Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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1 ^ _ ioil;cd sr.^i- weekly. __ Z^nl Ir\sts sons. publishers. J <$amilg ^Icaspapcr: ,^'or the promotion of the political, Social, |grinilturkat and Commercial Interests of the |3eopti?. TERMs^L^c^fiiviNcJS^N^ e9tablishe^1835 "YORKTS. P., TTjKSP 3TOVEMBEH 4, 1919. " 3STO. 88 VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS Brief Local Paragraphs of More c Less Interest. / PICKED UP BY ENQUIRER REPORTER! I Stories Concerning Folks and Thingi J\ Some of Which You Knew ant PV. Some You Don't Know?Condensec for Quick Reading. "It may bo propaganda put out b] his enemies: but there is a story go log the rounds in the north and eas' to the effect that President Wilsor has sustained a stroke of paralj'sis anc that he is in a critical condition." salt: a well known Yorkville man who re turned home the other day aftej spending ten days or such a matter ir the east on business. "Many people i believe the story." he went on to say "and are taking it for the truth." Hard to Keep a Cook. "I am having all kinds of trouble in keeping a cook at the Jail," remarked Sheriff Fred Quinn, Saturday morning. "I don't know when I ever did have so much trouble. I get hold ol ' a cook and keep him or her a few days and ho or she, whichever it happens to be is gone. It is some tough Job to keep a cook at the Jail." University Making Progress. "The university is making good progress of which we are very proud," said Dr. Willium Spencer Currell, president of the'University of South Carolina who was in Yorkville Saturday, having corhe here Friday for the purpose of delivering an address before w the local Red Cross society. 'The enrollment of the university at present Is 537," said Dr. Currell, "and we arc confident that it will reach COO before the end of the scholastic year " She Ddn't Think So. "You hear girls say that the normal course at Winthrop College is awfully hard and there is an impression that the college work there is the hardest of any college in the state; but somehoV I don't thinl: so," said a young junior from Laurens county, a student at Winthrop, who spent last Saturday and Sunday in Yorkville. "I am comQleting my third year at Winthrop," the young woman said, "and it seems to me that the work gets easier instead. ' *r ^"**ljf"'1fcirder".'' Nothing in the Job. "Yes, I was among those who took * the examination for the position of ~~Hut T Hnn't knflw CC1IBUO Cliu.iiciayvt f ~v?v * ?.w. . whether or not I would want the job if it is offered to me now that I have thought some more about it," said Mr. Lesslie Smith, well known citizen of Yorkville X'o. 1, the other day. "Tho places pay from $4 to J6 according to the work to do, and if one has to furnish his own means of transportation which he is obliged to do, I don't sc; how he is going to make anything out of the place." The Shandon and Sugir. "The sugar shortage is beginning to annoy me jiist like it is beginning to annoy some other people I guess," said Mr. C. R. Simmons, proprietor of the Shandon Hotel the other night- "1 have had u .little on hand; but not much aiftl ^hen it gives out I don't ' know whore J am going to get any more. However as long as it lasts I am going to make my guests welcome to all that they want and when if gives out and I can't get any more I am going to tell the folks so. Xone of this parceling out of sugar for tt\e. It miaht last longer that way but there \ would be more dissatisfaction among my patrons." Made Him Feel Mean. "Be careful how you sit there?that's sugar," warned a York county man as Views and Interviews perched on the C desk in his office a day or two ago. "I took a trip into the country a few days ago and managed to get that sugar from a man up at Smyrna. It isn't much: hut it's just that much. You know there's a little sugar at some of the stores and if you will whistle around the man who has it and will whisper in his ear you can get a little- That's how I got this. But I feel mean when I do It. Kind of reminds me of the old days when one could get a drink on the side if he knew how to do it. But Hw* then I am telling you something you don't know anything about." Many Attend State Fair. "Many York county people attended the state fair in Columbia last week,' ^ observed a well known young man ol Y'orkville. "In fact I expect the attonil'inco nf York rountv folks on tllC state show was larger this year than usual. Among