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ESTABLISHED 1355 YORK, S. C., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1919., . ]STO. 78
GERMANY RIGHT NOW
Captain Glenn Talks Interestingly of
Present Hnnland
THE CttyMON FOLKS ARE NONCHALANT
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Will Maka Fair Crops This Year?
Fritz Would Fight Again if Ordered
but Will not be Ordered?Yorkville
Man Telia of Conditions as he Left
Them.
riAeman WaAnln tKo t ?o f h A AriTIn
VJCl iiiatt pwpiv kHMw m Viiv
ary classes, appear to have taken their
defeat as a matter of course and display
few indications of regret or disappointment;
but have settled down to
that humdrum, methodical existence
to which they have been accustomed
for years and years, according to Captain
Robert H. Glenn who stopped over
in Yorkville Friday, to see his mother
Mrs. W. D. Glenn while en route to \
Camp Gordoii, Atlanta- He is the lat- <
est local man to return from service
#ln Germany, having been with the
American Army of Occupation for a ,
number of months with the voterinary ,
corps of the-Fir$t Division and having (
left Germany for the states on Aug- ,
ust 26, after being overseas exactly
twelve months to a day. Capt. Glenn
expects to get a months' leave of ab- ,
senco within the next few days; al- ,
though be is not at all sure about that, ,
havinsr been transferred to the veterin- ,
ary corps of the Fifth Division which ,
rumor has going to the Mexican bor- ,
der or to Siberia. ,
Would Fight if Ordered.
Captain Glenn's service in Germany
extended ove^-quite a bit of the em- i
pire and his duties brought him in
more or less contact with all classes
of the German people. "They do
not appear to be worried over their
' defeat very much?that is the prdinary
working classes don't," he said .
Friday evening; "but they.wear a rather
honchalant air, ready and willing .
to light again if their leaders should '
so decree, or on the other hand, per- ]
r fectly content to spend the remain der
Of their lives tilling their little llelds
of rye and\ ^jtatoes b'r'.wqrklpfr in f
Fheir shops or at what#ter^?ight be '
thplr accupiktfl|n W the bdianie of t
i
to do all of their lives, despite the fact
that a government conducted somewhat
along republican lines has been
set up among them. It is my observation
that they are Aot much interested
in that government?that is Mr. Avarage
Citizen as we know him in this
country isn't. One heurs from time to
time the peasants talking of the new
regime and the special rights and privileges
that they will have under the
new regime that they didn't have under
Kaiser Williaip. One hears others
say that the old monarchistic order
was quite good enough for them because
there was always peace and
plonty and that is all they want. Still,
from what I have seen and hear?J my^
self, and from reliable second hand
information that I have obtained from
American officers and enlisted men
who have viBited all parts of the empire
and from other ^ourccs, that autocratic
power shall never hold sway In
Germany In the way that it did when
Kaisers were popular, and while there
may be'qulte a bit of trouble ^efore the
new order gets to working good it is
going to be a new Germany after all.
How much trouble there is going to
be and along what lines I don't know
since I am not an expert on economic
and political affairs. My business over
there was keeDlng a portion of the |
horses of Uncle Sam In the best shai>e !
possible and that was a plenty tooNobody
is Hungry.
"N'obody is going hungry now- in
those sections of Germany in which f
saw service," said Captain Glenn- "The
harvest this year is not going to be a
bountiful one' due to the shortage of
labor and &easonal conditions, but the
German people are going to have
enough to live on comfortably with
some outside assistance. They do not
appear to be worrying. Lots of them
still go to church all day Sundays and ;
drink wine and beer and dunce all of!
Sunday nights as of old. There is little j
repentance for their sins in the way of
sackcloth and ashes. Still, there is
i plenty of crepe and mourning colors in
evidence throughout the land nnd that
German home that is without sonic I
evidence of mourning I have yet to see.!
"There was never apparent to me 1
much if any indication of intense and
bitter feeling toward the American
Army of Occupation or toward the
troops of the other Allies. Possibly!
they scowled and made grimacps at j
us In the secrecy of their homes or
after we had passed: but I never
caught any of these glances when I
looked back.
