Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A \1 _ p,. J \ \ * ttS? 1%. * ? L/js? ^ r \*// sk A U, S. WILL TAKE VIGOROUS STEPS On Receipt of Proof That England is Using Trade Secrets Illegally. Try Diplomacy First. Washington, Sept. 11.?Any proof that Great Britain is using trade secrets intercepted from netitral mail in her struggle for commercial Supremacy would probably be folowed by vigorous steps by the American government to secure abandonment of the policy. A statement during a tariff debate in parliament recently by David Lloyd George, the British war secretary, that such information properly could be put to "any public and national use,' is regarded by officials here as opening the way for practices WU1UU wuuiu wviiv uicaumaMic iujmj to American interests. While .the state department declined to mal^e any comment pending a full-investigation of the exact meaning of tBe ; war secretary's declaration^ there were many evidences that the policy he suggested was viewed as unsupportabie in international law. Use Retaliatory Weapon. Discussion of the subject brought out the suggestion that although the Phelan amendment denying use of 1 American mail, cable, telegraph and express privileges to citizens of foreign countries interfering with Ami erican mails was stricken out of the 1 I retaliatory legislation, recently pass-j 1 ed by congress, the measure as en-!x , acted contains authorizations which might be construed as broad enough! \ to allow the President to retaliate against unfair use of the censorship. Many officials believe that if it can , be shown that British firms, have an : unfair 1 advantage over American j firms because of legislation passed as a result of information gained il- 1 legally from the censorship, ' the V Prr-^ent could forbid importation : to iliis country of the products 'of 1 whatever industries are affected. As 1 the disputed illegal use of the cen- 1 Isorship looked to the raising of a ' tariff wall against neutral cotamerce, and as this wall would be laid by in- ' dustries rather than by individual i companies, American retaliation, it 1 is argued, could be pushed as far as 1 desired. 1 Exhaust Diplomacy First. It has been well understood, how- 1 ever, that the retaliatory powers were 1 sought from congress by the execu- 1 tive branch of the government for 1 use only as a last resort and in case diplomacy failed. Retaliation will not be seriously contemplated it is believed, until a thorough investiga tion of Llyod George's purpose has been made and then only if there are proofs that the trade information actually is being put to the uses he suggested. No surprise was felt here today at the statement of Lord Robert Cecil, British minister of war trade that "it is not likely that Great Britain will change her blacklist policy at the request of the United States." Officials aid not expect enactment of the re Itaaatory legislation 10 De met Dy any announcement of concession by Great Britain but rather by a modification here and slight change there, till the whole trade administration has been eased up and softened to remove the most threatening of America's objections. I Mm DescriptiveFall I WW 0 Seed Catalog I just issued, tells all about Crimson Clover, Alfalfa and all Grass and Clover Seeds for fall Planting. Wood's Fall Seed Catalog also I gives full and complete information about Vegetable Seeds that can be planted to advantage and profit in the late Summer and Fall. It ia altogether the most useful and valuable Fall Seed Catalog issued. i Mailed free to Gardener*, Market I rowers and Farmers on request. Write for it. T.W.WOOD ?SONS. 3VES-"?RAI WHAT IS TO BE FUTURE OF THE RURAL SOUTH ii- . Tennessee School Teacher Stressei Difficulties of Making the School house the Community Center. "What is to be the future of th< rural South?" asks Elizabeth Dent3 Abenathy, a Tennessee schoo teacher, who has given the subjec careful study. "As a rural teachei always in touch with rurai ?ondi tions, I have been asking mysell this question for many years. Ai yet I have found no :satisfactory an swer. In all seriousness, what d< we mean to do for the children oi the rural South? A recent letter ir Wallace's Former interested mt greatly because the writer is a rural teacher and states facts as she knows them. She says: .. " 'People in town have very little idea of the condition pf the rura Schools. There is small equipment and practically no library. We tall about rpaking the school house the social center and plan