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CAPITAL NEWS AM) GOSSIP Street Car Strikers Making Serious Trouble. # ... ? 1 ? BUSINESS TAKING A GENERAL VACATION Churches Feel the Need of a Revival? Farmers Are Blue Over Cotton Situation?Eggs Going at 25 Cents a Dozen. Correspondence The York* I lie Enquire! Columbia, Marph 23.?The strike of v.~ k- wi?n of the Columbia street railway afforded considerable excitement for Columbians last Monday, -when sevoral fights occurred and. three men were placed in the hospital; but sipce then things have been quiet* ai d the oars have been running; without interruption. But as one of the Strikers expressed it to the cdrrespendent of The Yorkviljo Enquirer, "there is no telling when hell will break loose yet" And there isn't. The striking motormen and"I conductors pre mad clear through. A Ford autqmobile flU?d with policemen follows each street car through the city for protec&ifn of the car tneu and passengers. There is every reason to v believe that li the polioemon are called off, the strikers will resume the practice they inaugurated Jddpday of pulling off the "scabs" as they term those attempting to operate the # cars from their places. The fighting Monday afternoon started at the corner of Main and Taylor streets, in a thickly populated section of the business district. A "scab" motorman and conductor and n ?nne/1 tfisa nnllo/1 frntn thn Pfl r hi' a Qiiaiu "Vic jiuuvw ?4v?.? ?i?v strikers and strike sympathizers and beaten up pretty badly. Two of the strike breakers finally managed, to escape from the infuriated strikers and dodge to safety into stores along the street. The third man evidently didn't see a store jioor handy so he lit UP the, street as fast as he could go toward the state house leaving his hat and coat on the ground beside his car. His pursuers never caught him. While there was no way to record his time, according*to spectators he was making about JQO yards every ten seconds and then some. More trouble and the gravest trouble qf the day occurred later Monday afternoon near the state asylum, when a motorman and- conductor in charge of a car wfre attacked and a passenger, who is said to have attempted to come to their rescue, got such a mauling that he lipd to be taken to a hos piuu, wniie un? ui me sinners whs also badly beaten up. Three arrests were made and following- a Hearing before Recorder Kimbajl Tuesday morn^ ing, the three strikers, who ar^ charged with attacking the care.- were placed under heavy bonds for their appearance at court of general sessions, while several oyier strikers and strike ?. sympathizers were placed under peace bonds, Clint T. Graydon, a prominent lawyer of Columbia, is attorney for the strikers. A Columbia policeman was requested Tuesday, following the hearing in police court, to surrender his badge and pistol, it being charged by the su \ ? * * '* * perintendent oI the sti-eet car company that he gave evidence by his act in shaking a b}Ily in the superintendent's face that he was in sympathy with the strikers. As a matter of fact, it is said that most of the policemen are in favor of the strikers. It was learned Wednesday that a number of strike breakers from Savnnnnh nnd Allnntn hrniic^i tr? Columbia by the street car company t Tuesday night to man the cars and it may be that the complete service of the company will be resumed by .Friday or Saturday. Governor Cooper has announced his intention to caH out the entire national guard of the state to protect the street cars, if necessary. Most folks in the capital are expecting more trouble. Business is painfully dull with Columbia merchants, especially the clothing houses. The correspondent stood in a Main street gent's furnishings house for an hour Wednesday morning talking to the proprietor and in * all that time not a single customer came in. "Stay here even another hour and the chances are that not a single customer will come in because people are just simply not buying," remarked the proprietor gloomily. There an. now more than 430 convicts In the state penitentiary, the largest number that have been in the prison since ex-Governor Cole Blease came near depopulating the place through the pardon route several years ago. There are said to be seven prisoners in the death house awaiting electrocution, although there is no indication that there will be an electrocution in the near future. A visit to the death house an$ into that department where the electric chair is stationed, fills one with dread and awe. The chair is a grim, solemn affair? hard and plain. The death chamber is a rather narrow rodm with a cement floor. The walls are cold looking and bare. As one enters Into the door of the chamber such entrance has the effect of making cold chills run up and down one's spine. Columbia churches are endeavoring to secure Billy Sunday for an evangelistic campaign here some time next year. Billy is needed here. It Is said that there are