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l. m. grist's sons, Pubii.h.r^ & jt'amilj jfleirspaper:" J; or (he ftromotion of (he fhlitieal, Social, Jjgricnltnral and (Commercial interests of (he people. T E R " ^^carr'nT*" *"8* =- - - ?- ?? ... ' Tr,&l ESTABLISHED 1855 "" YORK, 8. C.. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9,1921. - ~ NO. 98 VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS ' , . Jrlef Local Paragraphs ol More o Less Interest. PICKED DP BY ENQUIRES REPORTER! 8torie? Concerning Folks and THingi Some of Which You Know am t Some You Don't Know?Condense! / For Quick Reading. "Been a lot of fresh meat offered lately," observed one yesterday. "You see it was pretty cool last week and - V. r\ rrc Thin TVrtOli u lUt vi n?itvu uv5a. i iiitj ii vw.i it has been warfner and many people ' afraid the meat won't keep are offering it pretty cheap?especially ' sausage." Glad to Sao Him Back. "Seemed like old times to hear Hon, J. ?. Brice, attorney #for York county back on the Job at the monthly meeting of the commissioners in the courthouse Wednesday," said a courthouse employe. "He didn't try to do much Halklng and the faij^lliar voice could be heard just every once in a while: but I tell you it was good *o know he was there." Where He Lives. "Do you live far about here?" asked Views and Interviews of John Craig Kirkpatrick, of ^he board of county commissioners, Wednesday. Mr. Kirkpatrick laughed at the old, old question and then replied: "I'll tell you just as close as possible. 1 am 14 mues rrom iuiiv wu mvuov, 14 miles from Chester courthouse; 7 J miles from Sharon; 8 miles from McConnellsville and 11 miles from Lockhart?just as far up and down as I can get." Expecting Good Business Not all the merchants and in fact no big part of them are expecting holi* day trade to be dull this Christmas. For instance listen to a young lady employe -of the Joye Jewelry Co., in Rook Hill: "Why we are expecting a great big trade, in fact the largest we have ever known ai\d we are already preparing for it and are getting that trade. We have been selling Christ mas things now for two weeks or more / and in fact we have almost as much business as we cap handle." York County In Good Shape. t "Looks to me like business is very much or* the boom in. Yprk county as compared with Anderson county," said John A. Neely, prominent Andersonian and a native son of York county who was here this week in attendance upon the court of common pleas. "Oh things could be a lot worse in Anderson county," said Mr. Neely; "but I tell you we have been mighty hard hit over there. York county didn't buy nearly so much $350 an acre land as Anderson county did and York cohnty didn't buy nearly so many automobiles and engage in wild orgies of extravagance in other ways that Anderson ccunty did." Had Bad Dreams. When Deputy Sheriff Quinn went after Mitch Burris, the negro who killed Joe Gill the other night, the woman to whose house the negro fled after the killing, indicated that Burris wan in an adjoining room in bed. Deputy Quinn went inside and found the bed empty, but after a little searph found the hupted negro underneath. . j "Come out here," said the deputy, "what are you trying to hide under there for?" i "I wusn't trying to niae, ouus, p??tested the negro. "Well, how did you get ufider the bed?" auked Mr. Qulnn. "Boss, it was dls way. I went to a, sleep on the bed; but I got to dreamin' that they were after me to kill me. and I just edged off fum dem, until I done got down under de bed. No, 1 wusgt hiding. I 'c'ar' I wusn't hidin'." Blind Man Makes Fires. As has been remarked before Mr. Paul G. McCorkle, blind coroner of York county tind delightful gentleman is able to walk about the streets unassisted and to do many things for himself: but one did not know until the other evening that he could k'ndle and light the fire in his office stove in wiatcr. Views and Interviews had business ' 1 V with Coroner McCorkle in Ms office in the Wltherspoon building in York "*' 1 v 11? ? i?v him vine me omt-i mgi.t ? engaged in the act of kindling a fire. "Let me do that for you," he said. "Otf thank you/' replied Coroner >].cCqrkle. "I'm not going to build a flre'Viow because the business with you will require"only a few minutes. I am Just getting ready for in the morning. You understand, I always put the kindling wood, etc., in tho stove at right and then when I come down in the morning I have nothing to do but strike a match to it." What Would You Do About