to organize neighborhood clubs at the schoolhouse, etc., when the schoolhouse is nothing but a "poke." We car not seat even the children of the community, much less the patents also. And yet the one great nefec of the rural district is the coming together of district forces for the study and discussion of community problems. > " 'I have eighteen pupils and eight grades. We have about thirty recitations a day, and I do not see how we could possibly get along with less. A teacher is supposed to plan the recitations, which is al) right and the proper thing; but if you had thirty to plan and prepare, I am afraid you would get very little sleep.', tiir r L - ?1 J. / 1- -i_i. may i suggest a piant ior oettering these conditions? Let every man and woman who would help the children of the South, take time to visit the one-teacher school of our rural districts. Seek first-hand information. Spend an hour or two with the teacher and watch the going and coming. Then try to get the parents and the teacher together to study and discuss school questions^ Perhaps such a meeting evould lead to organized effort for neighborhood improvement. We never know what we can do until we attempt what seems to us an impossible task.'" WHAT G. C. ATTWOOD, OF MINNESOTA HAS TO SAY I Suspending a brother for the nonpayment of dues does not sever that tie; the suuspended brother is still a member of the Order and is subject to its laws and discipline, so that, should asuspended member be deemed guilty of conduct sufficiently unPythian as to justify the preferment of charges against him, he can be summoned to appear before his lodge to answer to such charges and if they be sustained he may, although a suspended member, be expelled from the lodge and from the Order. It may be news to many of the members of our Order to thus learn s suspended member is still a membei of the Order and entitled to the courtesies of such fraternal affiliation although not to lodge privileges. Lei us change our attitude toward these suspended brothers; let us act toward them as if no cause of separation had come between us and as il we were determined to ever remember those solemn words, "Even until death." In other words, let vu practice wnat we teacn in our ritual and be unobservant of every supreme law or grand statute which conflicts with that teaching. MR. WILSON ARRIVES AT SUMMER CAPITAL Long Branch, N. H., Sept 11.? President Wilson arrived at the summer capital, Shadowi Lawn, here today, after an uneventful trip by motor from Atlantic City. A small crowd greeted him on his arrival. The president plans to spend most of hia time here until the election. I I '{\ r%lr . p * . * s \ H8 \ / , IKE WALTON'S PRAYER. f v' 'Ws? I craye, dear .Lord, . No boundless hoard Of gold and'gear '1 Now jewels fine, Nor land nor kine, 7 Nor treasure-heaps of anything*? 1 Let but a little hut be mine t Where at the hearthstone I may hear j The cricket sing, ^ And have the shine - ; s Of one glad woman's eyes to make, ' For my poor sake, I Our simple home a place divine,? 1' Just the wee cot?the .cricket's j chirr? * ; Love, and the smiling face of hfer. j I pay not for : Great riches, nor I I For vast estates and castle halls,? s Give me to hear the bare footfalls " Of children o'er I An oaken floor ' New-rinsed with sunshine, or be| spread ?, With but the tiny coverlet ! And pillow for the baby's head; - And pray Thou, may i The door stand open and the day [ Send ever in a gentle breeze, With fragrance from the locust trees, I And drowsy moan of . doves, and I blur | Of robin chirps and drone of bees With after-hushes/ of the Istir Of intermingling sounds, and then The good wife and the smile of her Filling the silences again? The cricket's call and the wee cot, Dear Lord of all, deny me not! J pray not that Men tremble at My power of place And lordly sway,? ' I only pray for simple grace ,< To look my neighbor in the fac^ It/vw f ?a?m /] n 4-/\ /iotr 1' UU uuucoujf 11UUX uay tu uaj Yield me his horny palm to hold, And I'll not pray For gold; * . The tanned free, garlanded with . 