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. 1 j ^mo^ ^u^fisj semi- weekly. _ \ ^ . I iTm. grists sons, publishers. % ^amiti) 2J cirspa jj cr: jjor (he jpromotion of the jdotitical, Social, Ijriculfupt and ffommtrcial Interests jf the |eogti{. established 1855 ~ york, s. q^~~tuesday, february 15,1921. 3sto. 13 VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS Brle'( Losal Paragraphs of More or Less Interest. PICKED UP BY ENQU1HER REPORTERS # Stories Concerning Folks and Things | Some of Which You Know and j Some You Don't Know?Condensed i For Quick Reading. On being asked yesterday when the j general assembly would probably ad- j journ, Senator Hart replied, "In about j two weeks." That means a session ot'i perhaps forty-five days. Ku Klux Reminiscences. "As you know, formerly, we could | not write freely about such things," [ says Prof. John Wilson MeConneli of JDavidson College, a native of the MeConnellsvilJLe section of York county in a letter to the editor of The Yorkvillc Enquirer. "But the time has come; when wc can speak out and give the j truth of those days. The hanging of : Jim Williams as he was known arouna ! McConncllsvillc was quite an event and : did much good. The same night of the' Williams hanging the Ku Klux rame to j! our house hunting a negro, confusing!: John D. McConnell' with "John B. Me- j( Council,' and tried to gel Burt Latta. j, a negro who is still living on our old place. Hurt iroi oiu uy jnung a piuiik in the dour and escaping in the dark, j "There are still scattered arounct, i Vork county many of the old single i shot OU-ealibre Kemington rifles gen- j orally known as 'Scott's rifles' from i, Governor Scott who issued them, j Those were indeed serious times when , the negroes constituted the armed forces of our state, and the white men , had been so reduced in numbers by the | then recent war, for the first Ku j Kluxes were organized in 'Gil, just four years after the surrender." Hoodwinking the Law. "That was a funny ease?the ease ofj; that fellow Giles," remarked a leading member of ttie York county bar to : Views and Interviews, Saturday, on < learning that Giles had been discharg- < ed from the asylum a free man. "If "mw. w siiieh ;i thinir as hoodwinking;] the law, 1 guess the Idea is about !< covered in litis case. Anyhow, it cer- } : taiuly appears thai way to me. 1 can't J < say that I was especially interested in j I the ease; hut being1 about the court!) room a part of the time, naturally 1 ;; formed some impressions. 1 had a | ; I? ii!ii' that !?* ;o>; away when he i ought to have been punished; but then i under all the circumstance!- 1 don't exact ily see where I would be justified in 1 blunting anyboiiy particulary. The funny part of it war. presented to tneji after the trial. I had business that', took me to Columbia about that time. | and it happened that 1 went down on I the same train on which Giles was be- ' | inr taken to the asylum. The ofiiccr in ] i charge <>f tin* man told me afterwards I I that as tliey approached Columbia (libs asked him if in his opinion, lie. j i (Iii< s, should reenver his reason, would j tlu-y let him out of the asylum. Then . i and there it oeeurred to me that < iiles i could not be ill for long, lie was not sent to the asylum for murder; but fori tit at nun l for insanity, and of course; the asylum authorities could not hold ; him after tla-y were convinced of his sanity. It scents to me that there is j l quite a serious problem here, and there|: should he some reasonable solution, (.if j course an insane man cannot be ledil ' responsible for anything; but nevertheless society should have some pro- j lection against such, .lust what would i be the right thing I do not know. The-; i oretieally it was the jury that mule the mistake, but when we consider all the oilier settings a ml circumstances, I nmtss ?'c will he iu'H'u Just tu lay the; fault, if there wa.s a fault, against tin whole court.'' A Mystery of the Buckhorn. The excitement of the |?c??pl?' of l'i'nviih'iice township in North Carolina, over lliat strange animal that has boon on upying tiieir attention for the past v.ei l; or two. reminds Views ami Interviews ol* a similar sensation out in the Cotton Hell neighborhood of this county soiii" lifui n years ago, and itniuiry t was made last Saturday of Me-srs. .1. T. i-'eemster and K. L. U'ilkerson. toj see if time had thrown any light on [ the matti r. As Views and Interviews reealis the incident. somebody discovered some strange and unfamiliar tracks along tiie hanks of r.uekhorn. c.reck. The. tracks were of la rue dimensions, apparency - ? at. II-.t I| ;ci IIIM Ite IIV ;i J'ltii V. mi .1 ....... ..... which was atinched. chiws of onnsiilera hie length. Tlia tracks, .-ii-eiirdiitit t recollection worn first discovered l.y sntiif town na n. \vi? h-ft tin- sei-iie iil f?n:\ and reported their find to thV while l"Iks. Tile whites foiiow-d tin-' trail alnny the cfcek hunks, Onai-t hridvfs inn low in admit the I mil j* nf a man and on info a dense thicket not far from the creek. The same tracks were also discovered alone Ttitkey creek, not far from the point where it is crossed l?y the Itntherford ro.ol. Itotli Messrs. Wiik'-rson attd I-Vein ster rftijetnIn-red tic circnmstnnee well; h'lt nejlller I-Otlid n| would aivc a irreat ilea! i,f inform ilieti. Mr. I-V.inster. who lives in the neiahhorh I, said that Jehad hoard ahotil the i-xi-iti ne-nt at tic time; hut le- did ict take anv in it atei did not an down to > almat it. .Mr. \VilUe|.>.in rei*al|.-d that a s:n-a! crowd of in* II ami lii.Vs went n:tt ! t I hi scene fi i.m Y' ; k vill'-i armed with'Vnillt-iry i!h s. siini a1111erevolvers'and "lie like, and helped ntr the whole-conn Kpc.' 1. still ziKX-'Pk'i:i-. I start ?