It? Discussing collections, sales, etc., the sales manager for a prominent New York firm who was in this section a few days ugo told this story: "We sold a bill of goods to a mcr rlia.it at a little cross roads village in ono of our southern states, and wjien the goods arrived at the village lie refused them. The firm prepared to. institute suit for collection and wroto tt> the railroad agent at the village for information about tlio arrival of the merchandise, to the president of the bank for information concerning the financial standing of their customer, to the mayor of the city asking firr-i n'^nH'-ii ? him to recommend a good lawyer to handle their case, and to the customer, threatening suit if he did not make payment at once. They received a reT ply reading something like this: "I received the letter telling me I had better pay up. 1 am the railroad agent here, and'also received the let9 tcr you wrote to the agent. I am president and sole owner of the local bank, and can assuro you as to my financial '* standing. As the mayor nf the city 1 * hesitate to refer you to a lawyer, since i I am the only .member of the bar in this vicinity. If I was not also pastor I of the Methodist church 1 would also' , tell you to go to ." 1 I The Jap Got His. i . Although he ha8 no seat at the coni ference table on disarmament now holding forth in Washington, 'Gene . Hutchison, secretary to Congressman W. F. Stevenson :is very much interested and is naturally; getting all kinds ' of dope possible about it. Mr. Hutchison sent Views and Interviews this clipping from a Washington newspaper the otheh day which relates, a , humorous little incident in connection , with the conference: Japanese nlertness is illustrated by this story: They say that when the representative of the Jnpanose embassy wer.t to the State Department with the list of the refreshment requirerhent of his people, the official concerned, after glancing over the extremely brief schedule, remarked: "I see you do not intend t? do much entertaining." Quick as a flash, the Jap nnese said, reaching for the paper, "Excuse rae, I see I have brought the wrong memorandum," Within half an hour he was back with a catalogue which compared favorably with the 1 memorandum submitted by other em- J bassies. Xo .complaints have been 1 heard about Japanese parsimony In liquid entertainment. 1 Hardly Breaking Even. . 1 Talked the other day with a sala- ' ried employe of the business office of a ' large mi'l corporation i^ a another town. The conversation was of a private nature and fo? obvious reasons the name of the Individual In question 1 is not to be mentioned. But the relia- ' bility of the information may be taken on the authority of The Yorkville En- ' quirer. "What about the prosperity of the 1 yarn industry at thts time?" was asked. ' "Why, we are doing better," was the reply. I \ ??.. n.nns,.?'> iTCajwii{? auj aiviivj , "No, not that; .but we arc losing less ' than we have been losing since July- 1 Came within a few dollars of striking even on November business," "Whut is the trouble?" i "Just cannot sell our yarns at a'i profit. Big buyers are holding off in1 ] the hopes that prices wil1 be lower, and 1 we are piling up our production in the < hope that prices will be better. Be- i cause of the peculiar character of our t product, we arc doing better than some | of them; but I think the makers of < standard hard ar.d soft yarns are* far- ) ing considerably worse than we are. ( "I can't tell you why, but I am sure | that European conditions cut a big fig-.lf ure. For instaifce, I would not know a ) German mark if I should see a basket ; full: but all of us in the cotton mill j business understand that when the i German mark goes down, cotton yarns j seem to go down in sympathy." Hidden Undtr Sheet of Paper. 1 "Did you ever kill anybody by run- j ning over them?" asked Views and In-! ( terviews, of a Southern railway engi- i neer last Saturday night. "Well," re- ? plied the engineer after a Blighuhcsl- i tation, "something like ten years ago j there was a dead negro picked up on j the side of the road after I had passed t alortg, and they said I had run over; i him. But I don't know for sure. It ^ t was like this," continued the engineer, i | "I was running between Augusta and ] Charleston, on a train leaving Augusta | about 2:45 in the morning. It was a | slow schedule and jusl before day one "j morning Just this side of Denmark, I i saw ahead of me a big sheet of paper, .? such as is sometimes used for lining the inside of cjjrs loaded with flour, i lying on the rails and ties. We were i just drifting along at about fifteen , miles an hour and I did not pay atten- 1 tion to the paper and passed over it. 1 Later when I reached Charleston thej] trainmaster camo up and asked me if Ij < knew anything about killing a negro on j i the track near Denmark. I told himb that I didn't kill any negro. 