111 n. single ycui ia in a gamble with nature, but all the farmers in a long period of time can depend on a certain average of exper ience, just as the life insurance companies do. This aspect of the farmer's efforts to produce a crop has been made a subject of investigation by the Bureau of Crop Estimates. The observation with regard to yield per acre cover fifty-two years for eight prominent crops and shorter periods for five more crop3 of importance. To show how susceptible to variations this yield is, percentage of increase or decrease from year to year have been computed. The most stable crop of the thirteen is sweet potatoes, for which the greatest change in yield per acre from one year to the next in the whole period under examination is 15 per cent, as an average for all states. Above this crop are rye, with 22 per cent, as the maximum; hay, 29 per tent; rice, 30 per cent; Winter wheat, 34 per cent, (including acreage abandoned on ac count of winter damage); barley 41 per cent.; buckwheat 42 per cent.; cotton. 47 per cent; flaxseed. 52 per cent; oats, 53 per cent; corn 61 per cent; potatoes, 65 per cent and Spring wheat 83 per cent. Turning from the greatest variations from uniformity in yield per acre in a single year to the average change of all years, it appears that the average for sweet potatoes is 5 per cent, after which follow in order rye, hay, rice, barley, buckwheat, and cotton, the last with an average of 13 per cent. After cotton and corn, Winter wheat, flaxseed, potatoes and Spring wheat, the last with an average of 24.5 per cent of change in yield per acre from one year to the next, or one-quarter of the previous year's yield. ? The experience, of some individual states is worse as well as better than the average for the United States. i no corn crop 01 ivansas is an extreme illustration- In deviation from uniformity the yield per acre of this crop in Kansas has reached the extraordinary figures of 478 per cent "of increase and 8G per cent of decrease. The average of 52 years are S9 per cent for increase and 29 per cent, for decrease. Greatly interesting are the comparisons among the thirteen crops with regard to deviation of average yield an acre from uniformity. The differences are not inherent in the crops but are caused mainly by climatic conditions and partly by insects and plant diseases, and also are determined by the comparative geography of the crops. The more dependable crops, under all the circumstances, are sweet potatoes, rye, hay and rice; of medium dependency are barley, buckwheat, cotton, oats, corn, and Winter wheat; of less dependency are flaxseed, potatoes, and Spring wheat. EXPERIENCES OVERSEAS York Soldier Relates Incidents Of France. LORD AND MOSES WERE SOLDIERS \ Germans are Greaft Cooka?Some French Soldier* Good English Students?How French Woman Came to Walk Away With a Box. By Lewis M. Grist. "Names is names," says Luke McLuke and the membership of the American forces overseas contained ' every name Known in me unuea ' States and then some. Among the fellows in my company was a lad who bore the name of Moses. His prineipal Job was driving a true?; used In hauling supplies for the company and doing other hauling about camp. Orders came one day for him to give up his place temporarily, in order to 1 drive a truck in a convoy which had I been ordered to carry ammunition and 1 supplies to a station several hundred 1 miles distant. In the company was another lad ' who bore the surname of Lord- The I company commander directed that he ' abandon his duties in the shop in or- 1 der* to substitute on the camp truck ' for Moses, who had been directed to < go with the convoy. /Accordingly he reported to the ' orderly room for duty, 1 "Who are you?" inquired the top I sergeant. ' "I am the Lord," replied the lad, ' "come to take Moses's place." 1 Many French Could Speak English. < In the French army were as many Frenchmen who could speak English | as there were Americans in the Ameri- i can army who could speak French and t more too, I suspect. I learned that by i experience. Like the most of the oth- < er American soldiers overseas, I picked 1 up a little smattering of French after I t got over. Had I devoted myself to it t and taken advantage of every oppor- ( tunity I had to learn the language, I '1 might have become an accomplished \ speaker of French. However I didn't s and I am sorry I didn't. That meant s work and like other soldiers over there 1 I didn't want any more to do when off ( duty than I could help, so I devoted no < time to" learning French except what I t could nick ud easv like. i With a party of friends I was walk- t ing about the country one day.Our destination wus a certain little French vil- c lage which we had an idea was only t a few miles away; but just exactly how \ far we did not know. a On .the road we passed several t French^Q^ldtimk ;Thair clothes were c dirty -hpiS* A^^i^nteirV appeartuice own lunguagc and certainly not the s language of any other country. a "Mow far is it to ?" I