Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, December 20, 1918, Image 2

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Scraps and .facts. ' ? Latest reports from the Island of Lslay state that 2*1 bodies known to he those of Americans who lost their lives In the sinking of the British tra sport Otranto have been recovered lf> having coine ashore within one week. Of th< se L'O have not been identified. There are lt'j other bodies that have been found, but whether they are those of Americans or members of the transport's crew had not been determined. Another British army labor battali<>n has arrived at the island to aid in the work of combing the wreckage from the steamer for bodies. Several that came ashore on the neighboring Island of Jura have been removed to Islav and buried. ? An ancient form of punishment in favor in the Middle Ages writes a correspondent from Bruges, has been adopted in Belgium for Belgian women who were too friendly toward the (Jerrnan invaders or who listened to their love making. They have been shorn of their hair. In Bruges several women who suffered this form of re. trihutioii and either must remain indoors or patronize the wig makers. It is known that this method lias been applied in at least one other place. The scenes attending the application of this punishment have been rather boisterous. Corporal punishment is visited upon the pro-Certnans among the Belgian men but few of these awaited the wrath of the Belgian avengers. They decamped before the ' ? ?." el?ii.? lll'lKiltll ItOOpN n-umi|i.cM .... .. and towns winch had been held under Ccrmiin domination. ? Gloomy reports of the situation in liussia. particularly at I'etrograd, continue to reach the state department at Washington. A dispatch Tuesday announced that the Soviet government Ii.is restricted the influx of hungry and destitute prisoners returning from German and Austrian prison eainps without officers or guards. The condition of the middle classes iti I'etrograd is said to he extremely hail and great numbers are dying daily of starvation. N'o fuel is avail a I de and the people are obliged to keep their lads day and night The Bolshevik section is reported gaining numerically because it controls the distribution of l'ood. There is Increasing disorder in the administration of affairs, according to these advices. Many Scandinavian fugitives. escaping from Bolshevik terrors. are arriving in Sweden. ? The British occii|Kitlon of Cologne and other German cities is not as complaisant as might seem. Gen. Blunter, in command, has issued orders under which all citizens must give up such arms as they may have in possession. There must be posted on the doors of each house the names of all who claim the place as home. Newspapers must he censored, and no pamphlets may he distributed. No one shall ride a horse or motorcycle without special |K*rmission. No one must leave the city limits without a pass. All must carry identification with nhotographs and linger prints. There must lie n?? telephone communication without permission. Tha* tnilituty iias the ritriit to search any man suxpa'Cteal of carrying a conroaled weapon. The death penalty may he decreed airainst those who attempt violence airainst British soldiers. Some several htmdred citizens of Cologne made experiments tin first night to see whether the ordei airainst troinir on the street at night was really in earnest. They found that the order meant what it said. Fines were collected from each offender. ? ('apt. Benjamin S. Lipsner, whe resigned recently as su|>crintendent o( the government aerial mail service announced in New York a few nights ago. that, hacked hy a group ol . wealthy men. he will establish next year the first aerial passenger and express lines In this country. Captilln Lipsner said he was not at liberty t< announce proposal routes, hut asserted that the first line would he put Into operation on May 15. 1319. The service, he said, would he started with each with a speed of lit miles an hoifr and arrow."*^** IKtssengers or an e<n<i.'.. .'..weight in express. Kquipntcnt of passenger planes, he said, will Include a wireless telephone system and "all latest scientific appliances." The rates "will he within the reach of all." he added. Captain Lipsner also said that unless some one else lias already done so on June 15 he will make the first trans-Atlantic flight, selecting the same route followed hy the transport (leorge Washington taking 1'resident Wilson to France. He added that a "seagoing plane" to he used in flight is now l>eing constructed. ? Cenernl l'ershing has cabled tin war department that prartieally complete reiwrts of deaths in action among the expeditionary forces should ranch the department hy IX-cajriber 26, anal of sa veivlv wotinaleal l?y Decern her 27. Total casualties taa Xovemltci 23 in the Thirtieth Division (North Carolina, South Carolina anal Tennessee National (luard) were given at 7.623. Tha> casualties were classified as hallows: Kilh d in action. 1.16$: died of wounds, 23$: died of disease, 15: died of other causes. 5: severely wiaunahfd. 1.1 SI; wounah'd. degree undetermined, $05: slightly wounded. 3.973; missing or captured. 11*3. (5ena-rnl 1'a rshing ra-paarts that the number of duplicated casualties discovered In **- ? ?1 aa.w...a-,i? iifticp since No ine i-vm i .ii vcml'ci' 2" would not to reduce the total for the entire expeditionary foives, given in his summary, of that date, as additional casualties reported more than offset the duplicates. The report from the American commander was in reply to specific questions cabled by the war deportment. In asking regarding Ihe unities in the Thirtieth Division, the department said there had been "much apprehension" here about the losses of this unit, which helped the British army break the famous Hindenburg line. -One of the most horrible tragedies which has happened in this section for many years occurred last Saturday afternoon at the Southern passenger station in Charlotte when Charles II. Snider, a soldier who had just received his discharge from the army, killed 11. A. Winder, a Southern railway engineer, almost severing his victim's head from his body, attempted to kill his wife and held the officers at bay for awhile with a pistol which he snatched from the M. I*. who attempted to arrest him. From the accounts of the homicide appearing in the Observer it seems that Snider approached Winders from the rear while the latter was talking to Snld* Fs wife and slashed his throat with a rar.or. Rev. K. X. Orr. Y. M. C. A. secretary at Camp CJreene. was nearby and Immediately called for help to get the wounded man into an automobile to take him to a hospital. He had difficulty in getting any of the bystanders to help