'Yes, you ! 1 did," said the trainmaster. 'Do you re- ' i member running over a big piece of i paper at that point?' he asked. 'Yes, I l remember running over a piece of pa- ] per', I replied. 'Well,' said the trainmaster, 'there was a negro under that paper and the west bound train picked 11 him up dead.' 'Well,' I replied, 'I i might have killed him, but I certainly ;' didn't know anything about it.' And,"j< nnnoiudod the engineer, "I am not right ! sure yet that I killed the negro. Just l before I ran over the paper, 1 had pass- i ed several negroes on the side of the j : track and 1 have always had an idea < that those negroes killed the other negro in a gambling row and placed his, i | body on the track under the big piece h ' of paper." !' ? : ?Xorth Carolina legislature, called;1 J into special session by Governor Mor- < rison to pass the municipal finance 1 1 ! bill which failed of passage at the last j I scssfon because of a clerk's error, and i to provide for a deficit in the state school fund, met at eleven o'clock Tuesday morning. Hills providing for ' the abolition of capital punishment j and the 'Australia ballot in the state I also were- to be introduced. i V I . " DISARMAMENT " Each Nation is Wondering it Any Nation Will do it. FRANCE JS GREATLY CRITICIZED i Noted Writer Does Not Think That Conference in Washington is Going to Amount to Much?Thinks No One Should be Surprised if it Dees not Mean Peace to the World. Hy Frederick J. Haskin }Vashinpton, IX C.?That the disarmament conference has become a contest, In which each of tho nations represented is striving to pain some relative advantage in naval and mili-j tary strength over the others, is now apparent to all who havo closely followed the proceedings. Furthermore, it is no surprise to those who uijderstood the nature of the gatherings. No nation is going to disarm as long as the causes of international war remain unchanged, for the simple reason that they are bound to cause war again. A certain saving in taxes is the most that can be expected from tho disarmament pliase of tho conference. Its consideration or tho Far East question, on tha other hand, may be regarded, as the nearest thing to a sincere attempt which mod. ern diplomacy has ever made to re^ move causes of war. Whether the attempt will have any success at all remains doubtful. i Franco is coming in for a great deal of criticism because of her refusal to reduce her standing army, which she asserts she needs to protect her against Germany and Russia. It has been pointed out repeatedly that both of these nations are jfcapacitated for r; on indefinite length of time. France is accused of employing sophistries to Establish her right to a large army. So. it appears, she is, and so are all Iho other nations. Her standing army Is all Fntnce has. She possesses no strength on the sea, where she is out- ' clnesed by three other powers?Eng- | land, tho United States and Japan. Bacb of those -stations Is trying to get out of the disarmament conferences some advantaga. in naval armament. Japan, stands out resolutely for a ratio tvhieh will leave her relatively strong- 1 ?r than ghe wait before the conference. She brings forward the sophistry that ' tier peculiar position makes necessary , 'hlff extra strength. i *T QnKmarinp OuftfttJOn. England stands out for reducing the j submarine to the lowest possible i status. Hemmed in on her little island, Great Britain is more menaced ( ay the pubmarine than by anybody " >lse. It nearly starved her during the ] war. It is capable of making the ransportation of food and material 'rom her colonies almost impossible, j Dn the other hand, it is not important ] o the defense her short infeular , 'Oast line. Hence largo submarine ( Totillas and the development of the ( submarine are the greatest menaces ( :o England. She is in favor of almost 1 ibolishlng submarines. She also comes 'orvvard with her little sophistries. < IVhat'a horrible thing submarine war- < 'are is! '1 The United States is not so im- j pressed with this horror. Submarines i ire extremely useful on the defense )f a long coastline like ours. We