Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, January 26, 1921, Page SEVEN, Image 8
Huge Withdrawals of Intoxi
cants on Forged Orders Re
vealed.
The enormous scale on which the
illicit traffic in the intoxicants has
been conducted was revealed through
the discovery by agents of the Special
Intelligence Unit of the Internal
Revenue Bureau of more than 1:000
forged permits upon which millions
of gallons of whiskey had been ille
gally withdrawn from distilleries and
bonded warehouses for sale in New
York City. The amounts of liquor
called for by these forged permits
ranged from one barrel to ten thou
sand cases and their total retail val
ue was estimated at upwards of $100
000,000.
The disclosures were made as the
result of the work of a corps of in
vestigators who were sent from Wash
ington to inquire into prohibition
enforcement situation in New York,
and the forgeries covered a period
of four or five months. In many cas
es the names of reputable firms "were
used and the federal agents, after
thorough inquiry were convinced the
names of the firms were used without
their knowledge or consent.
Several arrests have been made,
and among the accused are employees
of the prohibition enforcement offices
who were in position to facilitate the
traffic in forged permits. The temp
tation to which the enforcement of
ficers were subject was indicated by
the disclosure that one agent was of
fered $5,000 if he would obtain a
basic withdrawal permit, and later
was promised an additional $100,000
if he would enter a conspiracy for
the issuance of other withdrawal
permits. With the profits of the rum
runners soaring up in the aggregate
to tens of millions of dollars they
were able to offer large bribes, and
some of the federal employees suc
cumbed.
Charles D. O'Conner, who recent
ly took office as Federal Prohibition
Director for New York state, tempo
rarily discontinued the issuance of
withdrawal permits and announced
his intention to reduce the number of
basic permit holders by 50 per cent
in an effort to stop the frauds. Many
aliens have held such permits, al
though a state law forbids their par
ticipation in liquor traffic, and. with
a closer investigation of permits
they will be excluded.
The persistency with which the li
quor interests continue their opera
tions was indicated by the issuance
by Federal Judge Landis in Chicago
of temporary injunctions restraining
four breweries from violating the
prohibitory laws after the submis
sion of evidence to prove they had
been brewing real beer. Illinois
State officials planned to ask for in
junctions against twenty other brew
eries.-Christian Herald.
What "Cheapness" Means.
"A cheap coat makes a cheap
man,' said President Harrison many
years ago, when he stated a great
truth which the world needs to learn.
Cheap labor cheapens the moral,
spiritual and physical powers of the
underpaid man or woman, and in the
end is the costliest labor. A cheap
coat breeds ill-will and lessens a
man's self-respect; a good garment
helps the inward as well as the out
ward man.
Cheapness finds its most fertile
field in India, where wages run from
three to fifteen cents a day and
where indescribable poverty and suf
fering are everywhere in evidence;
in China, where poverty is so great
that millions starve; in Africa and in
Japan. But America has blessed the
world by high wages, for by intro
ducing high-wage schedules here it
has gradually lifted up wages through
out the world. There are, however,
some narrow, shriveled, money-mad
souls or others, falsely trained in
economics, who believe in low wages,
in poverty for the farmer and the la
borer, and in the cheap coat and the
cheap man. They cannot comprehend
that "cheapness" is a cheapness of
soul in themselves, and they measure
humanity only by what they can
make their dollar buy of other peo
ple's labor and products.
High wages, full salaries, high
prices for farm products are a thou
sand times better than low wages,
low salaries and low prices for farm
products.' s
Some bankers and some business
men view things from a different
standpoint. They measure everything
by the dollar mark, and that is why
they praise the breakdown of prices.
The only true and honest way to
measure by manhood and the influ
ence of high prices on the uplifting
of manhood and womanhood, the bet
terment of homes, improved school
facilities and enlarged comforts for
women and children. We have the
highest testimony that Heaven can
give that the laborer is worthy of his
hire, but in these days, as in the past,
the power of the old fetish of "Cheap
ness"' is worshiped and is being in
voked to break down the prices of the
farmars' products and thus the wages
of the laboring man. The souls of all
men ought to be open to the light of
Divine truth and to the teachings of
history that a cheap coat makes a
cheap man, that low wages mean pov
erty and anarchism, that low prices
of farm products mean an ultimate
famine in them, and that cheapness
is one of the Devil's most efficient
tools for working damnation to soul
and body. But many, having eyes,
prefer not to see this truth.-Manu
facturers Record.