inquired f of them in my poor French. I The French soldier whom I had addressed looked at me with an amused s smile and then he replied in excellent 1 English: t "I will not be positive sir; but I think fi It is about two miles and a half." a You may imagine that I felt like <3 thirty cents with a hole in it. My com- r panions chided me unmercifully and e ever afterward when off duty and like ly to come in contact with the French t people, I was always careful to be with e some lad or lads who could speak c French pretty well at least. Didn't Mean To Do It. As I have stated in previous articles I think, fuel in France is very scarce. ? KUa a# fnol The French Keep warm on that we ordinarily throw away. One * of my first impressions of France on that cold, drizzly afternoon last Sep- l tember when I landed at Brest was the sight of many small boys and girls out ' in their row boats, some as far as half a mile from the docks, gathering up I drift wood and broken boxes, at one c time receptacles for our corn and beef, j prunes and other foodstuffs. c Around the seaport towns, especially 1 wood and other fuel is very scarce. Even tho smallest twigs are preserved j and made into* charcoal and burned, i The people go around the docks with t large sacks and pick up the small * lumps of coal that are left behind by ^ the soldiers and others engaged in t moving coal. c I recall an old French woman who came around to our shops one morn- ^ ing. We had just received several c large boxes of various parts for auto- c .-ii onwepd in removing ' IllOWllCn UIIU ???;??, the parts from the boxes to a warehouse. One box had been emptied and I was laid aside until the noon hour * when we intended to carry it down to } our barracks for the purpose of kindling fires. s The old French woman looking at * the discarded box, said something to ' us in French. Having only been in the t country u short lime, no one in the ? party had the slightest idea what she ' was talking about. ( The sergeant in charge of the work s of removinr the parts, thinking he would say something in rf>ply, said: "Oui, oui," which means "yes, yes." t Very promptly the old woman pick- r ed up the box which had been laid 1 aside for our kindling wood and walked away with it. t She had politely asked for the box, ( we learned later, and the sergeant's reply of "oui, oui" had given her the desired permission to carry it away ] with her. 1 We had many little experiences like that before we learned tu take care of our own. ] Germans Best Cooks. Although the French are fine cooks, { the Germans in my opinion are the i best in all the world. If they could just cook biscuit like mother makes "cm, I would have to admit in trutli that they have mother beat at her own frame. In an area in which I was stationed ; for a ion# time was a German prison | camp. There were some several | thousand German prisoners confined ( there. , Fame of their cooks soon spread to ( American kitchens and more than once some of my buddies and I sneaked over to the German kitchens to "taste of the viands that were cooked there. German prisoners of the Americans were furnished practically the same ration that the American soldiers wer fed: but corn beef, prunes, peaches fat hack, potatoes and other stuf tasted quite different when the Ger mans cooked it. French fried potatoes cooked by th< French are quite a different dish fron the French fried potatoes cooked b; American chefs; but the Germans cai prepare a dish of French fried pota toes that are far and above the pro duct of either the French or thi Americans. If the Germans could have fought ai well as they could cook and coulc have kept at it long enough, I don' know whether the Allies and the Unit ed States would ever have licked then or not. THE ARAGON STRIKE Operatives Make Statement of Theii Grievance and Position. The following signed statement set ting forth the case of the employe: in the Aragon mill strike affair wai published in the Rock Hill Herald o: last Friday. "In regard to the box-car headlines of the leading newspapen throughout the country concerning the strike at the Aragon cotton mill we think it our duty to reply to same is the close-down was at 9:11 s'clock instead of 11 p. m., August 6 "We the employes of the Aragor naill, thank our president for hii statement that he would ncrt bring In outsiders to interfere with th? strike. We think that we have th< best president in the city of Rod Hill, but we also wish to say that thii loes not keep the cook employed noi loes it satisfy the groceryman. "Now we wish to outline our cause for being out on this strike. Twt weeks ago our overseer commenced ;o weigh the cloth instead of checkng it up by the cut, which decre&s. >d the wages of each weaver from 'our to eight dollars per week. Ther :he shop committee was asked tc ake up the situation before the offltinlo r\f Vsn m 111 /ai? o/linaf monf .iuio \j l biic iniii ivi auj uoiiuuuii rhe weavers have no objection tc veavlng by the pound, but could nol itand such a decrease In