are n favor of a rather laVgc supply of submarines. Furthermore, the genu- | neness of our desire to disarm was i^ut to the test, it seems, when poison [as was mentioned. It was suggested j :hat poison gas he eliminated rJto- < ?other from international warfare, as ] he most .horrible weapon of all, and j :he American delegation demurred. It is said that our war department has < Ihe formula for the most destructive < ?as on earth, and that in the next war j it will be our strongest asset. Arc we < ?oIng to throw it away? We should j jay not. i All of this ip no criticism of cmyJJV?. It is merely a statement of the ] Inevitable. No nation is going to dls irm as long as the world is full of 1 hir.gs and situations that are crpa- i ale of causing international wars. ; Disarmament will be possible when oause for international war has been | ibolished everywhere as completely, i for example, as cause for war between l the United States and Canada has t>een ibolished. And these causes for in- j ternatlonal war will be abolished when i the common man refuses to fight and \ pay taxes. 1 A good many common men in tho : world are in revolt against bloodshed < and taxes now. That is the. real rea- < 3on why the conference assembled. That is tho reason for mil of its b un- i combe about peace and fraternity, and j for what sincere efforts it is making ] to establish in the Far East some sort ' of an arrangement that will be less i immediately and obviously productive of conflict than the present one. ] But in the main the causes of in- ] tcrnntional war will net even be ; touched by the conference. The causes < of international wars are the quarrels s of investors of different nationalities i over concession of trade and natural I resources in countries not strong i 1 r\ Hnfonr? homttf'l l'nq F!vf?PV I international war simmers down to! i that in the long run. The Ir.te World war was fought for a large number of i high ideals, as we all know. And we i all know that none of them were real- J; ized and that when the dust of battle ' < settled the victors were to be seen di- 11 viding up, among their respective in- 11 vestcrrs, oil wets, Iron deposits, spheres of influence ard littfc things like that. The United States vent into the war with no selfish Interest hut she came out of it with the financial mastery of the world in her left pants pocket. N , , WJiat Benefits i?y Victory? tj Yet how this financial mastery of the world has benefited the vatf who works for wages or'a salary in this country, It is han| to discover. He cither fought or paid for that mastery, but if called upon to produce his share of the benefit he would have a hard lime doing: it. So it always^ is. The common man never shares inN the material benefits of a war except "In a temporary and accidental way. Those go" to a few financiers. What the common man gets is the fun of fighting and paying taxes and the emotional exaltation of engaging in a great patriotic enterprise. x That these things tire worth something to him is evident from the amount he pays for fchem. It is futile to pretend that warfnas no appeal to the common man. If it doesn't have, there wouldn't be anjr war. The common mans life is apf to^be* a monotonous restricted affalft. War may suddenly make it exciti ig, intense. War brings to a peop b an enormous amount of misery, i tit it also brings an enormous amoun' of excitement, of the joy of primitive : npulse unleashed, and of a great cmot cmal debauch. It can scarcely be dli pute'd that there is some human need which war satisfies. Modern iotcrni tional war is the spectacle of certain nterested parties working ta satisfy tl it nec<? and In so doing to promote ertaln profitable purposes of their ow j The flaw in the sj^tem is that ever Bincfc the Middle Ages war has been becoming less and less satisfactory-to the common man as a means of satisfying his craving for combat, a'dventure, and emotional explosion. In -the Middle Ages war was a sort of great free-for-all fight in which men encased in cast IrOn banged at each other with long sticks. Nearly everybody had a good time, and not so many were killed. A war could, and did, go on for a hundred years without doing iny great harm. And then there were the Crusades. Who wouldn't like to go on Junkets such as those. Then came the great age of discovery and colonization. Here again war became a delightful adventure. From Ccrtez's subjugation of Mexico - -v- , IV. down to Luster s lasi siano, mo tuu?f luest of Iho Americans