Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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' ' * \ . . . *r??i ' ^" ISSUED SEMI- WEEKLY. ^ ^ ^ ^ .. l. m. grist's sons. Publish. . Jk ^tfamilg Jleirspaper: J'or lite promotion of the political, social, Agricultural and Commercial interests of the people. TERMstwL^opi.EriviNcE?X*'<CE ESTABLISHED 1853 YORK, S. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1919. 3STO- 92 TEXTHE WORKERS ORGANIZE % * A ' Cotton Mill Employees of Yorkville Form Branch of National Union. I BITCH DELIVERED STRONG SPEECH Told Local Audience from Local Mills That Their Only Salvation Lies in Organization?Says Unionism Requires Honest Labor and Honest Pay. Addressing an audience of textile workers, employes of the Cannon, Neely and Travora cotton mills, principally, Marvin L. Ritch, attorney of Charlotte and southern organizer for the Textile Workers' Union of the American Federation of Labor, spoke in the courthouse nere rriaay evening. Following Mr. Rttch's speech, organization of a local textile union was effected, composed principally of employes of the Cannon mill with a sprinkling from the Neely and Travora mill8. Officers were elected as follows: V. C- Smith, president; J. W. Keller, vice president; S. D. Boyd, secretary; C. Y. White, financial secretary; J. W. Ramsey, warden; J. C. a Gardner, conductor. Eighty-four men and women workers joined the union Friday evening and the promoters of the organization said that they had in hand the names of a large number of others who propose to Join. In the course of his address in advocacy of textile unionism Friday evening Mr. Ritch who has been mentioned as a candidate for congress from the Winth isinrth Carolina district to sue ceed Judge E. Y. Webb, paid his rek spects to the "corporation owned" newspapers, especially the Charlotte Observer and the Charlotte News which he characterized as "dirty sculilous sheets which labor or the friends of labor could not buy for any amount of money, ripped the cotton mill owners up the back, denounced the farmers as the greatest bunch of grouches and sore-heads on earth and the enemies of mill workers and charged that they were lined up with the mill owners against the mill workers, denied that he was a candidate for congress now "although I am going there yet," and N told the audience that they could organize or not as they pleased; but that their only salvation lay in or, ?anization. . ^ v ' **.' Have Already-Benefited. Whether you organize or not he told his audience you have already received ! untold benefits through union organization In other towns, especially in North Carolina, where every textile 1 center between Charlotte and Salisbury is organized, where there a-e 30,- ' 000 textile union workers who are going to stand regardless of what you do. You have recently received in- 1 creases in wages without asking for Vnn havo hpttpr homes and a 55-hour week. You would never have gotten that increase in wages had it not been for union organization at Kannapolis and in Rock Hill and in Charlotte and other places. Your mill owners here, seeing what the union has required of them elsewhere have voluntarily come across to you in the hope of keeping you satisfied. If you organize you are not only in better position than ever to take care of yourself; but you are helping textile workers in other towns on and up. Don't get the idea that by joining the union you get a license to loaf on the job. Don't think that if you are a union member yt^u may commit a misdemeanor and that your membership j in the union wijl back you in it. Not a bit of it. Union principles demand that you give fair and honest labor. But union principle at the same time demands that you receive a fair wage for your labor, that you be treated as men and not as slaves, that through your acquirement of self respect yourselves you may demand the self respect of everybody. Employes to Blame. Your employers have little if any respect for you now. You know it as well as I know it. Your employer j builds for you good homes and gives you comfortable surroundings. Uut at i the samo time when he drives through j your \illage in his big Cadillac he turns , his head neither to the right nor to j the left/ It is largely your fault. Many of you have not been worthy of j r respect. You have let owners and bosses do you any old sort of way. You come to the mills with nothing.' you have accumulated nothing and you j are going away with nothing'. Many of you have not had the sticking quality, j You have been content to stay in a j village a few weeks and then taking 1 a notion to go elsewhere you have put | your old bedstead which has been | moved about so much that the chinches | have not had time to build a nest into j it and all the rest of your furniture and | property in a one horse wagon, hung a greasy frying pan on the back and and tied two poor old hound dogs to the back of the wagon and moved elsewhere so fast, with never a thought about anything except where you might be going next, until nobody 0 would have any interest in you. You must be steady and you must line up shoulder to shoulder if you would succeed. Every other class of industry is organized. The railroad workers