"The common people of Germany, ;
the women and children especially, '
are beginning to hear stories of the
horrible atrocities committed by their
troops in Belgium and in France, und 1
it is hard for them to believe the
stories that are coming back. 1 talked '
much with a nun in a convent near
which I was stationed, a saintly lady
who asked much of me concerning the |
Allies and the Americans, our people
back home and our homes. This God- :
ly woman tpo had beurd of the cruelties
by the German boys and it worried ,
her greatly. She often spoke to me:
of them and discussed the matter with
me, expressing the belief always that'
German lads could not be capable of
such crimes as had been charged .to
them. You may be sure I didn't do
any white washing.
Rather Shy on Meat.
"The German people are pretty shy
on meat right now although they have
at least enough potatoes and rye to do
them. Korsemeat is mighty good cat- i
ing for them now. On one #occasion I
found it necessary to kill thirty-six
horses on account of incurable wounds
or disease. There was no other way
for it. I gave orders to my assistants
to dig a trench, stand the horses be
side .the trench after It had been dug,
shoot the animals and roll them in..
One horse I recall, was suffering
from a leg disease which caused great
sores and abscesses. I shot the horse
and rolled it Into a trench* An old
woman was watching and as soon as i
the horse was killed and before it was
covered up, the old soul came running i
up with a basket, asking that I allow i
her to cut off some of the meat. I i
gave orders to my men to cut a hind i
quarter off for her and this they did. <
The last I saw of the old woman was (
when she was slicing that leg into
stcpJ<s, nil smiling and happy while <
she was doing it. A few sores meant |
nothing., There is no question but what ;
even horse meat is at a premium in j
[Jormany just now. ]
Fear Still Felt. , i
"Xo matter what kind of a govcrry j
ment they have it will be a long, long \
Lime If ever, in my opinion, before i
Lhose people forget their fear of au* |
:hority or any semblanco of authority. <
Every official in Germany from the
town burgomaster- down to the game
..?.nnoMn iiT-iifnpm T,pttheeame
nuiuui ncaia w w }
warden walk down^ the street or out .
Into the country and there is such a (
bowing and scraping: on every side as (
you never saw. Kaiser Bili has ccr- .
tainly planted the fear and respect of
any kind of a uniform or any authority
intd ordinary folks.
"German military olTipera and the ,
higher ups generally realize that they ,
arc licked and licked badly, however,
ind the way they hate the Allies? ,
threat Scott! And they realize that ,
their own place in the sun has set for !
x while anyhow. This bunch I guess
is p6w going to' have to go to work
since soldiering isn't the high and (
nighty calling that it once was in Germany."
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DOPED WITH U>VE POWDERS'.
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Them.
Magistrate Ballcnger's court resembled
a * divorce court Tuesday
afternoon when Mrs. Leona Rogers,
a pretty young married woman of
Conestec told her story of woe. The
complaint of the wqman was that her
husband of a few months, Grady
Rogers, would not support her and it
was tto force him to provide for her
that she told for the benefit of the
presiding judge the story of hcr?
married life. v
' I do not love him and' never
i 'im " Vpo Rn^nrs said
liciyu IUVCU linn, - ?o ??
in referring to her husband who
stood nearby and heard, her denounce
him. "And what is more, I
never can love him."
Asked by Judge Ballenger if
she would have her husband pro- '
vide for her, furnish her with
money and other luxuries although '
she did not care for him, Mrs. Rogers
replied in the affirmative.
Then followed the question by Judge
llallenger if there never had been any
love for Rogers why she had bceti
wedded to him. Then came the most 1
dramatic moment in the entire proceedings.
"They doped me," she screamed, "or 1
else f never would have married him.
He gave inc love powders of some
kind, but I never really cared any- '
thing for him. There might have been 1
a fascination for a time but that has 1
passed, and then, too, he won't support
me as he should."
Silence reigned supreme in the little
court room as the judge adjusted his
glasses and looked first at the woman 1
and then at her husband. Rogers, who
had heard it all, came forward and
broke his silence. Speaking in a
calm voice and in all earnestness he
offered to go back, to live with his
wife and to forget the past. Undoubtedly
this statement on his part had
much to do with the decision of Judgo
Itallenger. Hearing this he sinilcd as
he announced his decision:
"Case dismissed. Go back heme
and?b'c happy."
