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jSrops and facts. The peace conference plans to roach agreements on the more Important questions between March 8 and March 15, Capt. Andre Tardieu, one of the French delegates has advised newspaper correspondents in Paris. He said the conference had four vital problems to solve the Franco-German frontiers; the Adriatic situation; the Russian frontier and the question of freedom of the seas. .^11 these questions probably will be completed [ in a fortnight. Captain Tardieu declared France does not desire to annex the left bank of the Rhine, but only ' wants guarantees which will prevent' ^Germany form using it as a base for attacking France. The Russian question, he added, will be considered late v next week. ? President Wilson told senators and representatives from cotton-growing states last Thursday it would be Impossible to lift European embargoes on cotton until after the formal declaration of peace. The President told the cotton representatives and senators that, under the terms of the armistice, Germany's status quo must be maintained, which was a further discouraging indication for the cotton situation. Unless an agreement is reached by the European allies to remove the embargoes, nothing could be done. President Wilson said. The petition on behalf of members from the cotton growing states was presented by Senator Smith of South Carolina. The President informed him he would do all he could to relieve the situation, but he held out no encouragement ? The administration bill appropriating $1,000,000,000 to fulfill the government's guaranteed wheat price to the farmer for the 1919 crop, Was passed at 12.S0 o'clock on Friday morning, by the senate, without material amendment, and now goes to conference. No change was made by the senate in the house provisions for import and export restrictions, or in the limitation to June 1, 1920, of the operation of the act. Efforts to reduce the appropriation and to strike - ifollah a f. out tne licensing |uv?uiviu ter adopting1 an amendment to deny I benefits of the bill to growers of 1919 spring wheat, who did not grow 1918 spring wheat, the senate reversed its action, and by a vote of 31 to 23 struck out the amendment The only important amendment adopted by the senate was a rider amending the cotton future act so as to restrict speculation in cotton and give the government larger control over exchanges. Republicans of the house found themselves in the majority last Saturday night and after a bitter debate, by a strict vote of 182 to 173, unseated Representative Zebulon Weaver, Democrat, of the Tenth North Carolina, in favor of James J. Britt, Republican. There was much parliamentary maneuvering by the Democrats to prevent a final vote on the contest, but they lost. Britt will hold his seat only two days, but the victory gives him salary and allowances for the full term. The contest was over the 1916 election. Weaver was elected to succeed himself last fall. Britt was immediately sworn in by Speaker Clark. o/>Hnn on the contest came just before midnight after more than five hours of continuous calling of the roll and the fight was marked by the only strict political division which has occurred between Democrats and Republicans during the life of the Sixty-fifth Congress. In the 191G election Britt on the face of the returns was elected by a majority of seven, but on an official recount Weaver was declared elected. In that election Britt was running for reelection. Many Methodist ministers in every southern and western state who have been trying to exist on infinitesimal incomes during the past years will have their salaries raised within the next few months. This very practical and definite step is to be taken by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, following the financial drive of that denomination In April. The drive, which has $35,000,000 as its goal, has been undertaken with a view to putting the work'of the church on a business basis, the raising of the salaries of their underpaid pastors being considered one of the first matters of importance. There are 866 salaries now $400 or less which will be raised to $600; 485 salaries now $400 and $500 which will be raised to $600; 588 salaries now $600 and $700 to be raised to ?- < ?7nn $1,000 a year; est saianra num ,.v? to $800 to be raised to $1,000; 180 salaries ranging from $800 to $900 which will also be raised to $1,000. The supplementing of these salaries will require $2,850,000 during the forthcoming five years and the success of the Centenary drive will make their increase immediately possible. Practically every city and town throughout the length and breadth of southern Methodism will be affected it is declared at the headquarters of the denomination in Nashville, and every Methodist man and woman who pulls to on the Centenary drive will be helping to make possible better and happier living conditions for tlie underpaid pastors in their midst. D*4,u ??oofVio Suririe the war JLXbbLlO UVMViw 0 among all participants so far as avallable statistics show have been given by General March as 7,354,000. This represents only men killed in action or died of wounds. In the list prepared by the general staff, Russia led with a total of 1,700,000: Germany was 'second with 1,600,000: the United States last with 50,000. Approximate figures for other nations were: France 1,385,000; England, 706,700; Italy, 460, 000; Turkey, 400,000; Belgium, 102,000; Roumanla, 100,000; Serbia, and Montenegro, 100,000; Austria - Hungary, 800,000 ; Bulgaria, 100,000. Of the total of 3,918 distinguished service crosses awarded for gallantry in action to American soldiers, General March announced, 664 or more than double the number given to any other division, went to the Second Regulars. The First Division of regulars came next with 300 crosses awarded to its members. The third regulars with 233 was third. The Twenty-sixth (New England National Guard), fourth in the list, with 229 awards, led all National Guard and National Army divisions. The Forty-second (Rainbow) came next with 205 and then the Thir tiein (iennessee, l^urm unumui, South Carolina and District of Columbia troops) with 177. The Twentyseventh Division (New York National Guard) received 139. The Seventyseventh (New York division) received 146. The other divisions in order from the Thirtieth, which was the sixth in precedence, were as follows: Fifth. 163 awards: Twenty-ninth, 150; Seventy-seventh, 146: Twenty-seventh 139; Thirty-second, 134; Ninety-first, 134; Eighty-ninth, 97; Seventy-eighth, 95; Seventy-ninth, 80; Thirty-third, 76; Fourth, 66; Twenty-eighth, 58; Ninetieth, 57; Eightieth. 