are organized, the bankers are organized the cotton mill owners have one of the greatest double barreled unions in the world, the farmers who are the most selfish, most discontented, grnuchlest, grabbiest class of mutts in the world are organized. Why shouldn't you be? We are hearing a lot about Bolshevism and I. W. W. activities. Soi^ie people say that I am a Bolsheviki. I don't know whether I* am or not because I don't know anything about Bolshevism, or the I. W. W. I .do know that I am for this country and that the Bolsheviki and I. W. W. are said to be opposed to this country. I am for Democracy. They say that the war was fought for Democracy?to make it safe. That is what I am fighting for now?for Democracy for you; to give you a fair chance, a just wage, a square deal. What this Bolshevism is I do not know; but I do know that it is on record in the war department in Washington tnat certain American soldiers refused to fight the Eolsheviki. Unionism of textile workers is ia for a bad fight at the hands of cotton mill owners. All kinds of pressure will be brought to bear upon you. For a while you will be subject to all kinds of persecution and prosecution, ever, as I have been in taking up this fight for you in the south. Until recently 1 was a steward in the Methodist church in Charlotte. I was not a perfect man. Like all other men I have my faults. But until I became active in textile unions I was in good standing in the Methodist church. After I began this work I noticed a coldness on the part of my brother officers and brother members, some of whom were either mill owners or closely related to mill owners in some way or other. It got so I could feel an icy chill whenever I went to church. Recently I was dropped from the board of stewards. That is all right. The Methodist church is all right. "I was in the right church; but the wrong pew, that's all." I have lost my social standing in 1 Charlotte as the result of my taking up this fight. I used to practice law in Charlotte. When my brother lawyers and other friends had a social entertainment of some kind I was us- ' ually invited to attend. But there 1 came a frost after I espoused the cause ( of the textile workers. I have a per- J fectly good dress suit and high hat over there in Charlotte for which I have no further use. Old friends 1 among certain peoples are no longer 1 as close to me as they used to be. The weather around 'em is icy cold. ' And all because I realize that the cot- 1 ton mill workers are getting a raw deal ^ ind baGStiS?" T see that in organization 1 there is a chance for them to keep alive. Touched on N. C. Politics. The speaker pave hjs audience a glimpse into politics in the Ninth North Carolina district and its relation to textile unionism. I have been letting them think, he said, and also talk it that I am going to he a candidate for congress. I am not going to be a candidate?not yet. The Democrats are going to nominate Clyde R. Hoey, a corporation lawyer of Shelby as their candidate?a man who is all wrapped up with mill corporations and who is pushing child labor legislation in North Carolina which will let your little boy and your little girl work in the mill and which I am sorry to say some of you favor. I have no criticism to make of corporation lawyers except to say that while it is all right for a lawyer to represent corporations, a corporation lawyer has no right to hold public office because he is not for 1 it. Consciously or unconsciously he ,is in fnvni' of those corporations and their interests. Labor may come in 011 that race yet. ' Jake Newell has the Republicans all roped in and iloey has the Democrats. Tiiere are about 4.000 union labor voters up there in the district who have faith in Marvin Ritch and who may vote as Ritch says and you can just bet that Ritch is going to try to pet them to vote for the man be he Democrat or Republican who is the closest to labor. That will not be much of a victory because neither candidate is a labor man. In fact in all the conpressmen in Washington there is not a single labor man. I tell you again to do just as you please about organization here in this j town. I am not after anything out of you politically. I live in North Carolina. Collective bargaining is here to stay. 1 am in this fight because I believe that it is right and 1 am going to tight until the end regardless of consequences. They say I am making money out of this thing. Since I have been j in this textile organization work I have received about $3,001) and my actual expenses have been $3,000. That looksi like 1 am in it for money, doesn't it? 1 don't want money. 1 don't want political power for myself. They say | we fought to make the world a fit J plate to live in. 1 am lighting this buttle to make the south a lit place for ! mill workers to live in. ? An average increase of II per cent I in the salaries of Methodist ministers j throughout the country to meet the j mounting cost of living and establish- j mrnt i.t "minimum salaries" were an- 1 1 nounccd yesterday !