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^ ISSUED SEMi- WEEKLY. _ ^ l. m. grist's sons, publishers. & <J[amUg IJeursgapcrr jjor thi[ promotion af the $oUtty$l, ?ocial, 3grirulturkal and Commercial interests of the |3copl^ TEftMs?^^c5pTEwTi:Nci?^N^6 ESTABLISHED 1865 . ,YOBK, S. C., FRED A.Y\ OCTOBERli^1919. NO, TO - *3 THE JURY THE JUDGE Great Principle Established By WIl^ ' x Ham Penn. , THE FAMOUS TRIAL AT OLD BAILEY * Historic Incident of Great Importance in Criminal Procedure? Sturdy Old Quaker Knew His Rights and Dared Maintain Them. Kansas City Star. i T ? tko.. >lo<'o nf llhartv (WW.lHtvanH fraternity there is noticeable a harking back to the times el the men who i were the original evangels of the i gospel and a digging up of precedents. ' Among the reappearance we find our ; school day friends, William Penn.; the i founder of Pennsylvania, whose Indian treaty under the old Philadelphia 1 elm and his appearance before the I court of Charles II, when he received the charter of Pennsyl\ ania, ore fa- I % 0 miliar to all whose memories go back 1 to the days of the McGuffey brothers. That treaty was the flvst American ( international arbitration, a treaty I which as voiiaire says, was u. i^reueu- ? ent among: diplomatic documents, in that it "was the only one the world has t known, that was never sworn to and 3 1 < never, broken." And the Pennsylvania 1 charter was on epochal document in < American history in that upon it was t based a constVution, framed by Penn \ which laid the foundations in this r country of the fundamental principles that blossomed into the great rcpub- ] lie of the west?liberty of thought and c Speech, popular control over the powers of \the ^state, an elective Judiciary 1 and a free Jury Bystem. \ ^ We are now reminded by a Now c I York editor, D. C. Seltz, who has dug up i and republished in book form (Marshall Jones & Co., Boston), "The Tryal r of William Penn and William Mead, t ?. oaaainna held n_t the Old Bailey, \ September 1670, transcribed from the j compleat collection of stave trials first f published in 1719," that to Wiiliam Penn the world owes another great y debt in the cause of liberty and jus# tic^?the right of a Jury of freemen to c be "the sole Judges of tho facts and y the Jvindencc." This trial is a legal pre- ^ cedent in which an English Jury, for ^ the first time, defied the intimidation f of the court and1 stood for its right to f v' bring In its own verdict without Judi- | cial coercion or intimidation. It vanla constitution and g?-cwlRto the u boasted "bulwark of our liberties." The a report of the "tryal" is a very human c fincumant and reflects the character of / Penn as that of a man who knew his 0 rights "and knowing dared main- r tain." It also shows him to have been 0 ./ quit? a clever lawyer. t A Test Care. - j It W*a a tost case, prearranged by the English authorities, who thought they had the court fixed to establish s the precedent Just the other way, Wil- a liam Penn and William Mead were arrested in Qracechurch Street, London, y August 14, 1670, while addressing a y y ' crowd of their Quaker followers, and j committed to jail on a warrant pre s pared beforehand by Sir Samuel Ster- 8 ling, lord mayor. On the first of Sep- r tember following, the two prisoners y were placed in the dock to answer to the charge of "unlawful assemblage [ and speaking and^ preaching to the ] great disturbance of the king's peace j and in contempt of his law." Sir John 6 Howel, recorder, presided at the trial c and with him sat the lord mayor and c four aldermen as pari. 01 mo wuu. The 12 good men and true who com- ? posed the Jury are worthy to be re- g membered. They were Edward BusheV, Thomas Veer, John Hammond, Charles Mllson, Gregory Walklet, John Eright- , man, William Plumstad, Henry Henley, James Damask, Henry Michel, Wil- j 11am Lever ancf John Baily. The "strong man" of the jury was Edward ( Bushel, the foreman, und the case re- ( suited in a habeas corpus proceeding, t which is often referred to in legal pro- f cedure as "the Bushel case." The pris- t oners were arraigned and asked to , plead: I The court?"Why say, William Perm and William Mead, are you guilty or j not guilty, as you stand indicted, in 1 manner and form, as aforesaid? , Penn?It is impossible that we ( should be able to remember the indict- j ment verbatim and therefore we dc- . sire a copy of it. as is customary on , like occasions. The court?You must first plead to , the