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VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
Brief Local Paraipptis of More or
Less interest.
PICKED UP BY ENJIHRER REPORTERS
k Stories Concerning Folks and Things
Some of Which You Know and
Somo You Don't Know?Condensed
for Quick Reading.
Couldn't Get a Taker.
Interest In the World's championship
baseball games between Cincinnati and
Chicago continues r:o far as local enthusiasts
are concerned.- There have
I ?..!? ? nnmhar nf small betS
UWU 4U11V ?? MM... ... n
placed but no wagers of any large proportions.
One Yorkvllle man offered to
bet $200 Friday that Cincinnati would
win the series but he couldn't get a
take. There wasn't any bluffing about
It. He has the money.
Oldest Gintisr Retired.
John L. Ratney, the. oldest York
county glnner, ban retired from the
field after being engaged in that busi-.
ness along with hie other intersets for
M years. Mr. Rainey erected a ginnery,
using horse power after returning
l from the War Between the States, his
^ ginnery for several years being operated
by hprec power. Ho remained in the
business eaqh year continuously until
tills year when he decided to give it
i up.
Swost Potatoes Produce Milk.
"Did you know that sweet potatoes
are one of the best foods in the world
so far as milk production!1 is concern
fcd" asked a York county tanner a
days ago. "I know because I haye
tried 'em all and I have never had a
* cow yet whose milk production wasn't
increased wonderfully after I had fed
her sweet potatoes for a. few dayd.
Just give 'em to her raw and give her
lots of 'em and the more you give her
the more milk you will get "
Too Dry for 'Possum Hunters.
Comes the word from the 'possum
hunters over the county that efforts to
/ catch the noted nocturnal nauseating
beast have been without avail since the
hunting season opened October 1. The
dry weather is given as the reason.
The 'possum crop, however, Is believed
' to be as large as usual and there are
as many people in the country who are
? interested in the sport as usual.
,? ^^ssi^_dc^^^6LJiuich_in_deniand and
^ <tnlte a scarcity of real good ones. A j
l'.ethesda township man recently sofd
three dogs for (150.
^ The Job is no Cinch.
"If you believe that this job ife a cinch
just you try it awhile," remarked a
prohibition officer who was talking it
over the other evening. "I spent yes"
nartv of officers ud in
?iuo; ? ?
Kind's , Mountain towhship hunting
moonshine mints. Did not And a I
darned thing?not even dinner. In fact
1 had to go a whole twenty-four hours
without a bito to eat and nothing to
drink except a pot of coffee. Oh, yes,
* it is a cinch, this thing of going on
wild goose chases after violators of the
liquor laws, going hur.gr>'. getting all
scratched up With briars and brambles
t and taking chances of being pelted
with shot and leaving a widow and
orphans."
Big Crowd Will Hear McLaurin.
Unless the weather or some unforS
seen cause prevents, the Indications arc
that there will be a large crowd of
business men and farmers out to hear
Former Senator John L. McLaurin
who has accepted an invitation to deliver
an address on cotton and cotton
linance In the courthouse in Yorkville
tomorrow morning under the auspices
of the York County Cotton Associa
tlon. Information from Rock Hill is
to the effect that every effort is being
put forth to bring a largo crowd from
that city and vicinity to Yorkville, and
similar efforts are being put forth in
Fort Mill. At the meeting tomorrow
an effort will be made to secure additiortal.
memberships to the York County
Cotton Association.
Didn't Get it in Time.
"Saw a letter written ine by a friend
of mine while 1 was in France," said a
young York countian who returned
from over there some time ago. The
letter never reached me on the other
side and was forwarded to my York
county home. Mother opened it. In it
the writer, a friend of mine requested
me to bring him a quart of that French
hooze when I came home. Of course I
didn't bring the booze because 1 didn't
get the letter lor one reason. Mother
I said she was glad I didn't get the letter.
I said 'yes'm.," and my friend being
If" ashamed that mother should find out
that he ever thought of wanting to take
n drink goes forty feet out of his way
to keep from meeting her now. Old
linn?* nhore can Dlay the devil can't it?"
Would Pray for Legion.