Arm in arm, husband and wife
left the court room and stepped into
the waiting car which carried them
back to their home at Conestee.?
Greenville Piedmont.
? Aleas Cooler and Will Davis were
actiuitted in the Colleton county court
of general sessions at Walterboro last
week ol killing W. I). Thomas, a woods
rider l'or the Okatco club nearly tnree
years ago. Hoth men at a former
trial were convicted of the murder of
Thomas and sentenced to electrocution.
They were convicted on the
testimony of a young son of Cooler's
who testified at the trial last week
that his former testimony was perjury
and that liis grandfather now dead,
hated Cooler and forced the grandson
to testify as he did.
? Three submarines, K-1, K-2 and
K-6. accompanied by their mother
ship, the C. S. S. Ragle No- 25, arrived I
at Charleston early Thursday morning..
They will leave for Cuban waters today
or tomorrow.
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WORK OF SCHOOL OFFICERS j
York County School Canvass Near-,
Ing Completion i
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THE MOTHERS .SHOULD BE CAREFUL '
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Little Opposition to Compulsory 1
School Law?People Gladly Assist
In Giving Co-operatign?Penalty>for (
Keeping Children Out of School 1
Without Good Reason. 1
Work of taking a census of all '
school children of York county, both t
white and' colored which has been In <
progress for several months past is t
rapidly nearing completion, Miss Belva
Saunders, one of the two York county *
attendance officers who are engaged in 1
the work said yesterday. Another '
month at most will complete the work ^
and then there will be in the hands
Df the county educational authorities
a record of the name and address as
well as h. good bit of personal history j
Df every child, both white and colored,
in York county up to the age of 14
years. Work of taking such a certsus
Is not such an easy task ns one might "!
Imagine, especially if it is taken i
thoroughly as the attendance officers (
ire doing ftnd Miss Saunders cpmes 1
up against some rather difficult situ- i
itions from time to time. She talked (
Interestingly to The Enquirer the other c
lay about the work. ^
Familiar With Law. f
"Everybody in York county," 3hc *
said "appears to be more or less (
familiar yeith th^ -compulsory school 1
attendance law un4er which wc are
operating and I find llttlo or no ob- '
lectin to It anywhere thus far and
clo not expect It. People both white *
ii^d colored arc evidencing a willing- 1
iiess to givo mo all the information
that I need In taking the census. *
There are a few white parents who are
not inclined to send their children to 1
school even for four months In the '
year, taking the position that they can- 1
not afford to dispense with their labor, '
which is necessary for the production (
for the family bread and meat, but 1
there is little of this sort of tiding. 1
"Under the law, one does. not have 1
tp aend one'^ children to school where 1
the school house .is more than two>tnd
\yi\u .intend, tp of this
provision in keeping their children 1
away. I came .across one man, and n !
white man at that, who told me flat '
come time ago that the school house 1
w?3 not within the distance prescribed 1
by law from his residence and that wc
couldn't do anything with him and he <
knew it. He went on to say that they 1
didn't nepd education anyhow, nl- 1
though one cojuld tell by their appear-^ apcc
that they needed something ahd '
heeded it badly. There are quite a
number of families who live more than '
two miles and a half from any school '>
house; but fortunately all of thein do 1
not take tho position that the man I 1
mentioned does. 1
|Mo Trouble With Negroes.
"I am having no trouble whatever '
with the negroes. In almost every instance
they know their ages and can '
give Jho day of birth as well. The
average white family docs not have
this information at its linger tips; 1
but in every home the family Bible is 1
resorted to for the correct record. 1
Not so with the negro. The record is (
not put dpwn in the Bible but is kept
In mind.
"In some districts far remote the 1
negroes were a little reluctant ahout *
jiving me census information at first.
Some of them did not know what it
was all about and were possessed of
great fears and forebodings that I was
getting information to be used in
drafting them for military service or
something. Still after they saw me
going to the homes of white people and
asking the game questions .that I asked
of them they began to come around
all right and now I have not the slightest
bit of trouble.
"Some white men have complained
to me about the compulsory law on the
ground that it applies t'o negroes as
well as whites and compels the negro
to take an education whereas they ap- 1
pear now too willing to get it without ''
compulsion. And yet there isn't a
ci-oo? fWsil r\T rnmnlnint nlnntr that '
line.
