Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, January 31, 1919, Image 2

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Scraps and facts. A pistol duel between John Culbreth, a prominent white farmer, and Dallas Swampson. an Indian, near Lumbertan, N. C. last Thursday, resulted in the death of both, falling mortally wounded at the hands of the other, according to the verdict of the coroner. According to eye witnesses, a dispute arose between the two over some cotton seed and the Indian began/ firing, whereupon Culbreth fired upon his assailant, killing him but not before he had received a wound from which he died within a short time. Culbreth is survived by his wife and foul- children. New York became the forty-fourth state to ratify the federal prohibition amendment when the senate by a vote of 27 to 24 last Wednesday night concurred in the McNfcb ratifying resolution which was adopted by the assem bly last week. The democratic delegation of 22 voted as a unit against ratification and was assisted by two republicans, Henry M. Sage, of Albany, and Charles C. Lockwood, of Kings, both of whom had refused to be bound by the action of a republican caucus Monday night in making the question a party measure. Adoption of the resolution was accomplished after eight hours and 20 minutes of debate and bickering over parliamentary technicalities. ? The British imperial war cabinet has accepted President Wilson theory of internationalization as applied to the captured German colonies, notwithstanding energetic protests from the representatives of the dominions, says The Dally Mall's Paris correspondent "These protests," says the correspondent "have been of the . gravest character. The South African representatives believe acceptance will give the greatest encouragement to the rebel element in South Africa which it ever has received during British administration. The Australian delegates fear that Australian public opinion will regard it as extremely unsatisfactory and inexplicable-. The n-anorQ 11V dominion represeuwuxa BU. , though very reticent, are greatly perturbed." Among the material abandoned by the Germans in the region of Coblenz were 35,000,000 rounds of small arm ammunition. This was recently discovered by the Americans during an exploration of the underground storehouses and tunnels where the German munitions were kept. Of the vast store 6,000,000 had been captured from the French. The rest was manufactured by the Germans, who took captured British shells and loaded them with German powder and bullets from the French. Most of these cartridges were boxed and addressed, in readiness for shipment to various units in Turkey. Rifles numbering 36,000, captured from the British and found stored in Coblenz, have been turned over to their original owners, while 10,000 French rifles have been returned to the French. Ratification of the prohibition amendment to the Federal constitution 'nrmoiiv Wednesday, was pruuaimcu ?v. by Frank L. Polk, acting secretary of state- The proclamation is dated Wednesday, but legal authorities of the department say ratification was accomplished when the thirty-sixth state acted favorably on January 16, and that under the terms of the amendment itself prohibition becomes effective one year from that date. The proclamation was signed by Mr. Polk exactly at 11.20 a. m., In the presence of Senator Sheppard of Texas, author of the resolution; former Secretary Bryan, Representative Charles H. Randall of California, prohibitionist member of the house, and officials of the Anti-Saloon League of America, the Woman's Christian Temperance union and other anti-saloon organizations. Mr. Polk used several pens in affixing his signature and presented them to Senator Sheppard, Mr. Bryan, Representative Randall and others. Lord Robert Cecil, the British authority of a league of nations praise* the Monroe doctrine in an interview regarding the Interests of neutral countries, especially Latin America, in a league of nations. "Neutral countries cannot, of course take part in deliberations directly concerning war problems," he said, "but so far as a league of nations is concerned, if neu- * nramrA a nractical plan U1U UUUliki ivo vfM* v ?. M _ for submission to the conference, the representations of the great powers will be glad to consider it, although it must be a plan containing concrete issues and not theoretical solutions drawn upon paper. The Monroe doctrine has given satisfactory results in practice which justifies its further application as a model of operation. The league of nations could appoint the American nations themselves as the mandatories for the execution of its principles regarding territorial integrity so far as these principles affect American countries. In this matter the United States and the Latin American republics could act in conformity with their policy already established. ? Early action on legislation to adwnr nnntract controversies is urged by the department of labor, in a statement showing that the labor surplus in many Industrial centers had increased rapidly in the last ten days. Plants heretofore engaged in war work were said not to be changing back to peace activities rapidly enough to hold their proper proportion of labor. The cancelling of war contracts with no provision for an early financial adjustment of the manufacturers' investment in the war machinery, materials and partially completed products was blamed for plunging some concerns into a state bordering on stagnation. The department of labor's investigation of ways and means to stimulate building and improvements and augment the absorption of labor in industry, disclosed these two important ways of getting results," the statement says: "One Legislation enabling the building and loan associations of the country to use their estate mortgages for collateral in a system of federal homte loan banks. Two Legislation and payment by thre government of reasonable claims growing out of the summary rescinding of war contracts. Th*? former would permit home build ers to avail themselves of almost two billion dollars in loans; the latter would provide most needed capital for manufacturing." Representative Heflin of Alabama announced in the house Wednesday that he had asked the department of justice to investigate the New York cotton exchange, which he charged had violated the cotton future act "in driving down the price of cotton from 37 to 24 cents a pound. "The south has been robbed of millions of dollars by this unjust speculation," Mr. Heflin declared. "At a time when the world demand for cotton is greater than ever before the price has been forced down and down. No one is being benefited, but the gamblers themselves. The spinners can not obtain cotton at the present prices and the growers refuse to sell." Mr. Heflin said governors of southern states had appealed to planters to hold their cotton unti lthe price goes back to 30 cents a pound and that at the close of the present session of congress representatives from the south expect to go through their states to urge that cotton acreage be decreased. "The demand for cotton next year will be just as great as it 1 oa 1 Anor Is at present." ne sxaieu, uui sv .v.