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; @A?? Conducted by Jas. D. Grist. Let U> Know. vimi know one ex-soldier or aev cral ox-soldiers who arc in bad shape as a result of their war service and who need hospital treatment? If so so let the post commander ,or the service officer of Meech Stewart ' Post know about them. State Commander Lumpkin wrote the service officer the other day that he is ready to send a representative frcm the Veteran's Bureau to York county any time there were cases of ex-soldicrs in need of help. From Adjutant Sawyer. Ben M. Sawyer of Columbia, adjutant cf the South Carolina Department of the American legion writes the past commander of Meech Stewart Post: "This is to acknowledge and thank you fori yours of January 19 sending us tLc list of newly elected officers of Meech Stewart Post together with a copy of your annual report as post commander. Your report speaks for itself. Your administration was a success and I congratulate you upon the successful activities conducted under your leadership." Newspapers and Magazines. Said a member of Meech Stewart Post the other day: "I wish the .officers of the post would subscribe for a few newspapers and magazines for .the club rooms. The club does not get a single dally newspaper and tho only magazines seen there are those that are brought up by membors. We should have^ more to read." Fort Mill Interested in Bonus. Fort Mill TlmeB: World war veterans in the Fort Mill community are watching: the progress of the proposed bonus legislation now being considered by a committee of congress. Should the bonus bill which it is thought will be introduced in the house of representatives within the next few days be enacted into law probably as many as 200 ex-service men who live in the town of Fort Mill, the township outside the tbwn and the upper section of Lancaster county will be beneficiaries of the bonus to the extent, it is estimated, of something like $80,000, if the amount of compensation allowed the men is $1 per day for the time they were in the service as has been proposed. All the Fort Mill men who were overseas with Company Q. 118th infantry, were in the service nearly two years as were other Fort Mill mep. There were perhaps less than a score of negro ex-service men in^the Fort Mill community. Of Interest to Veterans. Because he had not his commitment . papers, Wallis D. Willis, a disabled soldier, wus turned away from government hospitals to wander in the streets of Washington until overcome by exposure. Roused by Willis's treatment, the American Legion is starting a vigorous investigation of red tape evils. Money received by the United States from foreign countries in payment of debts would go to ex-soldiers under a bill introduced in the house. This measure supplements the American Legion's adjusted compensation bill. i The 43,262 good deeds to unfortunate buddies performed by American Legion posts of Minnesota in 1921, cost $75,000. The list does not include 31,000 cases wherein hospital treatment, back pay, vocational training, and compensation were secured for disabled men. Slackers and draft dodgers will not escape punishment through the operation of the statue of limitations if the house passes a bill to continue the military status of deserters. The American Legion, supposing the measure, urges unrelenting Federal warfare against slackers. States which pay adjusted compensation to their ex-service men now include: Minnesota, Maine, Michigan, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, Xt w Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island. South Dakota, Vermont, Wisconsin and Washington, according to John Thomas Taylor, vice-chairman of the American Legion's legislative committee. t (lun play between the chaml>er of commerce and the American Legion pest at Arkon Colorado, resulted in the death of 936 rabbit:;, which were distributed to needy families in Denver. The1 shooting match benefited farmers, who have been greatly trou men wun moons. Legionnaires throughout the country have i>een invited to join the second annual ascent of Mount Hood b> the American Legion post at Hood Hirer, Oregon. The elevcn-thci sandfoot climb wilF be made by the partj during the summer, in continuance ol a custom started by last year's expedition. Twenty hospitals in three years is the record of one disabled fighter discovered by the American Legion. Pliy^ sicians at l'ort Lyon, Colorado, when this patient is now being treated, saj that he at least will never suffer froiT fitting in a rut. Due to Ignorance. The following statement by Hanfon MacXider, national commander of tin American Legion, in the New Yorl World, will be of interest to Yorl county members of the American Le gion: The Americag Legion feels that op position to the adjusted compensation bill lies principally in ignorance of what the bill really calls for. We have yet to meet the man who has read the bill who opposes it. A brief study of this legislation appears in nearly every case to be a very happy antidote for' the hue and. cry raised against the cash bonus," principally by people who have not taken the' trouble to investigate what they object to. There Is a cash option, it is true, but It is taken care pf by small payments several months apart. The other four features of the Legion bill include home and farm aid, paid up insurance, vocational training and land , settlement.. We believe ourselves that they are more advantageous to tho veteran if he can afford to take advantage of them, and we. believe that the majority of men aflfcotcd will choose the feature most helpful to them, but with hundreds of thousands of service men walking the streets of oyr.big cities looking for work it ill behooves any one to say that they shall not have what option they sec fit to take. . When it 'was a matter of passing the Dent act to pay for war contracts never fulfilled, some $3,000,000,000 m?re than this act would cost if every man takes the cash payments of . $50 pvery three months, there was no such hue and cry. Was the manufacturers' service to the country so much more patriotic that no one could question it? It was an obligation and it was paid. These men should have some adjustment in compensation as against the men who did not have to go and whose ** " frnm flvn fn t timOfi that of the service man. wThe man at home had the opportunity to intrench himself in a permanent position, and, whether he took advantage of it or not, to save and i fortify himself for such conditions as encounter the veteran today. You would not take one or two men equally paid in your employ and send one out on a particularly dangerous mission, which he gladly undertakes out of his loyalty to you, risking his life, leaving his family, ready to en-, counter any difficulties to serve you, and meanwhile multiply many times the wages of the man who remained at home in safety and on the first man's return not give him at least an even deal with the other. Of course you wouldn't, even if you hadn't promised him that you'd see he got a squaro deal when he returned. Yet that is what the opponent of the adjusted compensation bill is asking the United States to do. It is not a question of sentiment of paying for a man's"service or his patriotism, because no man can put a price on that, nor can any man pay for it. It is an insult even to suggest it. Rut them is no reason for penalizing the man for offering his life to his country in dangerous days?and there is every reason for giving him a square deal. . Public Behind Bill. You will be interested to know that those men who dictate the affairs or the Federal Reserve bank of the Chicago district are In great majority unqualifiedly for this measure. They must be given crdeit for a fairly c'.ear vision of the economic and financial conditions in the part of the country most affected by depression. On the recent Foch tour it was our privilege to talk to many members and heads of local chamber of commerce bodies. They were almost unanimous in their support of the ad, justed compensation bill. There is no question as to how the ' American public feels about It. Whenever and wherever submitted to I a popular vote it has carried by an overwhelming majority. No man can doubt our motives toward our country and no man can question our right to be heard, for if any man has earned his citizenship it is the man who has offered his life. No man can be more interested in its welfare or more zealous for its future integrity and prosperity. Ex-soldiers who have lost their discharge papers will l?e able to obtain duplicates froin the Secretary of War uimci ct imu inn v'hh l'u iiiiu l uijfjii a.t at the request of the American Legion. STUDENTS NOT* INTERESTED | Heroes Of Diamond Are Ned So Well Known. Supposedly national heroes of the diamond, the gridiron and the silver sheet do .not stand so high as might he supposed with the high school and college students. This was learned when the Institute for Public service ! of New York made public some re! suits of a national current history test taken by more than 200,000 pupils. Twenty thousand of the students averaged only forty-six per cent, on ten questions about biiseball, football an'' the movies. Of 500 seniors, more of them knew about de Valera, Lloyd George, Briand and General Leonard i Wood than about which team won the , world's series or what shining light | of the screen is starred in a current I popular picture. A majority of 500 ! girls knew more about Sinn Fein I than about Mile. Lenglen and Ruth ' j IjUW. I Some of them thought Mile. I^eng len was a French chemist and some r others identified her as Japan's re1" | prescntativc at the armament confer l ence. As for Christy Matthewson, his pictore elicited the answer that he was the man who sold out the world | series in 1920. Thirty-five per rent, of the boys did not know who won " j the last world's series; 50 per cent. ' i did not know Babe Ituth's home run I record and seventy per cent of the j girls did not know the name of the I only woman member of congress. II Three hundred high school seniors e I could not identify Pershing, nnd four . out of the same hundred did not rec. 1 ognize a picture of President Harding. ? . ? The taxpayers can't see much dlfj ference between a dreadnought and a judgment. THE SOLDIER BONUS Details cf Bill Now Practically Certain of Passage. MANY WILL GET LARGE SUMS Maximum of $958 for Full Period Service Overseas?Those In Longest of j Course Get Most. j 1 By J. Bart Campbell. Washington, Feb. 11.?To the "Tank" , who got .into the war early and stayed ^ I late the soldier, bonus bill, which now seems certain to pass tho senate speedily, would mean a sum sufficient , to set him up in business in a small ( way and to secure his future inde- ( pendence if he invests it judiciously. If he served overseas the full period j of war ho. could draw a maximum in , cash of $958.25. If he served at home . he could draw ^ piaxlmum of $755. This is figured on the full period from April 6, 1917, to June 30, 1919, in- f elusive, the maximum period for which a soldier will be able to draw ^ adjusted compensation if the bill is passed. If he served overseas he , woulfi get $1.25 a day leas'than the $60 ( bonus already paid, and if he served f at home he would get $1 a day less the ? same $60. But^thcre arc features to the proposed bill by which he could draw ( nearly half as much more if ho doesn't ( take it in cash. He could even get this additional amount in cash if he used t it to pay his way through school. j Five different plans of compensation are provided. The four, in addition to tho cash plan* are the "ad justed service certificate or paid-up endowment Insurance plan; the "vo- ' cational training: aid" plan, the' "farm or home aid" plan and the "land settlement aid" plan. Insurance Plan is Explained. "The adjusted service certificate," or insurance plan, is in the nature of a twenty-year Insurance policy. At the end* of twenty years the veteran would receive in cash 140 per cent of what he would receive if he took a cash payment at once, plus 4 J.-2 per cent, interest. . That means that if he served overseas the maximum period of the war he would draw at the end of twenty years $1,312.25 in cash, plus 4 1-2 per cent., compounded semi-annually. If he served at home for the maximum period he would draw $1,057 plus the same interest. If he died before twenty years his estate would receive the full amount that would be due ordinarily, at the end of twenty years. If he wished to borrow on this certificate he could pet in the third year, 90 per cent, of his adjusted service pay ai, t i-i per cent, inieresi. as wie certificate grew "older" he would be enabled to borrow continually increasing umpunts. Vocational Training is Optional. If the veteran chose the vocational training plan he would also receive 140 per cent, of what he would ordinarily receive in cash. Ho would receive this monthly at the rate of $1.75 a day for the period of training. As in the insurance plan this would mean the overseas man could receive a maximum of $1,342.25 and the home service man could get 'a maximum of $1,057. The "farm or home aid plan" would authorize the veteran to receive from the government the adjusted service pay plus an additional 40 per cent if he applied the money toward the purchase of a farm or home. As in the insurance and the training plans the ' maximum amounts would be $1,342.25 and $1,057 for the two classes of veterans. "The "land settlement aid" plan would give the veteran the preference right to take lands on the opening of public or Indian lands or of reclamation projects, lie would be permitted 1 THE $151 f r<.w :-7v 1 & . M V; ' : ' : I i ^ <?' ' U Former Postmaster-General ^ shown "directing" the amusements and Ward Warner of New Yorl;. T1 movies. MM to file on such lands as early as sixty days prior to their opening for general public entry. In addition, under this plan, the veteran would be entitled to his adjusted compensation plus 10 per cent, but would have to apply it entirely. in making payments "in connection with the lands" on which he has made entry. Majority Will Not Get Maximum. A 9 AAimna tho ma<Ariltf Af