hitn. One man. when called on. said "1 don't want to get my nands bloody." Snider made a lunge at his wife's throat with the ruiter but she threw up her rrms and received a cut to the bone on her wrist. Snider then relieved a military policeman of his gun and. taking his wife with htm. walked up Trade street. At the postofflcc corner he was ar rested by several policemen, mtcinptcd to shoot one of them but his wife knocked the pistol out of his hand. Snider is new held in jail with bond. He has refused to make a statement. His wife savs jealousy was the cause of his crime. Snider's home was at Coolcemee. ? Approximately 40.000 American troops have arrived at Coblenz since the advance guard reached there a week ago. A largo number of these troops have passed through the city, while considerable forces will remain temporarily. The people of Coblcnz got their first glimpse of American airplanes Tuesday several of the ma\( chines flying over the Rhine townrd the bridgehead boundary and then returning. The officers and clerks of the Third army arrived Tuesday morning, folowed by trucks loaded with equipment and office supplies. iL I The largest hotel in Coblenx. over^5^; looking the Rhine and the two bridges where most of the troops cross the l^river. has been taken over as quarters V for the Third army officers. The ^headquarters of the Third army are fif H I N(Pfahllshed In a government building H';' joining the hotel. By noon the Jhrd army was In communication BV If with the back areas by telephone, tel various detachments of Infantry and artillery passed through Coblenz on their way to Join the divisions east of the Rhine. Church-goers viewed the marching troops with Interest, letter In the afternoon the Third division. which had been along the (thine south of Coblenz. marched through the city headed by a band, a.h musician mounted on a grey ) orse. The Third division crossed th'Moselle north of Coblenz, where it has taken up a position along the Fthine in supr*>rt of the troops within th" bridgehead. All the larger hotels have been taken over by the Americans for billeting purposes, as well as many of j the public buildings, which are being used as offices. German officers, who! had remained in the city to turn over war materials to the Americans, soon completed their task and proceeded across the (thine in automobiles flying white flags, to join the German arm?.?vnnd the bridgehead lines. Jlir iMuillr (Enquirer Kntered at the Postofflce at Tork as Mat! Matter of the Second Class. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 20, 1918. Sometimes whin things do not look so good, the remedy is a dose of calomel. * There should be better roads and th-ro must l>e better roads. The road ijuestion affects everybody and everybody should help. Senator laiPollette is still giving trouble through his efforts to pay war expenses by means of excess war profits. There is very little cotton selling, and if the farmers will only hold out. the manufacturers will have to come across. The world will move much faster from now on. and the increased speed will not be limited to airplanes. Don't forget that. The South had to pay the ex {tenses of the Civil war with her cotton crop: but we do not think it at till right that the exi?-nse of the World war should also be saddled on this crop. President Wilson is represented as desiring to settle the peace conference business without any foolishness. He is rUht. There is no reason In going at it in any other than a strictly business-like way. and the sooner thej i bitter. If it is a fact that the Roman Cnth- j olic church has decided to renounce ! Us claims to temporal power, then the I toman Catholic church's spiritual : power is going to be largely increased. There is no use in losing sight of this very imj>ortant fact. i In spite of the war, the French still have jKilitics. anil it is not impossible that oven Mr. Wilson had some , design in the consideration he sought 1 to show the socialists in 1'aris the ' other day. It Is not to be assumed . for a moment that the president did i what he did without understanding | the full significance thereof. it is said that the Vatican has an nounccil that its differences with the duirinal will present no bar to an exchange of courtesies with the president : but so far it has not been reported ttial the ijuirinnt louks at the matter in the same light. The Quiriual. of course, is not exactly in a jkjsition to say that it does not want i the president if he insists on visiting the Vatican: but it is pretty certain that the (dulrinal would rather the president would not make such a visit. i _ Commissioner of Agriculture. Commerce and Labor Summers figures that there will be no surplus of labor next year, regardless of the return of two million soldiers from Europe and the continued employment of women . in various occupations previously mo iu>|K>lized l?y men. Mr. Summers liases his prediction on the fact that the food and commodity demands of J the world will give full employment to i all the available energy and industry of this country for some time to come. All indications seem to point to the conclusion that he is about right. More attention to cattle raising; that's the thing for this country. No, we are not suggesting interferr-1 ence with cotton growing: for it has been demonstrated more than once that after a few years of cattle feeding, the same number of bales of cotton can t>e raised on half the acres that were formerly required. That, of course, depends ujion the number of cattle in proportion to the size of the farm. But it docs not take any tine figuring to show that there is a great deal more profit in twenty bales of cotton raised on twenty acres than in twenty bales raised on forty acres. Cattle afford the best, quickest, easiest and most certain means of turning the trick. There has been another change in the purpose of the war department as to the matter of allowing soldiers to retain their uniforms and other government property. Not long ago it was stated that an order had beeu prepared providing that on his discharge each soldier would be given a franked address label with which he was to return his army clothes within four months. The latest is that a bill is being prepared to give every soldier his uniform. That is the sensible thing, as is well known to everybody who has any knowledge of the practical operation of the proposition. In the first place the soldiers are entitled to keep those clothes. In the second place, since there is no possible way of providing a standard of condition, etc., in which the stuff must be returned, If returned at all. a sleeve or the leg of a pair of pantaloons is about all the government would ever get back in most cases. But