^, as the price is arbitraily controlled by an exchange which defeats the laws of supply and demand, there is no reason why the crops should not be decreased." Mr. Heflin said the New York exchange should be abolished and its activities taken over by the New Orleans exchange or some other exchange, located In the cotton belt. To solve the problem of unemployed discharged soldiers, the war department has ordered that no man be discharged from the army against his desire until such time as he can obtain employment in civil life. It has just been announced that orders had been telegraphed to all department and division commanders at Secretary Baker's division to retain all men who desire to remain temporarily in the service without prejudice to their subsequent discharge to take employment. The- order follows: "All commanding officers will take steps to insure that every enlisted man in their command understands thoroughly that the war department does not desire to discharge any soldier who can not secure civil employment. It will be made clear to every soldier that where he would normally be discharged un- i der orders for demobilization, he may remain temporarily In the military , service at his own written request until such time as he can secure employment. The fact that he requests to i remain in the army temporarily does not in any way operate to compel him to remain in the arm;y for a long period of time against his will. Any man who would normally have been discharged if he had not expressed his desire in wrlttne to remain in the ser vice, may thereafter be discharged from the service at his own request, whenever he thinks he may secure employment. All such men as are retained temporarily under the above authority will be attached to the most convenient unit and where their services will be most useful." ?hr \|orhvitlf inquirer Entered at the Postofllce at York as Mall Matter of the Second Clasa FRIDAY*JANUARY 31, 1919. They can run the cotton market up and down as easily when there is no cotton selling as when the staple Is moving freely. m I Why should the price of cotton be fixed in New York, when that city has i long since ceased to be a cotton ship-* * cmnnnH rate imnort ping pun ui eivii wvv.. ance? , . i There is a story that Marshal Foch 1 shed tears when the armist ice was signed, because he had 550,000 Germans in a trap from which he could ' have bagged the whole push. And even New York has ranifled the 1 prohibition amendment; but of course ' she would never have done anything of 1 the kind unless she had realized that it 1 really made no difference, the thing having already been accomplished without her. 1 It is all right for Great Britain to institute an open commercial fight 1 against the United States, if she wants to. The United States has the power 1 to wipe Great Britain up along that line. It is only a question of the business capacity of our statesmanship. Cotton went up 200 points last Tuesday on the stroke of the pen that reduced freight rates 75 per cent to something like normal- Other strokes of this and other official pens can as easily put cotton up to the 35 or 40 cents a pound that it is and ought to be worth. But what good is the reduction of ocean freight rates on cotton going to do unless provision is made for the carrying of cotton at those rates? Ship owners like all others are out for profits and they are not going to carry cotton for $1.50 a hundred pounds when they can get $4.50 a hundred pounds for other freights no more bulky. Secretary Daniels says that the development of a merchant marine is the most important question before the people of the United States, and Secretary Daniels is right. The United States needs to put itself In a position where it can carry all of its own commerce to all parts of the earth. Various foreign influences, those of Germany as well as Great Britain, have heretofore- operated against the development of the ocean carryi.ig facilities of this country. If the government is going to allow those New York cotton exchange gamblers to depress the price of the southern cotton crop to the extent of hundreds of millions of dollars, we are wondering how or why the government expects southern farmers to buy any of those bonds the government is preparing to sell in April. Of course the ' gamblers are not getting the cotton, 1 and they are not going to get it, in our opinion; but nevertheless they have temporary control of the price at 1 which it must be sold if sold at the present time. 1 i As to whether or not the proposition to work all convicts on the public ( roads under state supervision is the ( right thing we do not know: but we do . not mind saying that if it results in the abolition of the county chaingang vve will be glad of that. Xobody can claim that convict labor is as economical as free labor, certainly not convict labor under county chaingang conditions. The only argument for the chaingang is the necessity of having some way of taking care of short term prisoners; but even that argument is of doubtful force, for as we see it it would be cheaper and more satisfactory to confine these prisoners in jail than to attempt to work them on the roads. Leon Bourgeois, former premier and French authority on the league of nations, cites as precedent for the punishment of the Germans of all degree for cruelty to prisoners of war, etc., the case of Henry Wirz, the commandant of the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Ga., who was tried by the Federals, after the war, by court martial and shot, for alleged cruelty to Federal prisoners, etc. While we think there is no question of the fact that many Germans should be punished with death for their brutal and criminal treatment of Allied prisoners, we think that M. Bourgeois is very unfortunate in the precedent he cites. Wins treated Federal prisoners as well as he was able to treat them with the means at his command. He had no instructions from the Confederate government that warranted brutality and he was guilty of r.othlng of the kind. He was shot more out of a spirit of spiteful revenge than anything else on the representations of prisoners who wanted to get even. But in the case of the Germans there is plenty of evidence that the Kaiser himself ordered all kinds of cruelties, and it would seem that proper punishment of the Kaiser should cover the cases of those who carried out his orders. Somehow we are not especially alarmed about the possibility of event- : ual Bolshevik control of the American government. We still feel on this sub- i Ject as Thomas Jefferson did. In the formative period of the American gov- , ernment, one of the most anxious | questions was whether suffrage should ' be allowed to everybody, or whether it ! should be confined to the educated and j property-owning classes. There were those who held that manhood suffrage would soon result in universal disaster, y and they wanted to arrange things so as to forever keep the control of the Q government in the hands of those who had the education and the property. B Thomas Jefferson, an aristocrat of aristocrats, of education, culture and j wealth, maintained from the beginning that the destinies of this country could not be more secure than in the hands J of the people, and his views prevailed, with the result that America has recently saved the