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HE UNION TIMES < Daily Except Sunday By Hi UNION TIMES COMPANY -?? Jt. Rica Editor Miuttrtd at tha Postofflce in Union, 8. C aa second claaa matter, Tinea Buildioa Mala Street Ball Telephone No. 1 < SUBSCRIP riON RATES ' Jne Year 94.00 1 lla Montba S.0<> Three Montha 1.00 1 ADY ERTISEMENTS vine Square, first tnaartion $1.00 1 Ever? aubaeguent tnaartion 00 Obituary notices, Church and Lo<l|r aoticea and aotlcea ot public meetinaa, aatcrtainmenta and Cards of Thanka will b<charged for at tha rata of one cent a word. . ;aeh accompanying tha order. Count the srorda and you will know what the cot' rill ba MEMBFR OF ASSOCIATED PRESS I'he Asaociated Praaa Is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of nevrs llapatchea credited to it or not " .?t " edited in this paper, and also m Waal published therein. l SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1922. Greece seems bent upon having a king. C- nstantine, now the crown prince, but a king they must have. What they really have seems to be a military dictator ship and that will be a hard master. The fine fa?r days are delighted, but the fall gardens have gone past rem. edy. There will be very little "greens" for the average table in this ccunty. Sorry this is so, but it cannot be helped. - 1 - ! By reason of good long dry days along with intense heat, the boll weevil did not do the damage expected this summer. But let no one suppose that this will always be the Iuck. We need now to begin planning for siaiK destruction. we should, as soon as the cotton is gathered, plow the stalks under with a disk harrow. How many farmers of the county will be wise and do this? Our cat says moderation in eating prolongs human life. Our cat says boasters are not boosters. ? ' Our cat says wars prolong misery but settle few questions. * * Our cat says obedience is the beginning of education. ? * * Our cat says love is patient, lust impatient. m ? * Our cat says those who sow not need not expect a harvest. * Our cat says gluttony is the moth er of many distorted dreams. 1 Our cat says ten truths will no'. ' overtake one lie. * Dliv /?of O ???? v/?i vuv auvaiitiu^ UkV j lays many signals. 1 Our cat says safe investments promise modest returns. * Our cat says the censorious spiiit never builded a town. , The Granting of Divorces Making Fiume Famous ' i Fiume, Sept. 29.?This city counts i population of 60,000; 15,000 of j i hen. received decrees of divorce in , .he years 1920 and 1921. Divorce ( sfcenis to be one of the most flourish , in? of the local industries, and it is making the city famous. j The reason is that the severance i of the martial bond is easy here, and s . people desiring freedom flock to Fi- t ume from neighboring states where \ divorces are not granted. Anyone j can get a divorce in Fiume who has i lived in the city long enough to ac- 1 quire the rights of citizenship. i Complications, however, occasion* c nl'y ar se. The case is still remem- t beved of an Italian woman who ac- ( quired the citizenship of Fiume and i divorced her husband, who remained 1 an Italian subject. Shortly after her i divorce she remarried and returned i to Italy, where she was promptly im- c prisoned for bigamy, the Italian law * considering her divorce null and void. I her husband being and Italian, and, a as su~h. not entitled to divorce. . ? r As early as 1840 there were 420 1 paper mills in the United States. Gold Ashes should fast one day a li week. t raw U A. Government Interference Disastrous to All Internet* (From ManufaatuftrCi ftdtofti) If there is on# cartiturt* rror in thi3 ountry it is the belief of educated und responsible citizens, in end out i>f office, that violation of the law, by them, for what they conceive to be i*ood purposes* is excusable and ought not to be questioned. We find men all uver the country who violate the Volstead Act, dealing with bootleggers, nnd yet they are horrified that other lawless men wield bludgeons at night and rob and kill. The voluntary price control organization brought into being in Washington through the efforts of Secretary Hoover and the administration has "voluntarily" dissolved. The reason for this dissolution, we understand, is