indictment before you have a copy ol it. Penn?I affirm I have broken no law nor am I guilty of the indictment that is laid to my charge; and to the end ' the bench, the jury and myself, with these that hear us may have a more direct understanding of this procedure. I desire you would let me know by what law it is you prosecute me, and upon what law you ground my indictment. The court?Upon the common law. Penn?Where is that common law? The court?You must not think that I am able to run up flo many years nnd over 30 manv adjudged cases j which we cull'common law to answer your curiosity. Penn?That answer, I am sure, is very short of my question for if it be j common, it should not be so hard to produce. The court?Sir, will you plead to your indictment Penn Defied Judge. Penn?Shall 1 plead to an indict- j jnent that hath no foundation in law? I ; If.it contain that law which you say I have broken! why should you decline to produce that law, since it will be impossible for the jury to determine, or agree to bring in their verdict, who have not the law produced by which they should measure the truth of this indictment and the gpilt or contrary of my fact? The court?You are a saucy fellow, Bpeak to the indictment. The question is whether you are guilty of this indictment? Penn?The question i3 not whether I, a# Kiu In/Kntmnnf hilt aui bUIHjr VI liKd iUUtwvi*?v?i?| wwv whether the indictment is legal. I The court?You are impertinent fellow- Will you teach the court what the law is? It is lex non scripta, that ], which many have studied 30 or 40 c years to know, and would you have ^ me tell you .in a moment? c Penn?Certainly if the common law v be so hard understood, it's far from being very common. \ s The cpurt?Sir, you are troublesome j, fellow, and ftt is not for the honor of ^ :ho court to suffer you to go on. t] Penn?I have asked but one question d md you have not answered me, though t| :he rights and privileges of every Englshman be concerned in it. 0 The court?If I should suffer you to r isk questions till tomorrow morning, C) rou would never be the wiser. Take jr lim away.' My lord (to the lord may- g, >r), if you take not some source with his pestilent fellow to stop his mouth g] ve shall not he able to do anything to- a) lightThe muyor?Tako him away, take 0( lim away, turn him Into the Bale- t, lock. / Cj So Penn was,"rudely haled into the s( 3aledock," the trial was proceeded d vlth in his nbsencc and the jury gl :hargcd. On his holng brought back 01 nto court Penn again protested: j, Penn?I appeal to the Jurj>, who are ny judges, whether the proceedings of C( ho court are not most arbitrary and w -did of all law in offering to give the ury their charge in the absence of the ^ >risoners. r? The court?Why, yo arc present, yo aJ lear, do yo not? _ Penn^-Xo thanks to the court that , ommanded me into the Balcdock; and jc ou the Jury take notice, that I have lot been^ heard, neither can you legally lepart the court before I have been ully heard, having at least ton or 12 joints to offer in order to invalid their tc ndictment. p) The court?Pull that fclloy down, ^ 'T^w^onstahl^^pul^rt^lmdown" nd the jury then commanded lo retire C( ml agree upon their verdict, the pris- Qf mero "remaining in tho stinking hole." o) Lfter an hour and a/half's time, "eight if the Jurymen came down, four re- 9i naining above." The court sent an >fficer after them and they were j irought in. The court singled out Mr. nJ Jushcl as the "Jury hanger" and said. The court?You are the cause of this tc listurbancc and manifestly show your- ^ elf an abettor of faction; I shall set . mark on you, sir." f j Alderman Robinson?Mr. Bushel, I iavo known you near this 14 years; ou have thrust yourself upon this Qj ury, because you think there is borne ^ ervicc for you. I tell you, you do- n) erve to be indicted more' than any nan that hath been brought to the bar tl. his day. Then, says the record, the members it the court "used much menacing anguage and behaved themselves very mperiously before the jury, as per- ? pns not more void of justice than edurat'.on." The jury was sent back to ionsider their verdict. In a few min- ui ites they returned with a verdict tl Guilty of speaking in Grace Church P Street." r< The court?Is that all? o Foreman?That is all I have in com- k nission. si Th court?You had as good say noth- si ng. lc Again the Jury was sent back after he court had "vilified them in most 1*1 ? It )ppromous language- mey iuuiucu -i written