>y tli" Cenlenarj j ! conservation committee of the Metho- | dist Episcopal church in New Vork. ] I The n<w scale of nay will he in effect | I generally by January 1, it was slated. I The fund raised for the world pro era mine of the Centenary conservation committee will provide money for the i ; salary increases. Those ministers whose nnv has l>een increased by their | i congregations t(? a sufficient amount wi'l receive no added remuneration from the church organization, the bulk of the increases being for those whose ; salaries have remained unchanged e* low 'figures. The average salaries at Metiiodist ministers was $1,111 in 1!?1 s. I The new average will be a pproximatv| Iv % 1,r?fiO, PRINT PAPER PROBLEM Future American Supply Very Uncertain. CONSUMPTION EXCEEDS PRODUCTION i Suitable Pulp Timber Has Been Cut Out of the Northeast, and Unless Something is Done to Develop the Northwest and Alaska, the Outlook ( is Gloomy. I By Frederick J. Haskin. The paper shortage, which is making our indispensible newspapers shrink year by year, and which is steadily ] growing worse, will never be relieved ' until mills have been built in the great , ' M.Aat un/1 ou_ evergreen lurcaia ui mo nrai, Qi.i. pecially of the Pacific coastal moun- , tains. Agreements, economies and , trade commissions are make shifts. . Sitka spruce and western-" hemlock, .j ground into pulp by swift western , streams and shipped east by way of the Pannama canal, are the only fea- ( sible means of keeping American , presses running. This is the gist of , the findings of government experts , in various departments who are de- j voting all of tjicir time to the paper , situation. I The paper shortage has been one of the most serious matters in life , to the publishers of newspapers for ^ several years, but the reading public ( is just beginning to realize the grav- < lty of the situation. This gravity can , be better appreciated in the light of a statement made "by a government . forester. He says that most of the pulp \yood within reach of paper nulis ( now operating in this country will be gone In 15 years, and that within 20 years, it will all be gone. I In the opinion of the foresters. ( this result is due primarily to the , wasteful methods of the pulp con- ( cerns, which have stripped the lands of pulpwood, generally leaving not , enough seedlings and saplings to re- ( produce the stand. The stripped lands grow up in brush and in birch, poplar and other soft woods which may be used for book paper but not for news print paper. { The solution, it is suggested by several students of the problem, is for the 1 publishers to "build their own mills. , rhe timber they need exists. In Wash- a ington. .Oregon and-Hh Alaska-there are stands of sitka spruce and western ( hemlock, so dense that 30 to 50 tons j af wood may be cut to the acre, and . fnough small stuff may be left to re- .' produce the stand. The New England j ind Canadian lands from which we are . now setting our pulp wood produce four or five tons of material to the j acre. It is said that it takes 30 acres J nf forest to print one edition of a great . metropolitan newspaper. This may be . true of the Canadian forests. Ilut one acre of the dense northwest evergreen forests would probably serve ( for an edition of the greatest news- \ paper in the country. \ j The great distance of the northwest ( forests from the places where the pa- < per is used has prevented their de velopment. Fifty per cent of all the publishing business in this country ( is between Boston and Chicago. The lake states and the New England ! states, where most of the mills are located, form the logical source of supply \ for the American publishers. \ But this source is almost exhausted. ' It will take a quarter of a century of careful reforestation to restore these ' forests. Canada is the next source of | importance, and Canada is failing to i meet the demand. When paper was two rents a pound, it would have been ' sheer folly to talk of Alaska and other ' Pacific: coast forests, bu'. with paper 1 selling at seven cents, and with ten cents paper a possibility of the future, it is folly no longer. "The conservatism of the publish- 1 ers in this matter," said one expert, "is almost incredible. Why don't ' they make their own paper? They 1 have the capital and the material ex- : ists in abundance in the west. It's a 1 long haul, but it's an all-water haul. ! There is the best water power to run the mills. Some eastern pulp concerns are carrying their timber .'t?o or 400 1 miles by rail to the mills. In the west, enormous quantities of material would be at the very doors of the mills. The oroposition certainly looks feasible on the face of it. There is no doubt about the waterpower or the timber; the forest service has reported on these. It only remains for some one to figure the cost of making paper in the j northwest and delivering it by water in the east. Although the country faces a paper famine, no one seems I sufficiently interested to act in a big ami euecuve lull. In order to make the paper situation clear to the layman it is necessary to explain that there are four pro-1 cesses for making paper from wood. The sulphide process is used for making pulp, from evergreen wood, chiefly spruce and hemlock and producing the raw material for newspapers. The j ground wood pulp process which re- j <iuires a high degree of power, is used j for the same material and also