fnrm or V/l VUUl OVf M*V iuugvitvj Vi. AW* I service men would not receive the maximum amount due for either home or overseas service. The latter group ivould include soldiers and sailors who ivere on foreign service at the outbreak of the war, mostly regulars. "The "full period" home service men would he very considerable and would include, in addition to the regular army and navy men who were in the service at the time the war broke out, many national guardsmen who iiad not yet been mustered out after Mexican border duty and many who 'jumped into the game" when it seemjd that war \^as imminent. However, even the veteran who lerved only ono year or six months vould receive amounts of tidy proporions. If he served one year overseas, he :ould draw $396.25 cash or $554.74 on ither of the other four plans. If ho lerved one year at home he bould draw J305 In cash or $427 on ono of the nner lour yuma. . ? if he served six months overseas he :ould draw $175 cash or $245 on any >f the other four pitfns. if he served lix months at home he could draw $128 n cash or $178.20 on one of the other our plans. "UNCLE JOE" TO FJETIRE Famous Republican War Horse Will Not Seek Office Again. "Uncle" Joe Cannon, oldest member if the house, announced this week, he vould not be a candidate for rc-elec;icn as representative from the 18th Illinois district. The former speaker announced his rtcntlon to retire In a statement .vhich read: ? "I am not a candidate for election ,o tho GSth congress." Reports had been current for some imc that he would seek another term lUt in reply to Inquiries Mr. Cannon ilways declared'he had pot made up lis mind to hia plans. The Illniois representative, one of :hc most picturosque and widely tnown "figures In congress, will be eighty-six years old next May 7. He s serving his twenty-third term as a nember of the house, during eight rears of which he was speaker. While Mr. Cannon in his statement rave no reason for his announced in:ention of retiring from public lift:, dose friends declared that he had nade the decision in the belief that his icalth and age made a less strenuous ife advisable. He is expected to re:ire to his home in J)anville, Ills., after ierving out his present tenn. Wearing an old slouch hat, and with i heavy overcoat wrapped closely iround his throat, Uncle Joe sr.t in :ho l.ousc chamber today while Representative Green, Republican, Iowa, tvas delivering a Lincoln day address, rhe hat came off at the close of the speech and the veteran legislator applauded with the rest. Announcement of Mr. Cannon's determination to retire was not a surprise to members, as most of his intimate friends understood ho was a bit too feeble to carry on the active 3uties of a representative. Announcement of tho former speaker's decision to retire from public life was made on the floor of the house by Representative Walsh, Republican, Massachusetts, a close personal friend af the Illinois representative. In a brief eulogy Mr. W.tlgh declared that members of the house would "learn with regret tinged with sorrow," of Mr. Cannon's Intention to leavo tho bouse. 9,000 DIRECTOR OF FILM Vill Hays is evidently finding it cong ! of Will, Jr.; James Mason of Kent, ( le genial Will is enjoying a short vac; SIRIUS BRIGHTEST STAR Brightest and Most Beautiful of Celos* trial Jewels. Do you ever get out in the night to look at the stars in the winter tirrte? Because there has been so much rain of late there have been few opportunities to s*e the stars because there have been few clear nights. But if you will nlok a clear, frostv winter eveninsr you may see Sirius, the most magnificent of all the celestial jewels. Sflrus Is called the dog star. It is almost in line with the belt of Orion !n the eastern sky and some twenty degrees to the southeast of it, scintilating and dashing lights of varied colors and far outshining any other star in the heavens. As Sirius never attains a great height above the southern horizon in our latitudes and is, in addition, exceptionally bright, its rays are strongly refracted or broken up by the atmosphere, which exerts its greatest effect on bright objects close to the horizon. As a result it twinkles and .flashes far more conspicuously than any other star. This sparkling of Sirius and its flashing of lights of varied color makes it a moot gorgeous object to view In tho telescope but for the same- reason, one of the most difficult td observe. Almost completely hidden from view in the brilliant rays of Sirus is a faint companion star, .which revealed its presence by the manner in which it perturbed the motion' of its brilliant neighbor through gravitational attraction, long before it was detected visually by Alyan. Gv CJark w;hile testing the 