almost as many people on the streets Sunday morning as there are in the churches. It is said that many of the hotels and boarding houses are literally crowded with prostitutes and they walk the streets both day and night. Liquor may be bought in numerous pool rooms and in scores of other places in the city. I I AIDS WOME Miss Mabel Cessner of Baltimi being the only woman railroad pa She is with the Ealtimore and Oh velopnient of travel for women, e comfort. t * lJ There are several gambling halls that have escaped the eyes of tjie poljcemen for years. It is a real bad town 'now, according to old residents who have lived here for years and maybe Billy could clean it up. It needs a cleansing without a doubt. Richland county farmers, many of whom were cleaned up by the boll weevil last fall, have learned their lesson and while ,they will attempt to plant some cotton again this year there is no question but what the cotton acreage of the county will be reduced considerably. They arc going in for diversified farming this year on a larger scale than they have ever done before. Most of the farmers \n the county are very much worried over the outlook apd all of them are confi I dent that the weevil will take a big portion of the crop this year in those counties of the state that escaped his ravages last year. Eggs are retailing at 25 cents a dozen in the stores of the capital now and they may be bought for twenty cents a dozen and even lower if purchased from farmers who peddle them on the streets. Eggs haven't been lower than that price here in years. Yet they continue to self at two for a quarter in the restaurants and the restaurant proprietors claim that they make mighty little profit out of them at thnt price. Takes It All.?David C. Pierce of Greenville, makes the following statement: "Last year I made $1,000,000 and have paid $750,000 income tax. including surto v A ftui- 1 cnit iir* Infill (\(\Ci fur f hf> state, I will proceed to take a Ions vacation, as I will be just as well off to twiddle my thumbs as to work my head off. Several thousand men in my employ will be out of a job - beginning: "Brother William, if the summons were to conic fer you to go to heaven tonight, would you be ready and willing?" "I^ooky licah, Mr. Tom," was the reply, "ain't you 'ware or de fact dat I done paid a month's house rent in advance?"?Atlanta Constitution. THIS SET HAS MAD Since leaving pert the United S interesting items to the latest clia the radio duplex telephone?and ha history. For the first time the comr has stood on his bridge and talked, on shore. During the first two or th of the steamship line heard from I the weather she was passing throi \ TRAVELERS. , 1 ore, Ohio, who has the distinction of ssenger agent In the United States, io, and her special work Is the despecially with a view of increasing ! VICTIMS OF MORBID CRAVINGS ! "Sensation Mongers" Must Have Excitement. ' The case of anonymous letter writing reported frorp tjie French town of 'ruue anorus a lypicai illustration 01 I the methods of the "sensation nion! ger." Missives making accusutions of 1 infidelity have caused the deaths of i two persons in an asylum and brought j misery into several homes. This is precisely the result desired ! by the writer of the slanders. Making a sensation is the very height of enjoyment among a large number of mop-bid persons. The human craving for excitement is entirely normal, but in its pathological and criminal manifestations it often leads to tragedy. The majority of young children delight in sensational mongering. A lie of imagination is the commonest form of juvenile unveracity. A little girl who ''sees" bears and ayqlvesTn a coppice near her home invents stories of hair-raising sensationalism concerning the fierceness of the animals. Anolher girl declares she sees big eyes in the stem of an oak tree. A boy, twelve years old, arriving at a boarding school, told his comnnnlnrn: nf tlir* tlitrmllfti'V thnt Via hn/1 flown the first airplane from Buckingham palace and had been personally complimented by the king.?From the Continental Edition of the London Mail. It Is Not Easy?To apologize. To begin over. To take advice. To be unselfish. To admit error. To face sneer. To keep on trying. i'o be charitable. To be considerate. To avoid mistakes. To endure success. To be broad-minded. To'profit by mistakes. To forgive ancl forget. To shoulder deserved blame. To recognize the silver lining. To maintain a high standard. | Hut it always pays.?Hough Notes. ?E RAD 10 "HISTORY. Itates liner America has added some .pter in radio progress?the use of s also added a page or so to marine uander of a ship, Capt. William Rind, as if face to face, with his superior ree days at the the general manager Capt. Rind the position of his ship, lgh, and every detail of the voyage. MBS. HENRY FORD | Sketch of Remarkable Wife of Remarkable Map. REAL HELPMATE OF HER HUSBAND Two Began Married Life in Moderate Circumstances, and