The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, December 17, 1920, Image 1
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-7 or t\ wow, the
SjwSS' ;'Be Over,"
V^hvvab?'
> DEPRESSION te NATURAL
?f ' r 1 T '
Says Great Needy Of the World
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Today In to Work Hard and Save
'?Predicts that "American Business
Will Emerge With a Vigor and
&m|1
Energy Never Before Known."
NEW YORtf, Dec. 16.?The existing
shfnp in business is only the nat-*
^ ural transition of industries returnlng
to a normal basis from the speeding
up of production made necessary
by tho wardeclared Charles M.
Schwab, chat-man of the board of directors
of the Bethlehem Steel cor"f
poration. In and address here at the
apnual dinner of the Pennsylvania
society.
"I want to no on record here." said
Mr.SChwab, "as saying nothing
could be healthier for American busi
, upbh than the very condition tJi rough
* which we are now passing. The severer
the storm now, the quicker it
will be over and the sooner we can
emerge into clear weather and shape!
our course upon the sea of prosperity."
Commentinp upon the status of
unemployed lohorers. Mr. R-hwah
stated that "the great need of the
world today is to work hard and
save." This, he nnid, applies t(T men
of means as well as working men.
The man who fails to work was characterized
as a "slacker" who "deserves
no place among honorable
men."
The foreign trade of the Cnited
States depends upon the power of
* business men to think "intermitionnlly."
Mr. Schwab said in advocating
* '^"vethe plan of trusting in the good faith
"U?nd prodtytive power of Ktirope by
wending raw materials, and accepi*g
in payment securities represent
" j their producing aVtivities.
Cjluring the last two years. Mr
j iwall said. tb< re has been the
titllest annual tirodue' ion :n this
. jkfcifrv than :?f t??y lime si 11? ?* 1 ! I :t.
ft atrf-Tar? <! r?r?"i? i? production w.v
Jlc only guarantee of employment
t /'l higher wjicps.
// "Ncvor in our life time." said the
.Jpcakor, "have the -"helves of Ili?*
wworld boon so hare At the moment.
/ our export trndo banns iiv a slender
/ thread We am rapidly getting into
/ a position where the whole world
owes us monoy and yot can not pay
It.
"Wo are getting rolioyod <>f the
impuritu , i?i our business life. Tbo
process is not complete vet. Hut the
patient will in time ho cured and
when he is cured tl?o great body of
American business ? ill emerge with
o vigor and an enercv the world has
never known before "
Mr Schwab made a plea for economy
In government, demanding "tlie
same degree ot efficiency in government
as we require in private business."
Immediate rev'ston of taxntt
tlon was also urged l?x Mr. Schwab
as a moans fur promoting national
prosperity.
Regard Cut Too llrHxtl1'.
NRW RKDFORD. Mas*., Dec 1r,.
?The textile oonnotl nr a meeting
tonight failed to consider notion on
the announcement t, day of 22 1-2
per rent on* In wages in the local
cotton mtllK voted to seek a confer
once with the manufacturers" association
not later than Thursday. It was
#i >gted that labor urlon officials re'
ferried the cut as too drastic.
X
) i James Tinslcy Dead.
;7 RICHMOND Va.. Dec 16 .fames
O.^Tinslev. nged 77, pioneer in organising
fertilizer companies in the
fouth. died Mondav at his fleurt'v
pnmn near here. He was at c..e
tii treasurer of the Virglnta-Carn
n_ ? i ?
yijomirai company He traveled
\ apendlnjr much time In Eurv
Vik OnlcrM R<'?pcno(l.
VUAm, H. f\, Dec. 1?.?The
f/ftTlng? hank which war
A,<sro laet Friday by order of
<{pctor?, wm orderect to be
/> tomorrow by fltata Bank Kxjj/f
Crate. who Mid that
#1 ira? aoNanf
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WEEKLY.
