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BUSINESS HEADS GET RUDE SHOCK1 Republican Senator Makes Profit eering Charge?Public Grows Tired Washington, Jan. 15.?Certain American business interests were rebuked by Representative Young, Republican, North Dakota, today! during consideration of tariff revis-j ion by the house ways and means j committee for asking duties which' he charged would amount to licens-J ino- t.hPTn to continue profiteering. I He served notice on his fellow mem bers that on this ground he would strenuously oppose the granting of import duties ranging from "100 per cent to 400 per cent, above the Payne-Aldrich rates." Earlier in the day, Senator Mc Cumber, Republican, also from North Dakota, had announced his purpose to seek an increase in the duty on wheat in the Fordney em ergency tariff from 30 cents to 50 cents a bushel. The North Dakota senator declared the higher rate was necessay to stop "enormous im portations" of wheat from Canada. Mr. Young said he was "getting tired" of witnesses coming beiorej the committee to ask for prohibitive rates in the proposed permanent tariff and relating to,the committee details of how German competition was cutting into their tra<Je. Testi mony had been given on the sub ject of importations of needles and while on that pointed subject, Mr. Young asserted that a lot of indus-l tries weer complaining of the com petition when 'what was hurt a lot of these industries is the definite decision of the consuming public to submit nol onger to war pricps." in nnf nn thA JL U 19 U11UC OUHiVWVWJ V wa* ? | brakes," he continued. Here and j now, I serve notice I shall oppose j any such duties as those witnesses i are asking. They are pleading with J crocodile tears in their eyes' for im-i port duties ranging from 100 per I I I g When yo gam o You can't ir poor in mali of p When h mer whole repute being sent 01 employees a: (So when yo be as adver 1 goods ad yen HUGE ROBBERY OF MAIL SACKS WITH MONEY REPORTED One Bag Said To Have Had Some $80,000 In It. Payroll Money Mount Vernon. 111., Jan. 15.? Four sacks of registered mail, one reported to have contained $80,000 for use in making up payrolls at 1 Franklin county coal mines, disap I peared here early today. An estimate of the value of the n contents of the other three sacks was not available. The sacks were received at the local postoffice over the Louisville ? j xt__i?in _ ?:i j Of ana nasnvme xaiuuau xivm u>. Louis and their disappearance was learned of when mail was being placed on a Chicago and Eastern Il linois train for shipment to nearby mining'towns. The sack said to have contained the $80,000 was said to ! have gone to Benton. Sam Moreland who has a contract with the govern ment to carry the mail from the postoffice to the railroad station, de clared he did not notice the sacks were missing until asked about them at the depot where a recheck is made. Federal officials have begun an in vestigation. They refuse to discuss the matter. A Wilt sevciltll ui l/IIC cvrwoA JL/&C4W muuu in the United States are located in Michigan. cent, to 400 per cent, above the Payne-Aldrich rates. I am going to fight, with all the power I have against such penalization of the consumer. "The war is over and the consum ing public is asking why those prices are noa gone. If we grant the rates most of these interests are seeking we will simply be licens- j 1 ing a continuation of profiteering, i5 filling the pockets of the manufac- J1 tnrorc wlin trphs t.hp protection with < the involuntary contributions of the '1 consumer." '< s Bes u buy advert nly goods fai ? nagine a metcha re; aud will not i ublic condemnal chant signs his n< ition of his busine at to all the peopl nd most of his fri< u buy advertisec tised. That is i ? tised. Advertis SOUTHERN RY. TO SUE MUSCLE SHOALS PLANT IS VOTED Authority Is Shifted From The Shoulders of Secretary of War To Secretary Of The Treasury Washintgion, Jan. 15.?The Sen ate late Friday passed the Muscle Shoals nitrate bill. The bill provides for a federal corporation to con tinue the production of nitrates in the plant erected at Muscle Shoals and Sheffield, Ala., during the war. The vote ^as 34 to 29. A motion by Senator Poindexter to refer the bill to the military af fairs committee, was defeated by a vote of 35 to 26. This was the first real test of strength. Several amendments transferring from the secretary of war to the secretary of the treasury all author ity over the proposed continuance of the Muscle Shoals nitrate plant by a federal corporation, were adopted by the Senate Friday with out a roll call. Adoption of the amendments to th$ pending nitrate bill by a viva voce vote was the result of an agreement between Senator Wads worth, Republican, of New York, leader of the opposition, and