verdict to the came effect, tl dgned by till the Jurymen. This "both He mayor and the recorder resented uf s io high a rate that they exceeded the b sounds of reason and civility." ? The court?Gentlemen, you shall not o be dismissed till we have a verdict ii that the court will accept, and you P shall be locked up without meat, drink, d lire or tobacco: you shall not think S thus to abuse the court; we shall have a verdict, by the help of God, or you a shall starve for it. P Pcnn?My Jury, who arc my Judges, d ought not to be thus menaced; their t verdict should be free and not com- u polled; the bench ought to wait upon o them, but not forcstnll them. I do do- c sire that Justice may be done and that t the arbitrary resolves of the bench i may not be made the measure of my jury's verdict. The court?Stop that prating fcl- c low's mouth, or put him out of court, c t "Not Guilty." ^ And thercepon the jury took the hull s by the horns, retired and promptly t brought in a verdict of '"Not guilty." The court demanded that the jury be 1 polled and every man to answer guilty i or not guilty as his name was callcd.it Each man stood up and answered "Xot | guilty. men in court, uuurean.nh mv i jury, said: i The court?1 am sorry, gentlemen, i you have followed your own judgments and opinions," rather than the good and wholesome advice which was s given you. God keep my life out of j r your hands. But for this the court i j tines you -to marks a man and iinpris- ? onmcnt until paid. ii . t Ar. Bushel refused to pay tho fine ind the ctvso cafpc, by liajbeas corpUi, o'thc higher court of common pleas, vhere an opinion rendered by Sir John /aughan set aside tho action.of the ower' court and established the law >f England to be that "It is the spe:ial function of the Jury to Judge of the alue of the evidence submitted aAd hat a court has no^'right to punish a ury for not finding the verdict accordng to the directions oi: the court." BRITISH SHIPPING PARALYZED Railroad Strike Ties Up Ocean Commerce. Shipping in Americah ports, so far as t concerns shipping board vessels with argoes consigned to ports of the Tnitcd Kingdom, arc at a standstill beause of the strike of British railway - orkers 1 Suspension of the sailings of all vesels under Its control to pbrts of Engind, Scotland, Ireland and Wales has een announced by the shipping board [trough the making public of an orcr Issued last Saturday night Iwhen tie railroad strike becatpe a certainty. The shipping board. It was explained, rdcrcd sailings suspended following ecclpt of information 'from its, represntativ.es in England as to conditions ? the ports thcro and after the isjanco 6f a British order prohibiting tie furnishing of bunker coal to any liips other than outbound British ves:1b. While shipping board vessels allocat1 to the United Kingdom trade constl-, ate only about one^half of the Arnerlin tonnage engaged In that trade the :rlke and the British bunker coal orer are expected to stop eventually, lould the strijeo continue, the sailings f all American craft to the British iles. Shipping board officials refused to ammont on the elTect the suspensions ould have on the gradual dccumulaon and resultant Congestion of goods.j t Atlantic and Gulf ports iujd at the lilroad administration it was said that spect of *the situation would be dealt hen it arose. Sailings of Brit!sh_vessels from Ameran ports of the United Kingdom have ot been suspended, but the shipping card's order would indicate that such step was being contemplated even on le'eve of the strlko. Assistant I^Trec>r of Operations Taylor of the ship* Ing board ly announcing.the suspenon order said that the phiprf being held i t>?rt will ba^illocated to other-Wad*. ? rabidly as possible. Those new load1 or nearly loaded will be dispatched i soon as they are ready to countries .her than the United Kingdom. The shipping bdard on the basis of iturday's report has 55 of Its vessels igaged in the United Kingdom trade i United States ports with a total tonige of 356,004 deadweight tons. At lat time there were 84 vessels with a ital of 429,000 deadweight tons on le high seas bound for such ports, and T .ships with 569,000 deadweight tons i British harbors. Many of the shipping board's vessels d\v en route and in British harbors e oil burners and arc therefore in ependent of British bunkers, but the ihers may be forced to lie in the harors unless fuel can be obtained for tc return trip. ' i TRICKC OF ORATORS. reatest of