"The compulsory attendance law yas
operative in some of the districts at
the recent term as you know and seVcral
parents were reported for failure
to send their children regularly. One
mother kept her child out of school, a
little girl, one day. She gave as her
excuse that the child was unwell and
she thought it would do her good to
stay out a day and go visiting. The
law says that they must go every day
unless ill in bed and that no other excuse
will do. This particular mother
also went on to say that she was tin
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hware or the law or rather aid not ;
think it would apply to her child but 1
was for those who had not been accustomed
to going to school. Some 1
people are evidently not aware that 1
the law makes no distinctions in per- '
sons.
Expect a Little Trouble.
"Oh. we expect to have some little 1
trouble and find it necessary to bring '
parents before the proper authorities.
For instance Mrs. Algernon DeChaunessy
may decide to keep her little
daughter Gloria out of school for a t
day in order to take her to Columbia '
or Charleston or somewhere else to buy f
clothing or for this or that. Hut ii I
Mrs. DeChaunessy docs do so sho Is
liable to a fine.
"Under the law all children between
the ages of eight and fourteen must p
so 'to school/ four months in the year. "?
There must be-more or less uniformity
about that attendance, although the
school terms \, will be fixed by -he
school trustees with a view to operat- p||
Ion at a time, when services of larger*
children will not be'needed in the
fields. gj
"Parents, howeyer, ^ must get away
from the idea that ,they may keep their
children at home any day they see fit
unless the child is ^Ick after the compulsory
term becomes operative.
Regular school attendance Is necessary ?n
iot only for the behefit of tlie child's , r
education but In order to carry oat
ho law. V D<
"As I sakJ though," concluded Miss
BaUnders, "I have had little or no
:roubJe thus far artd I do not expect
:o havo any with ,my part of the
vork." us
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CHURCH 18 B^OSS RULED --r A1
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t has Always. BNn Dominated by w<
Kings and Prelates Says Minister. tw
Speaking recently before the New
fork City Conference of Baptist Min- pr
sters, in the -Hungarian Baptist 1
:hurch, 225 Egst Eighth street, the' V
Xcv. Dr. George Chalmers Richmond, jl
vho was an Episcopal clergjtaian beore
his controversies with two bishops ^
saused him to slrvdr his .connections dc
vlth that church, aroused strong dlf- ^
erences of opinion .when he declared *
he Christian church always had been Br
lominated by "klnffB, prelates and
josses."
Ills talk was on "The Pulpit and the ne
Revolution," says the New York cft.
Times. He called on all "our*' pastors ^
o work for the success of the q]trik<? hJi
ng steel workem,. and hoped the bij
'backbone of Judge Gary's materialstlc
philosophy" would 'be broken. djj
Later, ^the Baptist Council of Ordi- JO(
lance for the Soi ftlufrn New York.Dls.rlct
mot and recqpmended to the Cal- nQ
mry Baptist cfrtfrch, of which Dr. ^
Richmond is a friraibcr, that he be re- hJJ
iorded as a mcipber-Of the ministry,
ind set aside for.work as a pastor. Dr. . .
Richmond nl ready i has been recognized
ui a irpemjojpn vt jlhe Baptist ministry,
ind itJblaJjVary ?ptfrch acta favorably co
it' its 'ifrWt rheeting ho will be ready tQ
so "linked
vith political and financial intercuts tQ
:hdt its moral and spiritual powers Jn|
fiave been dominated and cornered by t
kings, prelates, tlnd bosses," he said. m]
'If you want to go to the very source
)f Russian Bolshevism you must go to
:he Russian church. The Russian pepr?le
are sick of their church. The
Anglican church is tjie church of 500,100
deadheads in London alone. of
"Because of the Lawrence strike, we W(
[lave this industrial battle of Boston, __
t on
xnd now because of both we have the
Jteel strike. It does not surprise me, nc
'or I know full well the devilish scl- pr
fishness of our American plutocratic a
capitalism. It is born of hell, and its la,
md is hell. ce
"I am out and out on the side of the j 3
deel strikers, and I pray God that their
victory may be complete. As a New
Englandcr, a Yale man, 7nnd now the ^
ninister of one of the greatest Protes- tlt
:ant churches, I urge all our pastors to
vork mightily in behalf of the success W(
>f these noble men who are fighting au
'or the right to organize their unions ne
n a despotic industry, which if it ^
lared, would reproduce industrial ln
slavery on our soil. ' p0
"I hope they will strike and strike WJ
md strike until the backbone of Judge ^
LJary's materialistic philosophy is w|
iroken at the neck. It is time for every su
jhurch in this land to range itself on is
he side of labor. The attitude of Judge gt)
3ary to\yard President Wilson is insulting.
mean, and shameful."