wages. The (hop committee placed the situation aefore our superintendent, A. T Juantz, but he absolutely refused tc :onsider it. He also stated that II he people of the Aragon mill wert lot satisfied with their wages and reatment, they could move on. "After this statement the shop :ommittee turned the matter over tc he executive committee, which alsc vent to Mr. Quantz and received the lame reply. The executive commitee proposed to go before Mr. Long, >ur president, but Mr. Quantz statid that tjiere, wa^ no use in doing iabk^'ije% elrlirfd^L'rfhX-after conildering the matter they walked out it 9:15 p. m. Tuesday night until urther adjustments are made by Mr. jong. "Concerning the people of the Ara:on mill village, they all seem to be ictppy una guy, lisiuiig, yiayiiig uusc >all and volley ball and having a rood time. They are not looking for my trouble. We have watchmen on luty at the mill to see that there Is 10 damage done t? any of the proprty. 'In conclusion we are glad to s^y o our brothers of the Textile Workrs of America that we are 100 per :ent, with no 'scabs.' "(Signed) W. Jones, H. G. Rains." SUNSHINE ON MOONSHINE. Correspondent Says Whiskey is Being Made In Sight of Two Churches. Editor Yorkvllle Enquirer. I am asking a little space for a few 'acts of which I have been taking noice for some time. I have been watching what Broad liver township has been doing tc dean out a set of vipers, and I ano hinking that if King's Mountaic ownship will wake up, her citizens :an find as much to do as Broad Rivei las done. The branches of this township arc ined with blockade distilleries, and he country is filled with almost oper >ar rooms, and men who do little less han ride the roads in rubber tired >uggies and automobiles. If you will take notice a little, you ..111 iU- M.Atilr IT iVlil BCK llicau II1CI1 UIIU lUVII r>vin < he town of York, as well as in theij ?wn neighborhood. I am not talking about the battleground section. I am talking about i thickly settled country with thret hurches in almost hollering distance >f one another, and by people who dc .ot know it. is counted a goof counry The boys arc brought up in 8 cnowledge of these things and seem :o think it big to be let in on the he knowledge and be asked to keei t a secret. In this same country you can find a itore with doors wide open on Sunlay , with crowds around it tl.e same is through the w*ek. The boys and )lder men stop there as they go tc ;hurch or go there after preaching ind yet the officers, and I can whispei he pastors, or a part of them, know )f the facts. And yet, one of these hurches is wondering why its Sundaj ichool is almost dead. Between two of these churches here is now a blockade distillery, jusl eady to begin operation, and 0.13 o 1 he churches ;s to start a big meeting text week. The other will start a neeting soon. If it were not for th< rces you couid see from one churcb o the other. This is not the first ime this has happened around these thurches. I do not know why the people allow his kind c-f thing to go on; but I suppose the moonshiner likes it, as he car hear the choirs singing, ana mt preachers praying and maybe heai whether anything is said about hirr ind his business. I ani not upholding other neighborhoods in the same situation, not fai iway by not saying anything aboul diem for it would be hearsay. If anybody wants to despite what 1 lm saying I can furnish the proof foi the biggest part of it. Edgar L. Hanna. York, R- F. D. Xo. 1. Buster Cooker, eight years old ol Woodruff, Spartanburg county is ir fa.il at Spartanburg, charged with th< murder of his five-year-old brothei last Wednesday night. From th< evidence brought out it appears tha the two boys were alone in the hom< of their aunt, the balance of the familj having gone off to church. Th< younger Cooker boy dashed a glass o water into the elder's face whereupoi the elder brother went up into an attic got a shotgun and fired, killing thi younger brother instantly e STATE NEWS IN BRIEF. . i, t Items of Interest Gathered From All Sections of South Carolina. J. A. Clark of Clio, Marlboro county, a killed c. large wildcat while out i squirrel hunting last wfeek. P Lieut. Col. Joseph M. Cummins will 1 again be commandant of cadets at " C'lemson college. Robbers entered Bfflrd's Department e Store in Columbia, Thursday night and escaped with $50 in cash and a quanti? ty of merchandise. t According to report of James H. Craig, state bank examiner, the total ! resources of the 340 state banks on June 30 were $148,200,809.74. Crop conditions In Lexington county are said to be very unsatisfactoryTruck growers in that county, however, have had the best season they r have ever known. Policeman Turner of Columbia, had . a running fight with a woman or else j a man dressed in female clothirr at an early hour in Columbia, Friday morning. Elijah Cllnkacales a negro of Anderson county, shot and killed his wife, wounded his child and then committed suieide last week. Domestic troubles caused the crime. Major W. E. Duvall