42; Eightysecond (Geogria, Tennessee and Alabama troops), 34; Seventh, 30; Thirty sum, mneiysevuiiu, ?i, first (South Carolina, North Carolina and Florida troops), 19: Thirty-fifth, 17; Sixth, 10; Eighty-eighth, 1. A banquet was held at Bismarck, North Dakota, on Thursday evening, attended by Arthur C. Townley, president of the National Non-partisan League: Walter Thomas Mills, Berkeley, California, Socialist: Lynn J. Frazler, governor of North Dakota, and other prominent leaguers, in celebration of the radical legislation which has been passed In that state, and which was referred to as ushering in a new era of progress. The league bills and amendments covered a wide variety of subjects and included the TVir* qnthrvHyntinn nf hnnd issues amounting to $17,000,000; the increasing of the general budget for state and local purposes about $9,000, 000 per annum; the founding of the Bank of North Dakota with $2,000,000 capital, which is to be supplied by state bonds, the bank to be the depository for all public funds of the state, counties and municipalities; the creation of a fiscal agent for the state's industries and enterprises; the formation of a reserve bank and as agents for the state's rural credit business, for "which project a separate bond issue of $10,000,000 is authorized; the creation of a mill and elevator association, to establish and operate terminal elevators, flour mills and other distributing machinery in this and foreign countries, and to be financed by $5,000,000 of state bonds, and the formation of the State Home Building association to assist in building homes and purchasing farms. All of these r utilities and enterprises are under sole j control of an industrial commission of three members dominated through his veto power by the state governor. c Other members are a commissioner of I agriculture and labor and the Attor- ( nsy general, both league s. All these . measures carry emergency clause? giving them Immediate effect and re- ? quiring that they be placed in opera- ^ tion within 20 days. The governor is j expected soon to call a meeting of the industrial commission to authorize the 1 issuance of $17,000,000 of state bonds, i ?hc *JorlmUc (Enquirer; TTntoroH nt the Postofflce at York as ? Mail Matter of the Second Class. TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1919. Upon the action of the house on Senator Smith's rider to the billion dollar wheat bill will depend whether or not the cotton exchanges will be prohibited from allowing the tender of unmerchantable grades of cotton on contracts. Senator Smith's rider provides for this very thing, and if the house agrees to the rider the control of the future market by means of cotton that no spinner can use, will be at an end. The wisdom of Washington's admonition to avoid entangling alliances ~ - Al ~ fV?o with loreign nations, va.a ouum same as the wisdom of DeFoe's game- f cock when he enjoyed the stable full r .of stations among which he had found j himself, "Don't let us step on each oth- a er, gentlemen!" The United States was a not big enough to interfere in Euro- a pean affairs then, and i?. is too big now 0 to be influenced by the selfish motives t that have governed European affairs fc all along. The man who questions the t soundness of Washington's early advice is the man who would refuse these t days to send a message by telegraph r because in the old days they knew of c no quicker method of communication t than the mails. g f But maybe it will do just as well to let those European nations fix up and agree upon their league without ask- ii ing the United Sfates to commit itself t too far. The United States has done J about enough in quieting this quarrel 1 anyway, and league or no league, it I may always be depended upon to take * the side of the right in any future dis- ii tiirhftnee that might develop. But t even If the United States should go in- v to the league it seems to us that there t is reason in the idea of a ten-year lim- I itation. After what they have gone r through the European nations can be I depended upon \o e good for ten a years at least,' and i they have not c learned in ten years t?. be good for all t time it is difficult to see how the % league can help them very much. t It is stated in- the Associated Press ( dispatches of yesterday that Attorney * General Gregory has a long list of com- * munlcations that he is going to ask of ( the president in behalf of persons who ? have been convicted and sentenced un- J der the espionage law, especially of 1 persons who were convicted entirely ( upon ^ basis of circumstantial e\idence. The purpose of the espion- 1 age law, of course, was to give the government power and authority to 1 deal with eneniy aliens and real trait- s ors in this country. Naturally mail- 1 clous and overzealous persons have taken advantage of the law to prose- 1 cute people against whose loyalty there was no real question. That there should have been convictions in many of such cases is more the fault of the ^ technique of the court machinery than of the juries; but nevertheless the effects of such conditions, if allowed to stand, would be terribly disastrous to American ideas of liberty and justice. s s 1 * 1 a The home garden campaign of the ^ springs of 1917 and 1918 were inaugu- a rated on the very reasonable anticipa- r tion of the probability of the com- ^ plete diversion of outside home supply t to the demands of the war. That was c perfectly plain to all. The military re- f quiremcnts must be nerved first and ci- t vilians must take care of themselves. c Notwithstanding the tremendous quan- jtities oi food that were raised at home, c prices of bread, meat and everything ^ else soared to high figures. It is or s ought to be clear to everybody that if , the people of this country had raised j less than they did raise, they would s have had a great deal more to buy r than they did buy, and their difficul- t ties would have been that much great- j er. The probability is that there would ? have been actual distress except for ^ the home-raised food produced, and of j course it follows that the people of t this section are much better off flnan- g cially than if they had sent their mon- g ey out of the country. The purpose of ( all this is to suggest the wisdom of r nroofinn r\f 1 Q1 7 onrl CUUlIUUlUf, lite I^KlVliVV VTA. A V * MMW j 1918 to the extent of raising our own f food. f ' ? 1 Nothing has been done to regulate s the cotton exchanges down to a legitimate business basis, and as we see it South Carolina is *o blame. The mat- , ter has rested with the agricultural ( committees of the house and senate. \ Mr. Lever is chairman of the house , committee and Senator Smith is acting i chairman of the senate committee. The , whole thing has rested in the hands of , these two and all they had to do was . to agree upon the desired action and , put it through. Why they have not > done something is a mystery, explaina- , ble on only one theory and that is i the fear that the credit might go to the , other. We do not like to believe this | on the part or euner or xnese bciihcmen, that they would allow their re- , spective personal ambitions stand in , the light of the highest welfare of South Carolina and the south; but nev- , ertheless it appears that this is what , they have done. After tomorrow Mr. Lever will no longer be chairman of , the agricultural committee of the house and Mr. Smith will no longer be ( acting chairman of the agricultural committee of the senate. Their places will belong to Republicans, and the , Republicans having nothing to expect from the south