Dr. Richmond prophesied there would y(
3e an outbreak of- Bolshevism in this be
country this winter that will drive "in- as
lustrial traitors to Germany and Rus- fir
sia, where they belong." Emma Gold- fe.
-nan and Alexander Berkman, he said, jju
vere to be preferred to such persons
is ho had in mind. He said Judge Gary y,0
tvas afraid to meet Samuel Gompcrs, a
ind he contrasted unfavorably the war vjj
work of the capitalists with that done ^
ly laborers and labor leadeis. 0t
"Wilson is the world's groatest f0
leader in all things that make for ^
peace, national security and permanent (ji
progress," he continued. "Gary and his y0
jteel trust hate Wilfon. They ,all wor- jt
*hip gold. What they need is a great jn
Dig good licking, so that never again
will they bring industrial anarchy to
3ur land. Let's all turn in and help to
lick them." se
The Rev. John Roach Straton, pastor jjl
af Calvary baptist church, said after Gf
the meeting that the conference of C(j
ministers was fraternal and not of- a
flciai. The ministers, ho said, recog- a
tize that Dr. Richmond is an extremist on
in some of his views. St
"He is a fearless man," said Dr. to'
Straton, "and is more extreme than he all
would be if he had not been persecut- is
th,
In discussion which followed Dr. m;
Richmond's paper it was .apparent rn<
some ministers did not agree with it cu
in its/ entirety, and others disagreed as
ivlth certain statements in it. is
by
? Mrs. Margaret Green of Chares- el*
on, was fatally burned in that city
rhursday, when her clothing cnifght
ire from a trash pile which she was ah
turning in the yard. ?er
VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
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Some of Which You Know and
Some You Don't Know?Condensed
for Quick Reading.
Following'the raid of a big distillery
the John Warren Quinn old place In
oad River township on Monday of
it week Constable Johnson and
>puty Sheriff Quinn went back to the
ene the next day and found two other
ills near the vicinity oi John P.
oore, a colored man. .The stills were
i and full of holes and had not been
ed in several years. Moore told the
'icers they had not been used in a
zen years and maybe Moore knows.
>out two bushels and a half of meal
sre also found by ^ the officers who
sre quite certain that it was not
elvc years did. Of course nobody
Umed the meal'and it is now the
operty of the state.
The Gamecock.
Publication of the Gamecock, the
eekjy newspaper published by the
irary societies of the University, of
iiAh Carolina in Columbia, has been
sumcd, a cbpy having reached the
sk of the exchange editor of The
iqulrcr this week. R. C. Thompson
editor of the publication- and J. R.
yson is business'manager.
A New Phony Twenty.
Mr. Average York County Man
edri't trouble his head over this beuse
he doesn't have an opportunity
handle them often since most of
s experience is with dirty dollar
Is, but news comes from Washington
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at a) new counterfeit twenty nas ueeji
icovhred. The new phony bill la a 0
0 note of the Federal Reserve Bank 6
New York. The border of the
te and the background of devoid's
portrait are black Instead of c
vlng fin* cross lines and t the c
;asury numbers are black Instead of 5
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Tractor Demand Growing.
Demand for farm tractors In York a
unty is growing, rapidly according 1
farmers well Informed a? well aj *
ictor agents. The Courtney Tractor *
tmpany of Yorkvlllo last week re- 0
lured a shipment ^of scvetj Fordsgp 1
ictors which hud already been sola, '
sethcr wijfh'a large amount of farm?- ^
5 Implements that go with llo 1
actors. * "We have booked a targe 1
imber of additional orders," said Mr.\ ?
>urtney; "but the big problem Is to 8
t the tractors."