Baptist School Goes to Chester
Chester was chosen as the location
for the Baptist high school for boys
at the annual session of the Baptist
general board held yesterday in the
First Baptist Sunday school rooms.
The location was chosen from sites
offered by Bennettsville, Abbeville,
Wellford and Chester. The sum of
$200,000 was appropriated by the
board for this school.
The general board also adopted the
recommendation of the education
commission to establish a school at
Wannamaker as a Baptist academy
for the Pee Dee section. The offer
from Wannamaker contains a gift
of 57 acres of land and $17,215 in
money.
Further recommendations by the
commission, of which Dr. C. A. Jones
is secretary, adopted by the general
board were: That $2,400 per year to
be paid out of the funds of the min
isterial education department for
the salary of a professor of Bible at
Furman university; that the five Bap
tist colleges be encouraged to estab
lish a summer school at Furman uni
versity and that $1,500 per year be
appropriated for this purpose out of
the current support funds.
Oversubscription.
The following distributions of the
oversubscription to the $75,000,000
campaign were also adopted by the
general board: Limestone college,
$175,000; Ridgedale academy, $35,
000; Edisto academy, $25,000; South
east academy, $75,000; Pee Dee
academy, $25,000; for the other two
academies projected by the conven
tion, $150,000; for the industrial
school in Greenville, 50,000 and for
the high school in Chester, $200,000.
The sum of $72,425 was appropri
ated for salaries* to be divided
among evangelist, and two camp pas
tors of the commission on missions.
For church building the sum of $32,
328 was also given. This budget was
presented to the commission on mis
sions, of which Dr. W .T. Derieux is
secretary. .
The establishment of two "Good
Will" centers was approved by the
board at the r?quest of Mrs. J. D.
Chapman, head of the Woman's Mis
sionary union, and Mrs. J. R. Fizer.
One of these centers will be in Co
lumbia and the other in Charleston.
Finance Committeemen.
L H. .Hunt of Newberry and T.
T. Hyde of Charleston were appoint
ed finance committeemen.
At the recommendation of the
commission on Sunday schools, B. Y.
P. U. and colportage, of which the
Rev. T. J. Watts is secretary, a bud
get of $25,400 was adopted for the
year; it was also decided to utilize
the services of ten special workers
during the summer in holding rural
institutes; that a minimum of 200
normal institutes be held during the
year; to cooperate with Furman uni
versity in the setablishment of a
summer school for preachers.
Dr. T. C. Skinner was named presi
dent of the state missions committee
and W. C. Allen, secretary. Dr. W.
J. McGlothlin of Furman university
is president of the board, M. M. Ben
son, secretary and Dr. C. E. Burts,
secretary-treasurer.
The meeting of the board was at
tended by one delegate from each of
the 30 associatioas and 15 members
at large.-The State.
When Yoy Ar? Bilious.
To promote a healthy action of the
liver and correct the disorders by
biliousness Chamberlain's Tablets are
excellent. Try them and see how
quickly they give you a relish for
your food an dbanish that dull stupid
feeling.
New Garage Near Station.
I take this means of notifying the
public that I have opened a garage
in the metal building to the rear of
the store of Mr. Charlie Thomas and
solicit'a share of their patronage. I
have employed Mike Brooks as one of
my force of workers who is well
known to automobile owners. All
work guaranteed. All I ask is a trial.
Remember the place, in the metal
building to .the rear of Mr. Charlie
Thomas' store near the depot.
John L. Holston.
POINTS OUT HUSBAND'S DUTY
Writer Insists No Man May Stand In
the Light of His Wife's Domes
tic Ambitions.