H fin
ggi OLJK
III i TT R
f m Chrii
||8k r JL lent I
the apprei
R5?g| In our
(fy&l good thou
MjW year; but
iffif&l <*nd make
Such a
good as m
not hare I
M power anc
gjXjgK have uphe
/or the Ic
JWC yours has
&f/)i kept it on
All cha
to entertai
}W|fo ' meed of a
IgMW those engc
feH3^ applause <
manifest i
||gL word of ak
(p/(r?$ scribers a
|^g|J maintain <
zXQr ageiiierii n
necessary ,
'2t$\ Mayth
?[ r~] the full dc
g be enabled
Uhl and benefi
r X v^v \
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2 Convn?h' "OJO
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MONKV FOR THE SCHOOL
OUT OF NEW IXHJ TAXES
Kvitv Ib>j{ Will lie Issued 4i Ta<; and
\n> < Hie lliirlMit-iitK IH?u On Whicli
Tax Is Cnpitid l.iablr to Finn.
A new law relative to the taxation
of will hero me effective January
ih?, aud after that date a tax
of *! 25 will he imposed on every
<1 _ ih"ve eix mnnthR of aRe t'pon
ree.-i, ' of th'-s tax the county I re?s
urer will ismye a metal tax on which
will i?? Htampotl a number below ihe
words "Dor Tax " A numerical record
ri owing to whom nuch fairs were
is- to I will be kept by thin county
officer
T .? act al?o embodies a elause
? :i,cr provides it penalty upon the
rnn?:rMon of any person who shall
harbo- a dog upon which the tax i
hat "" been paid or n do* that nan j
ii" collar on which the metal tax Is- |
sited by the treasurer la fastened. A I
collar benrinK this tajr must he worn I
by do*? at nil times excepting when!
the do/a are on a hunt or chase Or j
the II 2ft, twenty-tlve cents will yo
to the county trensarer for kee PIUR j
the record*. ismmn^ the lags and
handling the funds, all of which will
amount to considerable labor.
Fo?ir rnHrrwsti fCllled.
nCBLIM, Def |?.?Four policemen
were billed today at Kllkommon.
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ANCA
LANCASTER, S. C., FRIDA"!
|Iou attii f nt
: CHRISTMAS W
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EQUIRES not the occ
stmas with its joys, cheer a
good will, to arouse tn us <
ziation due patrons of this
hearts and minds are grat
ghts for you during every <
Christmas hallows our s
s their expression fitting at
s we have accomplished <
\ay be traceable to our effc
yeen possible without your ?
I co-operation. If in any
Id a beacon, you have suj
imp. If ours has been c
been the motive element r
f/c
Z2TJ'
racters appealing io or em
n the public, must be given
pplause or they cannot exi
igtd in publishing a newsj
conies in the interest whic
n its columns and in an <
pproval. The practical he
nd advertisers has etiabi
a publication standard; the
as furnished the dcvree ot
* n ' ~ J
as an incentive to our ciu
e spirit of Christmas noil
'gree of its bountifulncss.
' to get the same amount oj
t from these columns that
im making them.
The P
Nothing IhllK' Ahnut 11.
To the Kditor of The New York j
Time: *
(Miring fin- next t>>n years the 1
boozers, bandits, morons, speed j
maniacs and half-grown girls who |
drive n majority of the auto will
kill eunuch men. women ami j
children to make a city the size <>i '
.vtnany. There will be a few '
niiles of editorials wanting valua
hie wood fillip t'ountiess words v
will heat the air Hut nobody does
any thine. Kverybody seems to v
have forgotten that pedestrians >
were made before the Lizzies, and K
that tliey have a right to i?e on '*
earth. Such a simple remedy a
would be a law con tinea ting the "
cars of the assassins and sending . ct
them to the penitentiary for life
H. B. McCR AY. M I) ' 01
St Petersburg, Fla., l>ec. .1, 1920.