Sena tor Underwood of Alabama, Demo cratic minority leader, who is di recting the support of the measure. An amendment limiting the oper taion of the proposed nitrate cor poraion {to the Muscle Shoals and Sheffield, Ala., plants was also adopted by a viva voce vote. Anoth er amendment adopted took away the proposed corporation all right to condemn of acquire property by right of eminent domain. Premier Witos, of Poland, is a peasant, who was put into the posi ;ion of a figurehead when the Rus sian advanced guard threatened tVarsw. He likes the job, however, md his shrewdness and. keenness lave caused the failure of several ittempts to oust him. it of ised goods y< t i i rly priced a Lnt advertising a rive reasonable tion. That is w ame to a statenw :ss is at stake, he / e, so that anythii ends; then you r I goods you get why it pays yc % ing protects yoi THE ORIGIN OF "DUE WEST" Dr. J. W. Daniel is writing a series of very interesting articles for the Southern Christian Advo cate on "By-Ways of State His tory." In a recent paper entitled "Along1 the Keowee Trail" hu has the following to say about the ori gin of the name Due West, which we think will be read with interest by many of our readers. "The old Keowee trail was, there fore at first a trail across the moun tains into 'our State, which was true of a number of other trails which developed into roads, crossing at gaps, as we shall notice in treating other 'old roads. It was at first the highway between these two a.ncient canitals. The trail between Keowee and Stump-house mountain passed Tamasse. As this Indian town was about nine miles east of Walhalla it w:;ll be noticed that the trail deflect ed eastward from what is now the old survey of the Blue Ridge Rail road. This was necessary to reach, the capital of the Under-hills on Keeowee. From Keeowee the ^rail is almost an air line southward to where Pendleton is now located and then down the line of tho Blue Ridge Railroad and the Columbia and .Greenville railroad to the vicini ty of Honea Path. From this point it folowed almost a straight course to De, Witte's Corner, now 'corrupt ed into Due West, where there was aiiterward a training pojrt and camping ground for the pack horse trains. I have heard a tradition that De Witt's Corner was corrupted in to its present name, Due West, by the traders in after years when, ow ing to the rather sharp turn west ward near Honea Path, they called De Witt's Due West, from the point of turning, of course. I do not vouch for the truth of it, though it may have been possible that the name was thus changed by the droll humor of the old traders. "From' Due West the trail de flected eastward until it again reached the crest of the ridge that the f ou are gettin in stand the 1 . _ r _ .l! _i _ _ 1101 or arncies wear. Such g hy it pays to bi int he is carefu i is doubly care ig in it is not tru< nay be sure he \ the best of the >u to read adv 1. Read it anc divided the watersheds of the Sa vannah and the Saluda, near the headwaters of Mulberry creek, pass ing a litle west of Cokesbury thru : Greenwood to Coronaca. "At that point", says Logan, "the creek here I was shaded by a notable grove 'of large white oaks, on which account it received from the Indians the name * of Quooranjhe-qua?the place of a very big oak."?A. R. I Presbyteriayn. ! HARRIS PROPOSES AID IN FIGHT ON DISEASE Washington, Jan. 15.?An amend ment to the sundry civil bill pro | viding for the continuance of the I appropriation of $500,000 t<T carry [ on the social disease control work NO! After January 1 CASH AT A SMA Please do not < anything, as. it w ment for both of I E. F. Al R U A %j a i_k ig the best ol strain of a( that are poor n oods can't stan ly advertised go 1 what he says. r 1 \vn 11_ _ ;rui. wnen mat % ( i will be known is ten times do / bargain, becaus ertisements, and 1 get the best in cooperation with the States, was proposed late Thursday afterrrtxm in the Senate by Senator William J. Harris. The House left out of the item, which has been a regular work for several years. Senator Harris stated that the work, so far as Geor gia was concerned, had the approv al of Dr. T. F. Abercrombie of the State Board of Health and Dr. E. T. Coleman of Graymont, president of the Georgia Medical Association" "Chief" Huey of Sharon in York county, has been getting $150 a month. He went to thp town council the other day and told them that he guessed he could get along on $'125, now that the cost of living had been reduced a little. His request wa? granted. i: : .H ICE! we*will sell for ONLY LL PROFIT isk ^us to charge ill save embarass us. RNOLD a in the bar Jvertismg. % . $ "3 , ' 5 4 Li quaitiy9 ui d the strain ods. When the - statement is to all of his i i f.j UDiy carerui. e they must i to buv the of bargains.