Neither Has Been Spoiled by the Wealth and Power to Which They Have Attained. Detroit, Michigan, March 18.?A happy home and doing good. TK'ese are the two missions of the wife of the richest man in the world?Mrs. Henry Ford?about whom the people of this country know less than of any other prominent woman. Every school child from New York to California knows Henry Ford, his works, ambitions and published thoughts, as well as his latest startling statement that he is worth more than $1,000,000,000?more even than ^ohn D. Rockefeller, but they know nothing of the dark-eyed, plainly dressed, rather plump, middle aged woman who has had more to do with shaping Henry Fords meteoric career than has any other person. Back in the early eighties Clara Bryant, a Greenfield, Mich., farmer's daughter, then in her early teens, had. little Idea that on April ll, 1888, she was to marry the man, who would fn 1922 be looked up to as the world's greatest business genius, or that she would be living in a veritable palace In Dearborn, surrounded by a 7,000-acre estate, with servapts and every conceivable convenience then not dreamed of. But Henry Ford, who at that time 1 came to petroit as an engineer for the Edison Company, returned, and the ' country girl became Mrs. Ford. He was then twenty-three . and she only twenty. . } "Partners in Business of Life." From that day to this, as Mrs. Ford says, "Ours has been a very happy marriage. We have been partners in the business of life. We have consulted each other on all points as one member of a Arm consults another. There is no boss. In oar firm. "Not that J always ^agree with my husband. No, no. If I think he is wrong I tell him so. That is part Of every wife's duty. It is included in the vow to love and honor, You wouldn't love and .honor if you encouraged a man to go in a course you thought wrong. So, if my husband takes a wrong view I9 any matter, or one that seems to rhe wrong, I turn family oculist. I endeavor to qon- ,, scientiously correct angle of visIon." While of course one of the most talked of women In Detrott, Mrs. Ford is one of the least ki^own. She could walk do^vn Woodward Avenue and back again and probably not two people in a hundred wofuld 'recognize her. Her main alms in life1 are "keeping house for Henry Ford," and doing gppd for people in a quiet way. In fact, "a quiet way1' dpsjgna^dfc her whole personality. She is quiet In her dress, her manners and her speech. She is seldom seen in public' arid Is said to l|ve only for her husband and her son Edsel, who is qow President of the Ford Motor Company and its active head. ' Mrs. Ford, it is said, acts the part of any middle-aged wife of a prosperous business man. Her clothes are dark and quiet. Jewels she seldom wears, and her friends say the only ornament she usually affects is her wedding rlnp, once in a \yhile, a string of pearls. Rescue of a Rival. But for al| hier qyiet ways her hand is plainly to be seen in many of Henry | Ford's biggest and most, philanthropic works. WitneeB the recent purchase of the Lincoln Motor Copnpany fpr |8,000,000, when Henry Ford saved a rival automobile concerp from bankruptcy. It in claimed that time and again Henry Iceland and his son Wilfred appealed to Mr. Ford to save the company for old-time friendship?for here we have the original cheap car producer and the pioneer of the highgrade cars competing in the market after years of friendship. Mr. Ford refused each time, saying that he had no use for the Lincoln car, as his Ford plant kept him busy all the time. Finally the Lelands went to the Ford home and again appealed for aid. Mrs. Ford was in the next room, and she is said to have heard the conversation. She called Edsel from the conference and asked him to appeal to his father to give them what help he could. They ( had plenty of money, she argued, and ; if it was simply a question of that, , then by all means they should have , access to the Ford fortune to secure , that aid. Later she spoke to Mr. Ford , himself, the report says, and still he , refused. However, he talked the matter over with Edsel and found his son was , really enthusiastic at the prospect of the Ford interests taking a hand in the high-priced car game. Engineers were called in and they backed Edscl's belief in the Lincoln. Therefore the Lelands were given the necessary aid to remain in the automobile business. The day of the sale came, and while Henry Ford was to spend $8,000,000 of his fortune to satisfy a desire of his wife and son, he did not even attend the sale; but Mrs. Ford did, and others present say she appeared as happy over the Lelands' victory as they did themselves; it meant the savings of a lifetime to them. "Profit Sharing is Splendid." Mrs. Ford's hand is also seen in the labor dealings her husband has had i with his employes, called in some cir- i clos "the most drastic and far-reaching < ever attempted." "I entirely agree with my husband's i plan for profit-sharing with employes i and for making convicts honest citizens ] by giving them work with.the hope of ) better things," Mrs. Ford has said. "I i .