those I saw in Columbia were the following: J. B. Scott Rodney fccott, Robert Witherspoon Fred H. Jackson and son. Mr. and Mrs M. C. Willis and Miss Mury Henlej fi Willis, H. B. James, Blake Plexieo Fletcher Buff, Bee McFadden, Mr. ani Mrs. Howard Patrick. L. G. Thompson Wallace Marshall, Cullie Plaxco, A. M Wallace, S. L. Courtney, J. A- Riddle Mr. and Mrs. Henry Riddle. Of coursr there were a great many others then , whom I didn't see." Second Crop Grapes. Mr. Clyde Biggcrs of York N'o. 2 brought to The Enquirer office a fev . days ago a half a dozen bunches o ' fully matured second crop grapes. Hi said that the vines had a very ful crop in July, and August, and tha / while they are not so fully laden with the second crop they are making a pretty fair showing. To Views and Interviews a second crop of grapes is t r something unusual. It Is more or less common to have people bring in second crop apples, peaches, cherries and the like, so common in fact that . ? only an occasional mention is made of: A ' the circumstances. But two crops of grapes is something unusual, and ns ^ Mr. Biggers remarks, if tne rrosx 1 which is now well past due had 1 showed up/on time, so far as his vines 1 are concerned, there would be no ripe ' specimens of the second crop to bring. j Strike Outs Look Ominous. y Writing to relatives in York county t a York county young man who is in t< t the military service and holds an of- p I fleers' commission says: "I am at c v [ Gary, Indiana, doing duty with my ti . troops in the strike zone. The jails are 0] . full of mfen and we are getting ready to , build a bull pen to put the rest of them h s in. I don't know how this thing is|0] going to turn out; but I do know that j a it is a pretty serious situation. So far I f( as I am personally concerned I am in |g] eve--y bit as much danger here as I C1 1 was at any time during the late war ja with Germany, although that is giv- aj ing me no concern. It is hard to figure n, what is coming next; but from the way C) things look now I don't think there is ti much chance of my getting a furlough w home Christmas. There is a shortage 0j of officers in the army at present and 0i I am worked to death, haying com- x mand of two companies whereas ordinarily I would have only one.". h< Jimmie Worked His Head. cn "You know little Jim Demas, son of John Demas, the well known candy tr man of Yorkville," said a local minis- rc ter the other night. "I heard a story about him the other day that made mo 80 laugh. "When Jimmie first started to ri1 school the grade was crowded and it s' was necessary to divide it into two r{ sections. une seuuoji nas iu | to school at 9 and be dismissed at 12 i*1" and the other go at 12 and be dls- J,5< missed at 3 o'clock. Little Jim was in the class that was to go in at 9 and OI come home at 12. His father knew some of the oiher pupils in the same E grade; but he didn't understand the P( arrangement whereby it was divided 80 into sections. When the little fellow ra started coming back at 12, and the father noticed that the other pupils didn't get home until 3 o'clock, he got c' the idea that the boy was playing hookey. Little Jim tried to explain ro Ihuf^he couldn't and so lie got" a w whipping. In order to keep from ^ getting more whippings it was n^ccssary for him to do something, so for 'n a time he adopted the policy of wait- 'c ing out of his father's eight until 3 P( o'clock when he would come home ra with the rest of them." w .t er " *" to FIVE MILLION FOR SCHOOLS "a ? . b< Annual School Revenue Reaches'High- S1 , cct in History. ^ The forthcoming statistical report of ^ the state superintendent of education m to the legislature, covering the scholas- A tic year July 1, 1918?June 30, 1919, Will show a total available school fund of $5,090,712.82. For the first.time In ra the history of the state's educational jh,? rystem the annual school revenue has 0j exceeded *f?,uuu,uuu.vu. me iowi school fund reported for the scholastic year 1908, 1903 amounted to $2,345,- js 64 7.72. The gain during the last ten years is, therefore, $2,743,06 7.10. The total school fund for the scholastic jn year 1913-1914 was $3,520,130.45- The gl) gain during the last five years is, there- U! fore, $1,570,582.17. The gratifying Cf growth is a direct result cf the uni- cc versal interest cf the people. The in-w^ creased funds have been secured main- pt ly through local taxation stimulated by aj legislative appropriation. ot School taxes arc partly