that eminent counsel advised that the whole affair has been illegal from the beginning, without any authority of law, but in defiance of law. It is just as lawless for government officials to combine with producers to keep prices down as it is for them to comnine to keep prices up. The truth is that combinations to maintain low prices constituted one of the reasons why enactment of the anti-trust laws was considered requisite. Another feature of this particular experiment in illegality, however, was the fact that governmental intervention probably increases instead of stabilizing coal prices. Seldom is there ny trouble in the coal fields but that 1.:gh officials at the capital rush into print and gravely inform the country that a frightful shortage is in sight. Instantly, timid citizens, fearful of the winter, plunge into the market and create an apparent shortage. There is at least one classic instance when a similar cry of shortage in another commodity did create such an immediate public demand that a real shortage promptly did occur. Enough of the commodity was sold, we hear, to last five years. We think it is susceptible of proof that if the government had given to non-union miners the protection to which they were entitled under the law, those non-union miners would have produced enough coal to have prevented a fuel debacle and at prices within reason. Washington, however, where maintenance of law would have solved the problem, preferred to undertake a solution by repudiation of the law. Likewise, it is notorious that the check-off has been declared illegal. Yet the government in Washington boasts that a truce in the coal strike was brought about by ignoring that fact and permitting a settlement containing the check-off. For weeks the newspapers have been filled with stories to the effect that this or that official was assuring this or that industry that it might do this or that thing, in spite of the law, since the official felt that the results would be good. That means a government of men, not a government of laws. It means the substitution of the ipse dixit of a single person for the high authority of the statutes. How can citizens whose facilities for education have not been of the best be expected to have respect for the law if men in high places, who ought to know better, flout the law when it suits their convenience? Nor are men, when they get to Washington, content merely to ignore the laws. They insist, when any emergency arises, on the enactment of emergency statutes. For Instance, the president himself rushed up to tongress to demand that the law-making body quickly establish a great coal purchasing and distributing agency, a sort of United States Coal Corporation, to spend the money of taxpayers in commerce. And within two weeks his spokesman on the floor of the house was solemnly announcing that the president had changed his mind and did not any longer think such an agency required! Nevertheless, this experiment in socialism would have been attempted had concress been hotter diseinlineH Mo wonder the country talks about halfbaked policies! Nor can farmers fail to notice that when they, in despair, suggested that the government might undertake to sell their products and save them they were coldly advised that the government could not venture into so radical .n undertaking. It is as much a function of government to protect proiucers as to protect consumers. Just now hysteria in favor of priorities is popular. The very word 'priority" is undemocratic and ought to have no place in our economic tructure, so far as transport is con*erned. But even since traffic piled ip during the war there has been i school of thinkers dedicated to the dea that it is a proper thing for the ?overnment to look over the fields and leparate the sheep from the goats, determine what goods can move and what goods cannot move. The fruitgrower in the Northwest is just as nuch entitled to move his crop to -narket and save this year's income is some manufacturer is to secure roal. A democratic covernment micrht n have nothing to do with prefer nces. It is getting so that before a nan can engage in business with any tope of success he has to institute an nqui^y to discover whether or not