civilization of the c world. That we do not understand Bolshevism we freely confess. What p we do understand of it, we see no good in it; but we have all confidence in the g good sense of the American people, and we refuse to believe anything else y than that the present and future of the government are as safe as they g were in Jefferson's day. ' ' y Representative Nunn of York county, is making an effort to secure the best possible sanitary conditions in and B around the cotton mills of South Carolina. He wants sewerage in mill vil- p lages where possible, and where that is not possible he wants the next best * thing. He has been working on the proposition ever since he has been in } the general assembly, and has met with many obstacles; but it is begin- ^ ning to appear to most reasonable people now that his efforts are commendable, and deserving of support. Mr. Nunn is not after making hardship for R anybody; but he holds that any Industrial or other enterprise which calls for the collection of workers and their families in sufficient numbers to make a sanitary problem must solve that a sanitary problem. e . ? . o The idea that supply and demand c enters even to the remotest extent in li fixing the price of cotton on the New fi York cotton exchange is somply a lie, F and it is not oven a plausible lie. And v a condition under which a gang of o gamblers as rapacious as was the kai- o ser when he thought he had his own way in Belgium and France certainly P needs attention. When during Presi- P dent Wilson's iirst campaign some- tl body asked him from a crowd how he ti was going to help the country against P certain financial manipulators who b were then doing as they pleased, he t! Bald: "We will hang them as high as o Haaman." That sounded good to us; 1< but we think that if the president n really wants to make good now is the n time to invade the New York cotton u exchange with his rope. c The senate has sustained the gov- li ernor's veto Governor Manning's veto * of the Banks's cotton insurance bill, h The Banks's bill sought to insure cot- h ton in state warehouses at near about c cost, by and through the sinking fund c commission. The bill would have made n the farmers independent of the insur- h ance companies as tp rates and condi- e tions, and would have permitted the s insurance of cotton on farms. That f the insurance people and independent b warehouse people did not want such a tl bill goes without saying. Cotton in- r surance is the softest and juciest snap fi in the whole fire insurance graft. Cot- b ton can be insured for full market n value and in case of loss the settlement c is made on a basis of full market value, n The Insured agrees to become co-in- g surer to the full amount. If cotton n goes up the insured must come across e with additional premiums, else he car- v ries the difference. If cotton goes n down, the insured can save himself a only by canceling the existing policy li and taking out a new one. But the in- tl Bured seldom does that because owing a to fluctuations it is of doubtful advisa- b bility. If any insurance company has ever lost money in cotton insurance we have no information to that effect. The whole record of such insurance is > * * * * J J kinfr V mat It IS Simpiy a ut'iiu Dure uuug< The subterfuge upon which Mr. Manning vetoed the Banks's bill was that ^ the bill provided for the payment of b losseB out of the premiums received for insurance and other funds of the com- v mission. By a far fetched theory this is reasonable- In imagination one can conjure up the catastrophe of the loss b of the whole sinking fund through cot- e ton fires, Just as one can conjure up c the dissipation of the Atlantic ocean by the introduction of some element .. that would separate the hydrogen and oxygen of which the water in it is con- ii stituted. In our opinion that was not the reason of the veto. The reason of e the veto, as we see it, was the influence J of the insurance people and of the in- c dependent warehousemen. That was aiRn what was the matter with twenty b of the thirty-three senators who voted h to sustain that veto. The bill would q have given the farmers cotton insur- G ance at much less cost than they now s have to pay and it would have swelled the income of the sinking fund tre- e mendously. Everybody in the state 1< knows that. Senator Banks, the au- ^ thor of the bill, is a soft-voiced, mild- r mannered man, of strong and deep n feelings. He does not explode under >' any circumstances; but on the capitol ? steps once he said to the writer of this w paragraph: "The people of South Carolina do not stand any more show in that place, (Indicating the senate chamber) than a yellow dog." r li Prisoners Must Not Be Allowed to ? Die With Their Shackles On. In a ' special message to the house of repre- a sentatives Wednesday, in which he u transmits the report of the state board r of charities and corrections on the s' deaths of five negro convicts at the Good Samaritan hospital in Columbia y on January 21, with their prison r shackles on their limbs, Governor R. li A. Cooper recommends legislation that w a recurrence of such a circumstance c should not be repeated in the future, it "Any recommendation along this line," he said, "would necessarily involve ti your placing all convicts under state w control." It appears to the governor, v as stated in his message, that the inci- a dent was due primarily to the dlfflcul- e ty in providing adequate treatment to h the sick on the Richland county chain- e gang, in which prisoners were placed. a The investigation was the outcome c of a resolution by Mr. Meares of Fair- e ?-i-> h?. thft hmise several davs *. nciu? paoocu ..-v. . V1 ago. which was the result of a news 8i item appearing- in a Columbia news- p paper. The resolution called upon p Governor Cooper to investigate the 0 circumstance and report to the house. C( The message .of the governor and the p report of the charities board were re- jj ferred to the judiciary committee of 5 the lower house. f, 1 rr Supporting Marsal Foch's opinion b that the French should remain on the d Rhine. Gen, Gouraud, under whom the tl Americans fought in the Champagne, S made a similar declaration to the s< American correspondents whom he w had invited to luncheon at his quarters v, In Strassburg. "The Americans will n go home when peace is declared and rr the Rritish will go home when peace st is declared," he said, "but the French ti will remain on the Rhine as a strate- 11 gic barrier." It would never do, after tl the sacrifices of the great war, to leave bi Dpen points where Germany might ai rgain some day sMke, he declared. ti LOCiUL AFFAIRS, b< . ec NEW ADVERTISEMENTS i B. Glenn, Admr. Will on February 12, at tl Tlrxah, sell personal property belonging to tl the estate of Alfred Faris, deceased. hi rover McFarland Will sell the personal prop- k< erty of the estate of T. A. McFarland, deod., ... at his late home in Bethel, on February 18. road us M. Love, County Auditor Makes ap- {? polntments for taking tax returns in Fort 'n Mill and Rock Hill. . L. Houston, Probate Judge Gives notiee g; that W. W. Arrowood has applied for letters a{ of administration on estate of W. B. Arro- .v wood# deceased. , . L. Houston, Probate Judge Publishes notiee b< that M. L. Smith