-'I V->.^ V ' '-'i ^ im with him heart and soul. I consider it a splendid project, and. I am proud to be the wife of the rpan who cpnceived it. "I have received many letters from wiveB of employes telling what profitsharing haB done for them and their children. I receive letters from cities where Mr. Ford has branches of Ms business. Every one bears witness to the tart that tho nlnn hna mndp fnr in leased health and happiness. "One instance that came to my attention is typical. An investigator reported that the family of a,man who earned $5 a day was fast sinking into Invalidism. He reported that the family was taking boarders and that the wife not only had to care for a large family but for the boarders as well. She was fast becoming a petulant, over-worked woman and the children wore running wild about the streets, becoming excelent recruits for the petty criminal elapses. Through Mr. Ford's plan the family removed to a suburb of a city ^nd quit taking boarders. They were restored to health, and now they own their own home and have a tidy bank account. "That is the keynote of every letter [ hfive received from the women," jaid Mrs. Ford. "They thank me- for rny help in the matter and tell me hey have been enabled to have better iomes..They are glyen a chance to live, ro speak in business terms, there have Deen dividends of 100 per cent, in family health and happiness. "I never visit the familes of my msband's employes. They are his partners in every sense of the word, xnd wo do not want them to feel or fancy the slightest hint of patronage. [ would not visit their homes unless I was invited. "Another and lesser reason is that I tm vory busy with other work that reluires my personal presence and effort. [ am on a board of managers of p. working' girl's hotel and I am deeply nterested in a home for younger girls ?little first offenders who havp' appeared for the first time in children's :ourt. I also do personal visiting among ;he needy of our city." In this connection it is well kn^wn lere that Mrs. Ford is one of the most irdent of workers for social reforms, ^he is a personal visitor at the city's Retention hemes and often eats lunch with the inmates of the House of Cor eetion. and she is constantly in con .y,-,- ' jultatlon with women police workers. =|he also employes a number of agents vho investigate charity cases for her tnd make reports on which she acts. 3ome she visits personally, others her igents are instructed to care for. Mrs. j'ord is also constantly in consultation vith charity organizations. A short distance beyond the Ford state is Dearborn Valley Farm, which Mrs. Ford owns find operates in conlunction with the Dunbar Memorial hospital in Detroit,..the object of which s welfare work for convalescing patients. While it Is .little kpown, it has jecoxne ope qf the' most imPQrtant links in the welfare chain which Is gradually being weaved about this city. Many firls .are sent there and they all leave :hanklng their benefactress for the help they have been given. ' Mrs. Ford's attitude on the question 5f erring young girls is that they should be given all the help possible to return to a normal way of living, rhe two months training at her farm n hviriene. needed parental care and household care qften.'it is said, alter a girl's entire attitude toward life. Experts only are employed there. Sptpe of Her Gifts. Mrs. Forfl is ap ardent supporter of :he family garden and has organized it least one club for this purpose. She aerself has raised many flowers on the Dearborn estate, ?he is also a musician, and a concert piano adorns her f'ving room, while in the library is a pipe organ. The library is stacked fvith books. Among hpr gif^s is a public library site to Dearborn. She built and gave to the Episcopal church there a large rectory. She gave $10,000 recently toward a home for wayward girls in Detroit, wftich has been named after Bishop Williams of the Episcopal diocese. This home is used in caring for girls who have been arrested but are known as "first offenders," and who, police matrons say, snouia noi oe incarcerated with tiie hardened prisoners it the women's detention house. Mrs. Ford is well read and has traveled much. She has visited nearly every country in the worl^. But the Fords own no home outside of Wayne county, Michigan, with the exception of a small place in Florida, During the World War Mrs. Ford acquired and furnished and maintained a home for Belgian refugees in England and taught them how to care for themselves. The home was used only temporarily for these youngsters, as they were adopted into other families, and a constant flow was maintained throughout the entire war period. At the end of the war the place was closed and the furniture sold, the proceeds going to a Belgian relief society. Short