why not give the boys their clothes to wear them as long as they like or to keep as souvenirs? To try to take these clothes away would be too small a thing for a government like ours. Secretary Baker Is trying to prevent discrimination against the soldiers who were not sent overseas. He is preaching the idea that all of the boys were in the service of their country, none of i them had the choice as to whether they should serve in France or Ameri- | ca, and the preaumption is that those fl who had no chance to light would have fi given as good an account of themselves p as those who did flght. The secretary ii has the sensible view of it, and be is p deserving of commendation fpr trying to Impress the idea: but so far as practical results are concerned, we fear he is wasting his time. The populace does j, not see it that way and cannot be made g to see it that way. Most of the men on this side have all along been chafing to a go over and they feel that they have missed the opportunity of their lives. v And in a way they have. They can d never be reconciled- On the other hand the boys who got across and who v get back without a really disabling c wound will continue to congratulate t themselves on their good fortune, as they will have a right to do. for the n balance of their lives. t ** 1 t There is an extensive propaganda on t to boost the price of coffee, and the ^ probability is that the price is going t up very considerably. As to whether (j coffee ought to go up. we are doubtful c because compared with some years ago the selling price has been maintained g at quite a high level all along. The ^ war hms very much restricted the Eu- j. ropean coffee markets. Germany was a barred by the blockade and the other markets were held down by lack of s tonnage. Even England naa to aeny t herself coffee. The only free market v has been America and the supply of v coffee has been many times greater ( than America's needs.. But still the ? price was held up through the flnan- ^ clal strength of the coffee trust. Since t the signing of the armistice the Euro- c pean markets have been opening up s and coffee has been advancing steadily. There is plenty of coffee ^nd no supply a and demand warrant for the advance; r but all the same the price of coffee will , probably be higher to the consumer, j The people who have been holding up r the price must have their profits and that is about all there is to it. c Seniority Rule. t There is some talk of the abolition * of seniority rule in congress. Through precedent and otherwise there has developed a system whereby length of service counts more in both houses than does ability. Committee chairmanships go to the majority faction on a basis of length of service and the rank of minority mem- * bers on the committee is fixed on the same basisIt is a very common thing for men of mediocre ability to be elected to 1 both house and senate for term after term and after a while, under a periodical revolution of party control, these men become chairmen of important committees that control the course of legislation. Occasionally an incompetent or unfit man to whom an important chairmanship falls under the rule is sidetracked and Homebody else Is put In his place: but that Is the exception rather than the rule. More often the incompetent and unfit chairmen are mere figureheads, guided, directed and manipulated by shrewder and abler men in subordinate positions, who are able to exercise power without having to carry responsibility. The government has more than once been seriously hampered in the proper exercise at its functions through the conditions referred to. to the very grave detriment of the best interest of the nation at large. The organization and conduct of the present congress has developed a number of these cases. As to how the situation is to be remedied we do not know; but we believe that it should be remedied by the establishment of a better system. Men of brains and character cannot be altogether suppressed under any conditions, it is true: but they can be very seriously hampered under the practice that prevails in congress, and j there is need for reform. Bolshevism. , As we understand it the war of Bol- ' shevism is against the propferty and privilege of the nobility and bourgeoise < classes. J The nobility everywhere is a privl- , leged class, not subject to the same i laws that are srupposed to govern the < bourgeoise and laboring classes, the . latter commonly referred to as the proletariat. . 1 The Bolshevist idea is that the priv- 1 ilege should be abolished entirely, and , that ownership of property should be t In common. I The idea has taken a very strong " hold in Russia, and it is paining more | or less strength throughout all of Eu- i rope. ' Of course the idea strikes at the , present organization of society all over 1 the world. In Russia Bolshevism has already * caused terrible distress among the ) property owning classes, hundreds of < thousands of them being reduced to J actual want by being unable to pro- | cure food. t The distress extends to many other 1 classes that do not necessarily own x property, including mainly profession- s al people, traders, artists, etc. * As matters now stand, people be- j longing to the objectionable classes are s not permitted to work even, unless they embrace Bolshevism, and yield to the doctrines that are being advo- < cated by those in power. 1 Bolshevism is utterly opposed to j capitalism as understood in the idea t of money and property being instru- \ ments through which business knowl- ? edge and experience directs and con- f trols labor. As to whether the proposed system 1 is possible of successful application ( even if all classes were willing:, is a r subject on which general agreement is l difficult. ? The experience of socialistic teaching so far?teaching that individual t ownership and monopoly Is wrong?is c that when Socialists who taught this J doctrine themselves acquired monopoly, or even property, they ceased to b^- a lieve in common ownership. r Also, people who inveigh against v privilege, when they acquire privilege for themselves, generally become converts to the idea that privilege is ? right. s There have been a few notable ex- I. ceptlons to both rules: but these ex- ? ceptions have been only sufficiently g numerous to prove the rules. a The Bolshevist organization is now t In the ascendancy in Russia; but it * seems to lack a great deal of being t| permanently established, for the rea- a son that the anti-Bolshevist forces are 41 lining up in opposition. ? It Is reasonably certain that the u struggie between the two forces will be n long and bitter, and while of course, it ? is not possible to say what will be the w / nal outcome for one