B. J. White, Esq., of Rock Hill, who
served as a captain in the late war is
undertaking to organize a York county
branch of the American Legion, an organization
of service men of the late
war. Headquarters of the York County
, I'ost would be in Rock Hill. In a
bulletin issued by the National Head
quarters of the Legion, all York county
* pastors are requested to devote part
or the whole of their sermons to the
ideals for which the American Legion
stands on Sunday, November 9. According
to Mr. White, while the league
is non-political, it has and always will
have policies, in that it reflects the
will and opinions of a majority of its
members?whose sanity, unselfishness
and patriotism may be dependod upon
in questions affecting national or international
integrity and adjustment."
Says the Bucks Did it.
Brigadier General L. D. Tyson of
Knoxville, Tenn., made the speech at
the Thirtieth Division re-union in
Greenville, that appealed to the rank
and file in attendance upon the reunion
the most, according to Kip
Woods of Yorkville, a former member
of the 118th Infantry, who attended
the re-union. "Tyson told an audience
at Textile hall in Greenville,"
said Mr. Woods, "that it was the en1'stcd
men?the guys with packs on
their backs and who slept in the mud
and rain absolutely unprotected and
with no special favors shown 'enj. who
?rn rennnnnible for the record Of the
Thirtieth. General Tyson went on to
say that he could not have made that
statement as long as he was in the
army but he was now a private citizen
again whereas Major-General E? M.
Lewis and Brigadier General Samson
F- Fayson were not and he could say
whatever he pleased. You can just
bet the boys in attendance on the reunion
wero strong for Tyson."
1 A Man and His Hobby.
. Mr- R. B. Babbington, of Gastonia, ]
was in YorkvfUe last Thursday on
business, and had time also to shake ;
hands with some of his many fr.'ends
here. Do\Vn this way Mr. Babbington
is known mainly as the general mana- ;
gcr of the Piedmont Telephone com- ,
puny. That ho knows all about how
to manage a telephone system no one
who knows him will for an instant i
question, not if he has any regard for
his own reputation for ordinary knowl- ]
edge of men who know how to do j
things, and what such men are doing, i
Mr. Babbington knows how to give
good telephone service, and he knows 1
not only how to get about all out of <
the business tho traffic will bear; but
he knows how to keep his patrons in a '
good humor about it. As well known
as Mr. Babbington is as a telephone l
manager, he is still/better known up (
in Gastonia, and throughout the state <
of Xorth Carolina as a philanthropic .'
humanitarian. His hobby is an un- I
usual orle, and unusual as it is worthy.
As 'much as he thinks of telephone 1
management \ie thinks still more of I
the groat good to be accomplished by i
on r?t.tV>nnn<vJir hnsnitnl on which he I
has been working for more than ten
years, and for the erection of which a j
$125,000 contract has Just been let. <
What is an Orthopaedic* hospital? Oflj
coj^rae not one reader out of. twenty i
could tell about the institution under <.
that name. That word "orthopaedic" ]
does not mean anything to them. But i
in every day English, especially with I
a few appealing explanations from Mr. i
Babbington, orthopaedic becomes a
word that goes deep down into the l
soiils of all who, like Ben Adhem, i
love their fellow men. "Do you
know," asks Mr. Babbington, "how <
many crippled children there are in i
bouth Carolina, who are denied abso- i
lutely the right to usefulness in the
world simply because of their infirmi- 1
ties? I cannot give you the number, |
but there are hundreds of them. There i
arc more than you have any idea of
right here in York county. More frequently
than otherwise, the trouble is (
congenital, a club foot, a deformed ,
arm or leg or other shortcoming that ]
spells incapacity for that child during ?
Hit balance of its days, simply because j j
there is no way of providing prompt |
and proper treatment. We have insti- i |
tutions for our blind, for our mentally ,
deficient, but we are doing nothing ,
for our cripples. Why there arc* ,
around us crippled children, many of ,
them with as good minds as Woodrow ,
Wilson, who, if they hud proper treat- s
incut, could ontcr into lives of useful- j
ncss to themselves and the world who (
cannot even ho sent to school. In the (
case of a largo number of these some- ,
thing like 85 or 90 per cent, of them, ,
they could he cured in just 17 m'nutes ,
if we only had the facilities?the j
necessary hospital and the necessary .