pro- j duces a news print paper. The soda I | pulp process is used for soft woods of broad-leaved trees, such as poplar.! I birch and aspen. This pulp will do for j book paper, but not for newspaper, j which must be very tough. Spruce is ' (also treated by a sulphate process, but j this produces an unbleachable paper which is suitable for wrapping pur- I j poses, bin not for printing. I'esides these sources, paper is made from waste paper, from rags, old rope and from straw. In the present emergency, all sorts of materials are being tested. Florida saw grass, cornstalks, cotton hulls, bamboo and( cypress have all been used experimentally in making paper. All can be used to a certain extent and after a fashion, but none of them solves the problem. Cotton "linters" are one of the most promising new materials. The linters are a sort of fuzz that remains in the cotton hull after the staple cotton has Heen removed. During the war, linters were used for making gun cotton, and their production and cleaning was brought to a high state of perfection. It is said that the war department had 700,000 bales of linters on hand when the war ended, and that this was sold for export. It is also said that about the same amount could be produced annually in this country. But linters ire used chiefly for making book paper, and it is the news, print paper situation that is most acute. So far, there is no known material for making npwa print which can take the place of coniferous, or evergreen woods, of which spruce and hemlock ire the chief. Yellow pine is too pitchy for making news print. It is low being used in the south to some extent for making wrapping paper. The spruces and hemlocks, which ire therefore necessary to the newspaper business, grow only in northern latitudes and at high altitudes. Northern New England and the lake dates contain the only considerable jpruce-growing areas in the east. 1'herc are small spruce areas in the Alleghany mountains, but they are not if much importance. This north woods area, the experts ;ay, could support the American pubishing business indefinitely if it were or had been) properly handled. If he land had been used systematically 'or raising pulp wood trees, as a farm s used, for raising grain, instead of jeing stripped and then abandoned .0 its fate, there would be no shortige now. The forest service says that nuch of this area is now producing inly one-tenth of the pulp wood it is :apable of producing. It can be resored to productivity, but this is a iroblcm of scientific forestry which it will take a generation to work out, md. upon which a start has scarcely yet been made. ^ ^ _ Those who regard as impracticable Uo nl.m of cninsr to the Pacific coast 'or a supply of pulp wood will point >ut that when the eastern forest lands lad been restored, western mills could lot meet the competition of eastern >nes. Students of the matter say this s not so. They sae that in China, Japan and Australia the Pacific mills vill find a large and growing market lor all of the paper the.v cannot sell n this country. ? South Carolina Presbyterians are o begin in the near future a campaign vhieh has as its object the securing of SI.000,000 to be used in the interest >f the schools t. the synod of the date. This $1,000 campaign fund for iducation will be applied as follows: >0 per cent, to Presbyterian college at Clinton, 25 per cent, to Chicora college it Columbia. 12 1-2 per cent, to Colum>ia Theological seminary at Columbia, ind 12 1-2 per cent, to Thornwell orphanage at Clinton. Already one conribution of $100,000 has been pledged o the campaign committee upon con-/ lition that the $1,000,000 be raised. II. E. flraham of Greenville made litis conditional contribution. The following named representatives of the Synod of South Carolina constitute :he campaign committee for securi :g :his fund: The Rev. Melton Clark, the itev. Alexander rspruni anu v.. i> Jenkins, Sr., of Charleston: A. M. Law and the Itev. A. D, 1*. Gilmour of Spartanburg: A. M. Aiken of Chester: C M. Hailey of Clinton; Henry F. Davis of Florence: l'rof. T. H. Kdnunds of Sumter: J. H. Spillman of Columbia: the Itev. Hugh Murchi am of Lancaster: the llev, K, K. Gillespie of YorkvMe; the llev. Alexander Martin of Hock Hill; the Itev. M. E. Melvin, O. !>.. held secretary of executive committee of Christian education of the genera' assembly of the Southern I'resbyterian church, who has directed most successful campaigns for Christian education in other synods, has pledged his aid and that of the assembly's team of workers in this campaign in South Carolina, provided at least one-half of the $1,000,OO'i fund is pledged within the next few weeks, these pledges being made on condition that the entire amount In raised during the campaign. ? Industrial Workers of the World planned the Ccntralia, Wash., shoot ng three weeks before Armistice day, i-cordincr to an alleged confession made by 1a Roberts, confessed I. W W? who surrendered himself to the officers, following last Tuesday's shooting. in which bullets from the guns of the radicals killed four forme American soldiers marching in the holiday parade. The confession said the |. w. w. expected their hall would bo-attacked on Armistice day and