thing, it seems drly certain that there will be a long eriod of anarchy that does not promle much for the future stability of tussian society. Allotments for Dependents. Probably the greatest piece of legisulon that has been achieved by conTeas during the present war is what > known as the War Risk Insurance ct. This is the act under which provision has made for the insurance of all soltiers at nominal cost to themselves nd also established a system under rhich the government helps to take are of the dependents of soldiers in he service. The general working of the allotnent system is too well understood by hose most interested to warrant exended explanation at this time, furher than to say that it provides that lependents are to be taken care of by he government in cases where the sol lier-reliance for support contributes a ertain part of his pay for the purpose. Like ail good laws that have to be of ;eneral application in accordance with ixed principles and conditions, this act las been the means of no little harm long with a great deal of good. For instance, there are people, thouands of them, who are best off when hey are steadily at work; but who vork only because they are obliged to cork. Many of these have come wtthn the benefit of the allotment provllon of the act. and the main result has ieen to make industrial slackers of hem. That has occurred to a larger xtent among negro laborers of the outh probably than anywhere else. The act is not to be condemned on .ccount of the situation described?a nere incident that is as nothing com>ared with the good that is done in lelping real dependents who need and norit help. But the most objectionable thing in tonnection with this act has been the niserable inefficiency of its admlnisration, for because of this much of the ;ood that should have come of it has >een all but lost. The work of the war risk bureau has >ecome all "balled up," through inompetent management, and allotment hecks to the amount of millions of lollars that should have gone out nonths and months ago, have never et been received by the people who lave all along stood in woeful need of hem- In fact so badly behind is the >ureau with its work, there is no tellng when it will ever catch up, and in he meantime no doubt thousands and housands have suffered and are sufering misery and distress for want of he help to which they were entitled ind which should have reached them OUB ago. The trouble is pretty generally atrlbuted to the clerical force of the war isk bureau, which now has the repuation of being the most worthless ilerical force in the national capital. Behind this Inefficiency there is a ittle story. William P. Borland, Efem?crat, of Kansas City, Mo., believing hat everybody should work a little larder during war time, than at other imes, sought the passage of a bill to equire government clerks to work sight hours a day instead of only seven. This war risk bureau crowd worked up l combination of most of the clerks In Washington, as the result of which Borland was defeated for re-election, ind since then the war rl3k clerks, initead of the responsible managers, lave been the bosses of the bureau. A regular army officer, with a force if enlisted men of about one-fourth he size of this war risk bureau mob, vould turn out twice as much work in lalf the time, without working the men more than eight hours a day at :hat. WILSON'S DEMOCRACY. President's Simple Ways Please the French People. President Wilson's preference for iiniple living, writes Lincoln Eyre from Paris, to the New York World, is eniearing him to the French public. Phey like to read of his rigid adherince to the food restrictions, of his lutet luncheons and dinners en famil? k|? HHvoo tn \v artist i 1 ]na flnH in the Bois dc Boulogne alone with Mrs. IVilson. They even applaud his strict >bservance of the Sabbath, although h'eir own fashion of spending Sunday 8 very differentPresidential simplicity pleases the Parisians because they dee m it as convincing e\idence of the sincerity of the president's democracy. "He is just a ;ood bourgeois, who knows what is in the minds and hearts of the plain people all over the world," my concierge lays of him. Tho French are well aware of the president's desire to get down to busiless and eager as the'1 ar-2 to see him n public they fully appreciate the necessity of his losing no time in beginling the conversations for which he nas come here. The informality that prevails in and ibout the Murat residence is a source >f great satisfaction to the President's losts. There is no elaborate cordon it soldiers, two doughboy sentries beng the only guards at the entrance. In addition to the President's housclold there has never been more than :wo or three guests at the table, and hesc were old friends. Meals are prepared by Prince Muat's chef. The Sunday luncheon conilsted of hors ceuvres, eggs, white lauce, saddle of lamb, celery, fruit and cheese; and for dinner there were hick soup, filet of sole, hare cutlets, itewed chicory, ices, fruit and cheese. Recruits for the Navy.?Two hunIred thousand men must be recruited nto the navy next year to take the daces of those demobilized. Capt. d. leaning, chief of the Bureau if Navigation, made this estimate vhen asking the house naval affairs :ommittee for an appropriation of !12,000,000 to cover transportation and ecruiting expenses for 1910. After July 1 next 350,000 men will >e ncrnea in rne regular navai iorces 0 mail the naval and shipping board essels, Capt. Laning told the comnittee. The regular navy at present las 300,000 men, and 165,000 of these nlisted since the war began, 120.000 or four years and 45,000 for the duraion of war. More than 60 per cent of he war recruits have aaked to be disharged, Capt Laning said, and he navy is in honor bound to reease them. In addition it was explained as soon is peace terms are signed the naval eserve forces, numbering 290,000 men nust be placed on inactive duty. Hough on Cotton,?The Sumter Item tates that of the several thousand isles of cotton still in the hands of the lumter county farmers, "not less than talf of it is lying on the ground with>ut the semblance of protection." Tobably the same conditions exist enerally in the south. Such a state of flairs was perhaps understandable in he old days when cotton was bringing Ix and eight cents, but why men who ave made up their minds to hold for hlrty-flve cents a pound should deal s they do with a commodity on which hey set such a value is hard to comrehend. The Item is right when it ?ys that the damage done this cotton 1 certain to offset the price in a large leasure; to say nothing of the other axards to which cotton thus carelessly >ft to lie around is subjected.?News nd Courier. J?QCAX? AFFAIRS NEW ADVERTISEMENTS