has applied for letters of 61 administration on the estate of Mrs. Ida C. I u Hardin, deceased. I\v arroll Bros.?Have a new lot of wagons and h want you to see them if you need a wagon. h( They sell Oliver plows, drag and disc harrows and other farm machinery, armers' Supply * Hardware Co.?Offers Clean 0! Easy soap by the box at $8.60. They carry a line of farm hardware, am M. Grist?Can furnish you a bond in a dependable company on short notice and at the right rates. ork Supply Co.?Suggests that you spray your c< fruit trees. It has the dry lime sulphur. A jsj word as to building materials, tar Theatre?Has a Fox drama for today, a w serial and comedy tomorrow. A serial for ^ Tuesday. Evelyn Nesbit, February 6 and t. J. I. Witherspoon, Executor?Gives notice of final settlement as executor of estate of Pol- lr odore Witherspoon. deed., and will apply to C< the probate court for final discharge. N . B. Ferguson?Will be at Hickory Grove on s( Saturday with a good bunch of horses and mulea for sale. " iedmont Tel. ft Tel Co.?Publishes informs- C( tion of interest to users of toll lines, as to 01 rates, etc. f( ork Furniture Co.?Has just received a car- c< load of furniture direct from the factories, C) and is prepared to supply your needs at the u right prices. " . M. Stroup?Announces the spring display of 11 Isaac Hamburger ft Sons's tailoring fabrics ni at his store on February 8, 4 and 6. a copies Bank ft Trust Co.?Says its equipment at is on the way and that it hopes to open for b business between February 10 and 16. [cConnell Dry Goods Co.?Has the exclusive ,. York county agency for the famous W. L. 11 Douglas line of shoes. See page four. n - J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.?On page four tells if about the good qualities of Prince Albert it smoking tobacco. O Auditor Love, who has been through siege of influenza, is now feeling well t! nough to look after the affairs of his rl fflce again. He Is not feeling in firstlass shape, but still he thinks he is 0, noroving steadily and is arranging to tc 11 appointments at Rock Hill and & 'ort Mill, as will be seen from the adertised notice in another column. The iE fflce in the courthouse, of course, is pen every day. ^ Most people have the idea that the Cl ayment of money involves an act so g, leasant to the recipient that such Ut- si le matters as time and place are not " a be considered. That is true of the a] eople who have no regular place of tl usiness and who keep their books in heir heads. It is not true, however, ol f people who have much business and >ng accounts to keep. A busy busi- n ess man does not want to be paid ^ aoney anywhere except in his office, o! nless perhaps he is out for the spc- w ial purpose of collecting- Take for J ist&n'ce the case of any business man jf . ho has an office or store. His place w } there during business hours, and he i not likely to go away from there ex- ? ept on some special errand. The prinipal concern with any careful business Y >ian is to see that any amounts paid ? im on account or otherwise are proprly credited on his books. Any small tl um that may be handed him away * rom his place of business immediately 2; ecomes a matter or especial concern hat frequently interferes with the er- ft and that might have taken him' away rom his office. Particularly careful tl usiness men, on receiving such pay- p tients, if they are unable to get the reditor to go to his office or await a s] lore convenient season, will turn and !c o back to their plaeee of bailiuwrii> lake proper entries. The lnconvenl- * nee and loss of time frequently in- f, olves more than the value <jf the pay- si lent. In the interest of busy people ? nd of good business, we are suggest- ? ig to people who may not have - h bought aDout tnese tnings to uihu bout them. The place to pay Is at the usiness office. si . a ABOUT PEOPLE. \\ Ensign R. R. Allison and wife, of i'orfolk, Va., visited the family of Mr. L R. Allison at Tlrzah, last week. Dr. T. L. Glenn of Yorkvllle, left to- f, ay for Raleigh, N. C., where he will b( rork with Dr. W. W. Moore in the ^ ureau of ^nimal industry. C] Mrs- James Glasscock of Lesslie, ti .*ho has been so seriously ill with in- tl uenza, that her life was despaired of, i now getting along very nicely. qi Miss Lula Moore Logan, who has a een teaching in Abbeville, has returnd to Yorkville, her school having been tl losed on account of influenza. ti Sergt. Blakely Plaxico, who has lt, een stationed at Camp Humphreys, pi ra., has been given an honorable die- e< harge, and has returned to his home 8< i Yorkville. 01 Mrs. M. E. Hagans of Clover, receiv* d a letter this week from her son, Priate Newton M. Hagans, with the 63rd p nfantry, overseas, the first she has reeived from him since September. Mrs. W. D. Glenn of Yorkville, has a j?, unch of letters and post cards from er son, Lieutenant Robert H. Glenn, f rho is now with the American army of / ccupation in Germany. Lieutenant Henn went over on the transport Per- L ig, and was on the bridge deck when he steamship was struck by a torpedo e rom a submarine. He describes the a] xciting and dangerous time that fol- C( )wed, and tells how he was taken off jr y a uesiruyer anu uamcu iu ?iiiuicasr, England. Lieutenant Glenn's most ecent letter is dated at Hilgert, Ger- Ci lany, on December 28, and in it the oung soldier tells of the hard work a e is doing how he is enjoying it all. b< nd how he does not know when he te rill be home, but hopes it will be soon, di , th R WITHIN THE TOWN T Next Monday is salesday for Febuary and the outlook is for quite a ^ irge number of people from all parts m f the county on various kinds of bus- 0, less. 0f The demand for fruits oranges, hi pples, grapefruit, bananas, etc., is un- fe sually large. All local dealers have tt emarked the fact and none of them ci eem to be able to account for it. The Are department was called out esterday morning by a blaze in the oof of the residence of Mr. J. C- Walw:e, on West Madison street. The fire M ras extinguished before the blaze made onsiderable headway, leaving a hole p 1 the roof. nl Here is some gratuitous informa- ^ Ion for the benefit of this community, p fl + V* rnf Arnw r>r\ tn f ho ViOQ 1th 1Q U'o on/1 hich may be acted upon by those in uthority or not, as they may see prop- B r. There is no lawful board of health B ere. There Is a quasi board, composd of very estimable gentlemen who T1 re looking after the health of the ommunlty as best they can, and ev- fr ry physician In the town stands ready \\ [> do anything in his power to the y ame end. But there is no author!