Them Employ Artifice to ' Accomplish Results. Km*,, nnt boriinlnfl in uiuai uiaiuin uu? v nw?. Be the arte of the actor to produce icir effects. Lord Broifeham while rotcsting against the rejection of the :form bill by the house of lords cried ut: "I implore you upon my knees!" ncellng before them on the "wool ack," upon which the lord chancellor its when presiding in the house 'of irds. Sheridan having finished his famous pcoch in the trial cf Warren Hastlgs, sank back apparently fainting in he arms of his frionds. Edmund Burke at the end of a peoch upon the atrocities which might e expected from the French in case f an invasion, drew forth an enormuu two-edged dagger and exclaimig, "This is the. weapon which will be ointed at your throats and mine!" ashod it to the iloor with a tragic esturo. Shortly afterward Ix>r<l Cairne, peaking against IJurke (who was susected of having amassed his wealth Ishonestly), exclaimed: "Ana mis is lie weapon which is used with fatal JTect against you and me!" dragging ut with Burke's gesture a ?5 note. As very one looked to see him dash it to he floor he quietly folded it and put t in his pocket. One of the most noted criminal lawears of this country while pleading the ause of his client was invariably so ivercome by his innocence and wrongs hat his voice would fall, his utterance vould become choked and he would sob so that he. would be obliged to sit o recover himself. "I should think," said a judge to lim one day, "that the jury would inderstand your little drama by this iine." "Ah, your honor forgets," said the awyer, his eyes twinkling. "that there s always a new jury before whom I day." ? General Pershing's staff of thirtyax officers. Including one major genual and three brigadiers are now ent.iged in preparing a complete r'eport ?n General Pershing's activities dur11 g the war. VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS Brief Local^aragraphs of More or Lfjss Interest. PICKED VP W ENQUIRER REPORTERS jr Stories Conc*fning Folks and Things Some of Which You Know and Some You Dont t^now?Condensed for Quiok Reading. "Better watflh your stept all you York county youngsters and a few bald headed bachelors too, when you are In the \iclnlly of Wlnthrop College at any timd from September to Jupe, because you dre quite likely to land in the clutches of the law if you undertake to get( gay with the Iglrlies or strive to impress your presence in any possible way. It iq all right to look at the girls?Just Jook at 'em and beat it; butyou had better not look too hard or let dignlded and sedate members of the faculty or othcre officially connected with Wlntyrop know that yon are looking. Not; that the tfirls would mind it bo nflijch but ft is against the law duly writ on the statute books or the state of South Carolina through the efforts of Representative John Ft. Hart of''the county 'of York. Futhermoro the city of Rock Hill has an ordinance which prevents hanging around Wlnth^op on the part of persons, especially youthful yaps who would niri wren mc gum, uuu nccorder B. N. (Jraig who is a rather 'hard boiled" judge according to some won't hfcjjtate to< enforce the ordinance. In 'fact a couple of young fellows of RoqfcrHUl, J. Wm., Milling and J. >f. Miller hod to part with ten golden simoleoj&s each last Monday when they convlcrcd of loitering around Wlnthfcsp. and trying to flirt with some of Ac girls. Word comes from Itock Htlv that tho city authorities and tijo Winthrop authorities are going to rigidly enforce ttfe law against fllrtlntriShls year and Impress silly swains wfip the fapt that they must stay awajfc-not because there is a single girl f^iill the 1,000 or more there wh?* wofc flirt if she, was allowed to; buttflfc^auso it Is against the CIo0iM?mi4 Glothss. J Two young Women of Yorkvillm I ? t? kitftlnMK WOW WU1? IHW p. tci mm .,uoi... 