will do nothing for the \ south along this line no more than , the Democrats have done. i 0 { We do not believe in plundering i Germany. We have no feeling of mal- < ice toward Germany. We would not ] even like to see the Allies do to Ger- ^ nany what Germany tried to do to the Lilies. But Germany should pay the intire cost of this war. She brought it >n- England, France, Italy and the Jnlted States were forced to fight, the irst three in self-defense and the last n defense of her honor. Germany is mtitled to pay for all the ruin and devastation she wrought in Belgium, France, Servla, Roumania and Italy, for all the ships she sank at sea together with their cargoes, and for all :he expenses Incurred by the different Allies in defending themselves. This s nothing but right, because if Germany does not have to pay the differ-. ?nt countries that have incurred these lebts will have to pay. For Germany :o escape these burdens would be equivalent to Germany winning the par. Also we think it right that means should be taken to put it beyond the power of Germany to renew the war, it least for many years to come; because since she started this war wlth>ut reasonable provocation, there should be some guarantee that she vould not be able to repeat the offense should opportunity offer in the vear future. The blockade of Germany is one of he most serious questions that the Alies now have for settlement Be it mderstood that a commercial blocktde is now being enforced against all enemy countries, especially against lermany and Austria. The presumable reason for maintaining this blocktde is that Germany may all the more eadily sign such peace terms as may >6 proposed. But also be it under tood that the Germans are not the ony sufferers from the blockade. There .re large sections of Germany that arc eally not suffering at all, while in othir sections the shutting off of trade in ood and other supplies is workingtrenendous hardship. But that is not all. between the Rhine and the Black sea, .11 of which is enemy country, there .re many other thousands who are tarving, and on account of these, if n no other account, it seems that he Allies should either raise the ilockade or hasten the completion of heir peace proposals. Of caurse it is mportant, more important than anyhing else, that Germany agree to such eace proposals as the Allies may deide upon; but it must not be forgotten hat America, and especially the cotton xowers of the south, are also suffering rom this delay. The issue of the British coal strike s not so much a matter of hours of laior and wages as it is a matter of adustment of the standard of living, lie British labor leaders hold that Jrltish laborers have a right to as ligh a standard of living as have Britsh landlords, bankers, lawyers, docors and others. They understand very veil the proposition that as a general hing a man's station is measured by ds education and training, and that as natters now stand, the coal digger Is lardly prepared to enjoy the pleasures md recreations that are as matters of :ourse to what are commonly termed he upper classes; but they do not re;ard this as a final argument. From heir standpoint all luxury and leisure md wealth are the proceeds of proluctive labor and the man who conributes the labor is entitled to an jqual share of the proceeds, pe rec>gnizes too that if he takes a larger ihare of the proceeds of his own labor, ust to that extent he is elevated in he scale of living, the more favored :lasses will have to come down; but le sees no Injustice or hardship in hat- Not only does labor understand ;he issue involved; but the more favored classes of England also underitand It and the whole matter now is eceiving the most serious consideralon at the hands of all concerned, and :hat means everybody. The constitution of the state conemplated a session of the general aslembly of not more than forty days, Sither that or the constitution was dislonest The general assembly, ever ilnce the adoption! of the constitution >f 1895 has frittered away quite a lot f working time. It Is not too much to ay that half of the early part of each ession Is wasted. The members take i lump sum for their forty days' ser'ice, and there is no allowance for pay ifter the forty days are up. The peo>le who manipulate the legislature unlerstand that the best way to get hrough ill-considered legislation is tver men who are Impatient to get lome. When there is the added fact hat not only are there a large number >t men tired and impatient to get lome; but their overtime is at their iwn expense, their impatience is all he greater. The manipulators under itand this too. That is why no im>ortant legislation is ever concluded n the early days of the session. The esstons are purposely prolonged so the nanipulators may take advantage of he general impatience. That Is why n the closing days of an expired sesilon it is so easy to pass laws which vould have been impossible in the earydavs of the session. The thing is all he easier when all the manipulators ire colloguing together and there is no ible opposition to filibuster and talk >bJectionable legislation to death, rhere are some mighty good men in he South Carolina legislature; but to say that the legislature is really reprelentative of the people of South Caroira or even friendly to the people, is simply bosh. So far as we are concerned, we have k'ery little sympathy in any of these Jrives that seek to cut York county in:o eastern and western divisions. There svas no reason why, for instance, that there should have been two local exemption boards in York county. One could have handled the work as well is two, whether its headquarters were at Rock Hill, Yorkvllle or Clover. There has been no need for any of the other divisions either. We cannot feel the same interest in any kind of a drive over a divided county as we can In a drive over a united county. Also we deplore this tendency to have each section fix up its own roads at its own expense. Take this new road law, for instance, which says that York, Bethesda and King's Mountain townships should keep up the north and south roads, and York and Ebenezer townships should keep up the road between Yorkvillc and Rock Hill. The injustice of the proposition is apparent on its face so apparent that it is past understanding to see how men should put up with it. Why, for instance, should King's Mountain keep up that road that runs alongside of Bethel, without any responsibility to Bethel, when as a matter of fact Bethel Is more interested in that road than is King's Mountain. And why should York and Ebenezer be required to pay the expense of keeping up the road between Yorkrtlle and Rock Hill, when there is more travel to Rock Hill, which is in Catawba towns! ip, than there Is to any other point along the route. Bullock's Creek and Broad River are supposed to get all the taxes they pay for fixing up their own roads. It looks wonderfully fair on Its facs, provided there Is no close examination into the matter; but are not the roads in Bullock's Creek and Broad River as much to the advantage of all other sections of the county as to those townships, and If