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Established 1891.
TRAVEL IN ENGLAND.
Ralway Trains Unlike Those in
, Use in America.
4'When Sir Auckland Geddes,
British ambassador to the United
Slates, 111 a recent* after-dinner
spcch beiore the Pilgrims society
111 Dondon urged British to
tiavti more extensively ill America,
he pointed out that Americans
have traveled 111 England for
years. Despite the frequency of
travel in the British Isles, Americans
still find that our British
cousins do many things which
strike us as quaint or peculiar,"
according to u communication to
the National Geographic society.
"If, for example, the American
is traveling lirst class (corresponding
to our Pullmans and
our chair ears) he finds that each
compartment, as a rule, accommodates
six travelers?three on
each side, with arms allotting the
proper space for each traveler.
The third class compartments accommodate
eight, persons, and in
the majority of cases on the
trunk lines all the spaces are taken.
There is seldom difficulty
in obtaining a first class seat, and
this is the chief advantage, for
which from 30 to 40 per cent
higher lure is paid.
"The traveler usually delegates
to the porter with his luggage
the task of finding a seat. A bag
or coat may be placed on a seat
to claim it for the traveler who
may defer boarding the car until
a shrill warning whistle blows.
"If the traveler is going on a
crowded train he would do well
to obtain from the head attendant
of the dining car u 'first sitting'
card before the train starts.
After the train is under way-an
assistant attendant eoines through
the corridors announcing that
breakfast is ready for those hold9*
ing J!irst class eards.
."Most of the English dining
cars differ ocnsiderably from
American diners. The passengers
sit in high back pews instead
of chairs. The breakfasts are
usually of the elub variety, there
being little choice for the traveler.
First our assistant attendant
appears with individual dishes
or porridge (usually rather
tasteless according to American
standards because it has been
cooked without ,the'suggest ion ot'
suit). This attendant is pursued
by a Reeond with hot milk,
which he pours 011 the porridge
if the traveler desires. A third
attendant follows with a huge
pot of coffee in one hand and another
of equal size filled with hot
milk in the other, lie fills youi
coffee cup with the coffee and
milk poured simultaneously and
ill equal quantities. Then comes
the bread basket attendant who
allows you to Itlke a roll or a
hunk of bread (it is seldom cut
in thin slices).
"The porridge or oatmeal is
eaten with milk (or cream) and
sugar, the latter obtained from
shakers with patent caps which
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m-ut iiiu HiuiKt'r wiu'ii piaceu upright
on the table or in the woollen
salt box rack screwed on tho
window sill. The salt is poured
from a shaker with a little funnel
in the top, and, strange to
say, even though the climate of
^ England is exceedingly damp, the
salt flows freely a,t all times and
never cakes in the shaker.
4'The porridge course completed,
our hurrying attendant
removes the plates while a second
asks if you will have plaice
or kippers. Perhaps you know
what he says, perhaps you don't,
but you are being given your
choice of fresh fish or kippered
herring. Meantime your cup is
refilled with milk and coffee, of
which vou doubtless drink a urood
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deal, not because you like Euglish-matle
coffee, but because
' tbere is nothing else* to drink;
^ the glass of ice water of the
American dining car is conspicuous
for its absence. After fish,
the traveler is usually given ?*
choice of eggs and bacon or grilled
kindneys. Then comes the ever
present marmalade or jam and
toast?an altogether satisfying
meal fa-r 3 shillings, sixpence
(shout VMPcenta) at he present
rate of exchange. And the standard
tip, given to the head attendee**,
is sixpence (something less
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CAPITAL AND LABOR.
Savoyard Writes of Strikes and
Lockouts.
It is a long, toilsome, troublesome,
a paint'ul and a woeful
juorney?mis pilgrimage back to
"normalcy," writes Savoyard,
\\ ushuigion corespondent whose
articles are read by many thousands
of people tnroughout the
country. President Harding, then
Candidate Harding, coined the
word in a stump speech that was
nothing in the world but a "fatl'rying''
enterprise addressed to
ihe employers of labor and the
word normalcy means pre-war
wage for labor. Business today
is in an awful fix because eapiiai
taking c ounsel of greed rather
ihair of prudence demands that
labor shall agree to a smaller
wage, regardless of the fact that
what is called prosperity in business"
is impossible except when
lanor is einpioyeu ui nign
aiul is content with its job.
