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r nuii i n v/ ADVOCATES PLACING DRY AGENTS UNDER THE CIVIL SERVICE Reform League Says Too Many Ap pointments Are Dishonest? Favors Examinations For Postmasters. Baltimore, Md. Apr. 14?Activities of the National Civic Service Reform League, in combatting appointment of "loose and inefficient" prohibition enforcement agents are reviewed in the report of the council of the lea gue read at the annual meeting here today. Reiterating charges that the en forcement personnel includes many dshonest men and women, some with criminal records, the report urges support of a bill before congress re quiring that all dry agents be placed under civil service regulations and subjected to the customary examina tions. It also takes sharp issue with provisions in the measure insisted up on by the anti-saloon league which would permit appointment of persons without previous experience in crimi nal investigation. The anti-saloon organization, the report alleges, "prefers to let these placees continue as political spoils rather than agree to the normal me thod of providing for their competi tive classifications under the civil ser vice law." Until the latter method is undertaken, it continues, the en forcement of the prohibition law will not be freed from the odium in which it now held. Alto Postmasters. The league's long opposition to the system of appointing postmasters "which retain in office permanently or until removed on charges, purely political appointees," is set forth in the report, which proposes an open competitive examination for such in cumbents* in order to continue in of fice. TheV views, the report asserts, have been concurred in by the Presi dent and the Attorney General. Commenting on the federal eivi] service provision giving absolute pre ference to soldiers and sailors and widows of former service men, the WAMAwf OOCATrffl a X cpvi V ?IOOWIHI - "As time goes on the manifest un fairness of veterans preference is be coming more and more apparent to ( the members of congress. The effects in the efficiency of the service will be carefully noted by the league and the evidence secured will be placed before the appropriate committee of congress with the request that this Vicious legislaton be repealed." HARDWICK HAS PLAN FOR COTTON EXPORT L , Wou!d Have Allies Underwrite Ger man Bonds Against Theor Am erican Debts. Washington, April 14?A plan to take advantage of the allied debt l.o the United States in providing means to dispose of the southern cotton crop was suggested to President tiardng today by Governor Elect Hardwick of Georgia. He proposed that the United States ask the allied governments to Underwrite German bonds which would be held here as securities a gainst the war debt. It was understood that the Presi dent expressed deep interest in the plan but withheld judgment regard ing it. REPORTED ALLIES WILL DEMAND 130 BILLION GOLD MARKS OF THE GERFANS Paris, Apr. 14?Germany's obliga-. tion to the Allies will be fixed at be tween 430,000,000,000 and 150,000, 000,000,000 gold marks by the Allied reparation commission, says the Echo de Paris. The newspaper adds that the exact figure will depend on solu tion of certain question being consid ered. In case Germany resists settlement the newspaper declares, it is accept ed by the Allies that France will re call two classes of recruits to the col ors and proceed to occupy the Ruhr basin. This district ncludes the most vw*iv VW?i 1UU1VO U11U iUUUObi LOkX plants in western Germany. TO REPRESENT ANDERSON Anderson, April 14?Swilling Mc Pall will represent the Anderson hgh school at the inter high school oratorical contest at Furman uni versity Saturday His subject will be: "Eulogy to Henry Grady." DEMOCRATS UNITE TO FIGHT TARIFF Present Solid Front To Emergency Measaro~?Vote on Instruction Washington, April 14.?House Democrats bound themselves through caucus action today to stand against the emergency tariff and anti-dumping bill, and Representa tive Kitchin, minority leader, made public simultaneously a statement ! views of minority members of the ways and means committee bitterly assailing the Republican temporary tariff program. Sharp differences arosfe in the cau cus on the question of instructing Democratic members to vote unre servedly against the emergency measure but it finally was carried by a vote of 77 to 29. After the caucus Mr. Kitcbin predicted that "less than a dozen Democratic votes will be cast for the Young bill." In the minority report the Repub licans are accused of tossing . into the lap of "three great trusts, the packers, the sugar trust and the woolen trust, $775,000,000 a year," and of seeking to disbar any future trade with the central powers and smaller states in Europe through "a subtile and dangerous joker" in directing the secretary of the trea sury to fix the value* of foreign money as a basis for levying duties on imports. The present bill is characterized by the report as even worse than its its predecessor, the Fordney meas ure, and it asserts that if any advan tage will injure whatever from the new proposal it will be "the trusts, speculators and