constitutional ))r and partly statutory. The constitution ! j-T of 1895 levies on each citizen above i n twenty-one years of age, except Con- j js federate Veterans, a district poll tax Cl) j of $1.00. The constitution also requires rj, the levying in each county of a tax of m three mills upon each dollar of prop- V( erty. The proceeds of the three mill a* constitutional tax are held in the coun- ca ty treasury and distributed to the j te t schools of the county upon the basis nl of enrollment. The statutes provide sc four school taxes. A statutory levy jj i varying from $0.50 to $1.00 must be paid for each dog. Under Section 174 2 j jj, i of the Cole a local tax of eight mills IT] for ordinary expenses may be voted inj cq any district. The High School Law I permits the voting of an additional r{ , high school tax of four mills. The gen- !0j , eral bond act authorizes any district to c( vote sghool bonds up to four per cent.. tj, of its assessed valuation. Special acts i et relating to individual districts or to in- j dividual counties authorize local taxes i r< 'amounting sometimes to twenty mills. ! o) ' it is interesting to note that all statu-! |c ' lory school taxes are purely local. | U| ^ The general assembly in Section 11 tv [ of the appropriation bill makes thir-|g( J teen specific appropriations for sped- u [lie activities in the schools. These1 g 'Ithirteen appropriations make up the'j, '(various items of state aid. In a eon-i,., ^'siderablc number of counties the legis- ,.. "jlutive delegates have put in the'r p " county supply bills definite amounts p 11 for the county schools or county sl school levies ranging from one-fourth p , mill to one mill. These scattered ,? r county appropriations constitute tlie f county board fund which, in most in-j e stances, is distributed in the discretion lj l of the county board of education for u tjthc improvement of the schools. jp RAILROADS OF ENGLAND J hey Are Managed With Admirable System. MERICA CAN LEARN FROM THEM 'he Public Generally Recognizes that the Iron Highways are Public Utilities Operated for the Public and the Railroads are not Allowed to Imnn?? ?n (-!/* Pnhlir nor the Public on tho Railroad:. rude Harris in Charlotte Observer. London. Sept- 2^.?From Edinburgh ( ) London it is about 400 miles, or tactically the same distance as from harlottc to Washington, but while it , ike3 11 hours to make the distance n the Southern Railway, the trains in | Ingland make it in nine hours. This, owevtr, is net altogether a superiority [ speed by the English over the , merican railroads. It is rath'er a uni>rm maintenance of. speed. That reat American nuisance, the grade , ossing whistle, is unknown in Eng,nd. The country roads invariably re carried over the tracks. There are u gates or flagmen and no grade ossing accidents. The engineer on le Engl:sh railroad may speed along ith no nervousness over the prospect ' running into cattle, into automobile wagon, or of running down a tramp, i either docs he fear a landslide, for le embankments are turfed and the eaviest rains develop no menace. Bu' i rer and above all, he has a perfect >ad bed over which to operate his ; ains. A grade of one per cent, is garded as a heavy one on the Eng- ? gh railroad, and it is well that It la i, for even when tfce slight grades . *e encountered there is a perceptible owing up of speed. The English rail mda are not so weir ballasted as the , mericar. lines, but it is observed that le American system of ballasting i.: iing adopted, piles of crushed stone f jlng now distributed along the line of? ic ot the trunk lines into Londox^kfl rhcn this ballasting is completed th<? nglish railroad bed will be prsaftticalflfl irfect. The rails in use arq,ffitt r^ulfgY* i heavy as those in .use cn-aHedcttii .ilroads, but they are laid n L fa?., 'i ;tter idea to the practictUvMFhc railo1 > ..ot touch the crosstic&.^Koad iron ; amps arc bolted into tmnlcf and .rough these the base ""rffPfr <5f the .lis are passed, wooden Mffkr. beint edged lh the sf&es to'gh^freslildlr'y!1'" o spikes are used. Ily method e rails are prevented (Mfm working : to the t;es and produeij^ 'unever vels, and the wheels j)dss over J rmancntly smooth and solidly based .11 bed- This smooth mil surface, ( ith the elimination of, crossings ? lables the English railroad engineers, : maintain a steady rate of speed, the. ipurts" so common on American lines sing unknown. The superiority of : seed which the English railroads arc ile to maintain over the railroads of le United States is easily located ii ie superiority of roadbed. In equip- ( ent of engines and foiling stock the ! merican lines are vastly in the lead. . 