specialists, and most of those that can- ,
lot be cured can be taught only if!,
| '
they have the opportunity to be j
(ought." Mr. Babbington commenced j
| thinking on this subject as the result ,
|of certain activities of the Masonic
order of which lie is a most worthy j
member, some ten years back, and his |
thinking was not long finding cxpan- |
slon in action. He has made a number
rf liberal subscriptions and donations,
and be has talked the subject into
I hundreds of friends and acquaintances,
until he has raised altogether JiiO.OOO ,
by private subscription and the North
Carolina legislature has recognized the
cause to the extent of $40,000 appro|
priution; but of course this was only a
i starter for Mr. L'abbington. It is a
j $ 11'a.OoO plant at least that he wants
i to begin with, and he bus faith and
Itonfidonce enough to lay his plans for
j such a beginning.
j ?Immediate creation of a league for
i industrial peace wun a supreme t?unt
il similar to that created by the lea- j
gue of nations to which all industrial |
labor disputes may be referred for,
j hearing and decision and which may be ;
i clothed with power to enforce its dc- j
cisions, was recommended in a petition
I 1
sent Thursday to Samuel Compere,
j president of the American Federation I
jof Labor by the League of American j
| Federation of Labor memtirrs for
I partnership and industrial democracy, i
1 .
? Plans are being made by a local
; motion picture producer at Los Ange- 1
les, t'al., to make moving pictures of j
I scenes in the L'iblc from cover to cover, j
COST OF HIGH LIVING.
i i\ If;,
Council of National Defence Make:
Public itc Finding.
After an investigation of, the higl
cost of living probieib'the council ol
national defense finds:
That the nation's products have
not been fully utilized since the armistice.
i
t
That too few goods,' notably the
necessities of life, have been produced,
and that even, some of these
goods have been withheld from the
market, and therefore from the people.
That the high cost of living is due
In part to unavoidable war waste and
increase of money and credit.
That there has been and is considerable
nroflteerine. intentional and
unintentional.
The council believes that the remedies
for the situation are:
To produce more goods, and to
produce them in proportion to the
needs of the people.
To stamp out profiteering and stop
unnecessary hoarding.
To enforce vigorously present laws
and promptly to enact such further
laws as are neceBBary to prevent and
punish profiteering and needless
hoarding.
To bring about better co-operation
and method in distributing nnd marketing
goods.
To keep both producer and consumer
fully informed as to what
goods are needed and as to what supplies
are available, so that production
inay anticipate the country's demands.
"Better standards of living are impossible
without , producing more
goods," said the council's, announcement.
"At the war's end we and our allies
had desperate need of the essentials
of life. Wo have had to sharfe our
resources with them, but this drain
rap 111 ra.nJ?rall? Irarararan
WW. g I au Li (1.11 J IWOCIl.
"The, process of production requires
Lime. If production is rapidly increased,
vastly Improved conditions
will prevail in America Mrhen the results
of present and future labor
begin to appear.
"Team work i3 imperative. The
manufacturer, the farmer, the distributor
must each Immediately assume
his part of the burden and enter
upon his task.
On American business rests a
jrave responsibility for efficient corporation
In bringing about full and
proportionate production. On American
labor rest* -an -?qually grave responsibility
lo attain maximum unit
production and maintain uninterrupted
distribution of goods if labor
Itself is not to suffer from further
rises in the cost of living.
"The entire nation?producer, distributor
and consumer alike?should
return to the unity that won the war.
Jroup interest "and undue personal
jratn must give way to the good of
the whole nation if the situatjon is
to be squarely met."
The council Is composed of Secretaries
Raker, Daniels, Lane. Houston,
Itedfleld and Wilson and Grov?r 13.
Clarkson, as director.
? Helena, Ark., Oct. 4:- Normal conlitions
having been declared virtually
estored following 'the negro uprising
aunched 18 miles south of Helena late
rucsday, it was announced tonight
:rom military headquarters at Elaine,
lotbed of the disorders, that the 500
troops on duty in the county probably
will be returned to Camp I'ikc MonJny.