wilderness \yas in heroic adventure that rivaled the l*i Ddyssey. Those wars had appeal to the imaginitlon, they gave the common man a ] fral thrill, and they did not exhaust nations or peoples. Modern war is an adventure for i comparatively few and a hard, miser- , ible affair for many, and it does ex- , fiaust both nations and peoples. It i ;ven sometimes destroys the inen who "xpected to benefit by it. Even men (1 if finance concede that the last war ( rnst too much. Some of them went ( nrokc. " * And the common man is disillusion- < 2d. That is the great point. Compare | lie feeling in this country now with < hat which existed after the Spanish- ] American war, and you see where'the eal hope of peace lies. I PALMETTO GLEANINGS ,i 1 Items of Interest Gathered From All < Sections of 8outh Carolina. ] ? Greenwood expects to entertain i 35,000 people from all sections of South Carolina in connection with Marshal Foch of France's brief stop of thirty ninutes in the city toilay. ?13. H&rt Moss, prominent lawyer of Drangoburg broke his leg at St. jsorge, Saturday night wh#n returning from attending one of the sessions xf the South Carolina Methodist conference In that city. He fell off a narrow sidewalk into a ditch.' ? The enrollment of Clemson College has reached 994. ^nderson county has i total of 'S3 students beinsj far in the ead;( Greenville is second with 53; j ivhile Oconee has 53. York county h:js 59 boys at Clemson. ? In order to better tight against burglars and crooks the city of Green-, vllle has ordered the lighting of all hack alleys. ? C. D. For-tner has been appointed prohibition officer for the Spartanburg territory. He was a representative in the general assembly from Spartanburg county until 1914 when he was x candidate for railroad commissioner xn the Bleaae ticket and was badly, iefeated. ? Ti,n ct.nto hiarhwav commission has aeen notified that a carload of 1922 ; automobile license plates will bo de-11 livcrcd in Columbia by December 15. j The licenses are to be distributed be- i tween January 1 and February 1. < ? South Carolina has already col- j lected approximately 51.200,000 of j federal aid from the government this rear, a figure above all the amount collected from 1917 to 1920. Figures nt the office of the highway department in Columbia show that during Llio past three years and tho months for this year a total of 52,077,000 has seen received in Federal aid by this ; state. ? Mrs. Elizabeth W. Alston Pringle, 7G, author of "The Woman Ilice Planter," and other novels, died at her home at Plantersville, near Georgetown early Monday morning. She was a j daughter of the late Governor Alston of South Carolina. . ' i PRESIDENT TO CONOHESS House And Senate Listen to Mdby Suggestions. URGES HtLPIon" ST4RHAIG. .RUSSIA 1 ( Urgent Recommendation^. .as to the , Tariff?Conference Between Capital , and Labor for the Settfemfent-of Dif- > ' ficulties?Plain Common Sense In ' - . ^ I * \ t - I . Recommendations. ' ' ' Washington, December 6.?President 1 Harding informed .congress today, In 1 his annual message that "a most grat- ' ifying world accomplishment" by the c arms conference "is not improbably/* ? The message was delivered' by the * president in person in., the chamber of x the house and in the presence of the c delegates to the conferdhco .and most c of the diplomats regularly stationed in Washington. The president urgently recommended c early enactment oft. the .permanent tar- r iff and foreign debt refunding bills. He i also announced that later'he would c make some recommendations about re- J m'wea cunHiutrniiiuii ui uit* utA piv- c gramm?, ind suggested consideration s By congress of an amendment to the g legislation to end the issue of non-tax- li able bonds. a "Proper encouragement" for the co- c operative marketing programme from t agriculture was recommended by the c executive. He also told congress it g should give its "earliest attention" to a t general policy of transportation, of dis- a tributed industry and highway con- e struction. N J Other recommendations irtclude:"' b Plans "of conference of common ft counsel of mediation arbitration /or jo-' y dicial determination of (controversies n between capital and labor." o Text of Message. o The text of President Hardlng's'mes- u sage to congress follows: a Mr. Speaker and members of the tl congress: w It is a \efy gratifying privilege to p come to the congress with the republic c at peace with all the nations of the tl world. More, it 4s equally gratifying Jo b report