they should get a fair divlds of the county's road money in proportion to | the number of miles of roads, In each | township, and the character of those roads, would they not get a good deal more money than they are getting now? Good roads in whatever section of the county are of advantage to the county as a whole and the county as a whole should pay the expense of building them. So far as local advantage from good roads is concerned, that, more especially in these days of quick motor transportation would go to the points that offer the best inducements. CAMOUFLAGED ALCOHOL. Act Intended to Prevent the Sale of Alcohol for Beverage Purposes. What is known as the HamblinHamilton-Hart measure to prevent the sale of extracts to be used for beverage purposes, has passed the general assembly. It appears on its face to be a law that will not only have a restraining effect on sellers; but which may render purchasers who violate its provisions liable to prosecution for perjury. The text of the bill is as follows: Section 1. After the passage of this act it shall be unlawful and against the health and morals of this State for any person, firm or corporation to sell or offer for sale, receive, have in possession for unlawful purposes or purchase within this State any tonics, bitters, drugs, medicines, toilet articles or compounds containing alcohol if the alcohol contained in such compounds or preparations is in a greater quantity than is necessary for the purpose, solution or preservation of such preparation and the sale, receiving, | purchasing or having in possession 01 such tonics, bitters, drugs, medicines, toilets articles or compounds which can be used as a beverage, is prohibited, unless it can be made to appear as hereinafter provided that the same was for medicinal use. *Sec. 2. Every dealer in any of the aforesaid preparations shall require each and every purchaser who buys any article mentioned in Section 1 of this act to sign a certificate as follows: "I hereby certify that I have this day purchased from the following preparations to be used only as a medicine, toilet preparation or flavoring extract and will not myself use or allow any of the same to be used as a beverage." Sec. 3. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall pay a fine of not less than $100 or more than $500 or suffer imprisonment for not less than three months or more than one year, in the discretion of the court, for the first offense, and for any subsequent offenses shall suffer imprisonment for not less than one year or more than two years, in the discretion of the court: And, pro" 41 TA Hilt v nf video runner, n on?ui u? the board of pharmaceutical examln-r ers, to cancel the license of any person reported to said board and found guilty by them for a period of two years. Provided, further, that any person, firm or corporation convicted under tt\is act shall be prohibited from employing a licensed druggist for a period of two years. Se<?. 4. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. Sec. 6. This act shall take effect immediately upon its approval by the governor. The Slavery of Cotton. The following from the pen of Richard H. Edmonds, editor of Manufacturers Record, shall be read and digested by Union county farmers: "I have no hesitation in saying that it would have been infinitely better for the south if it had never raised a bale of cotton. This, the most royal crop ever given by Providence to mankind, has been a curse 'to the south. It fastened slavery around the neck of the south, and out of this came a condition, which resulted in the Civil war. It has caused the south to think in terms of cotton, to base Its religious and educational activities on cotton and to raise cotton merely for the purpose of buying foodstuffs from other sections. At times it has looked as though we of the south have cotton bolls for brains and a cotton string for a backbone, because we have permitted thereat of the world to absolutely dominate the cotton trade and hold the south In slavery by low-priced cotton. "Holding a practical monopoly of this, the most important single agricultural product known to mankind, the cotton growers have lived in poverty almost unknown to any other agricultural region of civilized countries in modern times. Producing far less in value per acre of wheat and com, the western farmers have grown rich on their agricultural activities. The southern farmers have been held in the chains of poverty. "Had the south never raised a bale of cotton it would have concentrated its attention upon foodstuffs and livestock and it would today be the center of the live stock industry of America, and it can yet be whenever its people make up their minds to center their agricultural activities on diversified agricultural and cattle and hog raising. "The recent decline in the price of o Klftnolncr fn t'OHOIl 11 ILL J yet t^iuvc a, UicoouiB w the south if it drives this section away from the worship of cotton, a fetish which will forever curse us as long as we bow before cotton, and if it causes this section to produce the things which in the end will increassc the fertility of our soil, enrich our fanners, give higher wages to farm laborers and bring a well-rounded prosperity to the life of the whole section. "Cotton as a subject ruled absolutely by the south could be made to aid in bringing prosperity to this section but cotton continued as a kind of dominating abject slaves will forever hold us in the slavery of poverty." Doctors Propose Trade Union. A striking illustration of the trend of the times in England is the fact that a proposal to establish a medical trade union i3 being seriously agitated in that country. True, many eminent medical men are said to have received the idea "with horror," and the leaders of the British Medical association, which has a membership of 40,000, are strongly opposed to it; but has a strong following, nevertheless. Its pro ponents urge that the doctors have been seriously affected by legislation in recent years, especially the Insurance act, and that they need an organization which can command attention in parliament by the initiation of a strike if necessary. Opponents of the suggestiori', on the other hand, deprecate such a move as out of line with all the ideals of the profession and refuse to believe "that the doctors could be induced to adopt the anti-social course of going on strike." News and Courier. Disposition of the German Fleet. Stephen Pichon, minister of foreign affairs, in his weekly talk with the newspaper men at the Quai d'Orsay, in slsvnlo Clin/lnv tKot fko nil PR. tlon of the disposition of the German fleet had not yet been brought before the peace conference. Questions as to the proposed internationalization of the Kiel canal or other measures designed to remove the strategic value of the waterway to Germany also had not been discussed, he said. M. Pichon said he considered the Kiel canal a problem of the highest Importance, toward which mne of the great powers could remain unconcerned. Discussion of Marshal Poch's report by the Ave great powers in the conference would begin yesterday, M. Plehon said. LOCAJL AFFAIRS. 