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? - / ."1 I ' , i .... . I] ^ ^;?o SEMI- weekly .1 ^ l. m. grist's sons, Pubii.her.. & ^amili| >1 eu'.spnpori gfor the promotion of the political, Social, Agricultural and (Commercial interests of the jpeopty TER*?^ opi.E^ . . y A '* . ' ' 1 CM ESTABLISHED 1855 YORK, 8. C., FR ID AY. AUGUSTTa7^21L~ 3STO. 64 VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS Brief Local Paragraphs of More or Less Interest. PICKED DP BY ENQOIRER REPORTERS "Prospects for a splendid flow of honey this fall are good." said a well known bee man the other day. "Even with the unfavorable weather that we have Had this year it seems as if our beekeepers are coming out ahead. During the past few days there has been a heavy honey flow which is probably | coming from cotton blooms. With a few more days of good cotton weather the fall flow will beat the spring flow j which is largely from poplar blossoms. | blossoms.'* The Baseball Team. "I've been thinking a lot about it and I've come to the conc'usion that there is no estimating what the value of the baseball team in Yorkville has been to the" town," reiparked a proini neiit citizen of Yorkville this morning. "It has furnished and is furnishing clean sport and amusement for hundreds of men, women and children. It has in a measure brought the people of the town closer together. It has caused lots of people to fo.ojet their troubles or ruther to divert their minds for a time. It has been a good advertisement for the town and has caused the players on the teams who have opposed us and the fans who accompanied them to leave here with a good impression of us. Yes sir, the baseball team is worth all it costs and then some." \ Linwood College. "Speaking of Linwood College," said a Yorkville man the other day, "that place would certainly make a fine recreation and rest resort. I haven't got the .money to do it, but I have often wondered why some of the folks around these parts who have money don't take over that property and convert it into a summer resort or an all the year round resort. It could be done without a great amount being spent for improvements ir the present buildings were used. I don't know that there are any medicinal qualities in the waters at the springs but I do know that it is good water and I believe that if the place were converted into a rest and recreation resort it would attract many people because of its proximity to railways." Schools for Illiterates. There is misapprehension as to the source of the money that is being used for the conduct of the school for adult illiterates, some people having the idea Ithat it :s coming from the common school furtd of the county. So far as Views and Interviews has information. r there is no special opposition to mese schools. On the contrary, the idea appears to be meeting with pretty g*n^ erul approval; but the people are not l clear as to how the biHs are being paid. and in order to get information. Superintendent of Education Carroll was asked about the matter. "The funds for this purpose," .Mr. Carroll said, "come out of an appropriation of about $1,400,000 that is being administrated by the office of tinstate superintendent of .education, under the different acts covering the matter. 1 can't tell you off hand exactly how much of this state appropriation goes for the conduct of adult schools but York county has an apportionment of $1,200, and about all my office has to do with it is to spend it to the best possible advantage, which, with the assistance of .Miss Ina Ashe, we are doing. As a matter of fact we have in operation more schools than we are entitled to have but we ' are banking on the assumption that, as usual, there will be a number of counties to fall down in the matter of t iking up their respective quotas and we will come out all right." * Preacher Catches makes. Rev. J. L. Oates, 1). !>., was talking about rattle snakes the other evening and spoke of a number of beautifully tanned rattlesnake hides that he had seen in the office of a friend of his in Anderson recently. "I Risked him where he got them," said Dr. Dates, "and he told me that lie had gotten them from an old Baptist minister living in the mountains of western North Carolina and whose hobby is catching rattlers. He told me that the old preacher has an ordinary walking stick and to this he ties secure*y three fish hooks in such a manner that the sharp hooks protrude from the end of the cane. Then he goes into the mountains and among the big rocks under which big rattle snakes lie. lbgigs the snakes under the rocks with the stick. They fight back and bec< unfastened on the hooks on the end of the stick and are brought forth rattling and striking but securely fastened. Then they are killed and their hides tanned and they are s >ld i>v th?