he s likely to be deprived of railroad fa :ilities at a moment's notice. We are lot far wrong when we say that iriorities in this country have invariably worked grave hardship, disrupted 'eneral business, ruined many honest nen, halted prosperity and caused a ong trail of trouble. Two years ago hey verc invoked unnecessarily, as pas afterwards acknowledged, we beieve, and there is some good reason i o suppose that they are unnecessary ly invoked now. Mr. Ford Lb right, as Judge Gary has intimated, when he pro teats agdnst a conscienceless- profiteering in the cod'market. The Administration or Hoover plan is to control prices through the use of priorities. We believe that the employment of priorities has simply been ammunition for profiteers' guns. The feelink of panic which the government itself has created is responsible for coal bootleggers. It is their most valuable asset. Indeed, the moment responsible coal firms began to advertise that there was no need for a panic, that coal would be forthcoming and at re a. sonable prices, the speculative market began to tumble of its own weight. We are not unmindful M extreme situations which may call for heroic remedies. But the employment of so drastic a measure as the priority, "= which virtually deprives some citizens < of their property without due process of law is abhorrent to the American mind. We do not think that such a thing as a a priority order shoull be of permitted to issue until after public R hearings. We are told that when it th was suggested to an Interstate Gonf- b< morce Commissioner that such a hear- C( ing be held before the first priority order was published, to establish the te fact of whether or not an emergency warranting it existed, he slmplv an - "I swered that anybody who did not eI know there waa such an emergency ^ was a fool. There la reason to suspect that some of his own colleagues, u who emphatically are not fools, came ^ within his sweeping definition. (j, Nine out of every ten citizens, say, jr will give it as their opinion, if they p, have any, that the government bun- al pled both strike situations. At timed, indeed, the government made itself ri- w diculous. There was nothing novel in that. The government always p makes itself ridiculous when it inter- e] venes in matters properly outside its w jurisdiction. The art of governing and the art of doing business are dif- ir ferent things. Like oil and water, t| they do not mix. Nevertheless, the ^ virus of interference is so subtle that ^ even a man such as President Hard- ^ ir.g, who went into office detesting in- t( terference by vhe government in mat- ^ ters that were not of its business, is ^ not two years in office before he is wheedled into the same old policy of Q intervention. Half of all the trouble in both the coal and railroad strikes has been caused by the government. If the latter had done the one thing it ought 11 to have done?respected the law itself 1X1 and enforced the same respect from ** all others?fewer reputation would be in their nadir and industrial conditions ir would be vastly improved. n We come to the crux of the aitua- c< tion. The very use of priorities is an 81 acknowledgment and confession that c< the transport facilities of the nation are inadequate ;that. the nation lacks V the capacity to handle normal business. Preferential diversion of facil- A ities is obviously no solution. It :s a1 merely a makeshift, and a mighty 01 poor one. The answer is not abuse tl of the facilities available, but the ere- ? ation of additional facilities. No pol- 1) itician proposes that cure. Instead, m having seen the railroad industry bled n white by regulation, congress assumes ? that the proper thing to do is to have T more regulation. Two hundred thou- ei sand additional coal cars and a full supply of locomotives would be worth p< all the priorities that ever were is- C sued. This additional rolling stock ui would, in terms of national prosperity, vi be worth many times its cost. M The world has reached the point where short-visioned and narrow Si rtatesmanship will not do. Old methods of waiting for crises to burst in full vigor and then solving them by emergency policies which inevitably are destructive of wmnlicit* ?r??i of ? ? m ficiency in government can no longer ^ be adhere to. We mast plan far ahead, g Our statesmanship, as never before, ' must be based on sound economics, not on popular quack politicies. We are 1 trying to build a permanent nation, a great empire of prosperity, not only ? a soul-magnet for struggling humanity, but a structure of prosperity so sound that it will give a new mean- n< ing to ideas of well-being and a new ni interpretation of what material hap- ? piness can be on earth. We should1 f(, build permanent foundations, whereas the employment of priorities is our confession that we have not even cought up with the present, much less th made any adequate preparation for si: the beckoning future. pi di Diacovr Giant ce Fossil Oyster Sheila wl ? qt Brownsville, Texas, Sept. 29.? n? flinnt. fnRtil nuitar ahalla aaM K.. ?? scientists to be more than 400,000 ho years old and some of them measuring more than three feet in length, have been discovered in a clay bank in Starr county, Texas, near a petrified forest. , di The fossils were found in a clay sc and shell bank about 1,000 feet above m sea level. Some of the specimens b? have been sent to the Smithsonian Institute and other to the public health service. di Scientists declare that huge rep- U Hies swam in the waters which cov- I' ered the lower Rio Grande valley in fu the paleozic age and that the large th oysters lodged in the gravel banks along the seashore in what is now Starr and Zapata counties. Near the fossij bank are hundreds of petriAed trees, some of them four U feet in deameter. In this forest is a variety of oak now extinct in this part of the country. , The greatest granite beds in the United States are found in Maine. no 1 1 of It pays to advertise in The Times. Sc % 1 They are l< GOOD! AM 1 - - | ?J Oxen Scarce in the U. S. A. Chicago, Sept. 29.-?"Times do tange," is the' unanimous verdict of ?r A _ CII..uj. uviaiu ui i>in niucrKau uiuctriv ailway association 'Who searched tree months for a team of oxen to > used in connection with the annual ? invention he*e October 2-8. ^ "When someone suggested an ox am to show the stages in the prog?ss of transportation everyone ~" ?reed that finding oxen would be isy," said Secretary James W. relsh. "But when we began to look for ^ lem we couldh't find one. Ezra [eeker, an Oregon trail pioneer who rove an ox team about the country i the interest of good roads, was ap- i ealed to but his team was stuffed rid on exhibition in Seattle, Wash. 'We asked stockyards officials, wild est shows and many others. Even- A laity we heard of one blind ox in hillips, Wis., and, after getting the itire city interested in the search, e located a yoke near there." Together with the pageant showlg old and new types of transpor ition, the convention will hear adresses from al living former presi ents of the organization, many of horn ran horse car lines, according ) plans. Trackless transportation, ixes and public relations are sub- H ?cts included on the program. lerman Potash Minese Incur Heavy Obligations Berlin, Sept. 29.?Unless the comig six years see a radical improve- p tent in the lvalue of the mark, Gertany's potash industry probably will e seriously jbmbarraased in liquidat ir siock snares neid abroad wblch _ rnst be paid in currency of the F >untry from which the capital was ubscribed. Other industrial con?rns are said: to be bound by similar is ^ligations contracted during the P*. o y 1 ?,' *** r - The potash mines of wintershaU, lexander shall, add, S axon-W eimer re reported to ^ave taken up 10,)0,000 marks capitalisation each at lat time, repayable in 1928, at tho ite of 1,220 Cwiss francs to every 000 marks. With the fall of Goran currency it wonld require today o less than 3,060,000,000 paper larks to fulfill these agreements, his sum exceeds, it is said, the total ipital of al lthe Wintershall mines. Owing to scarcity of labor in the stash fields of the Werra valley, in ' entral Germany, a large number of diversity students are spending their ications working in the mines, [any of them are housed in barracks. p( tray Dogs of Berlin To: Have New Home Berlin, Sept. 39.?Stray dachshunds nd other waif canines of Geran capital are gleefully wagging icir tails at the