Henry Ford sees the truth or
tiiat proposition ami puts it in
pruetice in those enterprises he
controls.
The coal miners' strike began
April 1. The strike of the shopmen
begyn .July 1. The government
of the United States, now
transformed and deformed into
a gigantic bereaueracy, dabbled
in the mess, and the situation is
become simply terrible. The labor
bureau seemed to advise with
ihe owners and operators of the
mines and these, it Would appear,
advised that if afforded the protection
of the bayonet they would
mine enough coal to keep the
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ter Willi something like trueulence
the administration announced
that the protection of the bayonet
would lie supplied. Numerous
governors of States* were appealed
to and tile United States
at my was prepared for the strife.
What is the result? The condition
is worse 4hail it was at the
beginning and winter is some
four months nearer.
Reduction of the wage of labor
is as foolish on the part of capital
as a strike is ruinous to the savings
of labor. Reduced wage
means reduced const! mot ion of
the products of labor, and reduced
consuinpt iou means decreased
dividends for capital. Capital has
a hoggish way of flunking this
danger by advance of prices; but
the remedy is worse than the
malady, for it only reduces consuinpt
ion.
Woman 107 Ready to Vote.
Union county may easily lay
claim, says a press dispatch, to
the distinction of having on its
enrollment hooks the oldest woman
voter in South Carolina in
the person of Mrs. Susan Kirby,
who has enrolled ut the age of 107.
Mrs. Kirby gets uround in her
home unassisted and her eyesight
is good, she being able to recognize
her children, grandchildren
and great-grandchildren as they
call to see her. Her hearing is
also good ^or one of her uge.
Mrs. Kirby is u member of Green
St reft Methodist church in Union
and attended services regularly
up until a few years ago.
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one recaus naving passea inrougn
four wars.
Mrs. Kirby said the family
record was destroyed when their
old family Bible, which was in a
trunk, was sunk in Green river
when she and her little sister went
on a visit to relatives in North
Carolina and when crossing the
river the flat sank. The trip of
10 miles to visit relatives was
made ip an ox cart., the trip taking
the entire day.
Tho aniniiiial lot wK a o a ??*?
? ?iv Hjiii M Ufllim ?T HU t>?(V n OIII"
mnls come back to life muHt have
belonged to the old Bull Moose
party. v
than 12 cents nowadays).
"After the meal the traveler
may remain seated in the diner
indefinitely; the car becomes a
sort of club smoker, women as
well as men enjoying their eigar*
ettes. Or if desired, the traveler
may have the table cleared and
he may use i.t -for writing. For
;'example, this bulletin has been
written in * dining car "fcfter
breakfast, while en route from
London to Chester."
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NEWS OF YOBX COUNTY.
items of Oontrtl interest Found
in thewYorkvtlle Enquirer.
There was a large erowd present
at Tirzah church Tuesday -on
account of the home coming day
celebration staged there by the
congregation 01 Tirzah ciiurch.
iVlany loriuer members of the Tirzah
congregation came back to
the.church tor the day and found
pleasure 'in -meeting with friends
and acquaintances after a long
absence.
The many friends and acquaintances
of'Dr. E. W. Pressley, formerly
of Clover but now of
Greenville, will be pleased to
loam that he has decided to return
to Glover to make his home.
l)r Pressley was in Clover and
Yorkville Monday and announc-'
ed to his friends his intention to
return to Glover with his fuwily
to reside.
'The boll weevil appears to be
making headway in several sections
of Fort Mill township just
now," said lion. S. H. Epps, Sr.,
of Fort Mill township who was
in Yorkville Monday attending a
meeting of the executive committee.
"I am afraid that the weevil
is going to do a lot of damage
in our section within the next
couple of weeks," Mr. Epps went
on to say.
Fifty dollars worth of German
marks bought for a customer of
the Bank of Clover the other day
bi ought more German money to
( lover than was ever seen in that
town before. The bank s customer
got 27,777 of Heine's marks
for $50 of good old United States
BtUXI, tne marKs coming uy registered
mail from the Clover
hunk's New York correspondent.