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Seeks Kmhargo <>n Produce. I
WASIIINOTON. Deo K,. An em- J h(
liargo for one year against the im-1 , (
portation of wheat, wheat flour, j ^
barley, rye, oats, flax, wool, hogs, cat-: v,
I '
Me and sheep is proposed in a bill js
Introduced today bv Representative! |U
VounR, Republican. North Dakota, j
also Introduced a bill establishlnR a
I p?
permanent schedule of import duties1
upon theso Items efter the one year 4,1
embargo. VJ hi
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STER
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IT, DECEMBER 17, 1920.
trs fyf?
ISH W& <
asion of (1)v
{ pleasure 'T
ne /mve 7vV\^ !,s
iAy '',o
i rushers |p|
"I
m^mKo^u <
* ? ~ ^ j nun
MONROE SCHOOL IUAIK Ik ,
- ?.J " ?
WIN BY \1D OF WOMEN1, s,a
1 can
; of
filial of iS'jm.OOrt \iiltioriz?'d llm n
\ul Mw Tlt?n Half of This j 0f
Xniouni Will lb- Ninlfd. i [iro
' I ho
MONKOK. N c . I?# ? 16. Tho tnc
loot ion here Tuesday upon the ques- _ (
ion ot isnninc bonds for the "" notion
no,
f n Inch sobool bnViitnic resulted in ,,
i. on
ioinrv for the bonds. Of a total roc
idn.
it ration of 60?. ;im1 a necessarv
v,d<
oto of 30_* to carry tho bonds. SI'*
trio
otes w.-ro onst favoring thorn. This
ives a not majority of !?r? for tho (i
onus While only Ji votes were ,
iio
otiially oast against tho bonds, all
f tho rogfstrants who did not vote
poul
mr. ted against them h
Too election was looked upon as ,1B ,
ihinly a voto of confidence in tho m#.n
oard of trustees of tho school dis- onfr
M,.?l "? c.-W
.. . .in.oi ui int; iiKiij ?;i)i macie
gainst tin* size of the issue. J2f)0,- nrltj,
i>0 being authorized. hut the school well
?ard had pledged not to use more "o
ion i? necessary and in no case more '
inn $inn.t?ni>. This with fVi.OdO '
?te(i last year and already in hand t>
deemed adequate to erect the form
itiding needed. The women voted into
id worked with the en t hum asm of '? ??
perienced politicians and without ' ""
ielr aid the bonds would probably
ivo been defeated. i
.. .... .
nd prera- ^83# s
% sense of W&Sft a!!'
paper. W{g ?!T
itude and 'x (
r v nioi
/ay of the l&JSIlJ K,:'
7n5T\I b,,<1
enttments (Ayr i,u
id timely.
anJ such ^iM
>rts would :i '
sustaining ?.r.
sense we 2kSs?
bplied oil ^\aP ",1
i chariot, '
vhich has h.''!
deavoring J
a certain goJKT ??
* Wlth
Oaper, the ? :<' MpiS*
h readers ' . ||gg
occasional ,,1.
r,Ipofsubfeci
i<5 /o
/r cue our- m?.
pleasure ||)M ' ^
r//> /c/5&5. V
t for you ''"
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Nev
si
IE KU KLUX KLAN
<EEDS NO DEFENSI
rth Carolinian (lives a Tru
tory Of (he Origin and
Work Of the Hand.
(JAM Z ATI ON N EC ESSI T
t. !,nimliinghous<- 'IVIK <
rrrihlc < it Ions Whic
onfrnntcil tin- Soiidi and l><
landed < 'onrt'rti'tl Action ii
ait Of tin* lVopK'.
J J. I.anghinphouso. in t!i
Raleigh News and Observer.)
eeing atid realizing that nearl
i?f die members of that great an
p glorious organization coinpoi
of the best and bravest type <
Confederate soldier and com
ily known as the "Ku K!u
n" or "Invisible Empire," hu\
or worse, than in other sei
>el that the time has come whe
true story of the origin of tii
i Klnx Klan" and the reasot
en necessitated its coming int
itence should lie made known i
rut It t ul and unbiased way. Tli
ler of this article had the Itoi
if belonging to the Klan and di
Ins hit in the great work of n
ani/ation which was accomplisl
in North Carolina, ami partici
v in the counties of Pitt an
utort where conditions were i
. or worse, than in other se
is of the state, and is now tl
r surviving member of the KI
Pitt and Ib-aufort counties.