The announcement added that
luiet prevailed in southern Phillips
counlv. the section in which Elaine is
Utuated. v Approximately 225 negroes,
several of whom are women, were being
leid at Elaine today, according to army
s.llcers in charge. It was asserted that
i large number of these probably
would be released before Sunday night
since the majority were in custody
merely, for put-poses 6f (juestioning and
investigation. As rapidly as leaders,
rgitators and possible informants are
Jiscovcred they are forwarded to the
rounty jail here. Including men taken
locally for investigation, it was estimated
about CO were held in Helena,
ne white, O. S. IJratton of a Little
Itock law firm, was in custody pending
investigation. . The authorities declare
there has been noticeable diminution
in disturbances since the apprehension
the past three days of men considered
ring leaders. The latest of these was
V. E. l'owell, reported late today as
taken in Arkansas City, Ark, l'owell
was designated as "employed in the
United States service," in literature of
the "Progressive Farmers and Household
union," the organization believed
by officials to have been largely responsible
for the uprising. Other alleged
leaders In custody are Ed Hicks,
Ed Haker, Frank Hicks and Frank
.Moore. Hicks was declared by himself
and other prisoners to have been
president of the union and Bakor, they
said, was secretary. Robert L. Hill of
Winchester, Ark., whom literature and
confessions showed to be "councilor" ol
the organization, still was at large today
and a detailed description of him
had been distributed widely in the attempt
to take him. Will Hicks, another
alleged leader, also had not been found
according to the authorities. White
casualties as the result of the disorder
totalled five dead, including one soldier
and five wounded, one of them a soldier
All of the latter were reported recovering.
Two soldiers had suffered injuries,
one from an accidental pisto
shot in the foot and the other through
a fall from a truck. Of the negroe:
the known dead is 14 and the woundei
/
eight; although prisoners declared
njore than 25 have been killed and j|
! many wounded. Business was suspend- i!
ed in Helena, one hour today by both
1 negroes and whites during the funeral n
f service for the last of the local white
dead to be buried. Patrols continue to
scour the cane brakes and underbush
in the vicinity of Elaine and Old Town, n
Army officers said niany negroes "
? were being released shortly after being
rounded up when it was deter- |_
! mined they were of good character.
> Many, it was said, were voluntarily
presenting themselves at military for
examination.
I STA^TE WAREHOUSE SYSTEM. ' w
It Should ba Made Really Worth While
[ to the Farmers.
Itj a letter to the News and Courier,
Jennings K. Owens, member of the V)
house of representatives from Marl,
boro, discusses the state warehouse ^
! system as follows:
"There is rto economic question pf d
i more importance to each and every, rf
citizen of South Carolina than that of ^
the marketing of cotton. Our every t
interest is vitajly dependent upon thlsK"
one probletp. The educational work, j
i the, church wfcrk, the home life, the w
material welfare and the financial In- aJ
dependence of our people depend upon ^
the correct solution of this question.
"As a citizen, 1 realize it is not only g.
a public question; it is a personal one.
As a member of the general assera- w
My, I have f?(t that it was \my duty
to study this-subject. I do not pre- ^
tend that I have reached the point flj
where I would pose as an authority ^
on any phase of the cotton question, th
Lut I have attempted to analyze the
various theories and propositions
which have been advanced and I have
reached a conclusion- That ^jonclusion
Is that the best permaqe^t solution
is a well -devolved and efficient ^
state warehouse system. It seems to to
me that the letters of Mr. John L. _
CO
McLaurin to Mr. Mack King and Mr. w
J. S. Wannam^ker ure unanswerable.
Therefore, it is'my intention at the ^
next session of^he legislature to offer
certain umehclments to the present actThe
law recently enacted In North p?
Caroling is prac>Jcally the bill drafted m
by Mr. E. W. D&bbs and Mr. J. L. Mc- jt
Laurin at the request of tbo Farmers'
Union. It imposes a tax of twenty- th
five cents a bale on every bale of ge
cotton, so as fo furnish a fund for gc
the development of the system. The w"
legislature only.appropriated $15,000'
lcr the original establishment of. the a
system in Sfcttiftcferollna, and fWteme j h?