'frouse fof fhelr three limes per; 'and j who don't get any more th^n they ea^n were discussing that ever absorbing topic, fall and winter clothes in the presence of the reporter the other day. The chatter ran to coat suits. "?ou know" sdld one as she held the catalogue of a mall order clothing house in her hand, "I am not going to buy my coat suit here this fall. The local prices arc just-out of reason. Why here this catalogue shows beautiful coat suits that look just as nice as ^iose In the stores here and they are being offered at a greatly reduced cost over the local stores." And the other g-irl replied, "Yea, honey, the mail order pictures certainly look attractive and the colors are pretty. I ordered from a mail order house once. The colored print showed that it was a coat suit of beautiful -quality and workmanship which I was ordering. But when it came it didn't look nearly so pretty and the quality?well, it waa punk. The difference in price over the offerings of the Yoi^cville merchants j wasn't such a great sum after all and in fact I cam4 to the conclusion that it was more by the time 1 paid for, a j money order and postage and waited two weeks for my purchase to come. I.have thought it all out honey and it is cheapest in <the end to buy at home. And the prices are not out of proportion with everything else." The other girl said maybe that was right and she recalled, that a neighbor girl across the . street from where she lives had bought a garment from a mail order house that didn't come up to specifications. And then the pretty brick dust blonde in the pretty gray s>rtat unit frrun vif>\v n?J lf)C:ll lady No. 1 closed the mail order catalogue and flung it under a table. Hard Boiled tho Goat. Bam Garrison, well known local man whOi attended the Yorkvllle Graded school a number of years before going to Cl^mson, and who made his mark in athletic and academic lines while he was a student here, was talking the other day about American prison camp conditions in France. Mr. Garrison has recently returned home after serving in France as a lieutenant, having won his commission from the ranks. He was for a time attached to ono of the companies which served as provost guard at American Prison Farm No. 2, which lias figlired quite a bit in congressional investigation over alleged cruelties to American prisoners. Lieutenant Garrison was in command of the company for a time in wnimi ijicui. xiuiu nuiixw .......... was an officer. Smith is now serving a sentence in prison for cruel treatment of American prisoners. "I did not know Smith personally," he said the other day; "but I had his company awhile after he was cashiered and from th? information I got over there first handed, and from my men who had served under him, it seems that he was made the goat all right. Understand he was a tough nut and mayhe he should have treated his men a little differently. Iam not sure. ' But I do know-.-this: The majority of ! American soldiers imprisoned overseas I were fellows who deliberately went AWOL or who committed 'various crlmc3 in order to escape duty, in the froht line trenches. They didn't cAre what was done with them or what crime, they committed?anything to I get out of the lire of the front line. With a view to overseeing this situation the order went out from somewhere to make conditions in the i prison camp so tough and unbearable that the prisons would not be popular. And Hard Boiled carried out orders, all right. Some of his men told me that he used to walk out before each naicn 01 prisoners uner uiey imu been sent to the prison term and make a little speech about like this: 'You fellows don't know me; but I am * Lieutenant H. B. Smith?Lieutenant Hard Boinel Smith, _ from Phoenix, v Arizona and I am just as hard as my ^ name says and then some.' And he g was. Still, it was not ali his fault. " He realized that he was up1 against F a tough'job, having been a corporal in v the regular army himself before he 1 was promoted and he uBed a corporal's * methods as an officer. Ho was the 0 goat all right but he was not altogether to blame. I don't know! who -r was to blame," concluded Lieutenant e Garrison. "It was some puzzje to p know what to do with fellows who dc- 11 liberated got into''trouble- in order a to, dodge the front Jlne." 11 Changs in Trade Methods. "Distribution of so many, autamo- 1 biles throughout the country has cer- * tainly changed trade in a way" ob1 _ - n served Dr. H. K. Dowry, a day or two *ago. "A few years back the man from ^ the country who had to come to York- p vllle came early In the morning and 81 stayed around town a goodly part of " the day beforo returning home- Since * the coming of the automobiles in such n largo numbers there are not so many b people from the, country In town In A the mornlng/i If they have business ? In Yorkvllle they crank the flivver and 0 after dinner, /come to town and do ^ their trending and arc back home tt 1 whole lot quicker than they were irt w the days beforo they had automobiles." 