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COLLEGE COURSES ARE BEING TAKEN BY OVER 40,000 THROUGH MAIL Chicago, May 17.?Opening of foe university front door by means of correspondent courses, so that vaudeville actor, cook or printer can go to college by mail if he chooses, is one of the most striking develop ments of the college world of today, it is indicated by a partial census of this field taken by The Associated Press. In 13 universities more than 40, 000 persons?the great majority * ?11 > "-"J ' o cry a o + past conejft; ugv auu uuui many walks of life?were reported taking college coursese with a two cent stamp. This was the list: University of Chicago, 5,575. Columbia University, 500. 'University of Florida, 5,804. Indiana University, 586. Iowa State College, 240. University of Kansas, 1,800. University of Kentucky, 474. University of Minnesota, 752. University of Missouri, 1,297. University of North Dakota,250. Ohio State Unversity, 4,900. University of Oklahoma, 800. University of Texas, 1,529. University of Wisconsin, 20,116. They have come from everywhere here and abroad. One member of the University of Chicago's correspond ence classes lives above the Arctic Circle, 125 miles south of Alaska's farthest northern point. Another, in Ckina, is ten days by coolie train beyond the farthest navigable point oa the Yantse Kiang. More than 300 different occupa tions were furnished students for Ohio State University's agricultural correspondence courses at the last listing. Person taking college mail ' courses, there and elsewhere, run from day laborers, clergymen, farm ers, grocery clerks, boarding, house keepers, cooks, bank clerks, geolo gists and quarrymen to carpenters mill workers, vaudeville actors, ar tists, waiters, men in penntentiaries janitors, probation officers, dress makers and ball players. While college correspondence courses are by no means new, they are developing rapidly in a number of schools. In still other great insti tutions nothing is being done in this field, for instance, at the universi ties of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Illinois. Courses most favored differ, with different institutions. At Wisconsin business was most popular, a third of the correspondence students, of 6,896, taking it, while engineering and dndusrial studies draw a fourth. At the university of Kansas it was foreign languages that stood first, at the University of Kenfcuckv nraetical mining at the university of Okla homa, education, and at the Univer sity of Chicago, Indiana and Texas, English. A characteristic feature of the college correspondence courses is the rapidity with which they help the university to meet popular de mand for instruction. An outstand ing illustration of this is noted at the University of Wisconsin, where work on the preparation of a course in federal income tax accounting was carried on while the law was in the leaking. The course was com pleted and enrollment of students began within a very few days after the President signed the act. Indicative of the 'extent to which this work is carried on at the Uni versity of Wisconsn, 26 text books have been prepared by the corres pondence staff. The number of copies sold in the last ten years to others than the university's corre pondence students, upon which, the I institution received a royalty, was 135,000. Royalties the past year alone totalled $30,000. OPERATES BUS LINE Greenville, May 19.?Greenville and Clemson College will be con nected by a bus line after this week, C. West having announced that he has agreed to the proposal of cham ber of commerce officials that he es tablish such a line. Basley, Liberty, in orris ana uainoun are among tne points to be included on the 35 mile route. Several trips will be made each way daily. This gives the city a complete system of bus lines in almost every direction, among those now in operation being lines to HendeTsonville and Asheville, and to Laurens and Conestee. BEAD THE .ADVERTISEMENTS AM. EX. CO. SEEKING CANCELLATION OF 'SHORT HAUL' ORDER Columbia, May 17.?The Ameri can Railway Express company has requested the South Carolina Rail road commission'to annul its recent order requiring the two express com panies to handle freight for each other, so that express shipments can be handled over the shortest route between points served by 'both com panies. The commission has set June 1 a date for a hearing in the matter, the American company hav ing requested a hearing. The American company inserted a cflause in its tariff, following the for mation of the new Southeastern I company, to take the effect that freight must be handled, between points served by both companies, en- * tirely over the lines of the company ' receiving the freight. The railroad commission took the position that in ( many cases this would necessitate a 1 long, round-about journey, and so an order was issued ten days ago, 1 requiring the companies to use the 1 shortest routing between two points ' reached by both companies and i charge a through rate. The Ameri can company has complied with the 1 temporary order, but has asked that ' it be annulled. The outcome of the situation will ( depend on testimony taken at the 1 June 1, hearing. 1 WILSON AND HARVEY Their Last Interview Nearly Seven 1 Years Ago. (Brigham's Washington Correspond- ' ence in the Boston Transcript.) 1 According to some New York friends who have recently been en- ! tertained at dinner by the ex-Fresi- 1 dent. Dir. Wilson told the story of the last conversation he ever had with Harvey. It took place in the 1 White House the last Sunday in Oc tober, 1914, just before the Con- 1 gressional elections. Harvey, to the surprise of the Democrats and in J particular of the White House, ' prnted an article entitled, "Stand by ! President Wilson." In this article he urged the necessity of the Demo crats holding the next House. The ' President felt that the least he could ^ do, notwithstanding his quarrel with 5 Col. Harvey, was to invite that gen- ( tleman to call at the White House ' at 3 o'clock the fololwinc Sundav. ' Harvey said at he time that an invi- 1 tation from the President of the ' United States to visit the White House must be regarded as a com- 1 ?mand by any true American. He 1 kept his engagement to the minute ( and as he greeted the President the ' situation was slightly embarrassing. ' Probably both of them were think- ' ing of the last meeting they had at ' the Manhattan Club, New York, ' when Mars' Henry Watterson was 1 present. That was when Mr. Wilson asked Col. Harvey not to give him any further support in his publica- ' tions. The quick mind of Harvey is 1 always ready for any emergency, ' and noting the President's hesita- 1 tion, he remarked: "Mr. President, you would be surprised if you were aware of the few men who seem to know anything about the characters of Mark Twain." "You surprise me," said President Wilson. "I was surprised myself," return ed Col. Harvey. "While hanging around the Willard Hotel this morn- , ing to keep this engagement which yo\i solcited, I made a number of ac- ; quaintances, and m order to kill , time more than anything else, I ask- , ed each person what was his favorite character in Mark Twain's books. The first four or five could remem ber the name of any character. To others to whom I put the question I first repeated the names of Tom Sawyer, Col. Sellers, Huckleberry Finn, and others, and like the other people I had already interviewed, they knew almost nothing about the characters of Mr. Clemens. Finally I accosted a man who look ed like a Southern gentleman, in ap pearance and dress. I named those characters to him. He had never even heard of them. I was about to give up in disgust when I asked him ( if he had ever heard of Puddin' head Wilson. "Yes," replied the man, "I know all about him. He has kept me here for two years waiting for an office 'until I am broke." President Wilson's laugh was spontaneous and hearty and there were no further embarrassments to the conversation. WILLARD GIVES CHEERFUL VIEW Has Hope for Railway Future?Fac ing Crisis Now?In Spite of the "Hard Times" Baltimore & Ohio President Speaks Optimistically. Washington, May 17?Private own ership of railroads in the United States can not continue if railroad operating costs, when fair return on capital is considered, continue to ex ceed revenues, Daniel Willard, pres ident of the Baltimore & Ohio, tes tified today before a senate investi gating committee. At the same time Mr. Willard said the railroad situation in so far as depression and lack of earnings was concerned differed "only in degree" from that being encountered in other industries. General economic conditions and the difficulties encoun fcered in federal war time operation of the carriers, he added, were, in his opinion, largely responsible for pres ent difficulties and he expressed confidence that private ownership would justify itself financially and work out under present law and gov_ 2rnment politcy. Chairman Cummins of the senate committee previously had expressed tlje opinion that the "railroads can not last" if 1920 returns from opera tions are to continue, an opinion agreed in by Julius Kruttschnitt, chairman of the Southern Pacific board, the first witness, heard. The latter was temporarily excused, while Mr. Willard, whose testimony was left unfinished at the day's adjourn ment, took the stand. The Baltimore & Ohio chief, al though remarking upon the unfavor able returns from present railroad operation, said the government pol icy of insuring a 5 1-2 per cent re turn had given investors confidence In the "ultimate outcome" of opera tions. He defended vigorously the ncreased freight rates now in ef.1 feet, citing statistics on compara tive costs of moving wheat from Ar gentina and from Kansas to New Jfork. Federal operation had resulted in ;urning back 40 per cent, of the , freight rolling stock in bad order, he said, due to, under maintenance or ders, which were necessitated dur ng the war, but continued there, ifter. The allowable percentage of sad order cars should be about 4 per :ent, he explained. , Statistically Mr Willard undertook to show that private operation dur ing the last nine months of 1920 and iown to date had justified itself by the expeditious movement of record i i ' _r r Lt tt? ureaKing quantities oi irwigm. xiu had not touched the subject of wage losts when the session adjourned, Dut this is expected to bulk largely in further examination.. Frank P. Walsh, attorney and W. J. Lauck, statistician, were formerly sntered on the committee lists to day as representatives to be heard for the railroad unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. MASTER'S SALE j The State of South Carolina, COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE, Court of Common Pleas. W. A. LEE, Plaintiff, against MIKE KUSTAS et al, Defendants By authority of a Decree of Sale by the Court of Common Pleas for Abbeville County, in said State, made in the above stated case, I will offer for sale, at Public Outcry, at Abbe ville, C. H., S. C., on Salesday in June, A. D., 1921, within the legal hours of sale the following described land, to wit: All that tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the Citv of Abbeville in Abbeville County, in State aforesaid, bounded bySpring St., lot of Charlie Hurst, Spring street, lot of Charlie Hurst, Livery Stable, lot of Mike Kustas, and lot of G. A. Neuffer and G. Ej Calvert, and being a part of the Den-j nis O'Neill property, bought by! Mike Kustas from J Allen Smith, j and having a building thereon known as the Greek Hotel. TERMS OF SALE?CASH. Pur chaser to pay for stamps and papers. I THOS. P. THOMSON, 5, 13-3t. Master A C, S. C. 5, ll-9t. col. MANNING BECOMES NEW YORK BISHOP New York, May 12.?The Rev. j William T. Manning, D. D., rector of j historic Trinity church, today was( consecrated tenth bishop of the Pro testant Epdcopal Diocese of New, York and outlined his stand as suc cessor to ttfe late Bishop Charles Sumner Burch. In the morning, before an assem blage of prelates from all parts of the land, he was elevated to his new station with a cordial ceremony in the cathedral of St. John the Di vine, and late today at the 136th an nual convention of the New York di ocese delivered his first address of assuming the bishopric. Outlining the church's attitude to ward industrial and social problems the new bshop said the church must be "not a mere ympathetic onlook er but a great loving influence and power." "But the church must include all within her sympathy," he continued, "to all alke. 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