The pre-war value of the German
mark, according to Mr. Jas.
A. Page, was 0.238, and now one
can buy 100 marks for $0.18 of
Uncle Sam's filthy lucre.
W. S. Wilkeraou of iliokory.
Glove No. 1, chairman of the
Broad River -township commission,
has resigned his position on
the commission and it is understood
that his successor will be
nominated at a meeting of the
York county legislative delegation
which will be held in Yorkville
Wednesday morning, just before
the county campaign opens
at McConuellsville. Among those
who have been suggested as successor
to Mr Wilkerson as u
luciftber of the commission are
Jeff 1). Whites ides and Dr. W. K
AleCxill. Present members of the
eeminmission are John S. Rainey
cf Sharon and John >N. Quinn of
Smyrna.
That the damage done by the
hail storm of last Thursday evening
to the crops of farmers living
in western York county is
much greater than was reported
to the Ybrkville Enquirer Friday
morning is the information received
Saturday from farmers
living in the hail area. It now
appears that the hail storm in
western York county covered an
area of about six miles wide ami
extended from. the western outskirts
of Yorkville to Piedmont
springs. Thousands of cotton
hnlls \Vf?r<> frmn mIhIUm
of cotton and beaten to pieces.
In many placed corn stalks were
si ripped bare of leaves, only the
ears remaining. The hail storm
appears to have played many
freaks, doing little harm to the
crops of some farmers, while almost
literally destroying those of
other farmers in the same neighborhood.
Many Clover and King's Mountain
township citizens are lamenting
the fact that a number
of brag roads in King's Mountain
township, built by means of
a township bond issue several
years ago, are now going to pieces.
he road from Clover to
Bethany A. R. P. church is reported
getting in bad shape now,
as is the road from Clover to W.
O. Adams' home, connecting with'
the King'8 Mountain road. Little
work has been done in repairing
them in recent months, it is
said, and the road authorities are
understood to.be in the position
of being practically without
funds to do repair work. Unless
something is done toward maintenance
very, shortly the roads
arc'doomed to again become mere
gullies and bogs in had weather.;
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[TOSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1922.
trtHTH TAKES "HAND.
South -Carolina Senator Assists
in Fight on Tariff.
Democrats in the senate are
pushing the ' Republicans hard in
the tariff fight, says a Washingtor.
dispatch to the Spartanburg
Journal. They have been making
heavy inroads on the provisions
of the bill, with the result that
n.any duties favored by the finance
committee and Republican
leaders have been lowered.
uruoiui kjmilii ui uuuui \ ui un*
na has played a conspicuous part
in this onslaught. IIis work recently
on the cotton schedule, resulting
in an overthrow of the
high fates, caused Senator Simmons
of North Carolina, who has
chargfe of the Democratic opposition,
to request hiui to bundle the
paragraphs relating to leather
and ita products. This is the next
big contest.
Senator Smith has made u
study of leather as well as of cotton.
It was .his knowledge of the
latter subject that caused his seI<->< <
inn t<i tulfo I'lmrirn nf t)i? <>nt
ton schedule, lie was commended
by friends in and out of the
senatg. Even the Republicans
congratulated him on his leadership.
It Was significant that several
of the Republicans joined with
the Democrats in bringing down
ti>e bight rates proposed.
Senator Stanley, Democrat, of
Kentucky took time the other
day to say this about the fight:
'The senator from South Carolina,
Mr. Smith, is perhaps the
best informed man on all that
pertains to cotton in or out of the
senate, and his contribution to
the subject, vital and practical,
is supported by his learning and
his wealth of statistical information.
1 can assure him that if the
senate is indifferent the country
lis not : the sewinc women are
not, tli# press is not, the conscience
ami the intelligence of the
(American people are not indifferent
to the fight which he is so
gallantly making."
. County Campaign Opens.
The York county campaign
opened yesterday at McConuellsville
with about 200 people in attendance.