technicality?even this system was withI
held, and for eeveral months Mr. Mc- _
171
T?aurin personally had to advance the gc
necessary funds. '?t
"*The commissioner of warehouses "
m
now has power to negotiate sales of
cotton. Under the present rate of for
cign exchange, however, it would make
the coat of cotton to mills in Germany
more than one dollar a pound. This
is a mpre effective blockade than was
maintained* during the war by the j0
combined navies of the Allies, for Ger- mi
many then did get some cotton from ar
neutral countries. All tho writers and m
authorities on the subject say that ^
we need potash in the south. Some
think that our partial crop failures gQ
are due to the exhaustion of potash. ke
It would seem thdt it would be a com- [g
puratlvely small and certainly a very T1
ordinary business proposition for cotton
to be loaded in Charleston, or at
any other southern seaport, the bill 0j
of lading for Bremen or other foreign
pert could be banked here when tho vll
cotton bill of lading, the kainit could
be reloaded with kainit, the bill of
lading for kainit substituted for the w
cotton bill of lading, the kainit could or
be sold before arrival and distributed
light from the ship, with bill of lad- ca
Imf ntfarhad nnH nc fho mnnpv Mmp
in applied to the advance from ,the
bank. It would not be necessary for ^
the incorporation of any bank with jn
a large capital. Millions wrapped up
in this way would be uscle.su. ft is
true today, as it has been in all the of
past, the Lord helps those who help j
themselves. The machinery for the jn
solution of this problem is ali latent,
wrapped there in the state warehouse jQ
system. It only needs a little patch- at
ing and an engineer in charge who ^
knows how to keep the machinery run- t;,
rung. th
"Ther>state of South Carolina could
deal direct with a European country ju
and market this cotton and secure ^
desirable products in exchange. I do ^
not. believe it is necessary to sit down
and wait on Washington, or anyone ^
i else. As stated above, with the prop^
ar
er amendments to the present ware- cc
house bill, and with a capable, com- .(
potent man in charge who understands "
something of the financial problems, ^
it will give to South Carolina absoluto b
independence in the matter of the marlceting
of the cotton crop." fl
? A deadly poison to the boll weevil, a5
, the insect which has cost southern m
rot ton. plant crs. $100,000,000 annually, a
\ lias been discovered in the form of dry ^
powdered calcium arsenate by the bui
reau of entomology of the department
j of agriculture. Although calcium ot
|aisenate has been used at the govern
ifiont experimental stations since 1914
[ as an insectitude, the department of s'
| agriculture has started only recently sf
the campaign for wide application of 01
the poison. Already cotton planters are in
showing keen interest in the expert- ?'
ment and many planters over the entire
belt have tieated their fields.
1 - m . c(
I ? J. S. Williams of Rtchmond, Va., ti
! a chauffeur has been indicted for the th
II murder of his wife on September 12.
SENATORIAL ELOQUENCE :
I . ? ?I .*' J 1 *
fhere Oratory Is Practiced as a1
Pastime
10 MEN LIKE TO TALK AND DO IT
\
o Follette Hypnotic and Ensrgstic
?Johncon Peppery as' a Machine
Gun?Borah Thundered?Lodge Dig%
nified.
Variety is the spice of life everyhere
but in the United States senate,
rites a Washington correspondent to
le New York Sun. Oratory is the
>ice of life in the senate, but it does
ot necessarily follow that there is not
iriety in the oratory.
There ore ninety-six senators and
lere on* ninety-six varietes or oratory
inglng from spectacular spread eagle
own to the unobtrusive variety that
sminds one of the recitations on the
st day of school, and there are senairs
who are not orators.
For oratory Robert Marion Le Foltte
of Wisconsin is recognized as
ithout a peer in the senate. If 8en,or
La Folletto had gone into the show a
jsincne instead of the Fenatc he would
obabl^ have made far more than the 11
r,500 a year that Uncle Sam pays him, 8
least in the- days when hypnotists 0
ere good drawing cards.
The La Follette brand of oratory is 1
ypnotlc. Perhaps it is the rippling ^
lgers Senator La Follette . has a pe- '
iliar raannef of rippling his fingers in 1
e air as he speaks, and this seems to *
othe his audience and hold their at- v
ntion- 11
Dramatic oratory is Senator La Fol- 1
tte's forte, so much so that in the 0
ng winter evenings the La Follette
itldren ofterf invite their friends in
hear him. The senator from Wismain
uses every bit of his energy
hen he is speakfng and all of his 8
>dy frona the fluffy gray hair to the '
:tlo feet which he manipulates much
ter the fashion of Loupokova. a
Fourth of July oratory Is rather 0
isslng out in the senate. It doesn't
ake the appeal to the galleries that 11
used to and the senators are learn- r
g if ^>o. /But there are still two in ?
e scmite, who follow the old school. 1
inator Jarfies Watson of Indiana and
nator' Hoke Smith of Georgia can J
ive tho American flag rattling good
jurth of July oratory verbally in euch
manner as to make Ggorge M. Co- 3
in seem an apprentice-- y
There are but two senators who have 8
uifiers on their oratory. The3e are ^
inator Henry Cabot Lodge and Sen- h
or Walsh of Montana. Both arc 11
asters of dignity and diction and they ^
lvc none of the fiery sort of oratory. h
Johnson Like a Machine Gun.