01 ti NEW ADVERTISEMENTS u A. E. Willi*, Rock Hill Hu several young milk oows for sale at his farm near Tlrzah. (C J. C. Wallace Offers his house and lot, near . the Lockmore mill, Yorkville, for sale. Two Dl stories, eight rooms, all oonvenlences, etc. Miss Lucy Burns, Principal Invites the public to a box supper at Brandon school, next Friday night. Yorkville Cotton Oil Co. On account of lna- e' bllity to sell Its oil, is out of the cotton seed Y market until further notice. g; J. W. Smith Requests parties Interested to , meet at King's Mountain ohapel Thursday morning to clean off the grounds. J. F. A. Smith Has a good two-horse wagon T l for sale. See it at Thomasson's shop, In the [ rear of the postofflce. F. E. Quinh Asks the party .who found a u black overcoat on King's Mountain road Sat- 6 urday night, to notify him. J. L. Houston, Probate Judge Gives notice that R. B. Hartness has applied for letters of administration on the estate of Mary Saraphlna McConnell, deceased. Si Peoples Bank & Trust Co. Puts you on notice R that a deputy collector of internal revenue will he at the courthouse Thursday and Fri- ei day to five information in regard to income & tax returns. t, Farmers Hardware ? Supply Co. Has full , cream cheese at 40 cents a pound and wants to supply you with general farm supplies. d York Furniture A Hdw. Co. Is introducing S the "Tonofone," a new style needle for pho- ^ nographs that eliminates the squeaking, etc. Star Theatre A serial and comedy today. A P Fox production of a famous drama on Friday, with Dustin Farnum in leading role. ,. First National Bank Continues its purpose to handle any and all business in a manner tl that will make the customer's relations with a it satisfactory and profitable. Loan A Savings Bank Points out how a strong bank can help you as a business man w especially in matters of credit. 1( McConnell ?>ry Goods Co. Reminds you not to a forget the big savings to be made in buying . during its Readjustment sale. Feinstein Bargain House Is much pleased b< with the first three days of its first annual tl sale, which closes next Saturday night. James Bros. Invite you to come and see their ' big lot of mules and see what they have to ir offer in a sale or by way of a trade. See t] page four. Reily-Taylor Co. Guarantees the entire contents of a can of Luzianne coffee. Sold ev- c< erywhere. See page four. tl Wrigley On page four points out some of the ^ superior qualities of Wrigley's chewing gums. The flavor lasts. *' g rt "Do you know,'* said Rev. J. L. ^ Oates, the other day, "If I could only (] arrange It that way I -would like to have an office at which I could be found at certain hours, to say the least ' of It. A preacher can see many peopie b( at his own home and many others at b their homes; but where he has an offlee, he can see many people that t he is not likely to see either at his or ^ their homes. There are people who ^ would drop in on him from, time to t time feeling perfectly free to talk ^ about whatever might be uppermost in their minds. I don't know of but one Si preacher in our church who has an of- ^ flee. That is Dr. Orr, at Charlotte. He d spends two or three hours of each g] morning and an hour or two each night in his office, working at his ser- t( mons, etc., when not otherwise em- ^ ployed, but always working. Whether it would be altogether practicable here, Y I do not know." T One of the arguments is: "I did not g plant but six or seven acres in cotton a last year, and this other fellc- w planted a twenty acres. Tou going to make us a both reduce a third?" That argument p sounds reasonable; but it is not con- a elusive. It was your good business q sense that kept you from planting Cl more than six or seven acres iasi. year, and that same business sense ought to teach you the wisdom of being willing to reduce one-third, provided the S twenty acre man reduces one-third. If B the twenty acre man declines to reduce one-third, it will be only a little while n before both you and he will be wishing that neither of you had planted y any. And besides, if the twenty acre tl man will reduce a third jjour four acres will be worth more than six acres would have been had he not reduced a third. Splitting hairs over y what you should do, compared with h what the other fellow will do, can very easily spoil the whole thing, and it will not do yon a particle of good. 0' The cold wave, ordered out from Washington last week, did not mate- d rialize in this part of the country at ?J least not on time. It was expected to show up Thursday; but it brought only h a slight schill by Friday morning p and Saturday was a fine spring day. "" " Kaon anhorllllp^ ine COIU wavo liiai nau for here seems to have been lost; but j? of course there may be others. Y If somebody would take the lead, it Q would not be a difficult matter to raise 15 enough money by private contributions . to fix that hole in the road near New- ^ port. ir Rev. Baxter McLcndon is conducting G a big meeting at Washington, N. C-, and the Daily News of that city, is de- ie voting columns to reports of what is tl being said and done. Practically all of the business houses of Washington ? closed each afternoon and night last w week in order to give their employees t? opportunity to attend the meetings, and also in order not to leave any J counter attraction for people who a might not be interested. The nightly 01 attendance is running up to three, four and five thousand. All of this, it appears from the Daily News, follows a long, hard, uphill fight, for at first most of the people were scoffers and fhov were slow to eo out to the meet- ^ tarn. " ? At last the general assemblv has tJ furnished complete vindication to the position of the York county grand ^ jury that the general public had a right to know the full amount of the j fees received by county officers. It will be remembered that this matter o was urged by the grand jury, and the then clerk of the court being unwilling to make a showing of his accounts. ' fought the matter on the ground that the statute bearing on the subject was ^ unconstitutional because certain coun- ^ ties had been exempt. The circuit ^ court upheld the contention of the j clerk, and the matter was never taken to the supreme court. Later the act q was re-eneacted by the general assembly, but certain counties were again exempted. Now it is proposed to have Vo ant onniv to all counties and all K "'? ?v. . -- officers. The issue in York county, ^ however, was not so much a question ' of the constitutionality of the law as a ^ question of whether the public had a w right to know how much it was paying its officers for their services, and whether or not the grand Jury could ^ compel public officers to give the information. In the York county case d the judge dodged the real issue and decided the matter on an alleged constitutional technicality that could have ^ been decided one way as well as the other. p THE PENSION BOARD tr vnrir omin'iv Dension board hold ci its annual meeting in the courthouse tl yesterday, with the following members B present: W. S. Wilkerson, president; J. E. tl