- o!d ureacher to snake fancier. ;it goodly prices." When You're Old. What will you be dointf in yoiiv <>1?1 age? asked one. Will you be sitting on the front porch, stroking youi white hair? Or will you be active, powerful, ant a leader? This latter, you may doubt For most oi us have the false notiot that old age necessitates inactivity. Consider the case of Ihe Karl o Haldbufy?99 yeais old. the oldes man in the British hous6 of lord where lie is leader of the i'onservAtivej or "die-hards." Halsbury, in his prime was one ol the greatest English lawyers, becamt Lord Chancellor in 1885 and served until 1905, when he was 83. Now, preparing to celebrate his 100th birthday he is busily supervising the writing ol a 20 volume edition interpreting the whole law of England. The Earl of Ducie, 94, is rounding | out his 68th year of service in the j house of lords, a'ong with 80 year old I Baron Eversely, both extreme'y activi j Compared with these English poli j tieians, Senator Lodge, 71, is a youngj ster. So is Senator Dillingham, 77, and Senator Culberson, 06. Onfy Uncle Joe Cannon, 85, is a real rival. If you have an idea of retiring when you are 60, consider these great exploits by old men. Socrates began studying music when he was 80. Columbus, between 50 and 60, made his first voyages of American discovery. Voltaire, Newton, Spencer, Talleyrand and Thomas Jefferson?all were active and in their Intellectual prime after 80. Pasteur discovered his hydrophobia cure afier he was 60. When (Jalileo discovered the month'y and daily vibrations of tlie moan, he was 73. There are tens' of thousands of other instances of great men who did their best work In old age. You in your youth grope rather blindly. Experience comes slowly. With old age urrives wisdom-^reaj knowledge of life. It's a good tiling for a government to have gray-beards among its younger legislators. It's a good thing for a business to have old men sitting on the lid at headquarters while tht> young bloods go out after the business. Youth usually is too impulsive. O d age, remembering scorched fingers, is conservative. The two, working together, make the happy medium. Nature can make your joints stiffen and your arteries hard, your hair white and your face lined with wrinkles. Hut your brain?your real self ?can defy old age. Train your brain, learn to think straight, if you would make old age the most successful period of your life. TAXES ANT EXPENDITURES. Republican Leaders Agree on Heavy Expenditures. Reductions of approximately ?110,ooo,000 in taxes and $520,000,000 in government expenditures this fiscal jyear were agreed upon late Tuesday at a conference between President Harding, Secretary Mellon and Republican leaders of the house, including members of the ways and means committee. Specific tax reductions on which it was announced agreement had been reached included: Repeal of the excess profits tax, retroactive to. last January. $450,000,000. Repeal of one-half .of the transpor4<>V . ?#Y. ?j . # nnvt I'mit'il'V 1 $13(1.000,000. Repeal of the higher income surtaxes, retroactive to last January, $90,000,000. Repeal of the socallcd nuisance and clothing luxury taxes, $50,000,000. As an offset against this cut of I $720,000,000 it was ai^*ed to increase I the income tax on corporations by probably 2 1-2 per cent, instead of 5 i per cent as heretofore proposed, effective as of last January 1, to yield an additional $125,0000,000. Decision was had, it was said, to abandon all new taxes snd?tstcd to the house committee last week by Secretary Mellon, including a license tax on automobiles, a bank check stamp tax and an increase of one cent j in the first class postage rate, lle1 publicans of the ways and meaVis committee were to meet Wednesday t< | draft a new revenue bill on the basis of the revisions agreed upon and leaders said it was ho|?ed to have it ready for a conference of house Republicans next .Monday. Hope for its passage by the house on August 20 was exI pressed. t'nder the agreement reached at the White House conference governnten1 expenditures this year would be re' duced from the previous estimate ol $4..*>.r>4,000,000 to $4,034,000,000, and tin income from internal taxes, would b< i.j.n (bid ?o l?7" fllHI . em irum ?