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UNEMPLOYMENT IS
GROWING SERIOUS
IN GREAT BRITAIN
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London, Jan. 31?British labor has J
gained a great advance in wages as,
well as a further shortening of work-1
ing hours during 1920 but the new;
/ear begins with a rising tide 01 un- j
employment
Increases in wages during 1920 j
have amounted to nearly $5,000,000 i
a:jd affected 7,457,000 workers.
A. Tabor correspondent of the Liv
erpool Post says, however, that "it
is probably a modest estimate to say
that the whole of these wage in
ors^es have been swept away by un
employment and under-employment.
For example, the textile workers- to
the number of 1,053,000 received
in the earlier months of the ' year, i
advances in wages totaling 580,- j
900 pound a week. The greater num- j
I. ber of mills are now running only
three days a week and it is well with- :
in the mark to put "the loss from un-,
V' i
rfer-employment at 1,000,000 pounds;
a week. - * ' j
"In the engineering and ship
building industries 1,203,000 work?I
ers received advances to the amount |
of ?429,500 a week but here again)
the advance has been more than lost I
fcy unemployment and under-employ-!
ment. Dock workers have had the I
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f same sorry experience, and the les-1
son which it carries is that in com- j
petitive trades the wage-earning j
power can only be maintained on an
output of corresponding value."
; During the year 553,700 workers
have obtained an aggregate reduc
tion of 2,071,2*00 hours a week
Although there have been more
industrial disputes than in 1919, the j
Bomber of working days lost by!
^ i
strikes shows a diminution. There
were 1,563 disputes during the year
1920, involving 1,952,000 workers
and 26,567,000 days were lost, the
latter being swelled by the coal
strike in October and November.
JUDGE GARY'S ST^RT IN LIFE
Judge Elbert H. Gary, President
of the Steel Trust, says in the Sun
day Times, of his start in life:
"{was born on a farm about
twenty-five miles out of Chicago.
My father was not a poor man, but(
he never had an abundance of i
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food plain food never\ anything fan-'
tj. That wasn't adventure. I' can't
say I always hadehough to wear for
I never had an overcoat until I was
16 or 17 years old. My father, com
ing from New England, believed in
hardships for tha young. He was
^ never cruel, hut always severe.
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' es his employes the betfer his ser
vice from them wiii he. This is the
cn'nion of one c'eparttnej't store man-!
afper. As an example cf how he car-J
ries out this idea, he placed a stand
for Shoe shines in the men's cluh- :
room. The steward ii* charge is paid
a salary and kefeps the 5 cent charge i
that is made for the shine. The com- :
pany receives no money whatever <
from the undertaking.
The women expressed a desire for
xbQilar service after seeing the sat- 1
isfaction of the men, and a similar ]
stand' has been installed for them.? 1
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declared. "It is one of the be
cold and headache. I don't k;
family if it wasn't for Black-Dr
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never without it."
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HOPE TO TIGHTEN
PROHIBITION LAW
Flat Jail Sentence For First Offense
?Seize Every Drop
Washintgop, Feb. 1.?Prohibition
leaders in congress are hoping to
tighten up the Volstead law.
They are planning new legisla
tion to provide a flat jail sentence
for the first offense of selling
liquor without giving the courts the
optional right of imposing a fine.
Other changes being discussed
among the prohibitoin leaders relate
to the search and seizure clause so
as to reach the home brew and to
make more sweeping the present
law under.-which a person buying
liquor may be punished equally with
the person selling it.
Confiscation of every drop of
liquor held by citizens regardless as
to when or how it was acquired is al
so being urged. This would legalize
seizure of all stocks held in private
cellar or a safety deposit vault. Ob
jection to that, however, has been
made by some dry leaders on the
ground that little ?uch liquor finds
its way into channels of bootleg
trade and that it won't be long be
fore all such liquor will be used up.
Unless a "pending bill, which
would permit federal commissioners
to try minor liquor cases, is passed
a proposed amendment to the law
would take care of this. Federal
court dockets are now badly con
gested with Volstead violations and
government officials have reported
a change of procedure necessary.
The big fight of amendment will
start with the opening of the new
session in April, according to dry
leaders. They say they have enough
votes in the house now to put
through any added restrictions they
might desire, but that there is "not
enough time left.
Meanwhile Chairman Volstead of
the house judiqiary committee onj
whose shoulders will fall the bulk of
revising, is waiting word from pro
hibition enforcement officers as to
suggestions* for making the law bul
let proof. He wants the advice of
the men charged with the, breaking
up of the outlaw traffic.