tb-" all the radicals who took part in the shooting expected to he killed. Ac - ordintr to Roberts's statement. Wesley Kveretts, the lynched I. W. W., apparently directed the movements o the radicals, as lie sent Roberts am two others to Seminary Hill, near the scene of the shooting1, with order.' to "shoot when they shoot or when w heard shooting." Roberts, in his alleged confession, implicated several alleged I. W. W? who are in Jail in Ccntralia and in nearby cities. Aft*" miking the confession Roberts is said to have slated that he feared vengeance at the hands of his fellow radicals because of bis admission. VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS Brief Local Paragraphs of More or Less Interest. j PICKED UP DY ENQUIRER REPORTERS i ' 1 Stories Concerning Folks and Things Some of Which You Know and Some You Don't Know?Condensed for Quick Reading. "The sugar shortage is still on over here in force," said O. M. Spurlin, railway agent at Sharon a few days ago. "Recently several hundred pounds were received by a Sharon firm; but it lasted only a short while. In fact, it went fnuf a fhn r-1 r?rl/ u r?nn1rl aimunt cio loot wa v?v???? ??% * wrap It up." Some Politician. "I don't know whether or not that is his game entirely," said a well known Yprkville politician who heard him speak Friday night; "but that fellow Marvin Bitch is some politician and he surely knows how to hoop 'err up. Reminded me of Former Governor Blease in his palmiest days, and I am sure that if Ritch had continued much longer tho other evening he would have been greeted with quite a ' few whoops and yells. And by the way, he is the only exhorter or speaker of his kind that I have heard who had the nerve to come into York county and bawl out the farmers." Take the Front Seat. "Airplanes are coming around this way pretty soon in numbers and many folks will be wanting to take a ride," .-aid a Yorkville man yesterday who has taken many a spin. "The riding Is pretty safe now, although there is still some danger attached. There are a couple of seats in most of them that will be used for carrying passengers in this section for some time to come ?arranged somewhat like the seats in a touring car. And I can't explain to you just why it is; but in case the piano should fall the passenger in the front seat is in not nearly so much danger as is the passenger in fiie back seat. Better grab the front berth when you ride." Need a Public Hall. "What Yorkville needs now worse than anything else.is a public hall or auditorium,1' said a wide awake citizen yesterday. "The last imitation of a public hall went by the boards a coifple of months ago when the auditorium of the Yorkville Graded school was cut up for the purpose of relieving the crowded condition of the class rooms. The courthouse is the only place available now and really the town has no right, to use that because it was built for strictly county purposes and although the clerk of court who has the building in charge is good and kind enough to lend the building to local meetings of almost every nature, still it causes him more or less embarrassment to do so. I don't know another town the size of Yorkville in the state that has not a public auditorium of some kind in addition to its courthouse." Crookedness in Cars. "Quite a number of automobiles have been sold in York county of late in a sort of irregular way," said an automobile man the other morning, "and it is going to play the dickens with the trade in a way. Some of these automobile^ that have been sold and the dope is that they have included a number of Fords, have been purchased through a Charlotte man without bearing engine numbers, or rather the engine numbers havo been chopped off. Tliey have been sold at a. price greatly in excess of the price that Ford sets on his machine. The understanding is that these Fords have been purchased in New York and have been sent south sort of underground like and into the hands of local people. But there the trouble comes. In issuing license the state highway commission requires the engine number and of course it is impossible to supply It for those cars whose number had been chiseled off. The highway commission raising caln and somebody is in for a raising can and somebody is in for a Int nf Posting of Land. "Why is it that everybody in these parts appears to lie so keen in posting | thpir lands against? hunters this year?" inquired Views and Interviews of a (well known York county hunter a day I or two ago. The reply was, "I'll tell ! you, there are so many worthless negroes and white men these days when money is flush that they start to hunting the day the season opens and j they do not quit until the day it is over. And they kill every thing in signl?rabbits, partridges, squirrels, | umer i>iiu> #iini i-> i i \ nuns. incj Just keep it clean. Now I like to hunt on my premises myself occasionally | and I like to have rny friends out to ' I hunt with me once in a while. If I i I don't kee.p these pirates off my land. it won't be Ions? before there is noth| ing to hunt. And that's why. Hut by i the way. any time yon or any of your ! friends want to hunt on my premises j why just help yourself." And the In! terviewer thanked him kindly but