>i.uiii,v"i>,uvv K' Ood. Tin* total income from ail source was estimated at $4,035,000,000. including $370.ouo,ooo from cusfoms, $4!>o,000.000 from miscellaneous sources including $140.000,U00 more than heretofore estimated on the sale of wa salvage and $100,000,000 addition.! from hack taxes. Cuts in expenditures proposed in eluded $3.70,000,000 for various fjov ' eminent departments and agencies and $170,000,000 <>n account of tin public debt. Departmental cuts in eluded $50,004,000 war department I $loo.oo0.000 nav> department, $100. f 000,000 shipping hoard; $1'5,000,00 miscellaneous, and $50,000,000 in th estimated payments of $515,000.00(1 t 1 the railroads. "" if 1 "n /Ui/t Aim i.K/.eimielc ftct Sntui I 111* iji I I V,WV", WW I'l ' ? ivur-i . i 'fil as necessary to retire war saving scruritu x and I'ittman act certificate f wjll lie taken care of through refund t inn operations.it was stated, the tresis s'ury retiring these securities by bor s' rowing in the open market. ' A REAL BUSINESS WOMAN ' Rock Hill Chamber of Commerce SecJ retary Holds Unique Distinction. IS OLDEST IN POINT OF SERVICE One of the Foremost Boosters for the Good Town, She Devotes All Her Energies Toward its Growth and Progress?Fellow Citizens are Proud of Her. Ity Jas. I). Grist. "She's the best informed 'man'?beg pardon, I mean woman in Kook Hill, I regarding all matters pertaining to the city and its problems. She has more enterprise and energy and gtt-up and i get about her than most of the men. j 'she is one of the greatest community j builders we have. She is a good j business man?a delightful lady and 1 don't see how the 'Good Town' could t ! get along without her." That is the estimate of Miss F. j ' Marie Fewell, secretary of the Cham7" ?1 iE MISS F. MAR I ber oT Commerce and community booster that one ok the most prominent citizens of KocR Hill gave me, ' the other day. And 1 learned that it is the estimate! i of practically all of Kock HiM regard-' ling a business woman who seven days j a week renders real service to the peop'e of her city and the surrounding j country. ,i;u" i<<iids the distinction of being tlx1 oldest woman chamber of i cnmm< roe s(erotgry in point of service itythe United Slates. Holds Unique Distinction. Oldest in point of service, now mind you! By tlie way, there are hardly more than eight or ten women secretaries of commercial bodies in the country. Really, it is a man's job. By that I mean it is a job that requires a man with lots of tact, lots of a'bility, lots of ! poise and good judgment and business ! acumen and all of that to till successfully. ' Tills lady has all those qualifications. Drop in her office some day when sinis discussing some problem with the. ( Board of Directors of the Chamber or, is handling some smooth, smive gentleman who wants to put something over?on her, perhaps, and y< u'll lie i ful*y convinced of the fact. , i The city of Kncjc Hill is known all over the country. Few people have had more to do with putting it on the J Imap than lias Miss l-Vwell. By the way, she always signs her] name to business eommunientions, "F. 1 M.Fcwell." Her Signature. 1 Folks who didn't know would naturally think from that signature ' . she is a man instead of a lady. The Char'eston News and Courier printed ' a communication from her t<> the secretary <>f% the Charleston Chamber * some time ago n<> in tin- n?ui in im| story got it "Mr. ! '. M. Howell." "! She took charge as executive soere tary of the ltoek Hill Chamber of " j Commeree in August, HUT, succeeding 1 William U. Timmons, t Hon secretary ' who resigned to join the colors. All the time she is on the look out ' for new enterprises for ltoek Hill. " | A man comes in t* look over the city ' with a view to establishing a store. L* Me comes to see the secretary and to " inquire about a location. She has the inl'ormation at hei linger - tips.