"Puzzled husband" writes us that
he Is sorely tfled by his wife's ambi
tion to bake tr?e family bread, and
other things. His domestic affection
and spirit of chivalry will not permit
him to tell his wife the truth-that
the bread Is almost as heavy as a pav
ing stone and quite as Indigestible. So
he goes to work every morning with
a heavy heart and an even heavier
stomach, and Is bedeviled with gripes
and abdominal pains all day, Greene
M. Farley writes in the Seattle Post
Intelllgencer.
Not only that, but his wife is a con
stant reader of domestic science de
partments and she uses him as an ex
periment station. This last week, he
says, he had biscuits that would do for
sinkers on a fish line and an angel
cake that could not be differentiated
from old putty. The heartrending fea
ture ls that she asks him with a
bright smile how he likes lt all, and he
cannot find it In his breast to tell the
truth about it; so he Hes frankly and
wholeheartedly.
All this is getting on his nerves and
on his stomach and on his conscience.
In the course of a little time he
feels his life insurance is, going to be
due.
Should he tell her the truth, or
should he suffer In silence and let her
go ahead and collect the life Insur
ance?
If life Is worth anything to him he
might conclude to tell her the truth
and let her go ahead and procure her
divorce. She might find a second hus
band with a cast-iron digestive appa
ratus and the present husband ought
not to stand in the way of his wife's
career as a domestic scientist.
SHRINES BEYOND ALL PRICE
United States Has Many That Are In
expressibly Dear to the Hearts
of the People.
This old Plymouth church belongs
to the noble dead, to the living only
as trustees, but by way of pre-emi
nence it belongs to the generations
that are as yet unborn. Civilization
journeys forward partly on books,
partly upon the memorial days of great
men, who are builders of the state,
upon organized laws and finally upon
historic buildings.
No one can fully value the Influence
of the Temple In Jerusalem upon the
Hebrew state. In like manner the
Parthenon was like an invisible teach
er, whose strong hands shaped the
plastic soul of the Greek race. There
are half a dozen buildings in Great
Britain, including Westminster abbey
and St. Paul's, and to take those
buildings out of England's life would
be like taking the intellect out of
man's body.
The people of the United States have
but a brief history, only three cen
turies, but they have Independence
hall, Mount Vernon, that shaft at Get
tysburg, Faneuil hall, Old South
church. Lincoln's house and shrine at
Springfield, and old Plymouth church,
priceless shrines for the American peo
ple.-Newell Dwight Killis.
Mexicans Are Great Walkers.
There is a saying In Europe that
the Spaniards are the champion walk
ers of thc world, and certainly their
descendants* in America, the Mexicans,
are the champions of the new world.
Throe nights every week there is a
concierto in the main downtown plazd
in Monterey and nearly all the Amer
icans in town, Including many big,
husky transients on the way to or
from Tampico, sit on the park benches
and watch in wonder while the Mexi
cans walk.
All the young people In town, it ap
pears, walk around and around and
around that plaza, the boys in one
direction and the girls In the opposite
direction, while their parents and
chaperons and a few aged people
share the benches with the husky
Americans.
This Monster Was Battler.
The curators of the Launceston and
Tascanian museums have presented to
the Royal Society of Tasmania the pre
liminary account of a nearly complete
skeleton of a gigantic extinct monster,
recently discovered In the pleistocene
beds of Tasmania.
The animal was as large as the
largest existing rhinoceros. The new
discovery shows clearly that lt was a
rhinoceros-like animal, with a skull
built for aggressive warfare, and at
least one powerful horn on the snout.
Evidence of the gigantic battles in
which this animal engaged is ?to be
found In the complete smashing and
partial mending of the collar-bone,
and in the crushing and subsequent
repair of the bones of the nose and
snout.
Embroidery Ancient Art
The art of embroidery has been
practiced from time Immemorial-it is
said to be as old as the art of dress
ing. The mummy clothes of ancient
Egypt show the earliest extant em
broidery and the "pome-granates of
blue and purple and scarlet" of the
book of Exodus were of embroidery.
The art reached ite height in the
early middle ages. In Greece and
Rome laws were made to moderate Its
use, but without success. The most
distinguished artists did not count it
condescension to make the designs
from which the highest ladles In the
land executed their embroideries. No
workers were more skilled in the art
than the English.
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