1 If You Speak, Moan Business. "Getting so you better not talk n about selling your land or at least you n better not name a price at all unless 81 you really mean business," observed a * well known York county farmer who a recently aold. "I have been living for v 'years on & farm which 1* indeed a e good one; but the land was/a little too a rough to sqlt me and besides I wanted tA tftA hanrnr tA frown. T triad tn sell ?</me LLudiuMMfor $50 an acre bat t: nobody soemed to want to buy and fl- a nally I got mad and made up my mtnd T that I wouldn't sell at hardly kny price. Some months later a real ^ Qstate agent/ came to me and asked* a that I list my property with him. I told hinj it could not be sol^?that 1 b had -offered It once for $50 and when b It became apparent that nobody would y' buy I got mad and made up my mind h I wouldn't turn it loose. But he in- w sister! that I name a price and more to n get rid of tho man than anthlng else I s< said $75 an acre. Conditions had b changed then, though I didn't realize 17 it fully and that fellow had hardly 6 . -l-J . D naa ume to get duck 10 town oeiuie he informed mo he had sold my place ^ Yes, sir, a land owner had better be' n careful how he talkB these days." tl * . h ' m ti ? The most tremendous strike the a world has ever known went Into ef- t( feet la3t Saturday ^rhen more than 600,000 members of thi British National Union of Railway, men quit their jobs and paralyzed railroad transpor- p tation throughout Great Britain.* Some a time ago the government agreed to au arrangement under which there has n been a standardization of the wages p of the locomotive men, and other rail- C( road men have been clamoring for j, this same standardization. The fl management of the railways have been unable to see their way to agree to n the proposed schedule and the gov- e ernment could not endorse it either. _ The government proposed that the w trainmen agree to go into a contract for a thre$ months extension of the present wage scale under a promise ^ that if by the end of three months n there had not been at least a 5 per c cent fall in the price of food there ,, would be an effort to secure*a satisfactory adjustment of wages. The ai trainmen would not agree to this prop- ^ osition and went on strike. The government says it has no intention of p taking over the railroads, but it wi'i do all In its power to fight the atrlkers. ^ using the army, if necetisary In the a protection of all who may volunteer ^ to help operate the railroads. The ^ 'government has arranged to put thou- p sands of motor trucks and cars In operation in th0 transportation of food and will endeavor to maintain mail u connections with France, Holland and ^ Belgium by means of hirplanes. J. P. ^ Thomas is chairman of the executive ^ committee of the strikers. He says he deplores the necessity ' for the strike 0 but was unable to And any other way by which the trainmen could get a r show of justice. Practically ail of the ^ British trains are now stopped. The c ? ennf Im nrvni'dtlmi f h.? ^U^CI lllllCIll lliU> nciii 111 ^ war time machinery for food rationing and distribution and generally there is a feeling that the country Is facing civil war and possible revolution. j i c ? J. F. Sharpe, u sawmill man, of 1 Newberry county, was shot in the leg ti i Sunday morning about 2 o'clock as1 he 1 was crawling out of a window in the o home of a Mr. Maybin. Maybin then s took the wounded man home and later t he was taken to a hospital in ColumbiaSharpe is married and is 4 0 years old. r / t CLOVER NEWS BUDGET Section On Street Improvement , Called Off. * '/ *.?- rV <lii rn rrn OAunm untrn mnr ? ailcii iu tunni wiiu int lah -t Baptist Church to Coot Big SumReal Estate Soars?Smith Property Sold?Other Matters. Clover, Octobek 2?While it wai hought that everything was all set for he election scheduled to be hefd in 'lover last Tuesday on the question ol whether or not Clover should come unler the provisions of a legislative act iving the city council the right to asess abutting property for street improvement purposes,She election was postponed because it was discovered at he last moment that the law provided hat the books of registration must be pen4d for registration ten days prior o thjs holding of an election and then emain closed ten days prior to 'the lection or twenty days In all. Itilspears that there had been some doubt ft regard to the matter all the while nd it was decided Monday afternoon hat in order to safeguard against any echnicalities that might arise it would e well to postpone