- S!ie doesn't tell the stranger " that; but goes with him to the owner " of the property and trios to make the " necessary arrangements for him or to he'p in making tin m. And being accorded such co-operas tion and hospitality, tiiat stranger s naturally has a desire to locate in Hock - | Hill. - ( out* xi?ir> III?; 11 v uirwno uiuwiih - farmers and farm women' irr the Koek I Hill comrfiunily. Tlioy are rrtnutuntly coming to her for information. If she cannot give it she always knows wlierfe she can pet it for them. And she does just that. She is secretary of the York County Fair Association, which is largely an agricultural show and much of the success with which it hu3 met is due to her efforts. . Saves Money For Farmers. She has saved farmers lots of money in the%purch&se of atialfa seed and ground limestone ev^^ year since she has been secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. Under her direction laiffely, the Chamber "of Commerce put over ;?J1 war drives successfully. Funds have been raised for two good road projects and assistance has been given in the entertainment of Numerous conventions. In fact, the organization acts as clearing house fir all activities in the community with the exception of those promoted by the Y. M. C. A. "What does Kock Hill not>d most?" she was asked the other day as she sat at her xlesk busily' engaged in work. at E FEWELL ?_ She answered unhesitatingly: "A hotel, a community building with an auditorium, a gymnasium and a swimming poo!." And that is her programme now. She is the kind who usually gets what she goes after and she will hardly let up until the programme is concluded. A very modest lady is this Miss F. .M. .Fcwell who would disclaim any credit for helping to put Rock Hill on the map. "Any success with which my t (Tdrts have been rewarded," tshe said, "is because of tlie splendid co-opeitition and support that I receive at all times at the hands of the officials and members of the Chamber of Commerce and the men anu women of Rock Hill genera' ly. Praise For Fellow Workers. "We are all working to build a larger j and better city, socially, industrially and commercially and we have no other thought and no other interest. IJ do not believe that any city in the lTnitet^ States has a more loyal Chamber of Commerce and more zealous and energetic workers than are included in our personnel. And it is1 teamwork and co-operation wl/fch builds and which is responsible for all growth and progress. "That is the Rock Hill spirit of which you hear. That is the spirit which is building Rock Hill's reputation as oiM- of tlie fastest growing cities in South Carolina." .Miss Koweil has traveled widely | both in North America and abroad. She lias visited many of the largest cities of the world and lias given some | >>luily to their eommereiai ami eivie | prob'oms with a view to utilizing the information* gained in her own work i in her own city. And she is using this information every day. A Jolt for Congress.?t'nele Sam is | spending today at the rate of $10,000,000 per day; as a result lie faces a dctieit for tlie present fiscal year of 000,000. This is not the partisan charge of a Demoeratie politician; it is I the stern and timely warning of the ?ner,ji:iev i?t" the treasury in a letter to tlit* house committee on Vays and meats. He shows that expenditures last month were $113.000.000, as compared with only $76,000,000 for the ! same month a year ago. Business depression has brought about tin* ffreat slump in the revenue from taxation. And yet congress insisted upon tinker !?i ,, tX'tni'o iwiuinir ing wiin mi- umu -v.-., , taxes. Secretary Mellon foresaw last spring exactly what has happened; he warned congress hut congress refused to heed his warning. N'nw cotne the hard tacts and figures and they give a I Jolt to congress and a jar to the country. Perhaps the congress needed the one as much as the country needed the ot her.- 1 lost on Transcript. THE A. R. P S OF SHARON / Oldest Seceder Congregation ot York County. UHTIDI C CUCTfU DVIiTERQ D 1 DOW I 1IU I HULL. tlllL 1 UH II1 L./1 IL Ullilliili nuuv Organized From Among the Presbyterian Settlers in 1786, It Has Continued a Force For Good For More Than One Hundred Years. Prior to 1782, there were no Associate Reformed Presbyterians in America. In fact there were none anywhere. Before that time, there were a few Associate Anti-Burger Seceders scattered over the Unitde States. There may have been a few of this order of people in the south. To this order belonged Dr. Clark, who more than 100 years ago sowed the seed from whence sprang some of the present A. R. P. congregations of the south. _ Whether or not there were any of this sort of people in York county prior to 1782, or between that time and 1796, the writer has no means of ascertaining. The Associate Reformed Presbyterian church Is the result of a union between the Associate AntiBurger Seceders and Reformed Presbyterians, consummated in 1782. It had no organic existence in York county, i prior to 1796. Up to this time all Presbyterians in the upper counties of South Carolina belonged to the General Assembly Presbyterian church. Prior to 1796, there was an