Lowry, secretary; J. H. Saye, physi- la cian; S. H. Epps, Sr., and J. J. Hagans. b< The principal business before tho pi board was the cutting out of the names J pensioners who have died during le year, and considering and passing pon new applications. All new applications, of course, have > be finally passed upon by the state sard. CLUB TIME EXPIRES. The time limit in which clubmakrs may receive subscriptions to The orkvllle Enquirer at $2.25 per annum, Epiree next Saturday evening at S clock. After the time stated the price of "he Enquirer will be $2-50 per annum. All clubmakers are expected to settle p in full by next Saturday evening at o'clock. WITHIN THE TOWN A lot on which there were six mall tenant houses, and including one nd one-half acres, belonging to the Btate of the late H. C. Strauss, was Did by S. T. Lanham, master of Sparinburg county, before the courthouse oor yesterday. The sale was under ecretal order in the case of L. G. trauss vs. Chas. W. Smith and others. Irs. Margaret C. McConnell was the urchaser at 11,000. At a conference of the members of iie First Baptist church last Sunday, ie desirability of improvements to the mount of about three thousand dolirs was decided upon. The decision -as followed by a request for pledges joking to the raising of the money nd within ten minutes more than 2,0un was pledged by different memers. The work is to be undertaken lis spring and summer. Probably there is not an Institution 1 this town that has grown more in' le estimation of the people of the immunity or of the surrounding luntry during the past two years than le Yorkville Cotton Oil company. In le summer time this company has irnlshed ice when people of the surlunding towns were having an ice tmine, and in the winter it has furished coal when coal could be had :om no other source. If there has ver been any complaints as to prices r treatment those complaints have ot been sufficiently audible to ecome generally k nown. Farmers ring wheat here from all over juntry, from the bordering counles In North Carolina and far down lto Chester county and everybody oes away satisfied. So long as here was still storage room In Its anks for the oil It was extracting the ompany continued to buy the cotton eed of the farmers from all parts of he county, and several York county ealers, Including some on the eastern side still sold seed here when they suld sell nowhere else. Hundreds of )ns of meal h^e been sold to the ork county farmers at a price as low a was to be obtained anywhere, and orkville hulls go to every section, here has been no complaint about the innery either. The service has all long been equal to the best to be had nywhere, and the experience of one nd all has been that weights and rice^ were exact and square. Taken s a whole the service of the Yorkville otton Oil company has been unexalled. ABOUT PEOPLE. Mr. E. M. Stanton of Charlotte spent unday In Yorkvllle, with Mr. ancPMrs. trooks Inman. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Fanning: of Shely. N. C., spent the week-end with elatlves in Yorkvllle. Mr. W. A. Barret, of Clover was In orkvllle yesterday, the first visit down tils way for quite a while. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Carroll of Nashille, Tenn., are the guests of Mr. and Irs. R. T. Allison, in Yorkvllle. Mr. Frank Clinton of Charlotte, left esterday for Poughkeepsie,*N. Y. where e will take a business course. Private Wylle Pruett of Camp Jackon, Columbia, spent last week with is parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Pruett, n No. 1, Sharon. Lieut. W. G. Finley, has received a ischarge from the army, and has reamed his course of law at the Uniersity of South Carolina Mrs. E. M. Stanton of Charlotte, who as been spending some time with her arents, Mr. and Mrs. Brooks Inman, 1 Yorkvllle, returned to Charlotte unday. Mr. B. F. Baker,, of Jefferson, S. C., i visiting his son Mr. H. F. Baker, in orkvllle. Mr. H. F. Baker has been uite sick for the past two weeks but i now better. Sergeant George L?. Wallace, formerr of Yorkville, who was severely founded the first day of the big drive i which the Americans started the ermans on their way back to the arllstice, is now at Camp Meade, Maryind. He will not lose his wounded ig, but it will be four inches shorter lan the other. Information from Mr. W. B. Riddle f Bowling Green, who broke his right >g at the ankle some weeks ago and ho shortly afterward suffered an atick of pneumonia, is that he is now getng along very nicely. He has recovered om the pneumonia and the fractured ;g bones are getting together. He is ble to sit up now and will soon be ut: but it is very doubtful as ?to hether he will ever have good use of is leg again. ACREAGE REDUCTION. Representatives of about forty school istrlcts In different parts of the coun7, gathered In the courthouse yesteray In response to notices to consider le acreage reduction question. The meeting was called to order by tr. John R. Blair, county demonstra-on agent, and Mr. J. H. B. Jenkins, r., acted as secretary. After Mr. Blair had explained the bject of the meeting and set forth the ecessity of holding the present crop ff the market until the world was llling to pay 35 cents a pound for it, nd of considerably reducing the acrege planted and the amount of fertil:ers to be used this year as compared ith last year, as a further earnest lat the farmers intend to get a fair rice for their product there was a test f the sentiment of the meeting. The unanimous sentiment of those resent was that no cotton should be >ld at less than the price that has ;en agreed upon by the farmers of le south as Just and right 35 cents pound, that the 1919 acreage be reoced 33 1-3 per cent as compared ith the 1918 acreage, and that the se of commercial fertilizers in 1919 3 reduced 60 per cent, compared with lose used in 1918. It was resolved that every -.chool Istrict in the county be ca.. /assed ithout delay to the end of carrying le resolution referred to above in ef;ct, and the various school district lairmen were provided with blank' ledges for distribution among the jmmitteemen of their respective dls icts, with instructions that the mvass be undertaken at once and lat the pledges be in the hands of Mr. j lair by next Saturday. On the pledge will be a statement of le number of acre3 planted in cotton ist year, and the number of acres to, e planted this year- The body of the ledge reads as follows: I hereby promise on my honor and agree to reduce my cotton acreage for the year 1919 as compared with the year 1918, 33 1-3 per cent, or as per schedule shown hereon, and to reduce my eommerolal fertilizer on cotton for the year 1919 as compared with 1918, 50 per cent, and to hold my cotton on hand for 35 cents basis middling, or for a remunerative price. ROAD REPAIR LAW. The statute relating to the repair and maintenance of the three main highways In York county, as described In Section 2123 of the statutes of 1912, has been amended at the present session of the general assembly so as to read as follows: "Section 2123. The county supervisor, while so working the public highways, shall co-operate with the township