1 mirth, It hath the kingliest smile on earth; .! The swart brow, diamonded with sweat, , j Hath never need of boronet And so I reach, Dear Lord to Thee, And do beseech Thou eivest me ? t The wee cot and the cricket's chirr, k Love, and the glad sweet face of -her! ?James Whitcomb Riley. WHAT'S THE USE? i What's the use of folks a-frowning ' When the way's a little rough? ^ l?rr tttott "^a* ttt*iwlrlao ixuwiio lay uuv wuc may ivi niainico) You'll be wrinkled/soon enuf. What's the use of ever weepin'? Might as well go 'long and smile, Life, our longest, strongest sorrow, Only lasts a little while. ?Dunbar. Friendship is life translated into terms of practical every day living. ' Not one-sided but many-sided, broad gauged, free, openhanded and practical living. Disinterested but de- i finite, faithful and firm, real and i ' A. * f H * true, inenasnip s nner meaning is , life in the best that life can be made. \ Neither water nor the air we breathe, is more necessary to man than friendship. Without it, he is lower I than the beast, with it, he is Knight- j I ' ly?a demi-god. J FUR >r the hall, living room, I sn?-all the lates woods i Circassian and Amer lahogany; Oak in Early, igured Gum; Colonial; -Iron Beds. EVERYTHING to F RICES RIGHT; TERMi % 9 wMiti HOME OUT i ,.d'\I ' g.. \: It1 is therefore'not to be wondeYed that the master principal v of Pythianism is-the master part of life. No greater, grander idea sways the human heart If we are true Pythians, we are true friends, masters, not vassals; men, not animals; workers not dreamers?optimists, builders, men in all that the word ; implies. 1 , / v ; "What is life without a friend? A dreary race to run A desert where no water is, A world without a sun. 'Tis friends who make this desert world ' / To blt>sson\ as the rose, Strew flowers o'er the rugged path, Pour sunshine o'er our woes." / 1 i / ; v ?* ' y:' You can- make a hit with a woman by calling her a "vision,"- but you can't call her a "sight" and get away witht it.?Cincinnati Enquirer. \ We count time by heart throbs and live best because wethink right and are friendly. Like the poet we ask: flfiuzniznrzmiimiijznj [ ] PHILSON & HENRY J ii ji itwij J ] v i ' that we ar< [ 1 and the fii > I Ladies G Waists, E ! * ever shown I i ville, we km [ j least. I? ] An inspe j| New Goo [ 1 will prove a ] [] be appreciate IJ We are a PHILS ^aaaBBfifiBBBBBB NITI >ed room, dining room, utd finishes. \ ican Walnut; Old Ivor] English, Fumed, Goldei William and Mary, and URNISH OR BEAUTI 5 RIGHT. CALL AND L! ' 1 \ n I I CK9 ' ... ^ 1 /. ; ; . ?v : .* ^ I A SEASONED SOLDIER. V ... , \v. Mr. Kenneth Jones is in the city seeing old friends. He is visiting at the home of Mrs. M. T. Colemany Mr. Jones is the sbn of J. M. Jones, who at one time made his home in Abbe/ < * ville, and was of the firm of the Glen-Jones Hardware Co. Kenneth is a seasoned soldier, having served several years in the Navy on the battleship/Michigan. He was. at Vera Cruz and helped demonstrate that some respect must be paid the American flag. His old friends are glad to see him looking so welli . , . '* ^o^Sdfor WhatH I No brighter, no more capable than you, I rue. He look the easy step provide* I 200,000overworked, underpaidyoung u I Diaughon Course of Busmen Training i Accounting, Commercial La yielded enormous dividend This Dnmghon Training of the long-hour, short-pay J! Write us TODAY for ou and our CATALOG. DMUflHON'S PMI PAfllWS BLOflL, juannmBiziatnnnraia V / PHILSON & HENRY ' , % \ i . ' i wesa . 5 now showing by far the lest assortment of jats, Skirts, Jesses by this or any other stor dw we are not exaggera . / | ' . ' \ ction of tHi iris pleasure to you, we are si ed by us. gents for the Butterick P % ON & N mannnnmaanniaig JRE i library, parlor and P | ir and White Enamel; 2 J n and Kaiser Grey?Jacobean Brass Beds ^ ;l FY YOUR HOME. > 1 ET US SHOW YOU. r J P I rM n kheviHe. g j I AT McMURRAY.S. }$ Lucien Lomax is at McMurray'f , i'|1m for the fall season, taking the place | "fj I of Francis Mabry, who will' attend . vUll ' Erskine College this year. Francis 5 is getting ready for a medical pro- 1 fession. He is a grandson of Dr., ;:|w Francis Mabry, one. of the best beloved physicians ever in th^ county and every one wishes him success in \ his chosen profession. ' :'M Because of ^his master principal, "we live in deeds; not (years; in 0 thoughts, not breatht; in feelings, not in figures on a dial." ten and women in 18 states have taken the I ">|1 in Bookkeeping, Stenography, Banking, I " rw, etc., and their small investments have <1 ay7 8 in higher positions and BIGGER PAY. I r is the helping hand that will take von out I class into the select, well paid circle. ? i book of Bankers' Advice to Young Men, - f-M CTICAL BUSINESS COLLEGE CREENV1LH, S. C. Biiiimznmzmaawg PHILSON &HENRY l! 1 1 j -V I' %/ I I Best Values || e in Abbe- J J ting in the jjj ^ e jj ire and will [1 Bitterns. j J IENRY ,'r'- _ .. .. - -v . -"