Associate Reformed Presbytery in South Carolina called the Presbytery of the Carolinas and Georgia; but it is not Unrwn that it had anv congregation or | people In Yorjt county up to that time. About 1795 or 1796. Watt's Psalms and Hymns were Introduced into the Presbyterian church of South Carolina. This was regarded by many as an Innovation to which they could not conscientiously submit. The consequence was there was considerable secession of the stricter sort in many of the congregations. Thus it seems to have been in Beersheba and Bullock's Creek congregations. It was certainly so in Beersheba as the writer has often heard from an intelligent ard pious ruling elder, who was one of the Seceders. Of this class coming both from Beersheba and Bullock's Cheek, it is pretty certain that Sharon was originally formed. , Prom all the traditional lpformation now available, it is pretty certain that the church was organized in the summer of 1796, by the Rev. James Rogers. Who constituted the first bench of elders is not now known. At an early period in the history of the congregation, Robert McKnight, John and. Andrew Wright and William Love are known to have been ruling elders in it. Whether or not they were the first cannot now be ascertained. Tradition says that among those who originally constituted the congregation were Peter Galloway and Alexander Galloway, the fathers of the Revs. Robert and 1 Johnathah Galloway, and a'so of Hugh A. ! Galloway, yet living at an advanced uge, having been near thirty-five years j a worthy and efficient ruling elder. Several families of Wrights, Robert McKniglM. a family of Millers, one of - - l__j? UUk _?lll ho. whom donated tne ianu wiih.ii ?.... | lon^s to the congregation, Yiobert and William Kennedy, the Williams, Lindj says, Bighorns, Scotts, a family of Russels from which sprang the late ' itev. R. Y. Russell of the Independent Presbyterian church, a family of Ruineys, one of which was educated for the ministry in the Associate I church, but who died of consumption I just as he was ready to be licensed, ( The descendants of several of the | above named families still belong to I the congregation. Many of them, howI ever, when the slavery question first i began to be agitated removed to Ohio and Indiana and became useful elements in those churches which now constitute the United Presbyterian church. Some removed to Tennessee. The substantial part of Hopewell. Maury county, Tennessee, was derived ! from old Sharon. In the latter part of 17DC, or the be- j : ginning of 1797, Sharon united with ' i Bethany, in the northern part4of York \ county, 4fu1 UnrmeLln the south, in a call to the Rev. Wil'iam Dixon, then recently come into this country from Scotland. Mr. Dixon was a probationer under the care of th^ Associate Reformed Presbyterian presbytery of the Cnrolinas and Georgia. He accepted ! the call above mentioned and was ordained and installed at Sharon on June 5th. 1797. The presbytery that I ordained and installed 1 ;m consisted ! of Revs. James Rogers, John Hemphill, Peter McMillen and William , Rlackstocks. Whether or not there were any ruling elders associated with them in this work, the record does not inform us. Thus Sharon Associate i Reformed congregation was furnished j with her first pastor, lacking but tr little of being eighty years ago. Shortly after the settlement of Mr. I Dixon. Dr. J. M. Mason's scheme of I frequent communions, dispensing with j days of fasting and thanksgiving coni nected therewith, began to agitate the Associate Reformed church. This was the beginning of that restless spirit of I reform which made it necessary for the I A. R. P. synod of the Carolinas and (leorgia to witnuraw num ui<- fec.i<_.c. synod of the A. R. P. church in 1821, and in the following: year attempted to abolish the very name of Associate i Reformed Presbyterianlsm, and give itlie churches, ministers and theological ???? ? / libraries into the hands of the G. A. P. church, a consummation which God was not willing to allow as we have ample evidence today in the existence ?