" Each of the eight candidates
for the house of representatives
addressed the crowd
and ufter the speaking was concluded
a picnic dinner was served
at which there was an abundance
of fine soup and other good
food. The meeting was held in a
prove a short distuucc from town
and the best nf feelimr whs ilis
played among the candidates, in
the afternoon a number of those
seeking the oflice of county treasurer
and other county offices to
be filled in the primary on August
29 made announcements of
their candidacy and appealed for
support. Today the second meeting
of the campaign is being held
at Ogden and Saturday the candidates
will be in Hock Hill to
address the voters.
Fi&es Jackson's Birthplace.
Congressman Stevenson spent
several days of the past week in
Lancaster, says the Lancaster Citizen.
He addressed the voters at
Van Wyck Saturday and made a
short talk to the men's Bible class
at the Lancaster Presbyterian
Sunday sehool Sunday morning.
Tuesday he was mingling with
the crowds here attending the
campaign meeting. Asked by The
Citizen wiien he expected .William
Cicero Hammer, representative
from the Seventh North
Carolina district, to reply to his
speech On tue Jack Sun hii'thplaCe,
Mr. Stevenson said if Mr. Hammer
expects to read all of the
speech he has written on the subject,
he will hold Congress in extra
session. Mr. Stevenson further
declared that in the next
edition of the permanent Con
gressional Record, which is issued
every ten years and will be due
next year, Andrew Jacksor Till
be credited to South Carolina.
In a game in Lancaster witft
the Lancaster team Saturday afternoon,
the Fort Mill team was
turned back, 7 to 3. Failure to
hit whan-Aits would have meant
runs *?aas given as a reason for
the defeat of the Fort Mill boy*.
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ACCUSED BY DIAL.
Joe W. Tolbert Charged With
Selling Federal Jobs.
Sensational charges that Joe
W. Tolbert, Republican national
committeeman trom South C'uro
lina, has been ami is selling fed"
eral offices in this State for money
were made a few days ago by
I'nited States Senator N. Li. Dial.
Senator Dial said he had learned,
on unquestioned and convincing
proof, that Tolbert had divided
the State into districts, in
each of which lie had statioued a
henchman who sold the federal*
plums for half the first year's ,
salary, in sums ranging from
$1,200 to $2,000. Tolbert expected
to realize $100,000 out of the
system, Senator Dial said an affidavit
declared.
Tolbert is the oldest member of
il.^ 13 11! ! * -?
nit; ivepuuiican coiiuiiuu'e in
point of service, lie was nominated
a few months ago by President
Harding to be United States
marshal for the Western district
of the State. A senatorial
subcommittee is now examining
into his fitness for appointment.
It is said that such serious allegations
had been made against
him that the chances are that he
will not be confirmed.
Besides the accusations that
Tolbert is retailing government
offices for cash, Senator Dial also
charges that the committeeman,
who is also State chairman of his
party, has a civil and criminal
rceoru in me courts, mar lie lias
ignored former service men and
women in his alleged control of
post masterships and that he has
boasted of being opposed to the
prohibition laws.
The Cost of Strikes.
In the ten years ending at midnight
oil December 111 next it is
estimated that the number of
stiikes and lockouts that have
disturbed America during that
period have exceeded more than
26,000. or 1,000 more than took
place in the quarter of a century
liom 1881 to 190o, inclusive.
These industrial disturbances,
which have meant hardship and
suffering not only for the participants
but also for the public,
have involved millions of irten
and women. The loss in wages,
if available, would total a staggering
sum, and the price pan!
by industry, if it could be measured
in dollars, would approximate
the war debt of a first class
power.
Statistics on file in the department
of labor in Washington
show that between January 1,
1913, and December 31 last, the
mi in 1 t* of KtriUi'M ;iml lockouts
w us about 23,100 and by the end
of the year the number will have
passed 20,000. In tin; 25 year
period to and including 1000 the {
total number of strikes and lockoits
was 25,353 and the number
of persons involved about 0,715,000.
The total number of per.
sons involved in the 20,000 lockouts
and strikes in the lust ten
years will be in the neighborhood
of 18,000,000.
Strikes Cause Concern.