that our country is not only r: free -from ever^ impending menace of o war, but there are growing assurances n of the permanency of the peace which tl we so deeply cherish. o For approximately ten years we have y dwelt amid menaces of war or as par- fi ticipants in war's actua'ltiei, pnd the * Inevitable aftermath with Its disorder- a ed conditions has added to the difficulties of government tvhich adequate ly cannot be appraised except by those tl who are in immediate contact and t< know the responsibilities. Our tasks y, would-.be less difficult if we .had only ti ourselves to consider, but so much 'of w the world was involved, the disordered tl conditions are so well-,nigh universal, tl sven among nations not engaged in ac- u tual warfare, that no permanent read- sj justments can be effected wlthoift con- b sideration of our inescapab'e relationship to the world affairs in finance r< and trade. Indeed, we should be un- tl worthy of our best traditions if we jr were unmindful of social, moral and h political conditions which are not of lirect concern to us, but which do ap- b< peal to the hujpan sympathies and the a; very becoming interest of a people w blest with our national good fortune. p( It is not my purpose to bring to you tl a programme of world restoration. In a( the main, such a( programme must be worked out by the nations niost directly concerned. They, must themselves turn to the heroic remedies for the n menacing conditions under which they 8 are struggling, then *ve can help and t( we can mean to help. We shall do so unselfishly because there is compensa- n tion in the consciousness of assisting, selfishly because the commerce an.. In- ei ternatlonal exchanges In trade, which w marked our high tide of fortunate advancement are possible only when the c nations of all continents are restored to stable order and normal relationships. I am very sure we sha|l have no con- si diet of opinion about constitutional du- 01 ties or authority. During the anxieties nf war, when necessity seems compel- w ling, there was excessive grants of authority and extraordinary concentra- 01 tion of powers in the chief executive. 61 The repeal of war-time legislation and the automatic expirations which attend the peace proclamations have put an jnd to these emergency excesses, but I p bave the wish to go further than that. ^ [ want to join you in restoring, in the ^ most cordial way the spirit of coordi nation, and that mutuality of confl- pi 3ence and respect which is necessary hi representative popular government. Granting that we are fundamentally 01 i representative popular government, 01 with political parties'the governing '' agencies, I believe the political party In power should assume responsibility, 01 determine upon policies in the conference which supplements conventions a and election campaigns, and then strive1 ^ for advancement through adherence to | c< theyd'ccepted policy. Budget System. In. these urgent economies we shall t( be immensely assisted by the budget ir system for which you made provision in the extraordinary session. The first l< budget is before us. Its preparation is I a signal achievement and the perfec- l) lion of the system, a thing impossible V, o fnr itfl int~ Ill LUC ICW 1HVIIW1.. ?* T tial trial, will make its enactment the n, c beginning of the greatest reformation in governmental practices since the be- J5 ginning of the re'public. Foreign Loans. There.is pending a grant of authority ' *- -4 -J. ^ / 'J '.. >' \af. to the administrative branch of the governnient.for the funding and settlement of our vast foreign loans growing out of our grant of war credita With the hands of the executives held impotent to deal with these debts we are hindering urgent readjustments ^mong j ii-i-i jur uvuiurs aim auuornpiimiuiK nutniUK for ourselves. I Ihlnk'it is fair for the :ongress to- assume thfit the executive branch of the government would adopt 10 major policy in dealbqg with these natters which would conflict with the jurposes of congress in authorising the oans, certainly not without asking concessional approval, but there are nihor problems incident to prudent oan transactions and the safeguarding >f our interests which cannot even be ittempted without this authorization, t will be helpful to-ourselves and it vill Improve conditions among our lebtors if funding and the settlement >f defaulted interest may be negotiated. Merchant Marine. The previous congress, deeply conerned in behalf of our merchant maine, 1920, enacted the