- ie |r of law behind the present organiza- Di Ion, and it could not compel unwilling f0 bedlence to any regulation it might iu onsider necessary for the preserva- th [on or conservation of the public g? ealth. It is assumed, of course, that p! ehind the unwillingness to obey is a bi lir knowledge of legal rights and the ar leans of maintaining the same. The oard of health, as constitued, has tv one good and is doing good. More iian that, it will continue to do good. ome of its acts have given rise to very erious difference of opinion as to their Gi 'isdom; but generally it has had the re oil-deserved sunDort of the commu- ct ity for the simple reason that the com- to lunity Is intelligent enough to under- gr :and that the board would not inten- h< onally do anything against the pub- CI c interest. But, as has been stated, ba lere is really no legally constitued be oard of health, and if occasion shall be rise, it will be so established. Attert- ati on is called to this situation purely wi xsause it in better to have It correct1. The board should be properly orinized with the number of members squired by law, and each should take le required oath of office. Then lere should be a secretary and a ealth officer, the secretary under >nd and pay and the secretary at least nder nominal pay. Organized as the .w prescribes and pursuing the regux procedure through the service of aneral notice In general cases and >eclal notice In special cases, as occaon may require, there Is no limit to ?e power and authority which the oard of health may exercise In the iforcement of its regulations. But nder a condition where Just anybody ho might desire to do so has it in A. ?. 4U A IS power 10 mane monaeyg uui ui uib oard its probable usefulness In a real risis is, to say the least of it, a matter r serious questionTANNER ON COTTON. Mr. S. B. Tanner, president of the jtton mills at Caroleen and Henrietta, C., has given. out the following orth while interview on the cotton larket situation: "In reference to the great depression i business, especially in cotton and jtton manufacturing in the south and ew England, I would say that it terns the present situation has been articipated by the speculators on the >tton exchanges, who took advantage f the fact that embargoes were in efjet, which prevented the shipping of jtton and cotton igoods from this auntry. which were expected to open p by January 1. at which time the -ade of the country was paying, and o doubt expected to continue paying, fair price, based on 30-cent cotton, t least, until another large crop could e assured either this year or later, as has been evident since the close of le war that all of this crop would be eeded, and all of the goods we could lake, if they could be placed on the larkets of the world before another rop could be made"The speculators were able to derpjw the nrice easily on account of lis disappointment to the trade, as le laws permit them to tender infeior grades of cotton entirely at the iller's option, which the mills cannot se, and of which there is now an versupply. Instead of being required ) deliver specific grades or even rades without giving the buyer any ption whatever, but requiring him to ike the lowest grade entirely, if to the iterest of the seller. "The speculator can force quotaons down to ridiculous prices, which 0 not represent the price of actual Dtton that can be used by the mills enerally, and in this way a few thournd bales of undesirable cotton deloralized the price of millions of bales f good cotton in the hands of planters nd manufacturers. Besides holding up le cotton manufacturing business iroughout the entire country, and lereby throwing thousands of people at of employment. "For example, the farmer would ot sell his good grade cotton on a arity with low grades, as he claims le present prices are below the cost C production, but holds it for 30 cents, hile the price for contracts in New ork was quoted at 23 1-2 cents for elivery in January or February. But ' you ask them for delivery of cotton rhich the mills can use you are in>rmed that this grade will cost 650 oints or six and one-half cents a ound more. "The buyer of goods, seeing the New ork quotation of 23 1-2 cents and not nowlng the real situation, refuses to uy goods in the face of such a drasc decline in cotton, when in reality le mill still pays 30 cents for cotton nd would lose considerably on goods ased on the New York Quotation of 1 1-2 cents. "England, Japan and other manuicturing countries pay considerably lore than 30 cents for cotton, and as ley have large merchant marines, ley are enabled, we are told, to exort all of their output profitably, hile this country is curtailing prouction, reducing wages, and even nutting down in order to avoid heavy isses. "I think-the members of the house nd senate acted-wisely in cabling the resident to life embargoes and to lrnish ships for all available points for [lipping cotton and cotton goods at n<&, and to other points as soon as ossible in order to give an outlet at nee and avoid further demoralization. "It seems that America is expected y foreign countries to continue to be lagnanlmous and humane, even after le war has ended and to use all of its [lipping for carrying food to Allies nd former enemies, while other coun ies use their shipping facilities for imlnhinc thorn rJothine and manu ictured goods, while they seem to objct to our doing this, and our indus ies and Jaborers are suffering from agnation and losses both in operaon and reduction in wages, and the ear speculators take advantage of lis, as they have always been given redit for thriving upon the adversies and distress of the country, which ?ey strive to promote. "Another object in forcing lower notations is to induce the banks to ill for more security on cotton and >rcing sales for this purpose, and lereby causing still lower prices, to le further detriment of the prospery of the. country. However, the lanters claim that they have borrowi very little on their cotton this sea>n and the speculator may finally lose n this point." LOCAL LACONICS ublic Building for Yorkvillc. Congressman Stevenson has introuced bills looking to the erection of ublic buildings in Yorkvllle and Cheiw. The bill for the Yorkville buildig seeks an appropriaton of {70,000 >r building and lot. ots of Nitrate. Mr. J. F. McElwee informed The nquirer yesterday morning that the pplications for nitrate of soda in York >unty aggregated 1,550 tons. Includig freight this means approximately t outlay of {130,975. apt- A. H. Greene Dead. Capt A. H. Greene, for many years citizen of Rock Hill; but for a numsr of years past a resident of Lancastr, died in that town on last Wednesly, aged 72 years. Capt. Greene was ie proprietor of the Carolina hotel at ock Hill for a number of years. he Two Per Cent Penalty. The two per cent penalty on unpaid jces goes into effect tomorrow. Taxes iay be paid today, with a penalty of ie per cent. There is quite a bunch ! unpaid taxes on the books, and there is been no small rush during the past w days, from those who ought to get leir receipts without any further in ease in the penalty. ethany Junior Order. At the recent annual meeting of ethany Council, No. 65, Jr. O. U. A. the following officers were elected i serve during the ensuing year: J. W. ursley, councillor; N. A. Howell, filarial secretary; W. B. McGill, reading secretary; W. Lee Gettys, asBtant recording secretary; S. Lee ursley, vice councillor; Brown Berconductor; C. L. Stowe, warden; artin Lynn, inside sentinel; T. E. erry, W. Lee Gettys and W. W. rown, trustees. tie Catawba Bridge. R. S. Riddle, T. J. Glenn and others om Bethel township, along with J. C. rilbom, W- B. Moore and others of orkville, and a delegation from Mecknburg county, including Messrs. Mconald, I.B. Faris, and Stroup, went here the legls'ative delegation in Combla We ...esday with reference to e Catawba bridge question. The deletion agreed that York couniy would ovide