profiteers." It also calls attention to provisions of the Republican national platform and inquires whether "any honest Re publican can sincerely vote for this bill in the belief that it will reduce the cost of living." "We note that the bill has been changed since the last session of congress," the report adds, "from the Fordney emergency tariff bill to the Young emergency tariff bill. Whether the ways and means com mittee thought the name of its chairman, Mr. Fordney, attached to the bill would discredit it or be lieved that by attaching the name of Young from the agricultural state of North Dakota it would lttofe easily fool the farmers, we can not undertake to say. But there must be some poltical significance in it." Figures are presented purporting to show that the actual increase in living costs resulting from enact ment of such a law will be about $2,000,000,000 a year. The state ment says that the bill would hand a "gratuity" of $125,000,000 annual ly to the "sugar trust" $550,000,000 annually to the "meat and beef trust, the packers," and more than $100,000,000 a year to the income of the "woolen trusti" Discussing the provisions of the bill for fixing the value of foreign money the report says: "The German mark is quoted as being worth $1.62 cents. If this pro vision of the bill becomes a law the secretary of the treasury would be compeled to calculate the German mark as worth eight cents for the bill states that the depreciation in no case can be estimated at more than 66 2-3 per cent. Duties on goods from Germany thereby would be increased 480 per cent; from Italy, 200 per cent; from Austria, 2,300 per cent; from Czecho Slov akia, 44 per cent; from Finland, 27 per cent, from Hungary, 1,700 per cent; from Jugo Slavia, 95 per cent; from Poland, 6,100 per cent; from Rumania, 40 per cent; from Serbia, 270 per cent, and from Russia, 4,- ^ 300 per cent. In conclusion the report charges Republican leaders with having be trayed the consumers of the East and at the same time breaking faith tl with the farmers of the West. v I WESTERN CAROLINA r FRUIT CROP IS j t: REPORTED KILLED | * jH Asheville, N. C., April 14.?Re- C ports received here today C. C Prof- ti fitt, county farm agent, indicate "V that practically the entire fruit tl crop of Western North Carolina s< was completely wiped out by the o heavy frost of Monday night, ac cording to Mr. Proffit. The loss is es- c timated by him to be in millions, c There are many orchards in this sec- s tion of 10,000 or more trees, it be- b ing the largest fruit section in the y South, it is claimed, with the excep- s tion of Georgia. t o Its toaste i nrKv STRIKE CIGARETTE C^T^PC?cr^^ X)MPULSORY LABOR ARBITRATION GETS LABOR HEAD'S O. K. Indianapolis, April 13.?Wage re iuctiona movements of employers in ;he building trades are becoming iationwide, William Dob son, secre tary of tfce Bricklayer's Masomi' and Plasters' International Union, leclared' today in a message to Sec tary Davis of the labor department idding that "within a short time tur noil and industrial warfare will be am pant." Mr. Dobson's telegTam indorsed egislation to compel all parties to abor disputes to get together and irbitrate a binding agreement and Secretary Davis was quoted as hav ng declared in favor of this, so as to put teeth in the labor / department efforts to conciliate labor troubles. Such legislation, Mr. Davis was juoted as having said, was not com pulsory arbitration. "This splendid policy, call it 'com pulsory arbitration' if you will," >aid Mr. Dobson's message, "has ro ?uted in not one official strike or evying of one cent of strike assesjw nents upon the earning of our mem >ers for more than twenty years? i record that we are proud of and ?ne that has often been highly com-] nended by our employers, individu illy and collectively, throughout A ner^pan continent. "We regret to say, however, and t is beyond our misunderstanding hat our empoyers, universally are oining wage reduction Movements hat wantonly and outrageously vio ate these splendid and peaceable elations of so many yeaTs standing 'urther, such employers are now re orting to forcible measures, and ake the reduction or leave it is now heir slogan. As a result, lockouts nd countless strikes are the order f the day, our unions protesting he reductions and demanding that heir cardinal principles on concila ion and arbitration shall stand, 'hese movements of force are be oming nationwide and within a hort period of time, turmoil and idustrial warfare will be rampant." Further Mr. Dobson asserted that he secretary's views coincide with he principles of the union, which it ras added, will hold that "agree lents and decisions of the arbitra ion will be sacred and in-violate, ven to government regulation if ecessary to enforce sdme upon hose who would destroy them." 1AJORITY READY TO BEGIN TERMS lumber of Industrial Workers Sur render, Preparatory to Return ing to Leavenworth. Chicago, April 14.?A majority of he Industrial Workers of the World rho were affected by yesterday's fnited States supreme court ruling efusing a review of their convic ions in 1918 surrendered tonight and rill be