18-inch' telescope of the Dearborn observatory In 18G2. . The .companion star is about as far from Sirius as Neptune is from the sun and the two stars complete a revolution about their ctfmrtton center of gravity in 48.8- years. The fainter star is one of the most feebly luminous stars known, having only twenty-thousandth part of the luminosity Of Sirius. It would take twenty thousand stars as bright as the companion star, .to give as much light as Sirius. In spite of its feeble light the faint star is half as massive, that is, it would weigh half as much as Sirius. The two stars combined weigh three and one-half times as much as our own sun. The light of Sirius is equal to the combined light of forty-eight suns as bright as our own. Though refraction of.. the. light of Sirius by the atmosphere causes it to fash the spectral colors, it is in reality dne of the Intensely white hydrogen stars of great brilliancy. The Sirian system is at a distance of about eight and one-half light years from the earth and, there are only two stars' nearer to us. One of these Is the well known Alpha Centural and the other a faint star catalogued as Lalande 21-185. On a scale In which one Inch represents the distance of tha earth from the sun the Sirian would be placed about eight miles away. Sirius belongs to a moving cluster of stars known as the Ursa Major cluster, which consists of at least thirteen members, five of which are stars in the Big: Dipper and another the bright star Beta, in Auriga. These stars are all moving in the same general direction through space and are arranged in the form of a disk of a diameter of about 1(10 light years, and width fifteen light years. The sun lies at present in the midst of this cluster and so the various members of the cluster appear to us to be widely scattered over the sky. Sirius the nearest member is but eight light years distant, while the stars of the Big Dipper are seventy-five light years distant and Beta Auriga is at a distance of 135 light years. The cluster is now slowly overtaking the solar system and in the course of ages will pass it. LYING IN BED London Doctors See Great Peril in the Practice. The peril of lying In bed is one of the latest ideas of doctors. "Get up and move about" is the new prescription. Dr. R. F. Rowlands, surgeon to Guys hospital, is the apostle of the "don't lie In bed too long" creed. He expounds it vigorously In the British Medical Journal. It Is people who have undergone operations who are in peril if they stay in lied too long. "It cheers a patient," states Dr. Rowlands, "to know that ho may move about as much as he likes in bed from the 'first, have the freedom of the room after four days, of the bath after seven days, and may take short walks in the sunshine after ten days." LAND. I enial at Palm Beach. He Is here Jhio; Frauk Wheeler of St. Louis, itlon before starting to boss the f - - - ~ v .k"r Here are some of the bad effects of lying in bed, as expounded by the doctor: The heart beats less forcibly. Breathing becomes alower and shallower. Appetite falls. jjigeauun xaius. i . ' II ' i ii ? <7: '. _i I' ..' r f) . ~j 1 If ASHE J Fertilize 4 I I HI?H< FERTII ! I :f. isj~'.r. | .uilt UP (R*o- U. S. P*t FOR Si II A. Y. B M ROCK H ' < 1 < :r ?;;^;?fl *? , *^;3?|0| | AUCTION SALE OF I j; CLOVE I WILL SELL Twei | HORSES A AT QUINN'S STA1 | SATURDAY, THE 18' o o This lot of stock are all < for farm work. This is 3 < or Horse at Your Price, < j I Remember the hour, 12 :C | promptly. ROBT. T. ???? ?< Shoes! ( > ,V.\7 .-f Shi !> ;: if it is shoi see us?it w i > / I We carry nothing bu I we do. happen on one tb I workmanship or defecti I right behind them and ft Our Prices Are Ii j [ " Than Replacemen j> too Many Shoes a <> Stock. | nothing but sol I SHOES for the baby I the family. We arc going to have I> Jrlow about tiiosc Jicavy I to put you through? NEW SPRIN For Ladies, received tod<* Let Us Know Yor We Can Save You KIRKPATRI Sells It for Less Trade at Home and Action of the intestines becomes sluggish. Muscles waste and lose tone. All these are reasons for not lying 3 in bed, and Dr. Rowlands says that as regards the healing of wounds, years of observation have convinced him ) that compete rest is unnecessary. ' i ??aktmmmrnm???? =N ~ POO 11 r Works ? I -1 3RADE | I .IZERS :o a .standard 1*1| S NOT Down { os > to a price .,' I j | kLE^BY :f I f &YNUM I ILL, S. C. J j >eeeeeeeee?ee?eeeeeoe?d## jte | ? , I HULES AND HORSES R, S. C. | ] ity Head of Gountry \ ND MULES 3LE, CLOVEB, S, C. rH, AT 12:00 O'CLOCK good workers and ready <! j our chance to buy a Mule <1 )0 o'clock and be on hands ALLISON JI CL _ onoes; j i f.r* , . .. A -i 3es! 2S, COME TO i: riLL/PAYYOU. 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