one-third of the expense of the idge to be located between Wright's id Boyd's old ferries, at a point to be freed upon by the engineers of the iro counties. larged With Stealing Cotton. A negro named Tom Carter of the uthriesville neighborhood, was arsted in Chester on Tuesday on the large of having stolen a bale of cot n from Ernest Vance, another neo, who lives near the Chester county ime. Carter attracted attention in lester by driving into town with a i ile of cotton on a light buggy. No>dy had ever seen anything like that : sfore and naturally there was a i rong presumption of something 1 rong. There was no more doubt of i this after Carter had traded the mule and tried to sell the cotton. Carter was arrested and committed to Jail. ( Ernest Vance recovered his cotton. French Orphan*. Here is some first hand information J as to the conditions around La Pallice, France, where Lewis M. Grist, of Motor Truck Company 620 is now encamped. ] It relates to the distressing state of 1 largo numbers of French children. j The statement comes in a letter to the writer's little sister, who in writing to 1 her brother some time ago, told him > how she would like to be over there with him. "No, darling," he says, "you 1 do not want to be over here. This is ' no place for you. I would like to be back home with you; but I would not J like to have you here with me. I'll ] tell you why. There are hundreds of ' little children here, your age and younger, who are ragged and starving. ' They come about us at mess three ( times a day and oftener, watching for < anvthing we can give them from our meals, and all of us try to have some- I thing for them. What we have ought to choke us and would choke us if we did not divide with these poor little creatures. Some of them bring more or less battered cups in which to get coffee, and all of them are glad to get whatever we can give them, even to scraps that, we would not care to eat unless we were hungrier than we are. It is not only that way around our camp; but everywhere in France, and our motor truck organization is making systematic efforts to relieve these orphans as much as we can by subscription, each man giving a part of his pay. In the aggregate the motor truck organizations have so far contributed considerably more Chan a hundred thousand francs to this orphan fund, and the movement is growing, instead of falling off. You could not think it otherwise, would you, when in spite of these contributions we are still confronted^wlth this daily I reminder of the needs of these children 7' SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS The railroad commission has passed a resolution in which it prescribes : that locomotives shall not be run backward a distance of more than ten miles. Commissioner of Agriculture and Labor Harris has advised the oil companies that they must re-establish the standards of quality that existed before the war. < The house of representatives last 1 night adopted a concurrent resolution 1 introduced by Mr. Moise of Sumter, in- 1 vlting Mr. Harding to speak before the 1 general assembly while in Columbia. ! It is being rumored that ex-Gov- , [ ernor Manning Is to get a Federal po sition on the Federal trade commission ; I at $10,000 a year, or something equally , as good. j The Thirtieth division (South Car- j olina. North Carolina and Tennessee j national guard) which is under orders ( to prepare for embarkation to return ; home, will be landed at Charleston, S. \ C., if the war department can prepare < facilities there to handle so large a body of men, says an official dispatch from Washington. The division will be sent to Camp Jackson, Calumbia, S. C., for demobilization. While no definite plans for parading this unit , have been fixed officials thought it probable that either the entire division or j some large portion of it would be paraded in Charleston and Columbia. , JoeH. M. Ashley, sheriff of Anderson county since 1912, handed his res- 1 ignation to Governor Cooper last Mon- i day night J. Olln Sanders, deputy to Sheriff Ashley, was immediately appointed to the office. The new sheriff i also took the oath of office before W. Banks Dove, secretary of state. Mr. Sanders expects to have his bond ar- j ranged and the office checked over to i him by February 1. Sheriff Ashley has i extensive farming interests and in ad- 1 dition manages the estate of his late j father "Josh" Ashley, which property his mother controls. It was because 6( the exacting duties of his own in- : terests that Sheriff Ashley was Induced to hand in his resignation. The sue- < nfflnar nidi a nnllpA nfflr>f?r in UCCUlUg VlUVVt TTUW M Anderson 16 years. Later he became i state constable, from which position he resigned five years ago to become deputy sheriff. Columbia State, Wednesday: War- > rants have been issued from the office of Magistrate Busby for the ar- i rest of Mrs. W. W. Seagle and Miss Katherlne Strait on the charge of having obtained goods under false pre- ' tense. Mrs. Seagle was arrested at he home on the 1400 block of Richland street and taken before the magistrate, where she promptly gave bail in the sum of |200. The warrent was ap- 1 plied for by H. H. Burns, who is connected with Caldwell's ladies' ready to wear establishments, 1302 Main street. The warrant reads: "That Mrs. W. W. Seagle obtained goods of personal property by false pretense in that she represented to R. M. Caldwell that Miss Katherlne Strait was the goddaughter of Dr. Strait of Lancaster and that he paid all her bills, and that if he, j Caldwell, would let Miss Strait have , the goods Dr. Strait would pay the bills, and used such representations. Miss ( Strait was furnished goods in the sum ( of $500 and that Mrs. Seagle knew at the time that her representations were false." Another warrant similar to the j above was issued against Miss Strait, * *. 11 nAt O rrnnt/vl tVlP out ine puuoc uuu nui aiivutw young girl last night She Is said to | be about 18 years old. i . ? . I To Abolish All County Chaingangs. ' State direction of the entire chain- 1 gang forces of the state and the creation of a state convict road building force of prisoners 17 years of age is ' contemplated in a bill which Represen- 1 tative Meares of Fairfield county, is j introducing in the house of representatives. The bill has the approval of 1 the state highway commission, the state board of charities and correction j and it embodies a general plan to which 1 Mr. Cooper is favorable. ' Provisions of the act are that all ' convicts shall be delivered to the su- ' perintendent of the state penitentiary. From the superintendent the state 1 highway engineer would requisition J forces for the state rQad building convict gang. Work would be executed j on the state system of roads as desig- ' nated by the highway commission. ( It is further provided that each 1 county shall receive as many days la- { lor as entitled to as the number of con victs sent up from the particular county and the length of sentences im- j posed. Maintenance would be provided by t a one mill levy on all taxable prop- . erty and funds with which to con- ( struct roads would be provided by the f creation of a "state highway fund" j from licenses from motor vehicles. | Another distinctly Interesting fea- r ture of the bill is that compensation s would be allowed all prisoners for or- r derly conduct, this graduated scale r increasing in proportion to the length j of the sentence. It would not apply r to life prisoners. r Mann Would Impeach Daniels. Re- f publican leader Mann, speaker of the ' house Wednesday, attacked Secretary ? Daniels for purchasing wireless com- munlcation systems, saying the sec- " retary had violated the law and "ought * IU UO 1IU(A7(M/I1VU< . . Secretary Daniels recently told the house merchant marine committee that ? the short stations and. radio ship sets ? of the Marconi Wireless & Federal ' Telegraph company has been bought " for about $3,000,000 from funds car- j] ried in the last naval appropriation *; bill. In his speech today Mr. Mann ? declares that not a line of the appro- J; priation bill authorized the purchases. 