| of the A. R. P. synod of the south, with i Rev. R. A. Ross, D. D. J her eighty ministers, and in that large 11 and influential element in the V. I*. n church, which came from the A. R. P. l< synod of the north and west. P The result of the agitation of the 1' question of frequent communion In the a A. R. P. presbytery of the Carolinas 8J and Georgia was a decision in favor of s< that scheme by a large majority of a those who constituted said presbytery, tl Of the ministerial members of that I' presbytery, Peter McMillen and Wil.'iam Dixon protested against above cl named decision and withdrew from the e< A. R. P* presbytery. Sharon congre- ti gation, then under the puatoral care of if Mr. Dixon, adhered to him with prob- si ably a very few exceptions. This ec- c cession took place about 1804 or 1805. si r* l-J t*U O it tarrieu witn a nuiuuci ui v. tions in North and South Carolina. b Very soon after this secession, prob- ir ably in 1804, the -ifljove named minis- ii ters and doubtless the people agreeing tl with them sent a petition to the Asso- p ciate synod of North America. This tl Associate synod of North America was h composed of those Associate ministers f who refused to go into the union in E 1782, which formed the A. R. P. church an<J such of the Associate- people as s adriered to them during the. period in- t tervenlng between 1782 and 1805. This ii body of Christians by a natural in- b crease and by accessions, both of min- n isters and people from Scotland, had e become a very respectable and influ- b enfial body, mostly located in New h York, Pennsylvania and Ohio. The re- t! suit of the above mentioned petition v was, the Rev. John Anderson, D. D.t f author of 'Anderson on Faith,' and P Rev. William Wilson were sent to the S south to visit these ministers and peo- s pie. At that visit they organized a t presbytery called the Associate Pres- e' bytery of the Carolinas. s Of this presbytery, Revs. McMiUen E and Dixon were the original ministe- k rial members. Mr. Dixon still contin- ri ued pastor of Sharon congregation, tl Thus you will perceive that from be- ti ing an A. It. P. congregation under the q care of the A. R. P. presbytery of the Carolinas and Oeorgia, it became an si Associate congregation under the care ic of the Associate presbytery of the tl Carolinas, in connection with the As- ti sociate synod of North America. In p this connection it still enjoyed, the p ministry of Mr. Dixon up to probably tl 1824 or 1825. I possess no means of g ascertaining the precise date when Mr. g Dixon ceased to be pastor of Sharon, e It is certain, however, that it was a si vacancy in 1826, for in that year it f< united with Tirzah and Carmel Hill in ri a call for Rev. W. M. McElwee, Cfcen tl a licentiate ot the Associate presby- p tery of the Carolinas, and a graduate o 'of the Associate Theological seminary at Canonburg, Pa. This call was pre- r< sented to Mr. McElwee in October, e 1826, and by him accepted. He began o regular preaching to this congregation tl in January, 1827, but was not ordained s and installed until the first Thursday e in April, 1827. fi According to the best information 1 o can get, the session of Sharon during a the pastorate of Mr. McElwee, consist- b ed of Joseph Higham, Andrew Roddey, Samuel Wylie and William Gibson, l This was the last session Sharon' had u in connection with the Associate pres- c by tery of the Carolinas. They have s been reported to the writer as being c ovwi men. men of orayer and good re- s I n?w.. ... ?; pute with all the people. About the a year 1X35, they all moved from South t | Carolina, Mr. liigham going to Steele i I Creek in North Carolina. The other t three all going away to the northwest, s The Rev. McElwee continued pastor ii of Sharon till 1S32. During the last r few years of his pastorate, the church ii was much vexed and torn by angry controversy on Free Masonry and the t slavery question. The result was Mr. t ! McElwee finding he could not success- y fully and peaceably enforce the rules of c i the Associate synod on these ques- c I tions, rather than compromise his con- o , science, demitted his charge in the i spring of 183:.' and in the fall of the s (same year removed to Pennsylvania, J where he still lives at a very advanc! ed age. still a very efficient and hon' ored member of the U. *1'. church. in 1835 by the removal of the above 1 | named elders it seems that Sharon as v I an Associate congregation lost its orI ganization. After this time we hear of * r no more Associate elders, nor of any v , . o (Continued on Page. Two) ^ THE liREAT PROBLEM 1 ..<v ngland Seeking to Reeca ? Fafr Seltlemecl "** AM TROUBLE IN NOW IN ULSTER tge-Old Question Is Now Bsing Con* tidered in a Way Which 8??ma to Offer Hope of Reasonable Settlement. We have all jcrown so used to think lg and speaking of the Irish problem s insoluble that the -sudden shift in ingland and Ireland to what while its rief effect lasted was an almost uni- ? ersal confidence in a successful soiuon was perhaps nothing more than n inevitable reaction. But such a pessimistic view would tobably be erroneous. There is now ? 