the 'election until uch time as the law inVegard to eleclons is comDlied with. The ulan is ow to hold tho election on October 1. Whether something else will hapen remains to be seen. There is omo opposition to the' movement rhich has as its objeet tho securing for lover of a cement road through the ld^rt part of town, half the cost to e borne by the Fedoral government. number of people arfe taking ,the osition expressed to this corrcspontint by a. prominent Clover citizen last uesday: "I do not own any property i the main portion of Clover and rhtlo I would like to see Clover get liis new concrete road wblcji I beeve will niean much to ttyo .progress ni prosperity of the town, still I do ot like the idea of casting my vote to iddle a tax on somebody else here. Sb hint won't vote." Others, however. rgue that the proposed improvement rill be of equal benefit to everybody, ach at least irj proportion to the mount of his taxes. Cheaper to Rent, House rents^ are drfcepec proporhe great trouble is that there are so ?w houses of any description ^or rent; focussing the ^question the other day, well known local merchant observed, Why sure it Is cheaper to rent and etter^all around. My Arm has been oused in this building for several ears and the rent during that Hime as been $12.50 a month, although It ill likely be increased to 15 per cent, ow. Still this building is worth yve'ral thousand dollars and If I ought it the repairs, interest on my loney and taxes would como to a reat deal more than the rent I am aying. That is one reason why there ; no more building in Clover right ow- People realize that It is cheaper ' rent. But of course that makes it arder for the new comer who at acted by tjio attractiveness of Clover nd the Clover community as a place >. live 1lnd they can't come because here Is no place for themj to live." ' Going Right Ahead. . Tho Baptist denomination of Clover, lev. O. L. Jones pastor is going right head with its work of building, a new hurch edifice here. Subscription comlittees for the cause have been apointed and are making a thorough mvass of the membership and friends i the interests of the cause. It is roposcd to build a church to cost rom $20,000 to $25,000 and possibly lore- Progress has not gone far nough to say when work will be commenced and the type of building that 'ill be erected. Real Estate Upward. Property in the town of Clover is olding its own with other real estate l&rkets* throughout this section, wners of property on King's Mountin street which includes less than tiree acres and' on which there is a " tha nMrcf In niU.iL IL'BIUVIltC, U1IU VI h?*v lover, recently refused to 'consider nything less than 115,000 for their roperty and it Is doubtful if they r-ould ' sell for that. The fact; is ? there is little if any real estate for ale in Clover, at the present time for tie very simple reason that people ave very little if any idea of its rorth. , The Cotton Market Clover's cotton market is as good as sual this year, if not a little better, uo to the fact that there are three uyers on tho market here. Both the .'lover ginneries are running just now t full clip and are going at a rate f seventy or more bales per day. Conervative estimates still ore that hardly nore than half the cotton ginned here * being put on the market. Merhants doing "ti^ne business" say that ? wobfl nhWllt hoy nave no cuniinauu w ? ollections. Miscellaneous Matters. Several veterans of the Thirtieth >ivision and others of Clover and viinity interested especially in the 'hirtieth attended the division remlon in Greenville this %yeck and were oud in their praises of the success f the occasion. T. J. Neely carried cvcral people to Greenville in his auomobile Sunday afternoon. Because of the bad condition of the oads on the Gaston county side ot the ; . 1 v ' t line made necessary by the imjttW9tt? road work which is being dene; the & CIover-Gastonia jitney line had" beiin discontinued for a time. Of couapgr? ( local transfer men continue to make * trips to Gastonia, but the reguU$r$ jitney line has been abandoned. Miss Bessie Love of Clover reqeqtly : j visited relatives at McConnellsvij^'^aB Blanton Stacey for a long time pajft in the employ of the Clover i>ru,p Store left this week for the Atlanta, Medical College to take up the study of | pharmacy. Tom McCall has a position with th?f ^ 1 City Pharmacy.1 Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Dysart of I Hickory, N. C., recently visited Mr*'? and Mrs. Wade H. Pursley here. Business House Sold. fjg R. A. Counts has purchased from Messrs. J. M. and M. L. Smith the quarters in the Smith block on Main ? 