1 Clergymen Plan Canvass.
Rev. T. Tracy Walsh, pastor of the 1
lurqh of the Good Sheperd, Episcopal 1
Yorkville was in Columbia last 0
sek where he attended a conference *
the nationwide campaign that Is 8
ing put on by the Episcopal do- *
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minauon. uisnuj> ??. xv. uwi^
eplded and addresses were made by
number of Episcopal clergymen and
ymen. The seventy Episcopal dlo- r
scs are asking for $37,000,000 and v
100 workers. c
Not Seriobsly Injured.
Information from the bedside of A.
McKeown, district farm demonstra>n
agent with headquarters In Rock
111; who was painfully Injured last c
^ek when he was thrown from an
rtomoblle on the Camp Sevier road c
ar Greenville by a collision with a c
ssing truck is to the efTect that his
juries arc not serious. It was rerted
Wednesday that Mr. McKeown
is paralyzed ^from the waist down
it Dr. W. W. Fenncll of Rock Hill j
no made an examination is : sure 1
ch is not the case and Mr. McKeown 1
expected to recover his health and k
rength in a few days.
Keeping Ijlim Busy.
J. Frank Faulkner In charge of 1
jrkville's fire fighting apparatus has e
:?ii "earning his pay" here of late c
he puts it, there having been three
e alarms sounded within the past
w days. Mr. Faulkner has been ^
isy in not only chasing to the fires v
it In cleaning up the fire truck and
ise after the fire and that is quite
job. "It appears that fires in Yorklie
always come in multiples of '
ree," observed a Yorkville man the
her day. "I have been wutching it
r years and I have always noticed c
at when there comes an alarm of 1
Y
e' after a long interval, 11 is soon ~
Mowed by two other alarms." And
is a fact that the rule has held good
the recent fires.
Nothing to It.
There Is a story.going the rounds
the effect that a Federal secret
rvice man went into a store in Rock
II n few days ago, asked the price
a suit of clothes and then demandto
see the invoice price after which
fine was levied for profiteering. It's
lie and the same story has been told
merchants of Yorkvllle, Clover, e
laron, Fort Mill and every other I
ivn in the county. The story hurts
:hough most people know that there U
no state or national law whi9h fixes t
e amount of profit a merchant may n
tke on an article of clothing any r
ire than there is a law compelling a
stomers to buy goods after having a
ked the price. Merchants say there h
nothing to it; but it is being spread f
some busy-body who has nothing s
le to do.
The Shortage of Teachers. ^
'I'll tell you my explanation of the n
ortage of teachers in York and oth- il
counties," said a local young wo- o
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nan the other day, ''A lot of girls 1
who have been teaching school have I
ecently, taken business courses and
:ound employmeptV as stenographers ind
office workers. The pay is a little I
letter although the work is' a little
tarder and longer.' The pay of the
iverage woman school teacher in
fork county, is about $85. The pay a
>f /he average stenographer is
tbout $75 per mpnth. Of course the
eacher gets off in the afternoons $
ind on Saturdays but if she is any
;cacher at all why she will utilize a
roodly portion of that time in preparng
herself for better school work.
Still her job lasts only nine months at ?
n/tul tcViUa tha cfannoranhpr rlrnwfl \
ler $75 twelve months In the e
rear. And the average girl these days, t
he girl worth while, doesn't like this $
hlng of loafing three months out of
welve." ' ' t
As to Confederate Pensions.