Hiram Johnson, senator from Call- ^
rnia, has his own style of oratory, 11
id there has never been another sen- ^
or who had just the same Btyle. The ^
ihnson style Is full of pep. He speaks 81
ore rapidly than a machine gun barks w
id in very much the same sort of 81
1.
anner -for each word is snapped out "
iccato fashion and is followed irnediately
by another- Senator John- !t
n attains a high pitch of voice and a
,'eps there. Modulation in his voice a
a feat that he is still untrained in.
le very unusual manner of hte orary
is sufficient to assure him of an
idience, and he also has a reputation
saying things that count *
The oratorical surprise party for
B'.tors to the senate is 8enator Borah
Idaho. No gallery fan ever sus- ft
;cts the long haired, rather Wild A
est looking individual of being an o
ator; hut he is. Senator Borah is of a
e thundering school of oratorry. He s
,n make his words rumble through v
e long corridors all of the way to the c
iusc of representatives- He also uses ?'
s hands to good advantage in mak- ti
g emphatic those things that h^ t;
ants to impress upon his auditors, b
id at times ho resorts to a shaking
his long haired head until his brown tl
cks sweep down into his eyes. Drawg
a long breath he sweeps them back P
id begins anew. Senator Borah fol- >
ws the Billy Sunday stylo of keeping c
tcntion. He follows one line of n
* 1 A *? -* 1 imnrruc 11 n _ 11
ougru mill ne ucanra iu ?... <
I he finds his auditors wearying, and
en ho bursts an oratorical bomb, g
locks every one into attention and d
mps back to the same train of n
ought that was boring every one a r
w minutes Wfore. is
Many of the senators were district b
torneys at some time in their careers p
id some of them havo never re- v
ivercd. Senator Pat Harrison of Mis- si
ssippi is one of those who have not p
irown off all of the traits, for he reirts
to every known appeal to the fi
notions of his orations and stamps s
)out a good ueai ana snuKes ma
igers in the faces of those about him, tl
id generally conducts himself very h
uch after the fashion of the sort of tl
prosecutor who first attacks and g
lep cajoles the jury. ? t:
The Marathon Orator.
Senator France of Maryland is the e
ily Marathon orator in the senate, t
ot that ho consumes so much time, t
it because he uses up a great deal of d
)acc. Senator France runs ai.d walks e
iveral miles in the course of an hour ?
oration and if he starts his speech e
the back row of the Republic side t
1 the chamber he generally finishes c
in the back row of the Democratic e
de of the chamber, only after he has v
>vered every part of the floor several f
me3. When Senator France speaks t
ley give him room. lo
Senator James Reed of Missouri is [ t
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another orator who needs a good deal,
of room, for he is a paccr. Senator
Reed picks out an open space of about
ten feet in length and paces up and
down that space while he talks, andB
it is claimed that he has worn a path
in the green carpet of the senate near
his desk. Durable oratory is also one
>f Senator Reed's characteristic* He
:an make a little bit of oratory last
onger than any other member of the
ienate and still keep his audience.
Senator Reed is a famous criminal
awyer when he Isn't a senator and he
alks as if he were at a murder trial,
!or his whole manner of speaking is
limilar to that employed by men who
ire fighting for the life of a client or
Ightlng for conviction.
Time changes a good many orators.
Dr.ce upon a time Senator John Sharp
Williams was rated as one of the ablest
irators of the Senate. Now Senator
Williams is what the page boys call "a
ecord orator." That Is to say that initead
of launching into long orations
10 contents himself with having placed
n the record the orations of others.
Senator Williams Introduces more oraions
into the Record than any other
Ive men In the senate- When sufflilently
excited he reverts baak to his
>ld time form and delivers himself o/
i stingnig oration, one that bites.
Phis usually occurs when some one
r?a!:es an attack upon President Wllon,
whose staunchest defender is Senitor
Williams
Senator Hitchcook of Nebraska is
he furniture breaking type of orator,
'he sergeant at arms trembles for the
umiture when Senator Hitchcock gets
inder way, because the senator from
Nebraska certainly punishes the desks
vlth his flst, and when his list gets
ime and sore he then resorts to fllngng
large books at the desk with an
occasional shying kick at a cnair.