will be Instructor in military tactics and science at the University of South Carolina during the approaching school year. He is a graduate of West Point of the class of 1918. Mrs. James Ergle, a resident of Graniteville, Aiken county committed suicide last week by drowning herself in a mill pond. She had been adjudged insane and was to be taken to the state hospital for the Insane within a few days. P. B. Callison, Jr., twice reported dead from spinal meningitis, while a member of the American Expeditionary forces, has returned to his home in Lexington, very much alive. He had long since been given up as dead by members of his family in Lexington. Three negro highwaymen held up two white soldiers at the point of revolvers in Columbia, Friday night and relieved the soldiers of 820 in cash, watches and personal effects. The soldiers were also made to remove their shoes which were also appropriated by the robbers. More than 1,000 negroes of Columbia j?hd Richland county registered to vote in the general election since January 1. According to A. M. Carpenter, Columbia correspondent of the Greenville Piedmont, It is doubtful if that many white men are registered in Richland. Dr. E. L. Brown of Latta, was pain ' fully injured last week wheh he was struck on the head by a bottle hurled by a negTO named Bethea whom the jj (Jgptor.-had yreared out of his store for gathered shortly after the occurrence &ifir*fdr"a time violence was feared. A carload of sugar will be distributed from Columbia to the people at cost in the future. Governor Cooper has , received information from the Louisii ana sugar commission in New Orleans, stating that fifteen cars of fine granulated sugar will be distributed among the fifteen states of the south. The i price will be $8.82 per hundred pounds f. o. b. New Orleans which will get It to Columbia slightly under nine cents a pound. PRESIDENT AND THE PROBLEM. Social and Economic Situation Discussed Before Congress. President Wilson laid several specific proposals before congress last Friday for checking the high cost of living, but at the same time de' clared permanent results could not be expected until peace time bases were fully restored by ratification of the ' peace treaty. High prices, the president told conl ?'ress, were not justified by shortage > of supply, either present or prospec1 live, but were created in many cases , "artificially and deliberately" by "vl cious practices." Retailers, ne saia, were responsible in large part for ex| lortionate prices. , Strikes, the president warned the i labor world, would only make mat1 ters worse and those who sought to l employ threats or coercion were only i "preparing their own destruction." Leaders of organized labor, the president said, he was sure would pres^ ently yield to second sober thought. . '^Illegal" and "criminal" were > words of the president used fci char' acterizing the methods by which some present day prices have beon i brought about. 1 Present laws, he said, would be enj ergetically employed to the limit to force out food hoards, and meet the i situation so far as possible, but to supplement the existing statutes he | specifically urged the following: , Specific Recommendations. Licensing of all corporations engaged in Interstate commerce, with [ specific regulations designed to ser cure competitive selling and prevent "unconscionable profits" in the meth! od of marketing. > Extension of the food control act > to peace times and the application i of its provision against hoarding to ! fuel, clothing and other necessities . o. Hfe as well as food. : A penalty in the food control act for profiteering. A law regulating cold storage, lim, iting the time during which goods s may be held, prescribing a method r of disposing of them if held beyond 1 the permitted period and requiring Vio.t nrVion rolpnaorf ortnriq hAfl r thp date of storage. L Laws requiring that goods released ^ from storage for Interstate com merce bear the selling prices at which they went into storage and requiring that all goods destined for interstate commerce bear the prices at which they left the hands of the t producer. i Enacting of the pending bill for the ? control of security issues, r Additional appropriations for gov5 ernment agencies which can supply t the public with full information as a to prices at which retailers buy. f Early ratification of the peace a treaty so that the "free processes at f supply and demand" can operate. a Immediate Steps Promised. Immediate steps by executive g agencies of the government promised by the president Included: The Uniting' and controlling of wheat shipment* and credits to facilitate the purchase of wheat in such a way as not to raise, but rather to lower the price of floar at home. Sale of surplus stocks of food and clothing in the hands of the government. The forced withdrawal from storage and sale of surplus stocks In private hands. General Recommendations. General recommendations included: Increase of production. Careful buying by housewives. Fair