Farmers Hardware & Supply Co.?A nounces that It will be ready for bi lness on January 1st. in the room present occupied by Clinton Bros. York Drug Store?Suggests Nunnall chocolates and bonbons, perfume and cigars as suitable Christm gifts for ladles and gentlemen. Feinstein Bargain House?Is having big Christmas trade and is fully pi pared to take care of you in yo hunt for suitable gifts for anyboi Loan and Savings Bank?Sound a conservative, its service will be a , preciated by those wanting banki service. Geo. W. Whitesldes & Co., Sharor Are specially prepared to take ca " of those wanting extras for Chrii mas dinners, sunai ie urimn ., gifts. Reduced prices for holidays "York Hardware Co.?Urges you Join the Red Cross and also let supply your hardware needs. G suggestions. McConnell Dry Goods Co.?Says to f< low the crowds and you will And > doors- A great array of the goc for practical gift buyers. Carroll Supply Co.?Make special prl on laundry soap for Saturday. T season's greetings. Conimittee?Invites you to a box su per and bazaar at Filbert, Mond night. J. M. Stroup?Wants renter for rooi vacated by water, light and pow departments, up-stairs. R. J. Brown. York No. 1?Offers tl well bred shepherd puppies, for sa Wm. Ferguson. York No. 5?Has a D roc sow and pigs, several shoats a a registered I)uroe boar for sale. Miss Rachel Qulnn?Has six room cc tage on King's Mountain street, 1 x rent. Li- R. Williams. Probute Judge?Gl\ notice that Thomas Jimerson has a plied for letters of administration estate of Sam Hughes, deceased. J so that G. H. Wurth has applied I letters of administration on estate K. L. Warth, deceased. Star Theatre?Will have serial and comedy tomorrow. Special featui Monday and Thursday. W. K. Ferguson?;Is selling a new li of cakes, 15 cents. He has chol fruits, nuts, etc. Yorkvllle Candy Kitchen?Wants y to remember it for choice frul nuts, candies, cigars, cigarettes. 1 bacco. etc. Louis Roth?Has a 350-pound chet at his store?good cheese. Oystt today, tomorrow and Tuesday. James Bros.?Will toda receive a other shipment of choice mules, a they want you to see these and al see others already on handJ. M. Stroup?Culls your attention the variety of goods he has that a of special appropriateness as gi for ladies, men and children. York Fuurniture & Hardware Co Calls attention to the big line of t better kind of goods that it has tf are suitable for gifts. Kirkpatrlck-Belk Co.?Calls attentl * to the short time for holiday she ping and offer additional gift sugg< tions. Bedroom slippers, etc. Next Tuesday's issue of The E quircr will bo the last for the y< 191S. The next issue following w be that for January 3. 1919. There were 3,140 copies of the 1: r?iriiinp issue of the Yorkville Knou er. the largest edition of the paper e er printed for subscribers alone. Subscribers whose subscriptions c ptre after February 1. must, if th exjH'et to pet the benefit of the el rate of $2.1*5. renew and pay their su scriptions before that date. The y riod in which subscriptions may taken at $2.25 expires February After that date, the price of a sr scriptton will be $2.50. Referring to the matter of overst soldiers getting their coppies of I Jgnqulrer, we are convinced now tl It is only a matter of delay, etc. Sr eral relatives of the soldiers ha lately advised us that their s dier brothers and sons have inform them that they are getting the paj more or less regularly. Frank M kell.v, of No. 3 Yorkville. said the oi er day, that his brother, Corpo Clinton Miskelly, writes that he getting practically all the copies tl are addressed to him. Reminded of the fact that it is co mon for people to come in while 1 Enquirer is suspended for the he days and ask for announcements various kinds to be made, this is remind those people again that I next Tuesday's issue will be the h of the year. Those who have i nouncements to make should fum the copy at the earliest possible ir ment to insure insertion In next Tu< day's issue. Such copy should be by not later than Saturday evonli It will be handled as late as Mom] evening if it be mechanically possit but people who wait until Mond evening with copy that could ha been handed in before, will do it their own risk. In granting the motion for a n trial in the case of Sims vs. Ye Judge Memminger did not hesitate say that every man. woman nnd oh in York county knows that Si was lynched by a mob. He was a of opinion that the evidence given the trial of the alleged lynchers w fully sufficient to warrant a conv tlon. The judge did not say this; t as a matter of law, it is assumed ti the only reason he did not direct verdict for the plaintiff was the sai that restrained Judge Moore. T point as to whether or not the m was lynched, is a question of fact bo determined bj the Jury, and wh It is the duty of the judge to set asl a clearly improper verdict, if should a.ssum? to anticipate the fin ing of the jury in a case like this, would certainly be reversed by t supreme court. Motes White, who died last Mo day, was the oldest Confederate veter in York county. He was held in hi esteem by the people of his neighbc hood as an upright, pious mt For many years previous to his dea he was an elder in Smyrna A. R. church. Throughout his early 11 Mr. White was also a most magni cent specimen or pnysicai manntx There was no other man in his secti who was his equal in this respect lop rollings and house raisings. F fights were common on muster days that period; but it does not seem be of record that any Ransey Sniffl ever succeeded in finding a bull of t woods who was willing to tackle 5 White. There was nobody to mat him. He was stricken with paralys in the early seventies, a few years a ter the Civil war, ixxislbly follow! extra exertion at a house-raising, ai he was never his old self physical again after that; but he continued be strong and healthy until he w well past sixty years. With the dea of Mr. White, the distinction of beU the oldest Confederate veteran of tl county passes to Capt John D. M Connell, of McConnellsvilie, who lac! from now until January 25 of being years of age. The many friends and acqualntonc of young Paul Bratton. among tl readers of The Enquirer, will re* with Interest the extract from his le ter tha* we are printing today. Pa is a grandson of Col. Asbury Cowar so well and affectionately known t |a the people of York county as an educator, citizen and soldier. Col. Coward was one of South Carolina's Civil n" war heroes, and it is very well known and understood that his war experiences were about as strenuous as Ys were to be imagined up until well in the beginning of the World war. The grandson has been through a cama poign which, though short in eomparre* ison with the grandfather's four juyr years, will be held up to future gennd eratlons as the most glorious in the P- annals of warfare?