supervisor in each township through which the highway may pass; and when said work Is completed by the chaingang, the township supervisor for that township shall keep the same in repair: Provided, That the three main highways of the county as set forth in the proceeding Sec. 2122, outside the corporate limits of any incorporated city, town or village, shall be maintained and kept in repair by the county supervisor and county commissioners, and that the funds received by the county from the state automobile license tax shall be expended by them in maintenance and repairs of said three main highways, and that an additional amount shall be added to the above fund by taking from the township road fund, through which said highways may pass, an amount equal to fifteen (JIB) dollars per mile of the said main highway Included In, and extending through each township, through which said highways pass, and the county treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to create the fund as above provided, as a maintenance and repair fund for the purpose as above mentioned: Provided, further, That all funds received by the county from ' the state automobile license tax arising from the townships of Bethel, Bullock's Creek and Broad River shall be expended in the maintenance and repairs of the public roads in such townships: Provided, further. That the county supervisor and county commissioners shall divide the said highways into sections of not less than one mile, or more than five miles, for the purpose of letting the same out for improvement, repair and maintenance by contract to the lowest responsible bidder according to plans and specifications to be furnished by the county engineer; of the letting of which contracts ten days' previous notice shall be given in at least .four public places in the township in which section or sections of roads are to- be let, of the time ana piace 01 me ieiong ui oaiu contract, reserving In said notice the right to reject any and all bids, in case any sections are not let on bids, the county supervisor shall have such sections repaired by hired labor. The successful bidders shall enter into bond for the faithful performance of theii work In double the amount of theii bids." TRANSFERR OF REALTY. The following transferrs of real estate have been indexed in the office ol the county Auditor since the last publication of the record: Bethel Jno. R. Logan, C. C. C. Pis. to Grover C. McFarland et al., 148 acres; consideration 1666.66. W. T. McFarland et al to Grover C. McFarland et al, 148 acres; consideration 83,333.33. Katie Jenkins to W. G. Jenkins, 68 acres; consideration, $1.00. BethegHa W. J. Carter to Mrs. Camilla Estes Carter, 300 acres; consideration $2,000. J. T. Crawford to C. E. Porcher, 162 1-2 acres; consideration $6,100. Broad River W. S. Wilkerson to Mamie i^ewis, i 101; cumjiueimiuu $565. W. S. Wilkerson to T. W. Wilkerson, 1 lot; consideration $8,000. Sarah A. and Mattie Leech to J. E. Westmoreland, 4 23-100 acres; consideration $211.50. W. S. Wilkerson to T. W. Wilkerson, lot; consideration, $2,500. Bullocks Cre?k?Jno. R. Logan, C. C. C. Pis. to G. H. Roberts, 174 acres; consideration $2,001. H. F. Horton to B. H. Horton, 10 43-100 acres; consideration $500. Catawba?Jno. R. Logan, C. C. C. Pis. to Wm. J. Neely, 113 acre& consideration 1-2 interest. Jones Motor Co., to Wardens and Vestry of Church of Our Savior, 1 lot; consideration $5,000. Sadie F. Ratterreo to W. B. Simpson, 65 18-100 acres; consideration $1,792. 45. Rock Hill Realty Co., to G. C. Deese, 1 lot; consideration $3,000. Sep Massey to E. J. McWaters, 1 1-2 acres; consideration $150. Josie B. Dunlap to Jno. L. Davis, 1 lot; consideration $3,500. W. A. Sharpe to C. M. Whisonant, 1 lot; consideration $1,425. Annie L. Myers to M. E. Rudislll, 59 si/tph- consideration S2.100. Ebenezer S. B. Taylor to Aragon Cotton Mills, 1 51-100 acres; consideration $4,250. Poag Real Estate C., to J. Edgar Poag, 11 lots; consideration $300. King* Mountain M. L. McGill, to W. Mack McCarter, 194 acres; consideration $5,820. J. W. Smith et al to Reynolds Cotton Mill, 2 3-10 acres; consideration $10. M. Patrick Re id to R. C. Patrick, 70 acres; consideration $1,500. C. T. Thomas to Onie Watson, 1 lot; consideration $66. York Marie Moore Hart to Carl H. Hart, 1 lot; consideration $2,000. Harry McCaw to Truman D Turner, 4 acres; consideration $175. Robt. J. Herndon to J. S. Brice, 2 lots; consideration $175. HERE AND THERE I heard a man laughing Saturday because, as he said, the day following the holding of the acreage reduction meetings, cotton "broke eighty-four noints on the New "York exchange. ne was luuuueu iu iiiu iuca mai. uvicage reduction meetings had some connection with the break." I don't think that exactly; but if that were really true, then it would mean, to say the least of it, that the gamblers take some note of such meetings. As a matter of fact, however, the market reports attribute the "break" to President Wilson's declaration that there can be no raising of the embargoes against the shipping of cotton to Germany at this time. Somehow I have an idea that there is something to this. As I see it, everybody knows that as soon as trade relations are re-established with the Central powers there will be such a demand for cotton goods as has never been heard of. All the manufacturers are looking forward to that day, and they are storing their cotton against it. In the meantime the exchange gamblers are using every device known to their crooked business to get hold of the cotton that is still held by the farmer. There is an ugly hole, a soft place, I in the "east and west road." between Yorkvllle and Rock Hili, opposite TirI zah A. R. P. church, Just west of Newport, that has cost automobile owners hundreds of dollars. This place '.as been bad ever since the road was built originally. It would do fairly well in summer when the roads were dry; but with the setting in of the winter It would give trouble and more trouble. During the past three years scores of trucks, transports and other cars have been held up there, and some of them have remained stuck for days. This statement was made to Here and There last Saturday: "Twelve cars had to be pulled out of this hole one afternoon this week with teams. A man stayed there with a team and pulled the cars out as they stuclc." This story has not been verified; but it Is certain that a number of cars have been pulled out. Mr. J. H. B. Jenkins, Jr., got stuck in this hole last week and had to leave his car overnight. When the car was recovered It developed that the batteries had been stolen and the total cost of the incident was $42.60- A car belonging to Mr. C. R. Simmons got stuck and broken to the amount of $10. Scores of other cases have been mentioned and it would not be unreasonable to say that the loss and damage at this place Is enough to concrete the road for fifty yards over and on eacn aide of this terrible hole. Col. James B. Allison, late of Franklin Cantonment, Camp Meade, Maryland, has been spending a few days in Yorkville, stopping over on his way to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to