remarked that the only way he liked to i hunt partridges was in the bottom of a big dish of them?hunt a choice morsel in the bottom of the dish. A Bad Town. I "You know I am familiar with the reputation of a number of South Carolina towns so far as their keeping the peace and all that sort of thing Is concerned," said a young traveling man who has had his headquarters in Hock Hill, last Wednesday; "but there is one town in this section that is a honey so far as fighting and that kind of thing goes. That town is Kershaw. Maybe I have happened into Kershaw during recent trips when certain citizens were out of sorts; but anyway I U" *" An V? *-/\A nooo tflnrio in IJ Cl V U UCCIi 11ICIC Ui? IAAACV WWMCiVUil AAA the last two months and I have seen a fight each trip. Why Just the other day I walked into a grocery store there and throwing open my sample case I proceeded to show the grocer my samples. There were several men loafing in the store. While I was getting ready to talk my line, in walked a man with an axe helve in his hand and without saying hardly a word, he biffed one of the loafers over the bean with the helve, knocking him out for the count. Then he looked around as though he were in splendid mood to biff anybody else whb didn't like it. I promptly olosed my case and started for the front door. 'See you next trip,' I called to the grocer from the street." As to Watering Cotton. The talk ran to watering cotton the other morning up at Clover and Mr. M. L. Ford, well known citizen of that town whose memory goeth back quite a bit, said: "I have grown a great deal of cotton in my day and I guess I have sold some that had water in it; but I never did do it intentionally; because to my way of thinking such a practice would be plain stealing. But it is done all right and it has been done for years and years. I recall that there used to be in this section away back in the seventies a man who bought lots of cotton. He was a likeable kind of Ichap; but absolutely unscrupulous morally. Still he wore broadcloth all of the time and in those days broadt oth was the finest cloth known. He hal a cheery word and a cheery smile for every farmer and everybody, he always j offered the highest market price for cotton and he always had money. It was his practice to buy all the cotton he could buy and then carry It to Charlotte and sell it. But before he did that he worked on the cotton a little. Of course you know that If you get boiling hot water and set a bale of cotton up on its end and pour the water on it, you can have it absorb at least 100 pounds. That was his game. He would fill his cotton full of water dnd then p'icking a damp, misty day he would set out for Charlotte. Greeting the buyers there cheerfully he would ask a bid on his cotton which he j would receive and the buyer would suggest that possibly four pounds should be deducted because the cotton j was a little damp. He would be met | with the answer that that was quite fair and to be fairer the owner was willing that he take off eight pounds. That would appear to the Charlotte buyer to be quite liberal, he not dreaming that he was still buying ninety-two pounds of water. But the fellow finally played out and he left this country and went west years and years ago. I recall another interesting story I used j to hear in connection with watering I nnitnn " aaiH Mr PY>rd "Thpre Once lived in this county an aristocratic old fellow who prided himself on his honesty and fair and square dealing. After his cotton was ginned he would store it in an old house. Finally he would tell his women folks to get the kettles ready and they would place big kettles in the yard and boil v. ..ter. Then the old fellow would take his cotton out of the house and deposit it on the ground and by means of a coffee pot pour gallons and gallons of water into the bales. If some one should pass by and inquire: 'what do you mean pouring water on that cot- ! ton,' his reply would be, 'why, suh, would you believe that cotton has become filled with chinches through ly| lng In that old house. I have about decided to sell, suh, and I wouldn't | dream of selling cotton with chinches : in it to anybody. So I am pouring ; boiling water on the bales to kill the i chinches.' Dog Delivers Paper.?"H. M. Arm! strong. Throw off at house beyond i S-milc post." Thus reads the label on the copy of j ;Tho Charlotte News dispatched every i afternoon on the train which leaves, ! Charlotte at 2 o'clock for Statesvlllo! . and Taylorsvllle. The "house beyond j |S-mi!e post" is not a station nor does j I the train stop there. But as the train I ; whizzes by Mr. Armstrong's paper is j j thrown out by the mail clerk. There to pounce upon it as soon as it hits the 1 ground is a shepherd dog. As soon as [ I he gathers the paper into his mouth j the dog lopes back to the house, some ; distance from the road. The dog knows this as his duty and performs it daily without having to be ' told. This particular dog has been on the job for a few months only but Mr. | Armstrong has had other dogs on the I job for several years. As many as three having been killed by passing automobiles or trains.?Statosville Landmark. ? - ? " j ? Senator Hitchcock has quoted j President Wilson as