FIRST OF HARDING'S GOODS
GOES TO WHITE HOUSE
Washington, Jan. 30.?Moving of
the personal effects of President
elect Harding and Mrs. Hardipg in
to tne executive . omces 01 tne
White House begun today from
the Harding home on New Hamp
shire Avenue. Mrs. Harding came
from Marion Sunday to attend to
this work.
The Harding house is to be sold
together with the furniture, and on
ly a few personal belongings have
been preserved to supplement the
articles with which the . White
House is furnished.
, It was upon the invitation of
Mrs. Wilson, extended some time
ago, that Mrs. Harding decided to
make ready in advance for the
change. An antique settee, several
chairs, heirloom pictures, and some
rare china were &mong the articles
chosen to be carried into the White'
House.
The single wagon load taken to
the Executive offices of the White
House today is expected to remain I
;here until the President-elect is in
iucted into office.
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' COSTS TO LIVE IN
ENGLAND JUST AS HERE
From the N. Y. Herald.
London?A young couple on $5,
000 a year have by no means struck
Eldorado when they translate the
five thousand into sterling and begin
to live on it in London. Despite the
attractive promise held out by the ;
disparity in exchange?the $5,000
during the last year would have
ibeen worth about 1,250 pounds in-'
j stead of a normal 1,000 pounds?1
[the very elements which worked
[ the exchange in favor of the dollar
worked even harder to make the
pounds less when it comes to be
spent.
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in me aDSiracL ll> may ue ui:ai- :
stfhimed up in the following terms:
The cost of living in England
since 1913, the last year of normal
exchange, has almost tripled.
In the United States it has bare-;
ly doubled. . -j
Thus, while living is nearly 100
per cent dearer than it was in times
of normal exchange, the exchange |
works in favor of the American here
only to the extent of about 25 per
cent.
Such- comparisons as may be'
made between currqpt price*- here
! and in the' United States bear out j
I the general deductions evident from j
| foregoing data. The groans of Am- i
I erican tourists over hotel and tcs- '
taurant prices provide the inharmo- j
nic background for (his anything |
but artistic verity.
Tn t-Vio cincrlo matter of rent the
| Londoner probably still has an ad
vantage over the New Yorker. A
comfortable furnished apartment in
a respectable and covenienf, if not
fashionable, neighborhood, can be
had in London for between 4 and 6 |
guineas a we^k. Taking five as the!
average, this would mean $20 a
week, as against $25 or $30 for
similar accommodations in New
York.
With rent, however, the gain
over New York practically vanishes.
The most striking difference would
be in his income tax. He will pay
the British government with Exemp
tions only for his wife, better than
110 per cent. In America he would
pay 4 per cent, federal income tax
and in New York an additional 1
per cent state tax.
On the question of rent New York
rates on such accommodations as
have been considered in this com
parison would invariably include
beating. They do not include heat
ing^ in London and this item, parti
cularly for Americans who cannot
understand cold rooms, may easily
amount to frOm $2 to $5 a week.
Domestic coal is $15 a ton at the
present rate of exchange; gas which
used to be ridiculously cheap, has
risen with coal, until the rate is al
most exactly what it is in New
York?$1 a thousand. Electricity is
10 cents per unit with no rebate. J
Telephones cost $100 a year.
To get into the housewives' field, <
eggs an summer nave Deen ?pa.?u a
dozen, as against $1 in New York 1
for eggs in mid-winter. The best top
round beef costs 60 cents &s against j
45 and 50 cents in New York. But- '
ter is uniformly 90 cents a pound.
Sugar is 28 cents.
Laundry of all sorts must be sent
to steam laundries, as there are no
facilities for washing clothes in any
London house. Laundry under this
system for two persons with the
greatest cane will run to between $5
and $7 a week.
Servants All Specialists
Though servants' wages seem
ridiculously low at first glance?few
good servants get more than $4 a
week?all servants are specialists in
their own field and few households?,
even of two persons, can ge'; along
without two seravnts. The cook will
not clean the knives, the parlor
maid will not make the beds and no
body except the small boy, or girl
especially engaged will clean the
brasses and do the boots. Further
more, a brief domestic experience
explains the familiarity of the char
woman in English literature. No ,
one else will clean the windows, the
front door steps and the floor. ,
While it is true that the wages of
twt> or three seravnts are frequently
1(^39 than the wages of one in New
York, every British servant is full
of health. They have great appe
1
Thirty-five j patents were obtain
ed by the department of agricul
ture. All of the inventions were
dedicated to the use of the public.