prospects of a new 500,000 mark pound which the city is decidede to erect as their special lension de luxe." Not only an?,the innocent victims ' the official dog-catcher to "have ? leir day,"1 but the latter himself and ? s staff are to be provided with a ' ?w residence costing 2,650,000 arks. Neukoelln will be* the site ' the palatial new pound. Water" Chess Diverts Berlin 14 Berlin, Sept. 29.?Water chess is ? ie latest diversion to hit Berlin's >orting life. A game recently was ayed In the large pool of the Staum, the capital's leading sports nter. A board of wood underlaid * 1th cork, was used. One of the relirements of the match was that Ither player leave the water expt after stated intervals of two iurfe each. CANDIDATE'S CARD ? Ul I hereby announce myself a candi- jr ite tor trustee# of the Union graded _ hools, District No. 11, and pledge ynelf to discharge the duties to the ?t of my ability. I* E. McAlpine. I hereby announce myself a can- ^ date for election as_aehsol trustee, nion Graded gtehool, District No. 11. elected will strive to serve faithilly the interests of the public and ' e welfare of the schools. Wm. C. Lake. I hereby announce myself a candiite for election as a trustee of the m nion graded schools, District No. 11. ? elected I will .do my best to fulfill e obligations of the responsible po- i ion. J B. B. James. w) - - na The friends of C. T. Murphy an- j|| unee him for reelection to the office trustee of the Union Graded hoOiS, District No. 11. ^ po :A. PECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS J,. . EN WJ^TEX^To sell our goods in counfW add-.Qlty. Why work 161 others you can htfva s business oT your o?* wttlir- steady income? We sell on tflRS and Ssit for our money. Team or auto needed for qountry, no outfit needed In city. Experience unnecessary.* We train in salesmanship. Mention this paper. ltpd PECIAL FOR SATURDAY and Monday?Jersey Giant Potatoes 80c peck <>r $2.65 bag. * Fine yellow and white onions 6c per lb. or 10 lbs. for 40c. Gibbs Grocery. 1496-2tpd OST?On streets of Union today, a long, straight gold pin set with pearls and rubies. Finder please return to Mrs. Ida Baker, E. Main 1 street. 1495-Jt 1 RAIN DRILL FOR SALE?Eight I row Hoosier drill, latest improve- I ments; used only three days; under R shelter all the time when not in use. fl Price reasonable.. Bernard Fant, I Santuc, S. C. 1496-6tpd | rANTED?To rent or buy a baby 1 bed. Apply to Mrs. Josie Hughes I Brabson, W. Main street. 1497-2tpd I OAL?413.50 per ttai delivered. Phone your orders early to 103. Consolidated Ice & Fuel Co. 1495-6t [ONEY TO LOAN on city or country property in large amounts on easy terms. S. E. Barron. 1406-tf HAVE a small quantity of good seed wheat for s^le. D. J. Gregory. Union, Route 3. s NICE four room cottage on Sardis road, and near City cemetery. This is an attractive house and a very large lot, nearly acre, wired in, and 1 running water. This is the Kohn place. This nice and attractive little heme can be purchased for $1,800. Suitable terms can be arranged on both these pieces of property. S. E. Barron, selling agent. 1476-tf OME FOR SALE?A six room house, practically new, and attractive, sewerage, water and lights, on Blassengame street in West Union, a nice locality and desirable place to live, price only $1,500. S. E. Barron, selling agent. 1476-tf OR RENT?One 5-room house. Lights anl water. Located on Mabrey Ave. Apply to Mrs. M. J. Marbey. 1484-tf OR SALE?456 acres land, three miles from Union, junction two top-soiled roads, one the Appalachin highway, and Southern railway runs through it. Half mile from Bonham station. Haa 200 acres wood, well watered, eight-room dwelling, barns, fine well water. Two good tenant houses. Good stand for country store and fine sites for building lots. To be sold to settle an estate. Good terms and price to prospective buyer. Apply E. G. Evans, Sr., Pendleton, S. C. 1495-Ut OR RENT?Two upstairs rooms, furnished. Apply to Mrs. J. E. Kirby. 1488-tf ATS?Fulghum, jippler, red and nbruzzi rye. Peoples Supply Co. 1496-4t _ DR SA-LE?Several new and second hand automobiles at bargain prices. Nicholson Bank & Trust Co. ' 9-6 Wed.