legislative ship>lng law, designed for the upbuilding f the American merchant marine. Imong other things provided to encurage our shipping on the world's eas, the executive wag directed to ive notice of the termination of all exBting commercial treaties in order to dmlt of reduced duties on imports arried in American bottoms. During he life of the act: no' executive has omplied with the'order of the conress. When the present administraion came into responsibility it began n early inquiry into the failure to excute the expressed purpose of the ones act. Only ofte conclusion has een possible. Frankly, members of iouse and senate, eager as I am to Join ou in the making of an American lerchant marine commensurate with ur commerce, the denouncement of ur commercial treaties would involve s in a chaos of trade relationships and dd indescribably to the copfuslon of he already disordered commercial rorld. Our power to do so is not disuted, but power and ships, without omity of relationship, will not glvfe us he expanded trade which is inseparaly linked with "a great merchant maine. Moreoven the applied reduction f dhty, for vrtiich the treaty denouncelents were riecessary, encouraged only tie carrying of dutiable imports tto ur shores, while the tonnage which nfurls the flag on the seas is both ree and dutiable and the* cargoes rbich make a nation eminent, in trade re outgoing, faTherfh&n fficomiii&: Permanent Tariff Law. There 1? before yqn the contempJaion of enactment Of what has been ;rmed a "permanent'' "tariff law, the rord "permanent** beinft. used 1 to dlsrgnish it ffom the emergency act 'hlch the congress expedited' ety;ly in tie extraordinary session and which' is ie law today. I cannot too strongly rge an early completion of this neceairy legislation. It is needed :to 'stallize our industry at home;' it is'esintlal to make more definite ouf trade lations abroad. More, it is vital*to ie preservation of many o^ ourvown ldustries which became so notably the feblood of our nation. There is now, and .there always will b, a storm of conflicting opinion about n?r tariff n.vlsinn Wo rAnriot go far Tong when we base our tariffs on the olicy of preserving the productive acvities which enhance employment and Id to our national prosperity. ' Must Save Ourselves. / 1 We are a creditor nation, not by nortal processes, but made po by war. It i not an unworthy selfishness to seek > save ourselves when the processes f that salvation are not only not deled to others, but comthended to lem. We seek to undermine for oth s no industry by. which they subsist; e are obHgated to permit the underlining of none of our own which make >r employment and maintained activies. . * . , At this point I must disavow any dore to enlarge the executive's powers r add to the responsibilities of office, hey are already .too large. If there ere any other plan I would prefer itv There is a manifest difference of pinion about the merits of American aluation. Many nations have adopt3 delivery valuation as to the basis >r collecting duties; that is, they take le cost of the imports delivered at the ort of entry as the basis for levying uty. It is 110 radical departure,' in iew of the varying conditions and the Isordered state of money values, to rovide for Am 31 lean \aluation, but lere cannot be ignored the danger of nch a valuation, brought to the level C our own production costs making ur tariffs prohibitive. It might do so 1 many instances where imports ought ) bo excluded. I believe congress light to consider the desirability of le only promising alternative, namely, provision authorizing proclaimed merlcan valuation under- prescribed mditions on any given list of articles Much has been said about the proactive policy for ourselves making it npossible for our debtors to discharge leir obligations to us. This is a con:ntion not now pressing for declaraon. if wo must choose between a eople in idleness pressing for the payLent of indebtedness, or a people reiming the normal ways of employient and carrying the credit, let us noose the latter. Sometimes we apraise largest the hiihian ill most vivid 1 our minds. We have been giving, nd are giving now of our Influence (Continued on Page Twelve.) ' *K c 4 --V- '-' 'v'"| ROAD TO BOYD BRIDGE Many Yorkvllle Business Peogle fin# * Old Chariotle luT - . , lOCfl OPPOSITION IS MjHp* Fort Mill Delegation AsKfc ^gmmiaaioners to Recommend F^dc^y, Aid-* Ciaims Aggregating Severai T^oueand Dollars Approved and Ordered Paid. Petitions signed by citizens