returned to the Leavenworth, 'an., federal penitentiary Monday, j Iharles F. Clyne, United States dis rict attorney, announced tonight, j Williams Haywood, alleged leader of he group, was represented by coun el and will surrender within a day r two, it was said Ninety-three of the I. W. W.s were onvicted in Judge K M Landis' j ourt in 1018 for the violation of the' elective service and espionage acts ut about 30 already have served one ear sentences. Mr Clyne refused to ay exactly how many of the men J n bail surrendered today. ? ! CALLS ON WOMEN TO END ALL WARS Mrs. Calt Sweeps Convention With Plea?Speaks for League Cleveland, Ohio, April 14.?The National League of Women Voters issthe thing that stands between Am erica and anarchy, declared Anna Seess Richardson, editor of The Wo man's Home Companion at a joint breakfast for the Southern and Western regions held this morning at the Hotel Statier, with Mrs. Juli&n Salley, of South Carolina and Mrs. Paige of Minnesota as joint hostesses. Mrs. Richardson further empha sized the independent and altrustic spirit of the women voters by de claring that theirs is about the only organization whose requests to the government are for the direct bene fit of the people. Three score women attended the breakfast at which among the speak er was another interesting news paper woman, Miss Drexel, of the Philadelphia Public Ledger. In convention this morning Mrs. Frederick P. Bagley, chairman of the citizenship committee, was in terrupted by prolonged applause when, m explaining the physical education provision of the 'Towner bill, she declared, "We don't want our boys to have to go to war to learn how tb stand straight." Every sentiment for anti-mili tarism has met with the expres sive approval of this convention. At the afternoon session in vot ing upon the report of the national board on possible extension of the league's scope, the convention com mitted the organization to give pri mary importance to the increasing of. its organization and the educa tion of its members in citizenship. This- throws to second place the oth er of the league's fundamental ob ject?. LAItOR CONDITIONS "EASIER" ON FARMS Washington, Apyil 14.?The far/n labor situation, according to the de partment of agriculture is "easier" thar it has been in the last three ye&rS. Tie relative supply, according to the statisticians of the' department is 95.2, the relative demand 87.5 | and the ratio of supply to demand 108.3. . Tile reports from the several status include the following: Ala bam supply more plentiful and less expensive; Arkansas, supply exceeds the demand over the entire state; Florida, supply plentifi^l and wages greatly reduced; Georgia, supply abundant, but no money with which to hire it; colored labor leaving as employment cannot be found; Lou isiara, supply ample, situation much better than last year; Mississippi, supjly generally plentiful and more efficient than for several years; South Carolina, supply normal; Tennessee, supply plentiful in most localities but yages remain higher than farmers^ feel able to pay; Texas, labor sufficient for all re quir?ments of the cotton crop; Vir ginia supply ample for -demand which appears to be less than usual. Intereat on Fourth Liberty Bonds due today. Clip your Coupons and bring them to us to be cashed. FREAK IN COLUMBIA DAM THREATENING WATER SUPPLY Columbia, S. ., April 14.?The <3 am on Broad River just above Co lombia crumbled yesterday after noon from unknown causes, the im pounded waters rushing through the fcreak to seriously menace the city's supply of water and power. Shortly fi.fter the break occurred the water in the Columbia canal, which sup Gu AS The Best By Eve Less Carbon Guarantc Mil< bherar "Service first-Sal That Prove saves more than nine, when batteries. Don't wait 'til your battery ge full of pep all the time. W comes to repairs, we're wizar Cur charges are moderate and nrcser.t stnrafff* hatferv wp'v# ? yti.r and a half ?uaranteo. CITY GAR AC Look for this sign ?eVEREA STORAGEBan AtlumtJ = SERVICESTATION EVERY MAN WA FINANCIAL INDEI And every man wh earns will win tha time. How long th Look for this sign -AitKomffJ SERVICE STATION pends on how muc soon he starts. Have you starte Planter "The Frien The Home of Over 1C mmmmmmmammmmtmammmm plies power to operate the pumping station and hydro-electric plant, be gan to fall and today the six electric generators and three pumps are idle, one pump being operated on the few feet of water now flowing. The break opened shortly after 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, sixty feet of the dam being torn way by the loosed waters. The river was not at flood stage and recent examina tions had found the huge crib dam in good condition. 1 LF.. OUNE ;ry Practical Test [ and Worry jed More sage d Bros. tisfaction 'always" Jl rbial Stitch it comes to testing storage ts weak. Insist on its being' 'e're the doctors and when it ds. when it's time to replace your i the reliable Eveready?with Abbeville, S. C. lNTS PENDENCE 4 o spends less than he ,t independence in at time will be de li he saves and how id? '? Bank dly Bank" )0() Bank Accounts. I