1 "Utterly regardless of law," said Mr. Mann, "In violation of the law for which he ought to be impeached and C removed from office and it is not un- 3 likely that he may be he has gone t! ahead and spent money out of the ap- v propriation for the purchase of radio r? systems. "He came before the congress and e asked authority to make these pur- h chases and refused. If he had authority he did not need to ask congress c for it and the failure of congress to i< legislate on the subject is a refusal of o authority." tl Secretary Daniels declined to discuss s Mr. Mann's statement further than to n say that before the land radio stations were taken over he and Assistant Sec- b retary Roosevelt with the department's u solicitor had examined very carefully is Into the question of the department's ti authority to act. si CLOVER CULLING8. 3orre*pondence of Tha Yorkvllla Enquirer. Clover, January 29. Miss Maude foungblood of Gastonla spent tho week ;nd here with her mother Mrs. Nettie JToungbload. Miss Annie Lee Adams of the Fort Mill school faculty spent Sunday here with her parents Mr. and Mrs. W. E. A. dams. Miss Sallie Campbell is spending a Few days in the Bethel section with -elatives. Miss Beulah Matthews, a nurse from the Columbia Baptist hospital, visited rM</vM^n WA?A ?,,aaU Liiruus iicixz tin* v> cciv. Miss Mell Nelll, principal of the Lowryville school, spent the week end here with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Z. M. Nelll. Mr. Charles Ratteree of Bethany, who has been in military training visited his aunt Mrs. S. J. Clinton here recently. Miss Addle Nelll spent a few hours In Yorkvllle Tuesday afternoon. Mr. W. H. Sherrer and daughter attended the funeral of Mr. Harvy Sherrer at Sharon Monday. Miss Mell Harper of the Point section visited the family of Mr. Z. M. Neill recently. Mr. Ben Sherrer spent Tuesday In Rock Hill. News was received here Tuesday morning of the death of Mr. John Neelands which occurred at his home in Rock Hill on Tuesday morning, January 28 at six o'clock of pneumonia following influenza. He is survived by a wife, who prior to marriage was Miss Pansy Farris, and two children. The Interment was at Clover on Wednesday after funeral services by Rev. J. E. Berryhitl. Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Counts and son Kenneth spent a few days in Salisbury N. C. this week, Miss Agnes Youngblood was a visitor In Yorkville Tuesday. The Methodist missionary society had a box supper in the opera house Saturday night. Miss Ileen Holland of Gastonla visited Miss Pauline Hagans here recently. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Smith, Mr. and Mrs/ Joe Smith and Mrs. Wbod of Yorkville No. 1 attended the funeral of Mr. John Neelands here Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Jackson are confined to their home with Influenza. MERE-MENTION General Ludendorlf, former chief luartermaster general of thj German army, who fled to Sweden after the signing of the armistice, Is now said to be back In Berlin under an assumed name The last payments on the Fourth Liberty loan were made on Wednesday and Thursday. They amounted to $400,000,444 Hon. W. P. G. Harding has resigned as managing director of the war finance corporation The Chicago board of trade is strongly protesting against the plan of the administration to buy and sell wheat to ensure the price of $2.26 a. bushel to the farmers. Cuba and Mexico have resumed diplomatic relations after several months of severance. Mr. Harding to come to Columbia. It Is probable that the governor of the Federal reserve board, W. P. G. Harding, will visit Columbia to discuss with representatives of the people the financing of the cotton crop. B. Harris. state commissioner of agriculture, has invited Mr. Harding and has received the following letter In reply: "I acknowledge the receipt of your telegram of the 24th inst, and would state that I expect to be in Atlanta on Friday, February 14. It is possible that I may be able to arrange to stop over In Columbia on Tuesday, the 13th. "I had a conversation over the telephone Saturday with the director of operations of the shipping board, and suggested that ocean rates on cotton be stabilized for the remainder of the present cotton season. I understand, that the rate to English ports Is about |24 per bale, while the rate to Japan is just about half, and was informed that representatives of the British government were, not agreed that a lower rate to England would be advisable and that pending an agreement on their part, it is Improbable that the rate would "be reduced. It would not be proper for me to put myself in the attitude of criticising another agency of the government, but it is my personal opinion that farmers should unite in asking for a reduction in rates, ana tnat tney aiso migni consider reducing: the acreage for 1919. "Theoretically the stock of cotton Is inadequate to meet the world demand, but in many countries the demand for foodstuffs Is moe urgent than that for clothing, with the result that there Is a tendency on the part of prospective purchases, before buying to let the cotton market work downward. It seems to me that the tendency can best be counteracted by agitation tor a reduction." Square Deal for Cotton. Two legislative measures designed to affect the market prices of cotton were Introduced in the house Tuesday by representatives from cotton growing states. Both were referred to the agriculture committee. Representative Howard of Georgia introduced a bill which he said was intended to place the prices of cotton futures on parity with spot cotton. Five grades of cotton would be fixed by his measure as the "official cotton standards of the United States," these being middling, strict low middling, strict middling and good middling. Further, his measure would provide that "average deliveries shall not ?rade below middling." This average he explained, would be maintained by deliveries of equal quantities of cotton of the grades above and below middling. I Representative Heflin of Alabama proposed by a resolution "that gamaiing or speculation in cotton was carried on at present at the New York i ind New Orleans cotton exchange be prohibited." "The great difference between the ' price of cotton futures on these ex:harges." Mr. Heflln's resolution said, 'and the price of spot cotton in the markets of the country, is proof poeiive that these two exchanges have , reased to be