of York ville, Hickory Grove, McConneUsvllIe and other sections, asking thdlfahe on Charlotte road he deslsuapif as the Main road from the count*|^E to the new Boyd Bridge now M|ft builf jointly by York and Se<nuenbi^r|> counties "since this route ii our opinion serves the most people jp4 is near- * er and better in every respect" were presented to the county commissioners at their regular monthly meeting in the court house Wednesday. Rights of wp.y signed by residents living along the desired route and also their -offer of labor and teams representing aeveral-hundfed days were also filed." The pledges of free rights of way as presented outllt.ed the desired road route as follows: + "We-the undersigned land owners agree to give the county free rights ofway near our land for the proposed highway to the new -Catawba bridge commencing at th? corporate limits of York near the Charlotte road and following the general direction of the Charlotto rood to or near the E. MeekWliyams farm, a.uer.ee bearing to the * left to or near the J. J. Rothnson farm, thence to or near the. W. S. Hogue farm; thence by way of, to or near the J. D. B. Currence farm, then to or near the Sam Craig farm ^nd then to . Bridge at .Buster Boyd Perry." Both the petitions advocating this' route and the petitions" of landowner* aro numerously signed." Supervisor Brown, stated Wednesday that the commissioners had takenlrJB no action on thfe petitions. " S. S. Glenn, secretary of the Bethel Township road cbmniOwida and prominent citizen of that township when, asked Wednesday the attitude of. his section in' regard to the proposed route, said: "Naturally our people don't want the rood to the new Boyd Bridge to come that far down. We favor' a road leafllrfg ffonf tntf seat bttf m Lincoln road: thcq*e->|f?f by A. L. Campbell's and on.to the.river brides. Knew of No Petitions. "I did not know of &ny petition-gotten up by anybody in regard to tho road route until advise?, by The Rhqiiirer. Advocates of 6uh route holvo therefore not solicited .any si gnat uses nor attempted to secure -rights of ip# for the 'rodtc although we wocid doubtfesa have little troilble' doing io. ' "Of courBe now that the adVocotta . of -the Charlotte road jrou|e; have giltten up petitions we will &se no thh* in getting busy in doing a slnsllw stunt and trying I to see ' if ^wh oitn't offer the <k>mmissioadrs a li^e more^ inducement than has bee? hfcreds? far. Rest assured we " right busy." , ' v' : * Want Fsdsml JAicll * ' ' v Several citizens of Fort \fill appearX ed before the' cooinllssioherft/at \yed* esday's session asking the'" ehdorse ment of the commissioner* in Securing / Federal aid for a hard surtace'iroad to HI be built from the Cdtawba river blfldg* through the town 'of Fort Mill' to the Mecklenburg county line. ' Ftrt Mill township voted bonds in the sum of $75,000 some time ago for the buildtng| of better roads in that township &hd it is proposed to use 4 good part of tha^t money in building a hard suiface*road from the Chorry brldgfe to the Mecklenburg line.- The Fort Mill deleg&tiotf gave the commissioners'to understetu% that they would of course lfk4 to havo as much Federal'aid aa they can pos? sibly get. ' * Many Claims Paid. , S. [ Claims against, the couiity totaling several thousand dollars were ap* proved and ordered paitj. One credit tor with an'account qf only a teyt dollars came in just before the board wound up its v/ork for the day, saying he. understood if the claim wejre ijot approved atthe meet Ins he would, naive to wait another month. He id?;' . vised that such was the case and ho ... ? ft" *w7?.-/ got his money. MUCHLY MARRIED WOM^ty^ i Collected $400 Monthly From Unel? Sam for Twelvo Husband*, At least twelve husbands .who 'jfefyed In the army or navy are credited ' iif Mrs. Helen Drexler of Wauke^an, ill., the champion collector of government allotment checks, according to federal authorities who have her in custody in Chicago. She is alleged with having married husbands from many different parts of the. country divorced none and received approximately $400 a month from the government fog the past three years. Government agents who arrested Mrs. Drexler say she devoted 1}|M! snare time, not needed to marry has* bands and collect allotment checks, to traveling over tho country?at ernment expense evading secret *?> vice men who were on her trait "At the federal building, the wouap wag said to have admitted cashing allots ment checks for ah even doien war veteran husbands. ' ^ ,