'e believe that with trackage condi- ' sns similar to those of the English " .ilroads, the Southern Railway would enabled to maintain a schedule o ght hours between Charlotte and 'ashington. The ordinary English railroad coach t a Bcries of boxed off compartments, we would tako half a dozen of*th<- ! jtel omnibuses of the type common t i America and fasten them side i>: do, placing a pair of railroad trucks ider each end, we would have a fair inception of the English railroad >ach. Once the journey is started icre is no intercourse between the issengers of one compartment with lother. They must sit facing eneh her, three pairs of knees on one side ojocting against three pairs of lees on the other, and it is only when stop is made at stations that a shift possible. There is no water on the irs and none of the modern comforts, ut on through trains the compartcnts are arranged to the better connienee of the travelers. Narrow side slcs provide communication from one i.r to the other, but the boxed-in sysm of six passengers to the compartcnt still prevails. fThc dining car rvice on the through trains is equal, not superior to that of the American lilrouds. Certainly the traveler on io English roads gets more for his ' oney than the traveler in the United atcs. But even after the American rail-M tads should .move up to the standard c ' the English railroad in trackage 1 >nditions, there would yet remain one 1 ling of necessary accomplishment to ^ luble their through trains to make ' ic time established on the English ! tads, and that would be the privilege U r operating a system of through and < eal trains. Under the English schedH'f.'il, 1 l,r> I,lit 1 WO stops he- * verr. Charlotte ami Danville on tho j1 authern's through Washington train,jl here there are now 14 or more. In * ngland a "through" train is not ex-jf ccled to ilo local service, hut an ade- j' uate schedule of local trains is ar-j t tnged to take rare of that part of the .? usincss. And furthermore, in I2ng- ' ind railroad legislation is of a con-1 ructivc rather than a destructive h ind. The people stand between the 11 lil roads and the politicians. 1 How Seeds are Scattered.?On lone- < F'atitle islands of volcanic origin, ; ninhat.ited even by animals, early exV:l lorers have found plants indention! jl with thoso of far distant regions. Sonic varieties of seed may be carried hundreds of miles by the wind. Others, the coconnut for example, may drift in the bcean current. Hut the presence of some plants c^n be explained only on the supposition that the original seed had been transpor ted by birds. In the west great areas of rugged mountain country have been denudec of trees by forest fires. Soii conditions and inaccessibility make forest planting either impossible or impractical. Yet the bare slopes increase danger from floors, landslides and avalanches. Representative Randall of California has received the novai idee Df planting by airplane, scattering millions of seed in the air and trusting to IUCK Uiai A Sllltlll piupuiuuii mil spiuui grow and reproduce. Of course many seeds will fall on barron rocks and in unfavorable con Jitlons, but with costs and difficulty of reforestation so' great there probably tvould be saving ;ln the long run. The ilrplane w ould t.ake the place of a bird in covering-the barren spots of the world.?Omaha Bee. ? V . ^ MINERS WALK OUT. I_ ' rhree Hundred thousand Coal Workers Quit. Bituminous ctfril fields of the nation :onight were in the grip of a strike iffective at midnight which leaders ot :he union miners declared already had ;een more than 277,000 of their members out of the works to remain out antil the strike should be settled, t'housands more of the miners whose whole number Is roughly placed at .00,000 would be out tomorrow they said. The men already on strike, says a Chicago dispatch of Friday, the leadjrs reported, were those who had left he mines today, taking their tools vlth them. Reports from the soft oal fields were' very Incomplete totight and even the union leaders agreed ) wait until tomorrow before being ble definitely to know the number of len {who had obeyed the strike call. !ut almost 'every instance, th< liners spokesmen asserted that the leup of the miners would be virtually tomplete although the unions will lea*x t sufficient number of men in the nines to man the pumps and keep the property' in shape for resumption of work when the strike shall be en tome union leaders refused to talk >11 account ofyajKrestraioing prder isnedH Reports t<t the union leaders toright Indicated that the bull; of the nlners in the great producing reions of Pennsylvania, West Virginia. Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Jbloj adaT Kansas, Montana and Wyoming had leit 'he mines at the clos% >? the day shift to remain on strike. But with the strike officially startig at midnight, tomorrow being vlruall. a holiday in coal mining, and >nndoy also a dav of non production t vyas generally conceded that not' refore Monday would the uctual effect 6f the strike be known definitely. 3y that time union leaders will have rearly complete reports from union ocals and the coal operators wilt mow to what extent they will be idie 10 operate 11 iney snouiu ueciue o attempt actual mining: vork. The following: table by states of nen who left >he mines today" and toiig;ht to obey the strike call is based )n reports, in most instances estimated, received by union leaders hroughout the country: Arkansas, 1,000. v^uiuruuu, o.vvu. Illinois. 80,000. Indiana, 25,000. Iowa, 14,000. Kansas, 12,000. Kentucky, 30,000. Maryland, 1,800. Michigan, 2,400. Mississippi, 1,090. Montana, 4,000. New Mexico, 300. North Dakota, 1,000. Ohio, 40,000. Oklahoma, 8.000. Pennsylvania, 100,000. Tennessee, 2,000. Utah. 1,000. Washington, 6,000. West Virginia, 40,000. Wyoming, 5,000. BIG FOOD SURPLUS. Herbert Hoover Says There is Plenty of Food In America. Fixtpen to twenty million tons of ood more than necessary for American consumption will be the yield from his year's crop, Herbert Hoover form - [ r food administrator, told a house | var investigating committee last week, i le said the continuing high retail a ires were due largely to the "appal- i ing pnychology of the public to buy i tvttnnuivA 1 " Speculation by thousands of people In intiripation of a big demand from Gernany also was blamed by Mr. Hoover or advancing prices. He said large stocks were accumulated by the trade >n the assumption that export trade :o Germany would be opened soon afcr the sinning of the armistice. ".In- [ dead cf buying the Germans tightened ip their belts," he said. Discussing the pending federal cold storage law limiting storage of food j products to one year. Mr. Hoover said p.e did not thin|{ the law compursed | "the critical point" of preventing a :-o! l storage receipt from being used is v "speculative document," adding .0 the price every time it changes! bands. LABOR SIDE OF IT. Samuel Gompers Discusses Injunction Against Strikers. Samuel Gompers, speaking for organized labor in Washington, last Friday night, declared the injunction in the coal strike case "can only result in creating new and more disturbing issues which may not he confned solely to the miners." The statement, issued jointly by Mr. Gompers, Vice President Woll and Secretary Morrison, of the federation, after they had protested to Attorney General Palmer against cne action of Ill" It'CCIdl LUUI I Ul IJl'ilUlliipUIII!), 1UIlows: "Throughout the period of the war and during the nation's time of stress the miners of America labored patiently, patriotically and arduously in order that ttte principles of freedom and democracy might triumph over the forces of arbitrary authority dictatorship and despotism, ' "When armed hostilities closed last November, the miners found themselves in the paradoxical position where their intensive labor were being used to further enrich the owners of coal mines and merchants dealing in coal by the immediate reduction in the mining of the coal. Of course, the minp owners readily conceived that an over abundance of mined coal, would seriously disturb the high prices of coal and endanger their large margin of profits. "On the other hand the miners found that with the constantly rising cost of necessities of life and with their income reduced over 50 per cent because of idleness that they had reached the limit of human endurance. Orderly and improved processes were invoked to negotiate a new understanding with the mine pwners and which would enable the miners to work at least five days during each week throughout the entire year and allow them a wage sufficient to enable them to live in decency and free from many of the pressing uncertainties of life. "In attempting to negotiate this