With the coal strike apparently
as far from settlement as when it
began early in April and the
prospect of the strike of the railroad
machinists spreading to
other shop* crafts, many serious
minded hort M.'.il people are beginning
to wonder where fuel to
heat their homes and business
places next winter will como
from and where food ami other
necessary supplies will be secured
if railroad traftic is completely
tied up. There is said to be no
coal for sale in Fort Mill at present
and very little prospect of
securing any in the immediate
future, according to O. T. Culp,
l/iPnl (lull lup u-lwi uovurul /111 Willi
splied for a consignment through
the State railroad commission,
distributor for South Carolina,
under the arrangement recently
put into effect by the federal government
to conserve the supply.
' William J. Erwin, who some
months ago accepted a position in
Lynchburg shortly after graduating
from Clemson college, is visiting
his mother, Mrs. Dovie Erwin,
in Fort MilL JV.
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$1.60 Per Year. "
SHORT NEWS STORIES.
Items of Interest From Various
Sections of Country.
Except for 100 miles, there is
now a paved highway from Los
Angeles, Cal., to Portland, Ore., a
distance of 1,200 miles. In less
than three years the Pacific highway
will be completed from the
Canadian line to the Mexican
border.
When lie undertook to brush
a mosquito off his foot with a
gun he did not know was loaded,
llervery Kimball. 12 years old, of
Ijewiston, Me., shot off the heel
of his foot. The mosquito was
not killed. The bullet so shattered
the boys foot that amputation
was necessary.
Itadio is one big mainstay of
the United States post office department
in establishing a safe
and speedy ail1 mail service.
I'hins are now being made by the
department to install radio telephones
on all mail planes, thus
offsetting much danger of night
flying and day flying in inclement
weather.
An iVmerican scientist is causing
a-big scare among the people
of southern Kurope 'ami northern
Africa, lie has predicted that
these lands will be swallowed on
- - ? gill
August by a big earthquake
and the people believe him.
Slight earth tremors which have
followed his prediction appear to
sustain the theory.
\Y. 1). Norinandie, 82 years old,
had smoked all his life and when
he moved to /ion t'ity, 111., recently
he refused to obey Wilbur
tllenn Yoliva's local rule against
the use of tobacco. To escape the
watchful police Norinandie did
his smoking in bed. lie died a
few days ago of burns suffered
when the bedclothes caught fire.
Cutting a cross deep into his
bared breast, (Jabriel .Johannes, a
religious fanatic, atempted to offer
himself us' a "human sacrifice
of blood" on the altar of St. Patrick's
cathedral, New York city,
at the moment the Kev. Patrick
Daly was uttering the words of
consecration ~ during the mass.
Fifteen hundred in attendance tt?
the service looked 011.
uovornmoni omoiais wno are
(haling with the coal strike assort
that the effect of the strike
will be long felt and that at louse
a yoty will be required for the
country to get back to normal
fuel conditions after the men return
to the* mines. The strike
has resulted thus far in a shortage
of not less than 30 million
tons of antracitc coal, according
to the figures of the United States
geological survey.
Prnviiur iii mitiiic is: twit nil <if
fense against the civil service
rules of Portland, Ore. Therefore
George Winters, an old employee,
is to get his job back. Winters
was discharged because he persisted
in praying loudly as a preamble
to opening his lunch pail,
a custom which "proved objectionable
to his foreman and fellowworkers.
The civil service commission
ruled that Winters had a
right to pray if he wanted to
and ordered his reinstatement.
There are more than 10,500,000
motor vehicles registered in
the United States, according to
figures compiled by the National
Automobile Chamber of Commerce.
This means an automobile
or motor cycle to each ten persons
in the country. A survey of
tin automobile plants shows that
in dune the motor industry pro-'
duced in excess of 288,000 motor
vehicles, which is 12 per cent
greater than the previous record
of 256,000 in Mav. indicating
2i production in 1922 of more
than 2 million motor vehicles..
Ninety-six year old Benjamin
IV Range of Iladdnin, Conn., is
the driver of his own automobile,
lie is the oldest man in that State
to apply for a driver's license.
Discovery of an almost tropical
valley with rivers of boiling
waler, many mineral'springs, abnormal
plant growth and abounding
with game in far northern
British Columbia is reported by
Frank Perry, mining engineer, of
Vancouver, back after 17 years
spent in prospecting the weird
valley close to the year-long Arctic
ice of the Yukon border.