-that brilliant drive n* front Chateau Thierry to St. Mihiel to , the German border. Of course he has ire a right to be proud of it all. and his friends are proud of it with him: but '? ..Anni^tinn n.-lth the letter, of the 1. to possible publication of which he never it dreamed, there is a suggestion of humor that is most exquisite. Note the j|. comparison Paul makes of the havoc its of an aerial bomb with the blow-up at 'ds Petersburg, up to the beginning of the lce present war the most terrific explosion he In military history. Then imagine Paul and the Colonel, each in a banP" tering humor, swapping their experi' " ences. Wouldn't it be great? Howrns ever, as a word of caution to you "er young fellows who went over there. . as well as to you who were to go next, le, don't make the mistake of discounting u- what your granddaddigs did. Plenty nJ of them saw as much war as any 6f jt- von?saw as much death, if not as or much destruction, and went through as much horror, etc. The principal dlfp" ference was in the thing as a whole on not her than in individual experiences. VI 'or WITHIN THE TOWN of ? I<ouis Roth hns just cut a cheese a that weighs 350 pounds. It is the largest cheese "hat has ever been seen ne on this market. 'ce ? It Icoks like there never were so ou many toys anil other Christmas goods its, in the stores and the merchants are t0" selling lots of them, jse ?Automobile trucks with trailers, ^rs bringing freight from Oastonla and unloading from the streets into the n(l business houses, is one of the freIso frequent sights of the town now-adays. to ire ?The status of the public works fts commission, as set forth in this column Tuesday, appears to have been incorhe rect. Mr. J. Q. Wray has resigned as lat superintendent of the water, light and power department and Mayor Johnson (p_ advises that the council has filled the ?s. vacancy caused by the death of Dr. W. (?. White by the election of Dr. A. Y. Cartwright, the council having the ;n- right to fill such vacancy in this man ar ner. fill ?Generally throughout the cotton growing section of the south and in almost every town in South Carolina jr. of an/ importance as a cotton market, v. common sense and common fairness have recognized that the right system of weighing cotton offered for sale by " the producer is by a public weigher, ' j elected by the cotton seller, and bond^ ed to do the right thing as between seller and buyer. This system oh>6 tains in Fort Mill, except that both 1)0 ^ seller and buyer happen to be content ' to accept the service of a weigher who is agreeable to both without a bond. In . Hock Hill, Yorkville and other >as markets, there prevails the same old he system of weighing that existed in the ,at days when the seller was made to ,v_ feel that the buyer was conferring an vp especial favor in taking his cotton at 01_ a shade over the highest price that lt,(l some other buyer was willing to pay. jpp Absolute fairness to both seller and is- buyer require that the weighing and lh. docking, when docking is necessary, raj be done by a disinterested third party, is whose only concern is to do justice to lat both parties, and to prevent either front hurting himself or the other felnj low through mere courtesy. Cotton ,h(> should be graded and weighed by disInterested third-party-experts. The of present unbusiness-like system has lived long enough, and then some. ABOUT PEOPLE in- Mr. W. M. McConnell is sick at his jsfl home in Yorkville with intlucnzu. 10- Lieut. A. C. Grist of the aviation service, recently discharged, is visijing his mother, Mrs. O. E. Grist, in Yorkville. in Mr. Archie Barron, who has been doing government work in Springfield, la> Ohio, has returned to his home in >le. Yorkville. lay Dr. and Mrs. John 1- Barron, who lVe have been spending some time at Camp Jackson, Columbia, have returned to their home in Yorkville. Mr. J. Meek I'lexico of Yorkville, ew hail information that hl.s son, Oscar )rk Plexico, with the American Expeditionary Forces, is safe and sound. Mr. J. O- Allison, who underwent an operation for appendicitis at the Fenms nell infirmary two weeks ago. has reIso turned to his home in Yorkvllle and at is Improving slowly. Miss Sadie Digby of Yorkvllle, re. ' ceived a letter from her father, Mr. J. ir- T. Digby of Xewberry, Wednesday, innit forming her of the death of her brothel er. Corporal Victor Ernest Digby, who was killed by a shell in France several ? weeks ago. 118 Mr. E. W. Pursley, who has for he many yjars been living on Yorkville an Xo. 1, has sold his old home place. tn about seven miles north of Yorkville. to Mr. John Warren Quinn, and moved "e to the J. J. Matthews place, near King's ide Mountain battleground on Smyrna he 2. (j. Mr. J. R. Lucas of Yorkvllle has a . letter from his son in France. The ' young man has suffered no mishap, is he well and hearty, glad the war is over and ready to go on Into Germany or come back home, whichever way the n_ orders provide; but would a little an rather come home, gh Fort Mill Times: Fort Mill friends )r_ of Capt. Geo. W. Potts wounded in action some time ago, will be pleased to l"- know that he has so far recovered as 'th to be able to return to his command, p. This information came a few days ago #e in a letter from Captain Potts to his father. D. O. Potts, of the Pleasant "* Valley section. A letter from Yorkston Grist, foron merly of Yorkville, but now with the at American expeditionary forces from . . Columbia, says that the command to which he belongs was moved up to the at front lines two days before the signto ing of the armistice, and he saw the gg last gun fired in his part of the line a few moments before 11 o'clock on the he morning of Xovember 11. His letter fr. in dated Xovember 21. ch Mrs. W. F. Marshall of Yorkville. ,js has letters from her son, Wallace Mar. shall, dated November 12 and 13, bringing the Information that this BR young soldier, who has been on the nd firing line from the beginning of iiv American participation on up to the end of it all, is all right, though at the t0 time the letter was written he was still as finding it difficult to realize that there th would be no more shells screaming ?? over his head. . Fort Mill Times: Among the Fort Mill young men who have received c- their discharges from the army camps ks and training schools during the last 86 few days and returned to their homes in this city are: Geo. L. Hall. John A. Boyd, Alfred O. Jones, Jesse L. Blackea welder, Gary Windle. Heath Belk. Eb Bayne, Thomas L. Wilson. Parks O. Boyd. Bryan Potts. Besides these, id several colored men have been dist charged and returned to their homes uj in the township. d Sergeant