Inch has been written hi regar
Hie Ku Klux Klan hv the nortl
press. it has been held up I
student of history as a band t
laws oml cutthroats whose so
i and desire was to spread te
and disorganize society gene
' during the five years next su
ding the close of the Ci\il \\':t
s, of course. is untrue Ti
a Kln> Klan was organized f <
purpose of forcing that mo
M'lll |Mi Kills Ml 11(1 III 1 llll'V I
lposed of carpet-111 "S ll'1
North and seal.iw;ius. the 11
k- ;i roll ll t . Ill i * I o; i s? their l! I
in I ho I !ir '.its nf ,i hi-l'ih"'- ii
ri ; people worn out h\ foi
rs ail < on ?;itit warfare ,;l tin
Is of five to otio
Shortly ntt' r tin- Iortninntion
Civil War. wlial i kinnoi .is tl
h amendment ? 'ho ion-t it nt i.
the I'niloal States was r-'Muir
a oonilit ion ot tlo- ro i-nt r\
Sonlhorn States into lint l.tiii
t 111 o - o states ratify I In- anion
nt Kvoryauio is. 'if conrso, t
inr with the purposes of ^
h. amendment The Preside
"io t'nitci! States, rotili/iiiu '
r rosontinont of the sonlhe
i ; i oTicorniii" this a'Mondme!
? roi| Ho* admission into the I'
without rompelliiu; the
ii'?t the wishes of their hi
pie to ri.titv tilth ajnemlineti
t ho eopi^ross of tlle I * 11 i I
tes. ? inch was largely repuh
. and especially those meiuho
congress .who were most hit!
in.-ii iinnmniPoUH donuiieiatio
tho south. failed to favor tl
suit jit 's viows and Inmstod t h
southern Rfatoa ratify I'm
rofimal of tho Rout horn stafos
t'.- ?fu? ?faf<R r?r S" *?V Carol
Soutti Carofina. M issinsipp
rr a. Alabama, l.ouiRiann. Flo
Toxan and Arkansas worn <1
Ml Into five croat military dii
!? and ovor oaoh dlatriot wa
d an armv offlcor with armr>
oh to enforce any arbitrary nil
:"irht M>n tit to inako if wa
r this had boon dono that tlior
rod into this strickon aroa proa
i'V of oarpet-baceor* who poso
riends of noproes, and thos
, unw that, tho noproo* won
anchtaod. bad littlo tron'blo ii
rmc offioon undor tho Rtafo am
nnal povornmont It mipht h
to "tato in thiR oonnootion tha
noeroen w ?-r?> not to | o blamed
wo~e r rf;inl*P(1 by th?*ao oar
'?itSL'?TN and sc. lawncr lnl<
l.mimies." and wer? led f<
1''. ' 1; .ill the lands of fheii
\0 Jfw
i?r were to be divider
forty acre tracts and that e?o]
, woman and child ttioefoes, ol
so. would receive forty norm
md and.a mule without coet.
'CoiUntaM on Fi?? Veur.i
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JBSCRIPTION $2.50 A YEAR..
FRANCE GOES RAPID
I IN RECONSTRUCTION
e French Commission Reports
Much dtVWar Ruins Effaced
and Industry Active.
J ^ %
i RAILROADS ARE REBUILT
>r Merchant Marino H?'storf(l?Two J
l> Million Tons Of t'onl IIcIiik
Produced Kach Month?Fur- ?
ii itlslics 1)2 IVr tVnt. of Pri'-Wnr
Production Wool and Cotton.
e Tim French commission in the
l'nited States has just issueu a stateV
ment showinir the nroeres? which
I France has made in the last two
years in her reconstruction worli.
>f The extent or recovery from u,nparallel
war ravages in the space of two
x armistice anniversaries iR reflected
e by the restoration of her textile
trades, the rehailitation of her mer11
chant fleet; t?y great strides in mining
activities, resumption of agricut,s
tnre, increasing railroad operation,
? hy her enlarged revenues and by the ^
n progress of French foreign trade.