dealing with the people on the part of producers, middlemen and merchants. That there be do threats and undue insistence upon the fciterests of a single class. Correction of "many things" In the relation between capital and labor In respect to wages and conditions of labor. In concluding the president made a plea for deliberate, intelligent action, reminding congress that an unbalanced world was looking to the United States. t "We and we almost alone," be said, "now hold the world steady. Upon our steadfastness and self possession depend the affairs of nations everywhere. It Is in this supreme crisis ?this crisis for all manklnd-r-that America must prove her metaL" Pertinent Points of Speech. The prices the people la this country are paying for everything that it Is necessary for them to use In order to Ive are not Justified by a shortage in supply, either present or prospective. They constitute a burden upon us which Is the more unbearable because we know that It is wilfully Imposed by those who have the power. A process has set in which is like- ly, unless something is done, to push prices and rente and the whole cost of living higher and yet higher in a vicious cycle. The strike only makes matters >. worse. It checks production, It affects the railways/ It prevents distribution and strips the markets, so that there ts presently nothing to / / | bu* /'ml All the world is waiting?with what Unnerving fears and haunting doubts who can adequately say??waiting to know when it shall have peace and what kind. <~.3m There can be no settled conditions liArA or dIiawIiam until iha ????* a# peace is out of the way. There can be no peace prices so long as our whole financial and economic systepn Is on a war basis. , In the case of many necessary com*} modi ties effective means have been found to prevent the normal operation of the law of supply and demand. There was a greater supply of foodstuffs in this country on Jun*4~of thfe year "than at the same date last ' year. And yet prices have risen. There can be little doubt that retailers are in part?sometimes In large part?responsible lor exorbitant prices. We need light, not he&t, In these solemn times of self-examination and faving action. There must be no threats. Threats and undue insistence upon' the interest of a single class make \ settlement Impossible. CURRENT EVENTS. sasss e 2 News Happenings Gathered from All Ovsr the World. State troops have removed from the scene of the recent race riots In Chicago. The Belgian chamber of deputies has unanimously ratified the peace treaty with Germany. Amos Todd of Paw Creek township, Mecklenburg county, V. CH is In a Charlotte hospital suffering from a fractured skull sustained in a base ball game Thursday. Thirteen of New York's legitimate theatres were closed Thursday night by an actor's strike, called an hour be fore the curtains were to go up, by Actor's Equity association. The schooner Gallia was sunk off Halifax. Nova Scotia last Wednesday night in a collision with the British steamer War Witch. Twenty persona are believed to have lost their lives. Mrs. Bessie McAskill of Boston, Mass., asphyxlcated herself and her two children last week. She was afraid that the children were going to be taken away from her. Governor Catts of Florida has Issued a proclamation for a mass meeting to be held at Jacksonville, Fla, August 14 and 15 for the purpose of seeking to And a means of reducing the high cost of living. Blanket authority to bring out aU the facts about Mexican outrages on Americans and American property, and to formulate a remedial programme was given to the foreign relations committee Friday by the senate. The postal workers of the United States have asked President Wilson for a 50 per cent wage increase In a letter carried to the White house last week by a delegation of postal union heads. Lieut. W. H. Tillisch of Ellington Field, Houston, Texas and E. L. Davis of the Texas state department of agriculture were instantly killed at Eagle Pass, Texas and their bodies barned Thursday when their aeroplane fell. Charles A. ifatheeny, a machinist committed suicide in Anniston, Ala, last week when about to be arrested on a warrant charging abandonment of his family at Youngstown, O. He had married a thirteen-year-old girl at Anniston a week before. The permanent military policy recommended by the war department involving under revised estimates a standing peace army of 576,000 and universal military training for youths of 119 years of age would cost the country {900,000,000 annually, according to General Peyton C. March, chief of staff. ? Great Britain proposes to reward Field Marshal Halg and Vice Admiral Beatty, each with an Earldom and a grant of 100,000 pounds. Field Marshal French and Admiral Jelllcoe are to receive 50,000 pounds each. In all 600,000 pounds are to be distributed among various commanding officers. Premier Lloyd George was proposed for the same however; but the premier positively declined to accept anything whatever. f ? 1 v . ii^i y Ea&CZjtititfjl