understanding and relation the miners found t!)at their plea for continuous employment would destroy the miners' arrangement to curtail the mining of coal so as to continue exploiting the public with high and exorbitant prices. "The mine owners very cleverly met the'issue by appearing willing and anxious to negotiate, but only if the miners would first throw aside the only power at their command to gain a respectful hearing and fair consideration ?ine uisuussiuii 10 airme wuenever it was demonstrated fair dealings did not pevail. We are faced with a coal strike of vast magnitude. The government now proposes to intervene because of a possible coal shortage. Apparently the government is not concerned with the manipulation by, the mine owners which has made for present coal shortage and undue unemployment of the miners for the past eleven months. Instead of dealing with those responsible for the grave menace to the public welfare, it now proposes to punish those who by force of circumstances have been the victims of the coal barons' exploitations. The miners are now told the war is not over, \ and that all war legislation is still in force, and if reports received here arc correct the government intends to apply existing war measures, not against the owners of the coal mines, but against the coal miners. The government has taken steps to enforce war measures by an injunction and it has restrained the officials of the United Mine workers from counceiling, aiding or in any way assisting the members of this organization for relief against grievous conditions of life and employment. "It is almost inconceivable that a government which is proud of its participation in a great war to liberate suppressed peoples should now undertake to suppress the ligitimate aims, hones and asnirations of a srroup of Its own people. It is still more strange that a nation which may justly he proud of its Abraham Lincoln should new reverse the application of the great truth he enunciated when he said as between capital and labor, labor should receive first and foremost consideration. 'The injunction against the United Mine workers bodes for ill. An injunction of this nature will nc4 prevent the strike?it will not fill the empty stomachs of the miners?it may restrain sane leadership, but will give added strength to unwise counsel and increase bitterness and friction. "This injunction can only result in creating new and more disturbing issues which may not be confined sole- 1 ly to the miners." These views were presented to Attorney General Palmer in a confer- |i ence this afternoon lasting nearly two hours by President Gompers. Secretary . Morrison and Vice PesldentWoll of the American Federation of Labor." 1 Time Not Lost.?For the students in J colleges and universities who "took J the khaki and the gun instead of cap and gown" some consolation is found in the fact that the interruption of their education was not wholly time lost without compensation, even from an educational point of view. Prof. Milton W. Humphreys of the j Pnivcrslt.v of Virginia delivered an ml dress at the Lee Centennial in 1907. At the time Clepernl rtohept E. Lee I was president of Washington College j (now Washington and Lee University,) j Humphreys was a student under hlin. He said in his address: "Just once it was my lot to receive a severe rebuke from General Lee. While I was an undergraduate my health seemed to become Impaired, and he had a conversation with me about it, in which he expressed the opinion that I was working too hard. I replied: 'I am so impatient to make up the time I lost in the army*?I got no further. General Lee flushed, and exclaimed in an almost angry tone: 'Mr. Humphreys, however long you live, and whatever you accomplish, you will find that the time you spent in the Confederate army was the most profitably spent portion of your life. Never again speak of having lost time in the army.' And I never did."