PROHIBITION WRECKS
OLD CLOTHES BUSINESS
Any lttle murmurs against th<
high cost of living that Tiave beer
emitted recently by the mother oJ
sx pairs of scuffling feet and in^
growing appeites are as the gentk
breeze before a tornado comparec
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with the wail of righ righteous
nation that arses from the gentlemar
who deal in second-hand clothes Ir
Tacoma when anybody says any
thing about the times.
"Bizness!" shouted the proprietoi
as he emerged from the cavernous
depths of a little shop whose in
tirior was fastooned with ole' clos.
Dont talk about bizness to me
Bizness is rotten that's all. Nothing
to buy?nothing to sell; nobody t<
buy if you did have it to sell.
^'Prohibition mint' the ole cloi
bizness in the first place. And nov
the high cost of living?it's all w<
can do to work sixteen hours a daj
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till they aren't fit for junk before
they buy any more. Now me, look?
I used to buy a suit na dwear it si:
months; now I wear it three years.
"And if they do buy a suit thej
have so much m-oney they buy a gooc
new one.
"Oh, these is awful days!"
Prohibition long: ago put a per
manent crimp in the second hant
clothes business, the purveyors o*
the garments agreed. In the "goot
old day" before the camel took hi:
place with the eage as the embleir
of our national life and the bannei
of our state, hibulously-inclinec
gents whose purses were low, woult
?ell their clothes for $1.50 anc
later when sober, come and ou
them, for $10 or so. Being in i
continuous state of sobriety nov
v they neither buy nor sell.
Nor do things go much better foi
the shops whose trademark i<
three golden balls suspended in ar
tistic pyramids before them.
"Plenty o' people pawn stuff,'
said one pawnbroker, disconsoatelj
"but they always redeem it unless 11
isn't worth anything, and then w<
don't want t anyway.
"Much as they used to they pawr
stuff, but they always come aftei
it. Diamonds, watches more valu
able they are than they used to be
and they don't leave them. See,'
and he spread his palms toward th<
window, where gleamed no fierj
gems or glowing watches, "nothing
I have to see except some uselesi
stuff and some guns in hunting sea
son."?Tacoma Ledger.
HAD 63 MACHETE WOUNDS
Washington March 20.?Details
of the killing of Daniel S. Foley an
American at Los Naranjos, Mexicc
were received today in a repor
from Consul Dawson at Tampco
where the body showing sixty-thre<
machete wounds was brought foi
burial.
Foley was employed as an oi
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jS Winther trucks ai
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well driller by an American coin
pany operating in the Mexican
' fieds. He had trouble with a Mexi>
can employe who attacked him with
i a knife, the report said, and Foley
; Viillp/i his assailant. The
- Mexican's friends then attacked
j Foley who was surrounded and
1 backed to death.
Foley's family lives in Houston,
i Texas where the frst word of the
i incident was received.
Unfreezing Railroad Values
* The Supreme Court's decision re5
quiring the Interstate Commerce
" Commission to accept contemporane^
ous values of railroad rights of way
* and terminals when making railroad
t
" valuations is highly important and
calculated to revive the spirits of
? unfortuante owners of railroad prop;
erty.
, Other assessments are always on
f present or existing values, but the
i Interstate Commerce Commission has
i1 eaned to the rule that original cost
-'or the amount invested was the test.
c Replacement cost was sougni tu uc
ignored, and railroad owners were
^ to take the risk of depreciation but
* not to have a chance of increment.
Yet the railroads cannot go to equipment
manufactures or the rail
| makers and say: "Give us new cars
^ and locomotives or new rails at the
j price we paid for the old ones." But
the commission nevertheless has been
l trying to value railroad rights of
r way and terminals not at what it
1 would cost today to replace them, but
1 at the original cost years ago when
1 labor, material and land were half
as dear as they are now.
i No other producer is asked to sell
t his product on the basis.of the costs
of twenty or thirty years ago . Yet
r the railroads have been treated by
i the commission as if their capital val'.ue
had been frozen a generation
t back, and as if they were not entitled
to share in the general increment
caused by economic expansion
and war inflation. On the other hand,
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' if replacement costs were less than
^ the investment the lower figure was
? seized on.
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The same mental tendency was
, glaringiy exhibited at the outbreak of
' the World War. On August 1, 1914,
* the day on which Germany de7
clared war on Russia, the .commis?
sion gave out a decision denying the
.railroads, then in difficulties, an in'
crease in freight rates. To it all the
iwar meant nothing at all. But within
, three months it had to recall its refusal
and allow a grudging increase
of rates.
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u The new railroad law requires the
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commission to fix rates which will
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i permit a fair and reasonable return
r on the property of the carriers. The
act didn't prescribe replacement
1 value. Yet the commission has been
EMONSTF
e in April we are
: what the Winth
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.^e not "cheap trucks" Th(
e record of hundreds of ov
ck of great interest today
in motor trucks Winther
hand.
ree years the Winther coi
le the "Winther
t trucks to attend.
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I fighting in the courts against using
ireplacement as a standard, on the
'ground an original cost valuation
|would call for lower compensation.
The Supreme Court rejects this
proscriptive attitude. It refuses to
put railroad property in one class, so
fo*> do \raliia+inr> is cnncprnprt .and
other property in another, so far as
cost of operation and maintenance is
concerned. Congi*ess intended to give
the railroads a fair return on the
value of their operating property.
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Date to be At
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rners and used in every in
-alike to the seller of mot
means less sales resistant
mpptinn has bftp.omp e*en(
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But they cannot get this unless th
Interstate Commerce Commission i
cured of its illusions and learn
somehow to cooperate in the develoj
ment of a stable and efficient rai
road system. Such cooperation
not only required by equity to th
owners of railroad property, bi
even more by the interest of t?
general public, which wants goc
railroads and cannot hope to ha\
them unless investment in railroa
property is made safe.?N. Y. Tr
bune.
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OTiat is your fav<
tion?golf, tennis
nds in the coui
nore enjoyable a1
then you are suifc
/ill find here clot!
pecially designed
port and out-of-d<
Flannels, tweed:
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of the usual an
inounced Later.
exclusive Winther const
dustry, the most econon
or trucks and to the usei
3e, easier sales and a rel
orally recognized by the
heville and vici
for Date.
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e WOOD GETS DELEGATES
is Nashville, March 29.?The fourth ?
>- district Republican convention today i
1- at Cookeville instructed its two dele- ]
is gates for General Wood and nominee ]
iG Wynne F. Clouse, of Coowesville for
congress. (
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'd TVio anti.trnc fnn iispH in t.he allipd !
re trenches against German gas was
l(l the invention of a woman?Mrs.
"i- Bertha Ayrton, an electrical en- <
gineer of London, England. ]
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N SMART SPORT IV
Mite summer recrei,
motoring or weekltry
? How much
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ly one or tnem is
ibly dressed! You
les which have been
1 and tailored for
)or wear.
homespuns and
f summer fabrics
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ruction not possible in the tr
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freshing absence of service
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SPECIAL TERM CALLED
A Special Term Court General
Sessions for Abbeville, South Caroina
has been ordered to be held on
Monday, April 5th, 1920, being first
Monday in April, 1920.
Grand Jurors will report for duty
>n that day.
J. L. Perrin, Clerk.
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