. Penrose Keen at Repartee.
When Senator Boles 'Penrose cuts
Dose, which he seldom does these days,
t takes several minutes for him to
et started, for Senator Penrose talks
rom his feet up, and when the words
inally reach his mouth' ha closes it
nd lets them trickle out nasally. Ii\
ratory Senator Penrose isn't the best
a the senate, but .in terse and to the
>olnt words and in repartee there is
ione better. When Jim Ham Lewis
f Illinois was in the senate nothing
(leased the ocnators more than a conset
between the flowery verbiage of
im Ham and the ponderous but brlllint
repartee of Senator Penrose.
Some senators adopt the scolding
tyle of oratory. Usually these are ,
oung 'senators who ha^e lately been
overnors, such as Senator Edge of
tew Jersey, but 86nator Srnoot of Utah
as never recovered from the scold tg
habit and occasionally Senator
ohn Sharp Williams has to admonish
im.
When still a boy William King woo a |
liver medal for oratory. You can icarn
tiat in the congressional directory,
low as a senator from Utah William
ling still has the bdylsh oratory, the
ort that ma,kes you feel as if there
as a promoter hidden behind the
cenes and that the gestures were
;arned from a book. i
Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota
? the only aquatic orator in the sente.
He is addicted to plug tobacco
nd oratory4 in combination.
Oratory lis what makes the senate, i
BLACK MEN ARE PROSPEROUS
ieg^oss In Mississippi art Happy and
VVI|k?l|%?wt
Exceptional happiness, contentment
nd prosperity among the negroes of llssissippi
is reported by a committee
C Chicago white and negro men after
n investigation of conditions is that
rate. The committee was delegated to
isit Mississippi by the Chicago AsSO- i
iation of Commerce, the Federal Bu- i
eau of Labor and by organised labor
o whieh had been referred a quesion
of aiding the return of southcrnorn
negroes to the south. .
A written statement prepared by
he committee said:, ^
"The happiness, contentment and
rosperity among the colored race in
llssissippi is much greater than the
omniittee expected to find. We know
o place where greater happniess and
rosperity prevail among them."
School facilities were found to be
ood, churches adequate, housing conitions
being improved rapidly and
ace relations good, according to the
eport, while the Industrious negro
: afforded excellent opportunities to
ecome a land 1 owner. No place op*
ression, imposition or "lawlessness"
fas found. Hcjro, workers In the
awmill districts were reported hapy
and contented,
Many of Ijie farm laborers were
* * - 1 ? 1 -' nho rfl I
ouna VO ue wursms un tub una. V
ystcm. Negroes having no capital,
earns or implements r.re equipped by
lie land owner, receiving, usually, a
alf of the crop they produce, while
hose with teams and implements are
lven two-thirds. The statement coninues:
"We found that the average workr
who cultivated what is known as
he 'one mule crop* ujns able, using
he year 1918 as a criterion, to prouce
a sufficient crop to net him, ovr
and above all living expenses, from
300 to <1,500 a year. We found sevral
men who began work under the
enant system and who now own their
wn plantations and are themselves
mployers of negro labor and are
korth from <10,000 to $175,000. These
acts were secured for the negroes
hemselves and we had the privilege
f riding with them and surveying
heir farms in automobiles they own."
THE NEW PENSION RlHlS i
Correspondent Is Doubtful As -To ,
Their Fairness. |
PROOF OF SERVICE TOO DIFMHfjI
Under Regulations as they are Now it
Would So em that Veterans Wht ||
Have Outlived their Comrades,'l
Also Outlived their Hope of Pf'actlpal' 11
Recognition. I
Kditor' Yorkvllle Enquirer. 1
"The revision of the pension rWRPftj I
seems to be causing more or le*s'jiHpH|E
eltement, and even anxiety among the; '*
Confederate veterans and widows of fl
veterans- Of course, the board ia tlMkfil
judge as to whether it is rli)it,. gjfpifl I
wrong, but to the average man ap$-J 1
woman It seems decidedly unreason** v 1
able, and rather absurd to rtjgjwgjra I
these few aged veterans?and afKBji 1
they surely are?to procure 1
nesses to prove that they or their hug-, jj!
bands fought in the War Between the '
"In the Hret place it is very doubtfiU?lBg
whether the eter&ns can And W*W$J Jj
r.csses out of the remaining few. VT+'||l
all know that the old "vets" are ?*$?. *|i
passing away, and are even 'fl
widely scattered throughout thq\ cgj
er.imfri
V/UUVi/1 IT7?