George L. Wallace of Yorkville, who was severely crippled in the y battle in which the Germans were started back from the Marne. about midnight. July 14. ia able to be up and 1 about: but will be a cripple for lifeHe was able to put his foot to the floor 1 for the first time during the latter part of October, and since then lias been 1 getting along very nicely: but one leg will be short, and he will probably s have to go on crutches. He Informed his father in a recent letter that he t had received the $30 collected for him t by Mrs. Sandford Riteh of Clover, and it came in most gratefully. < 9 i HERE AND THERE. : I don't see why those boys don't tell I us more about it in their letters." said f a young lady who has three brothers t with the American expeditionary forces in France, in the presence of j Here and There. Wednesday. The ladyhad received information that all of ; her brothers were safe, and of course , she was delighted with that; but she did not seem to be satisfied. She wants to know more than the boys are telling. The feeling is quite common; but still, if one thinks about the matter soberly, it will have to be admitted that one ' way and another, some of the boys 1 have been covering the situation pret- t ty well, so well ui fact that it would ( be difficult to see how it would be possible to understand things better with- 1 out being on the spot. t That venture bv which York county i farmers were to get line blooded cuttle ^ cents a. pound, ilnl not pan out. There was a slip up. In spite of the short no- 1 tice York county farmers agreed to j take 11S head of the Hereford and An- t gus cattle that it was understood to be at Fort Worth. It will be remembered 1 that on account of the long drouth last i summer, hundreds of thousands of t head of cattle were deprived of their . prospects for pastureage. and the owners had to sell or lose the cattle from starvation. Then- was not much no- ' tice to the York county farmers; but [ quite a number of them acted quickly 1 and gave orders for the number stated. 1 It turned out. however, that the buyer 1 who went to Fort Worth to buy. was v able to get only 36 head. These were * brought back and distributed as equit- ' ably as possible. Explaining the mat- 4 ter. a gentleman who was interested. 1 put it up like this: "In the first place, ^ our buyer was delayed because of the * flu. Then came the signing of the ar- ' mistice. and following that corn and J oats growers of Kansas, Missouri and ' other nearby states, seeing that they 1 had lost their chance to sell their grain 1 to the government, rushed Into Texas N and bought up those cattle. Then in 11 addition, there came a rain with a J freshening up of the pastures and the ' cattle were taken off the market." FIELD GLASSES RETURNED. ] In response to a call from the navy ' department early in the war. W. D. N and A. M. Grist of Yorkville. loaned ^ to that department a valuable pair of ; field glasses. By last night's mail 1 they received the following: t "There is being returned to you by ? registered mall the article received j from you In response to the Navy's i call. i "An engraved certificate evidencing l the participation of this article In tin i war is now being prepared and will I e t forwarded to you at a subsequent f date. "It is hoped that any evidence of wear or damage will be compensated by the fact that ar great service has been performed and that historic interest has been added to the article ' returned. i "Franklin P. Roosevelt, . "Assistant Secretary of the Navy." , SIX PAGES. , There are six pages of today's paper. The extra pages have been put in to 1 meet the pressure on the advertising , columns and to make up in a measure for the shortage of reading matter in 1 the past few issues. Up to December 1 we were not allowed to print six pages if we had ' wanted to, but to be perfectly frank, we could have hardly achieved anything of the kind If we had been al- 1 lowed. If we had been able to handle that ' much extra work we would have had ( at least six pages in each issue for the month: but we couldn't. ' We have had to refuse a lot of advcrtislng during the past two weeks, and wo have had to request our regu- I lar customers to take less space than they wanted to takeWhether to deny the advertiser or reduce the amount of reading matter ha# been the awkward predicament we have been up against, and these surplus pages today represent mainly a desperate effort to relieve ourselves of that predicament. After today's issue the pressure of the holiday advertising will probably be lifted, and pretty soon now we hope to be able to secure the help necessary to enable us to meet any demand that may be made upon either our mechanical or reportorial staff. SPECIAL TERM JURORS. The following venire of petit Jurors was drawn last Tuesday to serve during the special term of the court of general sessions, called for the week beginning December 30, with Hon. It. W. Memminger presiding, to try Sam Johnson, colored, on the charge of attempted criminal assault: A. L. Martin Broad Kiver X. B. Williams Catawba W. J. Beamguard King's Mountain D. C. Sturgis Catawba H. A. Caldwell Catawba J. C. Gourley Bullock's Creek ' T. C. Rawlinson ? Catawba A. C. Bigger Bethel | W. G. Brown ? York R. M. Howell King's Mountain * C. T. Brandon - .Bethel | G. D. Pearson Bethesda Geo. A. McCarter King's Mountain E. S. Kirk Catawba J. Funk Catawba t J- P. Williams Bethesda ' W. S. Moss Fort Mill , W. J. Steele Fort Mill G. W. Knox King's Mountain ] S. P. Sutton Fort Mill J. Clyde Harper Bethel , F. E. Merritt Fort Mill A. O. Jones Fort Mill J S. V. Aycock Bullock's Creek < J- E. Parker Catawba , C. C. Westbrook Catawba . W. I. Brison King's Mountain ' A. C. Harper Bethel t A. J. Clinton .York , W. M. Barrett King's Mountain R. H. GilfllIan Broad River < C. W. Carroll York W. P. Boyd Bethel f T. S- Snider King's Mountain S. P. Carroll Broad River 1 A. F. Davis Catawba t REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. ?l The following transfers of real estate o recorded in the office of the clerk of t the court, have been indexed in the of- c flee of the auditor within the past ten t days: f Bethel?R. A. Bratton to J. M. Stew- r art, 103 5-10 acres; consideration, $2,- < 193.75- . Bethesda?D. E. Durant to Howard Caldwell, 10 57-100 acres; considera- ' tlon, $2,250. c Howard Caldwell to S. J. -Tumblin. a 143 56-100 acres; consideration, $8,000. , Lillle I. Falres to W. A. Neely. 4 3-4 * acres; consideration, $356.25. Bullock's Creek?James Benson to J. u J. Hanna, 140 acres; consideration, t $500. ? F. P. Morrison to W. A. Queen, 100 acres; consideration, $1,200. Catawba?R. W. Patton to H. A. Wa- " ters, 14 acres; consideration, $700. j Mrs. Luia E. Hoiroyd to A. E. Young. v 1 lot; consideration. $4,600. Mdnuv ej. anu vruo w Laura J. Moore, 1 lot; consideration. ? 