?Greenville Piedmont. WORLD'S FUEL SUPPLY Time Wi.'l Come When it Will be Mainly Alcohol. "No sooner has King Alcohol gone out of th'e back door as a beverage than he enters the front door In triumph as a fuel. "That, at least seems a reasonable interpretation of recent expert utterances on the subject, including the pronouncement of a number of world famous chemists who attended a scientific congress recently in New York City," says a bulletin from the Washington headquarters of the National Geographic Society. Why Mother Necessity is givi.ig birth to this new brain-child of, invention is related in a communication to The Society by Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, as follows: "There is one obstacle to further advance In mechanical development, in the increasing price of the fuel necessary to work machinery. Coal and o . are going up and are strictly limited in quuntity. We can take coal out of a mine, but we can never put it back. We can draw oil from subterranean reservoirs, but we can never refill them again. We are spendthrifts in thr matter of fuel and are using our capital for our running expenses. "In relation to coal and oil, the world's annual consumption has be come so enormous that we are actually within measurable distance of the end of thd supply. What shall we do when we have not more coal or oil. "Apart from water power (which if strictly limited) and tidal and wave power (which we have not yet learned to utilize), and the employment of the sun's rays directly as a source of power, we have little left, excepting wood, and it takes at least twenty-five years to grow a crop of trees. "There is, however, one other source of fuel supply which may perhaps solve this problem of the future. Alcohol makes a beautiful, clean, and efficient fuel, and, where not intended for consumption by human beings, can be manufactured very cheaply in an indigestible tfr even poisonous form, Wood al9ohol, for example, can be employed as a fuel, and we can make alcohol from sawdust, a waste product of our mills. "Alcohol can also be manufactured from corn stalks, and in fact from almost any vegetable matter capable ol fermentation. Our growing crops and even weeds can be used. The waste products of our farms are available for this purpose and even the garbage from our cities. We need not fear the exhaustion of our present fuel supplies so long as we can produce an annual crop of alcohol to any extent desired. "The world will probably depend upon alcohol more and more as time goes on, and a great field of usefulness is opening up for the engineer who will modify our machinery to enable alcohol to be used as the source of power." The Abrent Voter Proposition.? Among other election reforms which are promised for the next session of the General Assembly, which convene? in January, is the "absent voters" bill, which was introduced last year but which failed to carry. The bill is fathered by Senator Thos. B. Pearce and by Representative Gerald, both of Columbia, who state that they will push it vigorously through the next session The bill would entitle a voter absent from his county on election day to vote by registered mail. ,The bill will provide for a registration book for all absent voters, ant the names of such voters would be certified by the county board of election commissioners to the various precinct registrars. The elector would heallowed to send in his vote on the d^v of election, duly certified before a notary. The votes would be mailed in by registered mail and would have to be opened by the precinct managers before 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the election dav. Such mailed votes would be subject to challenge as are any other ballots. In addition to this bill, there will probably be other election measures before the next legislature. Members of the state democratic executive committee have stated that they expect to have introduced a bill to abolish the Australian ballot system. They state that it is too complex and that this complexity allows irregularities to get Hi. i uia aiuuiuciii iiviii <mv?*wv.w the Democratic committee was called) forth after the recent contest of the congressional election of the Sixth dis-1 trict. Chairman John Gary Evans, of the committee, has been quoted as saying that ho is in favor of such legislation.?Columbia Record. Suited Him.?"I must insist, Mr. Stager." said the pompous actor to the manager, "on having everything real in every scene of the; play." "Very well." said the manager, "if you insist on that you will he supplied with real poisor in the death scene." OLD ORDER PASSES Today !s The Twilight Of The Belted Earl. . ENGLAND CHANGES TO DEMOCRACY British Aristocracy, for so Many Centuries Secure in its High Place, is . Feeling the Ground Slip Under its Feet. In one of the old Plantagenet houses of England the belted earl and her ladyship live in one corner of the castle. The r*st of the fine old mansion Is closed, William Allen White writes in Collier's. The servants needed