' In the oecond place, if they hajps'-^ I
been receiving pensions in th? pf^rt.. J1
without witnesses, why is ? rTpfflLE,
now to trouble their short days with \ ^j|
such a matter? Is it not rather a late ^
<lay to start that? 1
"In many cases these pensions 1% 1
world of good to these decrepit 1
and women whose days of labor lurigi 1
long since past. Should they fre a
prived of this ifnd now in their last fl
days, merely because of their failure fl
to get up two people to prove that they Ja
fought during the war, would it not-Mr V 1
doing them an injustice? Not *ra&ti}r w'Jal
veterans and widows of my aoOwB^H
tance have very much to coil
own and this pension money is a
send to them, even though it ,'imH I
to prosperous people as a verj^lMH I
indeed. I
"I heard aii old snow-white h^BHj i
n un say the other day that there was J
not one man living that he
to whom he could go .to and
serve as a witness (or him. 1
fact that this old fleble fellomj^H i
serve is well c*aUI#fcd^and/ M?M
questioned in his?eofemvnity. He, I
liouht. will fail to receive his pension, I
however, and that means that mmm* * I
one else wlll#havo to clotho him as ?
well as feed htm. This same ol*J^.3|
fellow borrowed money last week-tw > 1
to to Tork to try and find some means ' j
Ly whtoh he might again receive I
little amount of money which heret**' I
fore has bought his scant clothing...
as he says?I'm poor, weak, and 'ji
worthless, my word is as nothing.' , j
"Certainly, there are some who" '1
would attempt to get on the petisiotT * I
roll, and probably have alreadydoBKn 1
bo, who are not entitled to reeelMBHJ
pensions, but it seems that there'-. 1
could be some other way of getting |]
these dishonest ones off If that is. I
reason the witness must be sammnttch'^
"Personally, I'm not Interested in J
pensions but there are some I know" a
who are vitally interested and it is J
for that reason my sympathy~*^PSj j
aroused for the needy old soldier 6r J
his widbw. It seems as tboufth the? '* 31
arc about to be made even more destl* < 9
tute and it is somebody's duty to apenk^ |
in their behalf. ' J
"Some are favored with plenty of j
(his world's goods and they do no$ j
matter so much, but the ones with nql 1
a red cent to call their own wfll j
ilils yearly allotment if the7\^H ' I
tie c.dic to set ineir witnesses. ?i^" [
of these worthy old soldiers hav^to/J9
tuke just what 1b given them and 1
pension though small, ' is the'' only^ll 1
thing they have in their possesslQn tA l. J
do with as they wish and they sur&pr\v I
deserve that still without the trouble 9
of getting up witnesses. 1
"We all suppose that the board h'ad''?<9
done this for some worthy reasonff-|g
ytill there Is no doubting the fact that ' 9
the same board is causing a great deal fl
of trouble for the old soldier and hl? 9
widow, and futhermore, may enh?et-9
a great many of them to lose what
due them." < . fl
Mrs. W. L. Whitesides, j9
Smyrna, S. C., October 2. > , fJm
How Word "Boexo" Originated.?
the Pennsylvania museum, MembPMf' I
hull in Falrmount park, Philadelphia, fl
can be seen a collection of highly de&I''? 1
crated bottles, and the one which' af-' IJ
?"?? mn?f attention Is the lor cabin
whiskey bottle, molded in the shape of
a house. On one end is the inscription'"
"120 Walnut street Philadelphia," to- *
gether with the date, which Is
on the front of the roof. On the back-'
is stamped in bold letters, "fi, G. 1
Kooz's old cabin whisky." .
This erstwhile vendor of spirituous"... !
liquor is said to be responsible for'"
* * 1" A /\f Aho dinner 1
inr use All illllCIIVa Ul HIV ?r|^- .
I ellation "booze," by whtch all kinds ' ;
Of Intoxicating drinks are known to- " j
day. Although some etymologists
it as boing derived from the Hindu- J
stani word "booza," meaning drink,''
while others claim it is from the Dutch
"buyzen" to tipple. The term was 1
good English in the fourteenth oen?
tury.?Publis Ledger.
? There are now about 40 sawmills lh'
operation in Edgefield county. j