In foreign commerce France, dur'
ing the tirst nine months of the cur- * ^ -4
?- rent year, has improved her trade.
'' balance by over 7,000,000,0t)0 francs.
1 The fluiires are: Exports, 16,667,I
7 11.non francs; imports. 27?189,071, I
i nun trains, an excesR of Imports of
i i o r,on.non.'ion francs*} compared
to it s?; ",.non,noo francs excess dur
" I nig the corresponding period last ,
II year Fxp??rts this yeur were 60.8
per cent of the imports, against 66.6
I' per cent in lvl'.i. During August and
i September exports eqttaled 84 per ?
cent of imports, a ratio not pre
11 j vmuslv readied since 1910. The flgiv?'S
disclose an increase of 116 per
! rent in exports of foodstuffs and a
r Iper rent rise in manufactured
i product- cotnpured with the same
r ' period otic year ago.
Textile industries which, with the
1 >.il industry. suffered most heavily
tiir.'U' i the invasion of France, are
i le diiiL- in the natioual reconatruc!
; f op l.ill< Ito'ihaix and Tourc.oing
' I in Ho invaded regions had furnished
>_' p. rciit ?,t the pre-war total
' Fr- li i iilip'ion of wool, cot ten
t" xtiies. Eleven hillion
f I ' '"
i present money values, rep- .
'1 ill"- war damage in these \
" i:i'. . Arniisiiee day tills year .
I" i foui'il tli.- rivaled textile industries
"t "|"-'atr ii loin tI8 to 04 percent, c*'
; "i t1 . ir normal cnpocfty. The .
" Freiieh governinent to March 15 last
i francs for the re"I
construction n|' rliese industries. >
a : in tic |.iil.? region 409 <>t ,be 47*
> ' ! mills employinj; twenty >?i* mor^
it c isuiis !';ivr r< -iimod opurntioii and
h s.itini ..in , f 14 r.uA cotton looms are
rn at uoil of 140.8.M person* pitin
;11.>\ . 1 In lore tlf war. 98.884 have
n !>..<"i ienyi ffl In Roejhaix and
in T'.iirc.niii: si'votili fii woolen mills
si an' opfiaiins practically at normal,
it ami .'it of l.no o.OOO s pin dies. 950,.>(1
mm arc in service.
li Two years ago France had lost, in
is 'iic destruction of coal mines, more
or than half of the country's total coal>n
prodii. inu capacity. twenty twh
ie mines, with a pre-war annual out,ii
put of jo,ftoo.ooo tons havfnu been
m destroyed in the departnients of Nord
to and l'as (le Calais One-half of -.hese
i | mines are now oneratinc Thou ???/%
. . ?'
i. dreed i?i January 8S.483 tons! 1n
iv H.-ptenih* i-, :? !?.? | p tons fncludlng
i \lsace l.iinainr. French coal mines
h- av raced 000,000 tons per month
h for the first nine n*onths of this year;
(I September production vmih 2,419,015
e tons
s ' On Vr'nistioe day, 10 18. 7.000,000
e acres of French agricultural i*n<l lay
t pitted and scarred beyond usofuld
ness \'ow all hut 280.000 .icrss
e have been restored and will permit
r> of sowing next spring. Some 4.000,n
Ot?o acres of this remade firm land
il are already under cultivation. Th?
r> harvests have been so good th?t v
< U' r-I. -
UIIIMII.U al.lo io unppty
sufficient home-grown cereals to feed
ttv< people In 1 01 9 It wan neoegsafp
> In import 41,000,000 hundred weight
i of wheal. t*'?C'&* *St! .1
French railroads are showing imi
I prov.ment in operating efficiency,'|ttb?
i h recent month the* dally aTcrup
f number of freight earg loaded '$
i 36.612, compared with 20,933
May. When the war on"jS&jftk;'
(Continned en Pap* ?,). ^ ^