In all probability there, Is going to r
>e a holy howl going up from some f
fork county Confederate veterans an'd s
vivei of veterans as a result of the i
lew statute in regard to pensions.. -c
ording to the York county 'r
>oard no person may receive a# fkn- v
lion unless he or she Is a?le lo prove i
>y at least two witnesses that the c
ipplicant fought In the War Between a
he States and giving company and t
egimcnt. In the case of York couuiy o
ncn who' served In North Carolina \
?giments it is necessary that they gjt
iroof "of services from company rosters p
>n file in Washington. In many in- a
itances it is impossible to get witnesses c
>ecause^ thbre are no living withe^ses f
md it is reasonably certain that c
ccords in Washington are not alto- d
rether accurate. About the only way
or some of the veterans is to mnice I;
Lffidavit that they served and in the ii
:asc of widows to make affidavits to i
heir husband's service. The state o
lension board won't take that, it is c
laid and there Is going to do troupie t:
md more trouble In this matter of a
itate pensions. l
About Hiflh Prices. x\
"Speaking of hlgh^cices" sold a York g
ounty business raSit yesterday whoso c
xperlence r^ns hick j. through the p
'ears of the Civil War, "I remember p
hat early in 1865, when'it was evident s
he war would soon end, prices broke c
harply, and for a few Weeks it seemed s
hat they would go lower than before' g
he war. But by midsummer, with the
far ended, prices began rising V, and o
ontinued to advance for a year or t
nore. In 1886 we saw the highest b
.rices In this -i
Then, as the troops began to return ]i
iomc, or as soon as demobilization in s
he north became complete, prices) be- x
ran falling. Thpy continued to fall for n
k'dozen years. It was not until 1878, v
n fact, that prices really began In- f
ireaslng. Prom then the tendency was o
ipward for many years. But cohdl- f.
Ions following our Civil War were not e
is they are today. Then it was only g
he United States involved In re- t
dJusting itself after the wjar; now It p
8 the whole world. /Tnen we were s
ipening up an empire of new, rich 1
and; now we have no rpore fertile 1
ands to open up. At least we have g
lothing to compare with the areas that ?
vere brought under cultivation at the p
Jose of the Civil War. Then invention 11
vag just beginning. Labor Saving r
ools^were Just coming into use. Now, a
t seems to have about reached the o
imit in the matter of making machin- s
try do man's work. Further, follow- a
ng the Civil War we were an agri- e
ulttiral nation, with a large majority o
>f our people engaged in agriculture, c
>Jow we are an industrial nation with
ess than half of our people engaged s
n agriculture. Then we were remote v
rom foreign markets and from foreign a
nfluence; today- the world is living i:
n one field, with tjie remotest lnhabi- v
ant in speaking distance of all others, c
>o we cannot go back over the figures t
ollowing the Civil War, buddy, and p
ail ivViot (a tmiritr tr> hannen at this i'
ime. Precedents are worthless; past e
experience In the matter of markets t
ounts for naught. We shall have to a
>ide our time and do the best we can a
rom day to day, for no man knows o
vhat the result of the latest of all t
vara will be."
f
ONLY LIVE OKAPI v
e
?aro Animal is Distant Ancestor of t
the Giraffe. s
British naturalists, who have been t
:onlldently expecting that the only t
ive okapi in captivity was to be t
>rought to the zoological gardens in C
tegents park,' London, were disap- n
>olnted when the news came from
tntwerp that the animal had been c
>rought there from the Congo by Dr. t"
^ebum. It was the gift of Mme. o
^andaghem, whose husband is in the r
Jongo medical scrvicfe. si
mvio nironi <u the Ktirvivor ^>f a dis- d
ant ancestor of the giraffe. An'adult a
tands above five feet high. and al- tl
hough it hus the general shape of
Uc giraffe its neck is relatively short- tt
r and its forelegs are not high In p
iroportion to the hindquarters. t<
The Sides of the animal's head are b
[ght fawn color and the general colora- 1<
ion of the body is a dark purple. The f<
nost striking character is that the h
ump and the upper part of the legs nr
re transversely striped with black n
nd white. It was first known in 13CI, ti
aving been found in the Semiiki h
orest, haunting low undergrowth and a
wamps. e<
This particular specimen was In a!
Ime. Landaghem's possession for a C1
umber of years and photographs Of
: received in London show it eating _
lit of her hand.
/
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low to mwi conro
:oonty Caneratlw VBI Tie Op
Bomb's Money
IDST BE FREE OUTLET ABROAD
Senator MeLsgrin Responds to ffcto
quest of Mr. Wannamakor and QivafS
Some Straight- information on tho
Eoonomio Principles Involved. .&jWj
In reapopje^o a request from J. 3.