-Sat.tf OR RENT?Large, commodious ga rage located on Gadberry street equipped with lights and sewerage connection. Has lathe machine with electric motor. * Surrounded by streets except on one side. Gas tank and pump, also stand for washing cars. For terms and rental See W. S. McLure. 1427-SaATu-tf axi From Lockhart to Union Leave Lockhart at 8:80 a. m. Leave Lockhart at 1:30 p. m. Leave Union *at 11:00 a. m. Leave Union at 4:80 p. m. Leave from monument at Union. l96-4tpd J. L. Hames. " Notice A regular meeting of the Union . Shrine Club will v ?*> the Ma- * sonic Temple ~ Tuesday, October 3rd, at 8 o'clock P E^einees rf ho rtance in to be brought before the ub. Every Shriner in Union County P eternally invited and urged to be ?j esent. By order, C. C. Sander*, Lteeted Treside.it. ? Wm. C. Lake, ci Sec'y A Trees. 149L 5t m Sawyer & Kennedy pi torneya and Counsellore at Law |c No. 83 Main Street Union, South Carolina Engaged in the general practice ol n. We no IonOor renreaent the lion-Buffaio Hills Co., the Union inufacturing A Power Co., or the lion A Gitnn florhurs Railroad Co The "Book of Evangelist*," upon lich English kings took their coro tion oaths was bo?nd in oak boards 00 A. D. M Forest rangers in Minnesota carry ei rtable pumps for use in forest flres. ai 1 (fclLI OLD SO YEARS?-AFDni 1 TO THE PATRONS OF Now that year childroa'a ayaa hav? tor, remember that If ha doaa not mal work, that I am prepared to fit glasses attention to thia work and guarantee a - timaa to make gooJ my gnarantaa. Let me name to you soma of your assMaflsd naera of my glaa^N, Yours For Better Eyes 1 F". C. D STATS L1CSNS1D O For Electric Wiring an< You will do well to consult me good quality of materials and at my estimates before placing yot W. T. SIN y _ [motor cai ^re v?" ' \ dingy a] ^AH\ \ f ?___^r-r^ti Why.n< ?gJ?g^A \ J J~~~T esain a* ?nd at e-fpericn f"-^Tj- mi r"oundec The Occc Now a The seasonal movement in th toward increased business volun that prices are showing a tendei dency has accompanied the develt . cycles in the past. The essentials for continued bu at hand?but they must be used During this critical period, eyerj well to co-operate closely with 1 / "Large Enough to Serve Any?Stror C^ITIZLI NATIONAL, ?*. a ** ? ?- I ratal beach Suits |? Cleaned . ' ' Ci We cm clean and press your 1 aim Boaoh suit very quickly Pa tese days. Wo hare the luipmont and the know hoor. iva mo a trial. > Will appro- I ato it as much or moro than I sy one also. j Phone 167 end we will cell I romptly end return your suit I?? ioking like new. ' ? Htmet Pressing & Repair Shop u. Nicholson Benk Bldg. Phone 169 end motor cycle Mrs. Ells M. Wellmsn, of Augusta, - ? e.t hns s hobby of collecting pitch. Th ?, an* at the present time has an timei isortmeit numbering more than 70#per 01 SMITHS .Tonic 'n i i .1 ? m ONION SCHOOLS: i been mnitiwd by your doedo a specialty of this kind of u I give my whole time and a tisf action. I am hone at all neighbors or friends who ars | For the Children, I UKE PTOMERI8T. 1 Electric Fixture* >. Expert workmanship, t reasonable prices. Get * ir order. CLAIR f? finish! h on the finish that g kes off the years 9 te road, the your car ? B ecret. It is judged by its looks! fl i proud of it ? Has it a duIK, I jpeoranee ? B >t make it glow and glisten B i though it never had a birth. I ju can do the job yotfrselF? B small cost?with Devoo B lar Finish. B aduc* is self- 'evohn'l ??<? B so smooth that the oar looks B ion ally rchnishcd 'Extremely B /, ? rust-preventing ? made to B d fltot?jTTRsttlftrco?fl?: ??" 'B?:? roducra are time-tested ami 9 ? oackcd by the' 168 years? ce of the o'dest paint mantr- B ii? concern in the (J. SI B 11754. B k. Hj le Hardware Co. B UNION. S. C. Hj ision it Hand e Autumn is normally le. And it is obvious ncy to rise. That ten>pment of new business S k sines8 improvement are wisely and with care. . , 7 business man will do lis bank. ig Enough to Protect All." rs A k. r ?r DAIN H. W. EDGAR Undertaking Parlors ills aitiwered day and night ihrompt and Efficient Service y Phone 1M?Night Phono til AUSTELL'S SHOE STORE. FOR BETTER SHOES . 9 1 ' ' 1 ,1 X KINDS OF CEMETERY WORK 1 S / > V . lion Marbla Sc Granita Co. Main St. Union, S. C. ?_____ Iverttse in The Tlrnie ^ te 1922 baby costs nearly /ouri as mueh is bin pra-war broth aiatar.