1 the Irish situation an element that as not been in it before, and that is a istinct and preponderant will to peace n the part of the leaders of both peoles. Of course, there has long-been n earnest desire that something be one, but the present feeling is someting a good deal more insistent than lat. It looks as though Ireland were sally likely to profit after all by the leas so much in the air during the eace conference. "The principal AI<ed and associated powers" would be shamed to look each other in the face gpln if they went to war among themelves /in the near future, and by the erne token the British empire feels lat it is absolutely bound to settle this -ish question, difficult as it is. Indeed, one of the outstanding fianges wrought by the war is reveald in the altogether different' 'coirtteg* on or the British empire, and chiefly i the emDire's own estimation of U* i\t Almost overnight the British and olonials have come to think pi thenr* elves not as Subjects of a common, mpire whose teat is at Westminster, ut rather as a group of nations united * i interest, traditions, institution^,' drifl i most cases, in origin. The tenuous dread of the supremacy of the British arllamfent is hardly more substantial nan the king's right of veto. As a coesive force it has been replaced by the ee!ing of community in the union of Ingllsh-speaking nations. Therefore it is gulte natural that It hould have been the colonial empire o which England, turned for a friendly ntermediary in the eternal. Irish troupe. Jan Smuts is probably the foreiost public man in the whole colonial mpire, and there are few so qualified y their part in their own country's lstory and their own career to look at lie Irish problem so nearly eye to eye * pith the Irish themselves. Long beore he ever dreamed that he was to be remier of a South African nation Imuts had fought the English and re- s isted England's rule quite as hard as he most devoted Irishman; in the vents that brought on the final death truggle betweeh the English and the loers he was a large figure, and had nown at first hand the old question of ace-confllct which seems to pervade le Irish trouble, and in his own county's conflict there was a religious uestion, Jufii as there is in Ireland. "Slim Jannle" lived to see, and :rangest of all to administer, domin?n home rule for South Africa, one of ip results of the memorable "flowing de" that swept the Liberals into ower early in the century. The lmressive thing is that Smuta now so tioroughiy believes In it. Of this he ave clear demonstration when he oe? anized his "ragtime army" that endd the German power in Africa. Coo equently Premier Smuts is one or tne ?w Britishers or colonials who dobM eally go and talk with the Irish naonallsts about their struggle and the roffered dominion home rule, counting: n a wholly sympathetic reception. Lloyd George and De Valera have aleady spent several hours in confernee, and while nothing has yet cokne f it, it is a reasonable conviction that he British empire, only yesterday Inlsting on being the largest stockholdr in the league of nations, will hardly til to prove her ability to handle her wn age-old domestic trouble in such way as to make it cease to be a trou>le. Of course, the real trouble is with lister. It is hard for us Americans to inderstand that the Ulster problem an be so serious and apparently so incrutabie as it seems to be. It is the hief remaining difficulty in the Irish ettlement, the irreducible minimum of bsoiute independence demanded by he irreconcilable Sinn Feiners seemngly having gone by the board. On he problems presented by this Ulster tumbling-block Smuts cannot speak ? n the light of parallel previous expeience, and indeed previous experlehce s of little use there In any event. Our confidence in a fairly near soluion of the Irish problem is based more han anything else on the sense of oung and vigorous manhood that ha* ome to the British empire in Its new onception, imagination and picturing f itself, and that it simply is not gong to let the problem remain unolved. Mark of the True Qtntl*man^-In a firge Jhrk in one of the eastern cttiet hero apo aenta nhout the bandstand irith this notice posted on them: "The seats in the vicinity of the tandstand are for the use of ladies. Gentlemen should make use of theip. ,. inly after the former are seated."?The American Legion'Weekly. ...... .. ./