places of legitimate spec- ' Ration, but have degenerated into ; gambling institutions." . m I - w.. . According to estimates rnaue uy ntelllgence officers of the American Third army, based upon reports from l11 parts of Germany, says a correspondent of the Associated press, the j irganized German army now located .in various depots numbers from i 100,000 to 500,000 men. The reports < ndicate these solders are of such < nor&le that they hardly will be avail- i ible for operations of any extent The ' lumber of men In the army, reports caching Coblenz suggest, is decreasng rapidly. The new volunteer army lumbers between 100,000 and 300,000 nen of doubtful morale, as they have lot yet been organized fully nor test- j id fairly. The volunteer army which ' s being organized for the purpose of i topping Polish and Bolsheviki invas- ( on of the German territory has 40,- j 00 men in the region of Frankfort-on- j he-Oder. Many volunteer battalions j ilso are reported moving eastward, j ?he organized German army consists ' if the classes of 1898 and 1899, less ome men discharged because they ive in occupied territory, less large j lumbers of deserted and less some . nen discharged, according to demobilzation plans. The officers and nonommissioned officers of this army are nen who intend to remain permanent- i y in service. * Britain Stars Commercial Fight. Ireat Britain has put an embargo on l 00 commercial commodities and has \ hereby started an open commercial warfare on the United States. Many officials In Washington and lembers of congress hold that the new i mbargo has forced the fight which ns been smoldering for some time. } i The point has been reached, it is delared, where definite government pol?Ies relative to foreign trade must be utllned. Members of congress assert I hat the latest action of the British houid be met with drastic reciprocal leasurea Shipping officials regard the new an as a lever which the British are sing in an effort to pry loose all Britih bound cargo and secure it for ansportation on British owned vesela. The American and Allied forces operating south of Archangel e vac lilted Shegovarsk Wednesday and retired ten miles to the northward. The Bol8hevlkl continue to shell the American and Allied positions at Tavasevo and Tulga. The forces which retired from Shegovarek, which Is about 65 miles north of Ust Padenga (the Allies position further south a week ago) today halted their march northward and established new positions at the villages of Vlstarka and Ust Sama, on opposite banks of the Vaga River, ten miles north of Shegovarek. The new positions are protected by forests through which there are no winter trails in the Immediate vicinity. AT THE CHURCHE8 CHURCH OP THE GOOD SHEPHERD. Rev. T. T. Walsh, Rector. Sunday Service Morning service at 11 o'clock. Evening service at 7.80. ASSOCIATE REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN. Rev. J. L. Oates, Pastor. Sabbath Services Sabbath schoot at 10 a. m. Mofnlng service at 11. FIRST BAPTIST. Rev. B. H. Waugh, Pastor. ^ Sunday Services Sunday school at 10 a. m. Evening service at 7.30 o'clock. r CHARLOTTfe STREET BAPTIST * Rev. B. H. Waugh, Pastor. Sunday Services -Sunday school at 10 o'clock a- m. Morning service at 11. FIR8T PRESBYTERIAN. Rev. EL EL Gillespie, Pastor. Sunday Services?Sunday school at 10 a. ra. Morning service at 11 o'clock. Evening service at 7. TRINITY METHODIST. Rev. J. E. Mahaffey, Pastor. Sunday Services?Sunday school at 10 a. m. Morning service at 11 o'clock. jggfrial goitres. At Olivet. There will be preaching at Olivet on Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. J.'E. Mahaffey. Pastor. Beersbeba-Ramah. Kamah?Sunday school at 10 a. m. Preaching at 11 o'clock. Beersheba? Sunday school at 2 p. m. Preaching at 3 o'clock. J. L. Yandell, Pastor. Clover Circuit. Kings Mountain Chapel-rSunday school &t 10 a. m. Preaching at 11. St Paul Sunday school at 2.80 p.m . Preaching at 8.30 o'clock- CloverPreaching at 7 p. m. H. A. Whltten, Pastor. Ebeneaer, Tlrzah, Hopewell. Ebenezer Sunday school at 10 a. m. Morning service at 11 o'clock. Tlnah Sunday school at 2 p. m. Hopewell Sunday school at 2 p. m. Preaching at 3 o'clock p. mJohn C. Bailey, Pastor. Smyrna Honor Roll. Following is the honor roll of the / Smyrna school for the month of January: Rodger Whltesldes, Ben Miller, Martha Miller, Clarence Martin, Albert Martin, Brlce Quinn, Oren Whisonant Harry Whisonant Ruth Dickson, William Dickson, Walter Wallace, Leon Castlw, MISCELLANEOUS WANTS. MULES AND HORSES 1 T WILL have a nice bunch at Hickory A Grove on Saturday, February 1st It* B. B. FERGUSON. WANTED rT~ ANE Hundred Head of Young Cattle. v See me, No. 8, Yorkvllle. . 8 4t* C. A. TURNER. Krwrm1 iw CTTnfirn mmfl A LL Subscribers to The Yorkvllle En*V quirer on my Club are requested to settle their subscriptions as soon as' possible and before the first day of February. JEFF D. WHITESIDESMULES AT FILBERT. T HAVE an excellent bunch of Missouri and Kentucky Mules at my home near Filbert, that I am selling at right prices. 8 t f. tf HUGH G. BROWN. CATTLE WASTED T AM in the market for One Hundred * Head of Young Cattle for pasturing. Let me have your offerings in person, by phone or by mail. H. E. FERGUSON, York, 8. C. 4 tf. tf TIME TO PAY. SUBSCRIBERS to The Yorkvllle En^ quirer on my Club are reminded that subscriptions are due and payable either to me or at the office on or before February 1. The time is ohort 2t J. K_ ALLISON. TIME TO SETTLE ALL Subscribers to The Yorkvllle . " Enquirer on my club, are reminded that subscriptions must be paid on or before FEBRUARY 1, and they are requested to attend to the matter without delay. STANHOPE LOVE. * FOR FINAL DISCHARGE. LJAVING made Final Settlement with the Probate Court of York county, as Executor of the estate of Polodo.e Wltherspoon, deceased, notice is hereby given that on February 26, 1919, at 11 o'clock a. m., I will make application to said court for my discharge from all further liability in connection with said estate. w. I. WITHERSPOON, Jan 31-19?9 6t* Executor. WE HAVE MORE HELP TOR some time past we have been * badly handicapped on account of shortness of help. We have it now? Four Competent Men?all experienced . . Automobile Trouble Men?no beginners and can promise our patrons the * very best of service and prompt attention to all Automobile work. We'll be obliged to you for your business. baber's oarage. ? ? sale of personalty. . OX February 12, beginning at 10 o'clock, a. m., at Tirzah, the Per- ^ jonal Property belonging to the Estate of Alfred Farls, deceased, consisting of Blacksmith Tools, Carpenter Tools, 3hot Gun, and various other articles. Terms of Sale: Cash. T. B. GLENN, Administrator, Estate of Alfred Faris, Deceased. Jan. 31-19?9 f 2t sale of personalty.' [YN Thursday, February i3, beginning ? ^ at 10 o'clock a. m., I will sell at Auction at the late residence of the de:eased, the Personal Property belongng to the estate of Thomas A. McFftrand, consisting of Mules, Wagons, ^arming Tools, Cows, Hogs, Houselold and Kitchen Furniture, etc. Terfns of Sale: Cash. GROVER McFARLAND, Administrator, ran. 31-feb. 7-11 f.ft 3t? * MUCK CARS Uf VS A W??k irmmmmmmOAKLAND CARS The Best at the Price Ye are Local Selling Agents See Us About The* ^ WALLACE & HALL .