saying that he will not sign the treaty with reserva! tions, and the passage of the treaty with reservations will be equivalent to killing the document. The Democrats have undertaken a program under j which they will vote against the j passage of the treaty with reservaj tions, and then offer a resolution to I approve the document as originally | submitted. Counting on at least nine | or ten Republican votes, the Democrats say that the treaty cannot be passed ! without, their help. POLITICS IN CHABLESTON Struggle For Factional Supremacy In Review. WHO SHALL RIDE THE MAIN ISSUE """"" \ Long Drawn Nsvsr Settled Contest That Invokes Bribery, Thuggery, the Courts, any old Means to the Attain* ment of Governmental Control. Charlotte Observer. The action of the South Carolina Supreme Court In declaring invalid the election of John P. Grace aa mayor of Charleston marks the beginning of another chapter in one of the bitterest campaigns that have ever been staged in South Carolina. It is a campaign that has been marked by bitterness, personal encounters and even hon^clde. It began in 191i when Grate was elected. in:?vor for the first time, and during the course of Its progress, political, national,an d even religious lines have been drawn. Grace's election in 1912 was followed f by his memorable tilt with Cole L. Blease. Although the state was then under the dispensary system, saloons were reported to be running practically wide open in Charleston, and one of the biggest race tracks south of Baltimore was for three months in the year going at full blast. , ' While Mr. Blease contended that he was governor of the whole state, Mr. Grace took the view that he was big enough to run Charleston single-handed, and there came the rub. Grace and Blease split. They hurled a defy at each other, but in the end they buried the hatchet and again united, Grace's paper, The Charleston American, becoming recognized as the organ of the Blease faction. With the advent of Manning as governor, the lid went on in Charleston, and Tristram T. Hyde, the present mayor, appeared on the scene as an opponent of Grace for mayor. This campaign was featured by fist fights between Grace men and representatives "of opposition newspapers, and ended with a riot, in which ju^Iqnocent bystander lost hie life. Grace attempted to swing the enormous Catholic vote of the city to his side, as he had done in 1912, but in this he failed, although he received the ovciv whelming . majority oi tha. foraigit votes. The election was closed. When the executive committee met to render a decision behind closed doors, the city awaited the verdict tensely. After hours of wrangling it came?Hyde was elected?then from somewhere in the crowd a pistol spoke, pandemonium broke loose, the shooting became glmost general and when the smoke cleared away Sidney Cohen, a report- > ' er on The Evening Post, there to Report the proceedings, was picked up dead. Who shot Cohen is still an ynanswered question. Both factions denied responsibility for the dead. Armed guards protected the homes of several antiadministration leaders for a few days, however. Hyde was duly inaugurated and then came the war. Grace had in the meantime launched The Charleston Araerl can a morning daily In opposition to the ancient News and Courier, the staunch spokesman of the anti-Grace faction. The American oppqged the declaration of war against Germany. One of its editorial writers, Paul Wierse, was convicted of conspiracy to sink a German ship in the harbor, and was sent to the Federal Prison in Atlanta. v When war was declared on Austria, The American's editorial attack led to its being barred from the malls. Later it was reinstated. The war over, Grace opposed Hyde, who was seeking a second term as mayor. Grace, like Blease, then considering the race for congress, built his platform strictly in opposition to the Wilson administration. Hyde made his support of the administration the bulwark of his defense. Grace was, even during the days of war, a bitter foe of Great Britain, and this, too, entered the campaign. On the face of returns, with a number of challenged ballots, Hyde was re-elected. The challenged ballots were considered by the executive committee, and Grace declared the winner. Hyde took the fight to the Supreme Cpurt, where although he lost his attempt to be declared the nominee, he won one point, in that a second elect- , , : ion had been ordered. What the outcome will be, Charles- > ton can decide. WAR R7SK CHANQE8 . o ? Department Modifies Conditions In Regard to Soldier Insurance. Cnder modification of conditions governing reinstatement of elapsed I policies announced by the War Risk | Insurance Bureau, no statement as to | physical condition will be required I within three months after discharge j from the service. After three months a statement declaring the policy holder to be in as i good condition of health as at the j time of discharge will be required, toj gether with a written request for reinstatement and two premiums. A policy may be reinstated within j 18 months after discharge on payI ment of two months premium and all elapsed policies may be reinstated until December 31 regardless of the length of time since a premium has boon paid.