Vannamaker, president of tho Soutjhrn
Cotton association, for a letter on
be work of the .association, Senator
j^sL&urin has written as follows:
J Mr. J. S. Wann^naker. Bt. Mat-' to
hand and I heartily coip-r
nenfl the. efforts you are making tp /J
nrm ?n Mnnrt JiHuorlntlon for the
ale of cotton. If wb form a company ,
n each county for the purchase of all
ottim offered for sale below jttae mlnU .
oum price fixed in New Orleans wei
irill soon tie up every available dollar A
n the south, and still have enough
krry the cotton ctop. Wo must have ^
n outlet for the Cotton purchased, so
hat the capital raised will be a sort ,
if revolving fund. Otherwise business
t'ould soot\ stagnate,us it did in. 1916,
There seems to be considerable op-; ' >
losition fct; congress to the bill <*$?
igned to finance export cotton.
hlof ohpectlon urged. Is that it la
urthcr measure In Inflation, and ^
reuses the safeguards thrown arotihjf. >
eposltor8 in national banks.
So far as Inflation is concerned thbro.
3 nothing to it The new paragraph
n the bill iperely permits the advance
o be made on avnote secured by a bi^
f lading, instead of-a warehouse re*
eipt. The security is the same, only
ho evidence of that security is differnt.
How does that make inflation?
t only makes the hsset more liquid,
hich is not only good banking, but aiou
ood sense- So far M the security is cc#?'?j
erned, the borrower is limited to US.;
er cent of the capital stock and sur-*
Jus, and gives $>10 Worth of cotton oi$ j
ecurity for the loan, with the cotton
ovcred by an lnsorajtce policy. *
tudied the bill carefully and .it
My personal opinion is that the state
f South Carolina should sell its cytori/through
hs warehouse S^Jt?m
iw Ktfrope cnnnot buy ftom us, unless ; A
he sells at the sanfp tltne?- N J
The contention that the state should (
ot engage in business will not do.' This
ery bill is for the federal government ,
o enter the business field, The lesson >
f the war Is too recent I prefer state,
o federal control. We are too dependnt
on Washington,and if the'country,
oes Republican, the Democrats, of
he south will realise that too mud\
ower has been taken away from the
tates And centralised in Washington.
*he took supply was taken charge of lh
917, and not only the price "of it reflated,
but the quantity of food to thg' i*
amily regulated. The government
mrchased raw material and turned i.
t over to private corporations to be
nanufactured, fixed the wages of labor. ..!
,nd the price to the public. It toqlc "
ver the railroad, built and operated
hips, engaged in life and marine laspjlf '
nee. It openly and effectively cpntreR*/; >
d the commercial life of the natlon'upn
large linqs and with far better sucess
than is being done today. . Jsfi
South Carolina has the law on
tatute booka, empowering the fct^yte
- ' 1 .
/arehouse commissioner iv ucsvvng;tE
ales of cotton, why not try the experment?
These are still war times, {tap if*
iho does not know that war Is. jEqa
iver when you put an end to It heween
nations? Jt Is only the most suierflcial
view which conflnea the meaftng
of war to a conflict between gov- >
rnmcnts. Our present Industrial gysem
'makes society Itself a stale of war, If
.ctlve, irreconcilable war on every side'V
.nd in everything. The very essence
>t wax is ttys needless competition
ween corporations or individuals. y ;
Every government up to 1914, was J
ounded upon fhe principle of in$f- (duality.
This war seems to have
pded that epoch. Man Is now tryin* J
o act in the mass, i u?n?v? uiv^
trikcs are an unconscious struggle on
he part of the masses f9r the cnhronement
of the principle of nssociaion.
That is the meaning of the J&w
)rlcans convention. This is the true '
[leaning of a Republic.
War differs from peace in its reeptivity
to new ideas; it welcomes '
hem, while peace rejects tl>em. The
pposition to the export bill is from
eactlonarles trying to reject the les- >
ons learned in war. Our method ,
uring the war of production, finance
nd distribution were vastly more selenitic
than the bungle peace is making. )
War always listens with an open mind '
j every propcsal brought forward by
eacc, while peace tries to shut Its ears
> every lesson taught by war. It "is
Iind now to the fact, that, the masse*
iok on government as an assoclatiqn / \
jr the common good, not a mere eolation
of individual units. The school
laster, war, taught four million youi&
len how easy ft Is to secure co-operaon
through government and they
ave brought the news home. Does
nyone imagine that, with this know!3ge,
this country will go back to 1814,
nd rot in the narrow barbarisms of so
illed peace.
Let me urge you Mr. Wannamaker,
(Continued on Pago Two). '
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