Courtship. Mrs. Ford likes to remember the days when she and her husband were poor And Henry tried farming to make a living. When asked if he gives her credit for his success she smiles and says "Yea" and her mind eoes back to the days when they lived in Greenfield; but she denies they were ever really "poor." She says that Mr. Ford was the son of a well to do farmer and was given considerable land to start married life with. She denies that their's was a case of "love at first sight," and says: "It was i keen interest that soon developed into a more romantic sentiment. We became engaged after a short courtship, but the engagement was not a long one. We were married when he was tweity-three and I twenty. I remember when we had been married twentyfive years we thought of celebrating the anniversary, but we decided just to .) _ ?? $5y' fy fHyti y (^4^ take a little trip by ourselves. We motored out to our farm, just by ourselves, for a quiet honeymoon, after a quarter century of married life." Mrs. Ford is a believer in the great outdoors and delights in walking or motoring, but she has only one real pasBion in life, and that is for her son, nasei rora, wnu lives nearly nneen miles away in Grosse Point She also, of course, adores his two babies?the eldest named, Henry and the second named Edsel. "All wives," said Mrp. Ford, "should encourage their husbands. Never be a dumper upon their business spirits or a handicap in their raqe for success, but urge them on by appreciation." Partner in the Businoos. It is said that Mrs. Ford owns outright a one-third interest in ir husband's factories the world over,' and that it is the income from this with which she finances the "majority of her charity undertakings. It has become a saying among the city welfare workers that if they cannot publicly finance any welfare scheme and it is sound and will stand investigation, Mrs. Ford, nearly always stands ready to give liberally. The Ford home furnishings are quiet but expensive. Mrs. Ford, although she anMnm ontarinina la an I /I f A ha Ann A f the most charming hostesses in the country. She has had as guests leading figures in the political and business life of this country, as well as a number of Europe's royal person&ges. ? A French chef has come to the defense of pretzels. The war Is over. WARNS AGAINST MINORITIES. Representative George Tink? I If iL. nam, nmaa., buys me uaut|iauuu of power by minorities threatens American Republic. r' "" r ' ASHE I v ii? : r ^ Fertilize ... ' HIGH < FERtll n* j. t Kr* ! > ' ' *? I builT UW7 : : ... ( ,.i >. (Bta. V. S. P*t. ' FOR Si i A. H. B ROCK H S n l mi o ? r AK1VI o 5 Get our Prices, it wil i 2 HORSE TUR^ PL< J Bands 25 Cents up, Trac j (good one too). Plow Poi * slides and Standards for ? Chattanooga Turn Plows J Shovels, Forks, Picks, ^ Barrows. Garden Wire i Barb Wire $ Glass ware, Epan: T Pyrex. Big Stock. Pric j y X-X** I J Buckets 25 Cents. 1 j Call at the. RED "V 5 your Buisness and will e] j YORK HAR] S Phone 153 I 0 0 00000 00 0 00000 0 00 0 000 0 0 0 0 0 v -O- J* I If ' " Where U. S. Autos S?H?- Motor care to the number of 41,392 were during tho year 1921 exported frori* the United States. Of this number,' American countries took 33.1 per cent. British North America, 15.4 per cent.; Asiatic countries, 14.5 per ceqtn; Europe, 13.1 per cent.; Oceania, 11.1 per cent.; non-contiguous territory of me elates, s.s per ceni.; Aincp., o.i per cent. Of the 13,729 cars exported to Latin America, 10,207, or 74.5 per cent., went to Mexico and Cuba, 454, or 10.5 pet cent., to Central America, the West * 1 Indies exclusive of Cuba, and ,Porto Rico, and 2,068, or 15 per cent., to South American countries. Except for twelve cars going to Newfoundland and iJabrador, all the shipments tP British North America (6,398) went to Canada.?New York Times. ' < i " l.t /V ' t ' *fgM ? Long engagements at least give a fellow a chance to flnlsh paying for the ring before making first payment on the furniture. , . ,i ll Jj li Cold* in the Chest, ' JX Soro Throat, Grippe id4 Influautioa ?| Any liwl ? No home ahouid bPwithoSI? *"0' Doctors Prctcribe It-Read Thia IV 'f P.. rnmnfnn Pstliff Mite mrritaam? ?1 have prescnbed^our Mcxicw^Moatang 1 think very"tughly of SJtT actor* 25c?50c-$1.00 Sold by Drug and General Stores " Tht Good Old Siandby Since 1848 " MEXICAN B 1*1 B H |L|^b A W k I L v ?"Tr* ttt? J 'i . -V - Mt H :po? 1 i- Works A ssanr k 1 .IZERS r . F i,. - ""> . .. v {, w *.* vTR- '" ' N K ' ' ' :V1 o a standard , i , ;, J NOT Down !: !v J off ) to a prtca | ' , jSa LLE BY , : ti' iYNUM :: i: ] I II llill ' y UPPLIES1 1 be worth wliil,e. LOOK J [)WS for $10.00. Back J e Chains 95 Cents. Pair. {' Lilts, Mould Boards, Land X ' Oliver, Lynchburg and - f ?. Middle Buster Points, 2 lattocks, Rakes, Wheel ind Hog Wire. 2 1.75 per Roll j lcI ware, Aluminum and J e Right. ?; *X~XK?H~XK~xkk~X~X~X** * rubs Cheap. jT V STORE, we appreciate ndcavor to please. DWARE CO. Phone 153 j