1 street now occupied by two barber^ shops. It is Mr. Counts'* intention to-J merge the two rooms into remodel the property generally for the use of his own business. It is understood the formal transfer of thedpra^^H crty will take place about January.iuj| The consideration was not stateau GOVERNMENT OF PALE8TINE | State Will Own A!! Public Utilities ' and Control the Land. * There will be no profiteering l&.Pol- \} estlne. The land is to be owned the state. All its public utilities apa ..'.5a to be owned by the jpcople. As ma** 1 as possible of its private industries ape* | 19 be nationally operated. "There yvill be no 'loan sharks'" in ' ]' Palestine. Banking will be iW flw ,;,j hands of the people as a state. It wiil r' be impossible for individuals td'ispec* ulntA In Iayw) rAmmnditlei. In will be Impossible in Palestine for ' Individual to acquire a large fortune. V/ju This sounds on the surface as if tho V new Jewish state of Palestine has had ka / rangeii by Lenine and Trotzky, Tdp.i ;j" the contrary, the social democracy ! which Palestine as a nation will begW fl its existence, is something like years old. It incorporato* the fiihlt'T ! cal communist laws of the laflH tribes, and adds to them the expfflUB In practical democracy given theSn&H A number of Ztonist leaders \EtiSlgt Jen and Frankfurter and Vri. Frleden- i wald and Wise, among others. xne aesire w voitm rawsinnr iwj'.u the Jews has not degenerated. they | pointed out, into a rush of speculators ^ to reap harvests. For years the Jewjhj9| of the world have been contributing ; j nickels, dimes and quarters toward u. 'i I land purchasing fund. In Agfrtfft i I '$2,000,000 has Men raised In this wsyJv. j With this money l4nd Is being boughtrajlj from the Arab and Turk owners in. U 1 Palestine. The land la held I Zionist fund. It will be allotted to j the immigrants for varying periods, > I will not be hereditary and will not beI sold In the opeij market. I In the year ending last July gfcAOflp*.. ^ | 000 was raised by, American Jews apart I from this fund. This money also is ,/ j used in restoration of Palestine work. 1 Among the thousands of Jewa con- jj trlbuting regularly to thia fund, are- ?J Julius Rosenwald, Mrho gfvas $l'.W0 a-^H month; Bernard Baruch, who/ gave > 1 510,000 outright; lSugene Meyer, ttieJw chairman of the Federal flnunce iom- V 1 mission, who gave 524.000; Jacofl^H BchlfT, a non-Zionist, who gave 58MO?\^ I and Mrs. Mary Fels, who gaye The. money raised by contributions i*;'! 1 bein? devoted to the purchase^oMai||^^H and of public utilities and will in the establishment of public lndus^^l tries as far as it wijl reach. i "It will be possible to make a politl- I cal and industrial democracy of l*al- ;.Vj| estlne," explained one of the convention leaders, "beoause we have virgin -1 ground. No period of anr.rchy is nec- ' * I essary, no overthrow of old systems- I Our idea is to establish a goveriuner.t I for the Jews of the world. There wur? be no -Bolshevism, no dictatorship of any single class. *V**jj "Certain reforms we shall lnti*6duce are radical in appearance, bat'- they > are no more than ordinary democratic reforms?the eliminatidp of explolttqf \ capital, the elimination of trusts, huge V* private fortunes and the like. Ail these h things will be possible under a British rule. "The Jews of Palestine, instead of working to pile up individual fortunes for a small percentage of their -peopl^ a will work to pile up the stats's fortune, which in turn will be u'tfdd* 'for I improvement of national conditions an# ? inu a v. ? - 2?-r Louis Brandcls, supreme court' justice, said in a private committee hear- I ir>K at the Auditorium: "Palestine is capable of aoqpiatmodating 1,000,000 more Jews than it has, of being developed into a prosp^rpua state in which the Jews may live, work ' and develop.., their nationalist#. to a ' point where it will contribute.,vitally Ij to the world's progress and theisown." '$ he said.?Chicago News. r ^ ? Phillip H. Stoll of Kingstree, j Williamsburg county, was on Monday j night declared by the state Democratic * executive committee to bo the nomine* i over E. J. j3herwood, lor congress .*$ from the Sixth district to fill the vacancy caused by Vie death Of the late J. vvjiiara Ka&suaie. *ne vote declared: StolU 5,300; Sherwood, jj