Governor Coolidge, vice president
elect, favors the consolidation of all ;
New England railroads in one sys-1
tern.
tites. They eat not three but five
meals a day beginning with a course
breakfast and running three lun
cheon, tea, dinner and supper. It is
in the increased cost of food and
laundry for the whole, establish
ment that the American here suf
fers. Servant's laundry must bfe
done, too.
In the matter of clothes, too Eng
land :is no longer the paradise it
used to be for Americans. The days
of wonderful tweed suits for men at
$20, or even at $12, are gone. Any
tailor making clothes which a man'
at $5,000 a year might be expected I
to wear starts his prices at 15 guin-|
eas?$60. Linen and cotton are i
very much higher than in New York |
particularly-cotton. Very few peo
ple nowadays are'buying real linen,
as it is almost unobtainable. Men's;
collars, for instance, are 40 cents a
piece. Shirts cost a guinea?$5.
All these * prices are given at the j'
current rate of exchange. In quot-|
ing them the advantage for the dol-|
lar is considered in each case. None j
of ?the prices stated a^e those for 1
things of a luxurious character and:
most of them represent a quality i
and a scale of expenditure generally
below that of the $5,000 a year'
scale in New. York.
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Out of The Frying Pan Into Fire \
The foregoing instances relate to I
a purely domestic menace. If the
young couple endeavor to escape the i
high cost of housekeeping they are j
out of Jhe frying pan of domesticity
into the fire of Bohemia. It is quite
impossible even in the simplest res-|
taurant to get the plainest dinner i
for less than $2. Transportation is I
also in the main higher ^lian it is in !
New York. Short distances on bus or!
tube are cheap, but the higher fares j
for longer distances make ij aver-1
age close to 5 cents a ride. While (
taxicabs are cheaper, their use is '
necesasrily x more - frequent in the [
complicated web of London traffic.
Insurance . includes not only per-'
sonal insurance, but a small fee for!
# j
servants, and is probably a little;
bit higher in New York, though not1
much. Medicine service is practical-'
]y on the same scale as in New York
The ordinary practioner gets a gui
nea a fee.
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we a nice to see y<
of these unusual
and Schloss Brothi
of our Boys' Suits
all of our winter V
balance of this we
Park
YOUTH HELD AT
NEWBERRY IS WEST
VIRGINIA FUGITIVE
Greenwood, S. C., Feb. 3.?The
young white man giving the name
of 0. B. Mays, who was arrested j
here January 25 on the charge of:
robbing three stores and the post-;
office at Silverstreet, Newberry
county, is W. H. Griffith, an escaped
convict from the West Virginia
penitentiary, according to a confes
sion officers say he made to them, j
Griffith is now in jail at Newberry,
being held suject to the orders of
the West Virginia authorities. Offi-!
cors also state that the prisoner is
wanted on the charge of murdering
a fellow-convict on the njght he es
caped from the pAiinteniary.
Philadelphia has established a'
separate court for dealing with ban-'
dits.
Beautiful
Glass
I have just received ;
shipment of
Cut Glass, Bric-s
both Hollow and
The prices are in ac
ward trend of the m*
vited to come in and
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February 5th, will e
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bargains, Kuppen
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, Men s and Boys' 0
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CK.
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Tillman and Roosevelt Friend*
John Armstrong Chaloner, of
New York, is delivering lectures in
New York on the Lunacy Laws of
the State and with his "sub-con
scious mind" is receiving and deliv
ering messages from those who have
passed on. The New York Times of
Monday has the following which will
be of interest to South Carolinians.
The messages, presumably, come *
from Heaven:
"Theodore Roosevelt was next,
and the^ub-consclous mind an
nounced that -Colonel Roosevelt was
glad his name had been mentioned
and that he was now on friendly
terms with his old political enemy,
Benjamin R. Tillman. Anything he
could do to help in altering the hu
man laws Colonel Roosevelt express
ed himself as willing to do, and
didn't mind being called by the au
dience if it helped."
Gut
a new and attractive
i-brac, and Silver,
Flatware.
cord with the down
irket and you are in
see this elegant line.
RISON, Jr.
SLER
S. Carolina
Advantage
of this...
rice Sale?
pie Have and You
\fot to Miss It.
i n >
ana ooys
nd Underwear
:nd this sale, and
lat time for some
heimer, Styleplus,
half price; also all
dd Trousers, and
Half Price for the