1800. W. E. Walker to Mra Jante W. Simpson. ?7 1-2 acres; consideration, v S1.6S3. 1< H. G. Hitchcock to Oss Dunlap, 35 3-4 q acres; consideration, 3550. . Jno. R. Williams to J. A. Brown. 2 lots; consideration, 8400. t Jno. R. Williams to John Knighton, . acre: consideration. >575. Ebenexer?J. S. Wright to H. W. Adtins. 2 acres; consideration, >1,000. Fort Mill?W. W. Patterson to J. J. Sailes, 1 lot; consideration. >1.500. A. E. Young to S. A. Lee, 1 lot; consideration. >1.800. King's Mountain?C. M. Riser to W. 7. Wilburn. 141 8-10 acres; considersion. >1.500. T. II. Allen to M. L. Smith. Treas. of 71over Cotton Mfg. Co., 1 lot; consld ration. >2.600. R. L. Whisonant to T. H. Allen. 1 ot: consideration. >2.500. York?Mary Whiteside* Carroll to Robert J. Brown. 28 acres: consider?* ion. >1.250. R. X. Moore to Theodora H. McXeel, 1 lot; consideration. >6,000. H. R- Merritt to E. A. Smith and daggle A. Thomasson, 60 2-5 acres: 0 onsiderution. >3.000. FROM CHATEAU THIERRY ON. Mrs. Paul R. Bratton of Yorkvllle, vho had not previously heard from ler son, Paul, of the American expediionary forces, since October, received he long awaited missive Wednesday noming, dated November 19. It brings lie cheering news that Paul is well, noving along Into Germany, in high ipirits. and like the rest or them, giau he thing has been brought to a glorl>us end with American victor)'. The oung soldier has had quite his share if the splendid work that the Amortans have been doing from tho beginling, as is shown by the following exract which Mrs. Hratton has kindly lermitted us to print: "My dear Mother: Just to let you mow that I am well, and we expect to ie somewhere on the Rhino before ong. 1 would have written you soon r; but we were unable to get station ry of any kind, and were so busy that vlH-ii we hu<l any time It was put in deep. We drove them steadily until vo had orders to "stop tiring" at 11 i'clock one morning. Talk about hupi.v! We, 1 guess, were about us happy is Fritz. Chateau Thierry. St. Mihiel, J Hiissons, Verdun?all these places 1 lave been In and seen action. 1 am in ^ he Third Division, 18th Field Artilery. Battery A?all regulars, except or the few replacements that have ome in to take the places of all boys vho were bumped off. The French had i big celebration the night following he signing of the armistice and this s the lirst night In three months that have been able to get a full night's est- We are now on our way to the thine, hiking every day . and some imes da> and night. Today we have tailed at Mars-La-Tour, three kilomeors from the German border. Here ve will don new clothes, etc., as these ve are wearing are pretty well torn up ind discolored from the mud and rain. [ hope by this time that you have re clved my letters written while In acion. Tell grandfather (Col. A. Cowird) that the crater at Petersburg, Va? s nothing to what a bomb from an lirplane can do. And shrapnel, oh, T?y! But it is all over now, and w<; tave gone back to strict discipline. But lohody minds that, because we know hat we are going to come home In ibout six months." LOCAL CASUALTY LIST. The following names of soldiers 'rum York county and the territory mmcdiutcly surrounding, have appeared in the casualty lists published .vithin the past few days: Corporal Robert Reid. Fort Mill, wounded slightly. Corporal Arthur Burgess, Pacoiet. .vounded in action. Private Colton E. Jones, Blacksburg. lied of disease. Sergeant James J. Foster, Jr., Chester, wounded slightly. Reese Faulkner, Lancaster, wounded slightly. Corporal Archie Mack, Fort Mill, wounded slightly. Jacob White. Fort Mill, wounded dightly. ?... William Cunningham, Fort Lawn, wounded .slightly. Flemon Gray, Richburg. wounded slightly. William S. Parker, King's Mountain, lied of disease. James ("lark, Chester, died of dls?ase. Corporal Thomas A. Thornwcll, Riverside, wounded slightly. Sergeant William Douglass, Rock ? Hill, wounded seriously. Private James W. Sweat, Rock Hill, wounded seriously. Private Joff Funderburg, Rock Hill, wounded severely. Private Eb Littlejohn, Gaffney, wounded seriously. Private Herbert Loveless, Rock Hill, wounded severely. Private Karl B. Ferguson, Rock Hill, missing in action. ("apt. George W. Potts, Fort Mill, wounded slightly. Corporal Frank Tulford, Chester, wounded slightly. Corporal Robert W. Reld, Fort Mill, wounded slightly. Mechanic Claud Revels. Chester, wounded slightly. , Private William T. Bland, Chester, wounded slightly. Private Robert D. Wages. Chester, teverely wounded. Lieut. William J. Roddey, Rock Hill, jeverely wounded. George Van Dyke, Gastonla, woundMi slightly. Andrew Padgett, Gaffney, wounded dightly. ] H. C. Wood, Lowryville, slightly wounded. William Turner. Chester, slightly wounded. Rufus B. Stephenson, Yorkvllle No>. slightly wounded. WllUam D. Rogers, Fort Mill. .\uunutMj mignuy. LOCAL LACONICS Holiday at Wlnthrop. Withrop College closed for the holdays last evening and the students vlll he going home this morning, lilrths and Deaths. According to statistics of the State joard of health Just published, there vere 1.046 births and 661 deaths In fork county from January 1 to Octoter 31 of this year. Died of Ihu-umonia. Mr. James E. Harper of Yorkvllle s'o. 8. has received a telegram from Vdjutant General Harris, advising him >f the death of his son, Private Isaac 3. Harper, of pneumonia, on Septemier 13. Private Harper was a member )f Company E, 3d Pioneer Infantry, vlth American Expeditionary Forces. i?Tman Helmets. The Enquirer has a copy of a letter rom Roger Smarr, dated at Tours, 'ranee, November 27, and addressed o his young nephew, Hiram Wayne thannon at Sharon. The letter Is luite an interesting one; but largely if a personal nature. In It however, he writer gives an Idea of the peace elehrations In French towns, and redies somewhat humorously to the icphew's request for a German helnel. He says that not having preiously had on opportunity to go and ake a helmet off the head of a dead ierman, now that the war la over, he an nardiy nope to secure the desired irtlcle except by purchase. .Just now he market has been pretty well leaned out of this commodity; but he inderstands that certain Yankee enerprises heretofore engaged In the rianufacture of munitions, will now urn to the making of German helnets with the blood on them, and >retty soon this popular class of souenlrs may be had at the ten cents tores at a dime each, n It for Two Months. Mr. John Warren Quinn of Yorktile. has just received an Interesting jtter from bis son, Sergeant Knox tulnn, 113th Field Artillery. In the jtter Knox said his battery bad been ghtlng steadily for two and a half ;-v::