which place he has been transferred. During the war Col. Allison has been engaged in training men for the signal servlee, for which work he was generally recognised as being one of the best men n the whole United States army. He of course, was tremendously anxious to get across to France, for like all the others he wanted to fight to get into the great give and take. He would rather have had that than a general's commission; but nevertheless, he Is forced to admit now that he has been able to perform a greater service at home than he could have hoped to iihyc |(ciiuiiiicu uu me uiner nae, ior within a little more than a year he has trained and sent across more than 20,000 officers and men for his highly specialized and lndispenslble branch of the service. And that they were thoroughly well trained goes without saying. In a former conversation with the writer of this paragraph, Col. Allison, then a lieutenant, was Inclined to concede that the British and German soldiers outranked Americana. It is not to be understood from this that he was in the least un-American: but he was "iving his unbiased judgment He took into account German and British discipline and training and also to some extent their military traditions. In fairness he was willing to concede that the Americans had not reached the same military development But he has forgotten all that now and apologizing to himself for having lost sight of the "Americanism" that is a part of the American soldier. He holds that without qualification the Americans have proved themselves to be the best soldiers the world ever saw In times past and that they are unequaled in the i world today. Even before the war he had trained hundreds if not thousands of men of the regular army ror various branches of the signal service. As a rule the material he had to start with were men of limited education, and of course he had to teach them slowly and painfully the things they should have learned at school. During 1 the past year he has been working with picked men from everywhere, all of them with high school advantages 1 and thousands of them with college diplomas. Also many of them were civil lire graduates in tne practical work that was required, and the colonel's main task was to organise and train these men as soldiers. The work was easy and pleasant and the men were turned out by the thousand full graduates within & period of three 1 months or such a matter, and what they did when they went across! Why ' 'hat is not a question of either explan1 ation or argument, for the mere men1 tlon of their efficiency, heroism, pa1 triotlsm and courage is sufficient to ! 'hrill the breast of every American, ' and not only that, but every Britisher, | "very Frenchman, every Italian and 1 even every German gives enthusiastic | approval. t LOCAL LACONICS Supervisors of Registration. The county board of supervisors of , registration held its regular monthly meeting in the courthouse yesterday; but issued only some three or four certificates during the day. All for Acreage Redaction. Meetings were held in Rock Hill and Fort Mill for acreage and fertiliser reduction and the understanding is that there will be a whirlwind canvass of the whole county during'the present week. Waylaid by Assassin. Elmore Evans, a farmer of Lancaster county, was taken to the Fennell infirmary in Rock Hill last Friday morning, in a badly wounded condlinn 4 all Via fa/lfk that mil Id he gathered was that as he was leaving a' house In Brooklyn, on the outskirts of Lancaster, Thursday night, he was struck by a load of shot, flred from the next house, the charge taking effect In his face and handsFarmers Are Interested. Quite a number of farmers from different parts of the county were in Yorkville last Friday In answer to the governor's proclamation asking for meetings on the cotton question. The ; farmers who came to town on this business showed considerable Interest in the subject; but no provision had been made for business action of any* kind, even & public address, and nothing was done. Reduction In Fort MilL Fort Mill, March 2: About 76 of the prominent planters of this community assembled In the Masonic hall this afternoon to discuss the cotton situa* ' " TT ortH thA [ion. Cj. XX. EjWB i?mu?u, ? *.?. object of the meeting was stated by Col. Thomas B. Spratt. A full and tree discussion followed, In which there were speeches by T. S. Kirkpatrlck, W. M. White, D. O. Potts, Karl Faris, J. P. Crowder, and J. M- Harris. A resolution proposed by Dr. T. S. * Kirkpatrlck, In which It was stated that the farmers of this community were in thorough sympathy with the work of the county and state cotton associations and would support their ( action, was unanimously adopted by a rising vote. The chairman appointed a committee composed of Dr. T. S. Kirkpatrlck, D. O. Potts and Col. Thorn-" as B. Spratt with instructions to ascertain full details as to the action of the state and county associations and report at a meeting which is to be held next Saturday evening, when pledges will be prepared for signatures. Those present agreed by a rising vote to be present iat the meeting next Saturday and to bring another farmer who ^ was not present this afternoon with him. MERE-MENTION Dispatches from Berlin indicate a possible fall of the new government because of the conditions of starvation * among the people Republican senators are seeking to prevent confirmation of the appointment of John Skelton Williams as comptroller of the currency The Victory Loan bill passed the senate last Sunday morning. A dispatch from Berlin quotes Von Ludendorff as repeating that he tried to persuade Germany to offer peace on a basis of the status quo In 1917 and again In 1918 The FYench government proposes to give all French soldiers $4 a month extra from the time they were organized and a bonus of $50 on discharge in addition An Italian cook named Attllllo Marcenaro, has been given full citizenship in order that he might cook for President Wilson on his return to France, the law beinsr that none but Americans may serve in official capacity on any American vessel The British gov- a ernment has arranged to seize all the railroads and other means of transportation throughout the United Kingdom during the next two years to facilitate the work of reconstruction There have been more than 30,000 applications for admission to the Metro- ^ politan opera house in New York to " hear President Wilson tonight before his return to France The plant of the Lenoir Chair Manufacturing company, Lenoir, N. C., was destroved Saturday with a loss of 130,000 The oil and coal land leasing bill was talked to death by Senator LaFollette last saiuraay nignt. Dixie Dalton, the woman book ^ agent, who waa committed to Jail In Gaffney not long ago on the charge of having stolen goods from the home of one of the women to whom she was trying to sell books, died In the hospital last Friday morning. Shortly aft- A rr hor arrest she took a dose of bichloride of mercury. Upon learning of her plight people who had brought the theft charges and others grew sympathetic and tried to do for her everything they oould.