to run the house are no longer available. Money will not hire them. Their men have been commissioned in the army ?w??i because the earl's son?who had a r right to sit at the foot of the throne and who had also the blessed privilege * ? ? t-i 1 -1 + .1 oi nearmg Kirg uy uiitiua ugm iddress him as cousin?the earl's son Mghted one cigarette too many on the parapet, and when he and his kind from Eton and Harrow went out, commissions in the army fell to the cook's ton and the housekeeper's son and the parlormaid's brother and chambermaid's sweetheart, who, being com- ^ missioned, promptly took their women'{ind out of sendee. They are feeding what they never felt before, these dd nestic servants of the nobility?the tpur of ambition. , So they have left the castle, and tuch of the senants as stay hdve befun to assert their rights, to manifest. their self-respect. "Whatever you do," mid her ladyship to her guest, "don't ring a bell!" To the question in the visitor's face the hostess replied: "If you ring a bell the servants will leave. I have only three. They have announced that they wil| do their work, jut they forbid interruptions by dells!" The hot water appeared on schedule; the sendee flowed into the guestroom in its regular channel, except that fires were so low that the .dsitor's feet were frostbitten; the meals were sened on time and were .veil cooked. But the senantH were ;'tlcient shop assistants, no longer feudal serfs. And the earl chopped '.he trees in his own forest with his Dwn hands for his own fires. The meager household allowance of coal h?t the fuel controller cave to the ^ arl from the mine* under the carl's >\vn lands was barely enough to heat he servant's rooms. And as for the broad, estate over -.vhlch the earl ryled as an agricultural jverlord six years ago?an agriculural overlord and industrial enterpreneur through his coal mines?the os'ate is all crumbling. The land is passng into the hands of small farmers; :he old yoeman farmer, fairly well-tolo, of good old yeoman stock, going ">ack to the Conqueror?he and his :ind are taking the ownership of the and of the belted earl in 100-acre lots, xnd the nation, having taken charge if the earl's coal mines, may now re'ieve him of the burden of mine ownership as well. For the parlimentary ommittee by a large majority has reported in favor of the government ownership of all mines of evet/ description. And because the earl's son sleeps inder the popples of Flanders and his laughters are married and gone, the# arl is a weary, confused old man, / chopping wood in the forest to keep lis old wife warm. He cannot fight he new order. No leadership is calling him. He knows that the enu is oming for him and his kind. He realizes quite definitely that in a few years tne castie or trie ManwigeneiH, w nu were royal in the last Henrys days, orobably will fall Into the hands of a brewer or a draper or a stock broker, who will put In a central heating plant to defile it, debase the privacy of every bedroom with hot and cold water, and degrade the place with a wilderness jf bathrooms, so that four servants ran run the place on two eight-hour shifts where 100 retainers once served the baron under Elizabeth. The millions the old earl received from the yeoman farmers for his land have been divided with the state in yearly income taxes; and now on the horizon he sees a parliamentary bill gradually approach which provides that capital as well as Income shall be heavily taxed. So the old man in the forest sees even his capital unsafe, and he wonders curiously how the little gray man at Windsor feels about the prospects of succession for the genial young prince of Wales. Pounding an Editor.?Praise be, the millennium nas come: a iicwbiwia-i editor has received a pounding, one of the sort that preachers get when larder and pantry are replenished. Editor Fain, of the Rock Hill Herald, had such a visit the other night after the bond election, for which he had waged a successful fight in his paper against the town "machine." "The crowd certainly dealt an awful blow to the H. C. I,., as far as the editor's household Is concerned," says Editor Fain. The day of miracles is not over.? Gastonia Gazette. ? Governors will he elected in Massachusetts. New Jersey, Maryland, Kentucky and Mississippi today. The only congressional election throughout the country will he held in the Fifth district of Oklahoma here a successor will he chosen to the late Representative Jos. B. Thompson. \. .