*d be-j hind then). merely as a prevail!ion. without appearing to try to overtake tin in. and 1 do not think they even | tliolia'il of ni". J tut they imt faster.' ;iml down opposite the residenee of Sn- | perinii ndeiit of Ki.lueation Carroll their ; or turned over on the side and spilled . them both out. Neither of them was i hurt." TO FAT TO ESCAPE Corpulent Prironcr Blocked Hole and Prevented Jail De'ivery. It was only ihe sheer a'h'th of (irville \V"!'s. fattest of military prisoners that prevented a whole-sale escape of! Prisoners here recently military an- ; thoritics; have annotmeed after an investiuation covering the escape of four | prisoners. Weils' a> t. however, will win h?:u j fussy as when drinking whisky; hut lie j just seems to bv in a state of complete i mental paralysis. '1 saw two men Saturday that I sus- ! pi'Ctt d of hoin? in an irrcsp tnsible con- | lition: but they were not disorderly, j rearing how soon they miuht need ai j tenlion I sujftfested they had better wet j nut of town. Tiny had a ear near th< ' Peoples (tank & Trust company, and j ip?t into it. it occurred toine that the\ miitiit possibly to xpeedina out of; town, so 1 Kot into my own car and j waited. They started off in a quiet, do- ! liberate nuinner, but before they had ,'one a hundred yards tlu-y were zia- ! zaaainu from one side of the street to j Lin- oilier. Then they lie/tan piekiivr lip I "J Hit WllUl 1 wis gum* le i ....... .. the strangely different effect these substitutes have on people as compared with pure whisky of other days. It H*eni ; to put tin m more completely j :razy than the real liquor over did. You ! san come in contact with a man who j lias hcen drinking without even suspecting anything wrong with him. You jan't smell anything and you do not see mything wrong1 with liis actions, except nr.iyhe you gather an impression from his face maybe that he is not alogcther rigiit. J >ut there is not enough about the case to make you certain of your suspicion even. Then a few mln- | an s lat r. or even while you are ta'.kiog to the man. lie stints to go all to j pieces. He don't know you. lie doiit'; tnow himself, iie don't know anything. : He is prohah'.y not as inclined to he; try, in search uf the creature that made the trucks; but s?? far as he knew the mystery was never cleared up. 'It must have been a guyaschutus, 1 think." said "Mr. Keemstcr. Makes Them Crazy. "I have had quite a ion.a1 experience with all kinds of drunks," said Chief of Police Steele to Views and. Interviews, yesterday, "my experience dating, back from the days when so-called pure whisky was so plentiful that nobody In search of a jag ever thought of using anything else. Then 1 policed thuough a long period of the gallon a month law, when although liquor was still easily obtainable most of the time, the topers were often driven to the use of whatever they could get in the way of alcohol: and now we are in a time when although it is still possible to procure some so-called whisky, tiltprincipal reliance- is various medical preparations, some of them legitimate for their proper uses and others intended altogether by way of evasion of the UlKI<:..n 1. lieu J II "II I III I I' ?ii iu tl o. 'If my observation and experience j are worth anything, there is very little I pure whisky to be had around here these days. Occasionally people net hold of what looks like' the old time bottle in bond stuff in bottles t hat seems to bo genuine. Also, we see evidences, from time to time, of what is commonly called moonshine, or white lightning; but I am inclined to think that real whisky lias come to be so scarce that it is mighty hard to identify. "There was a good deal of drunkenness in town here last Saturday afternoon *?nd night, more than I have seen for quite a while, .lust what they were I drinking I do not know; but as a matter of opinion 1 wuuld say that where one was drinking whisky, more than half a d-0:011 were drinking some one or mother of the various substitutes, like peptone, extracts and so on. ? - - * - - iu I TOO MUCH COTTON Anderson Business Man Discusses the Situation. SEES NO HOPE FOR BETTER PRICES Af Prr*ccnf thn Oiitinnir ic that 9.000. 000 Bales Will be Carried Over, ano With 9,000,000 Bales Raised This Year The Supply Will bo Increased to 18.000,003 Bales. OnCof the most prominent and successful business men in Anderson, speaking- today of the outlook for cotton prices, had the following to say: "We are all interested in the price of cotton, and a good deal is being written about the cotton situation. The world's production of cotton last year was something over twenty-five mil-1 lion bales ann ine worms ennsunij'- i tion of cotton the current year some-1 thing over thirteen million bales; so there will be a carry-over of about twelve million bales, which is nearly as much as was used, last year, and wo will have nearly a year's supply on hand. Of this twelve million bales carry-over, nine million bales of it is American cotton. That means that there will be nine million bales more of American cotton on hand the first * of next August than the world has needed, and then we will have this year's crop on top of that. "If there should he only nine million bales of American cotton made in this year's crop, that will make a supply of eighteen million bales of American cotton, which will be six or eight million bales more than the world will need,. Xow, what is there to put the price of cotton up? For the current year there will be about thirteen million bales of cotton used in the world. Leaving out that of America, the balance of the world made about twelve million bales 4 U? nf llin Vi.il. last i?11\c iiivr wl viiv since or the world, America's crop and the carry-over, and you will have more than twice as much cotton us the world | needs. And. now, with one-third of the spindles of this country and Europe I either closed down or working on short time, what is there to put cotton up? "The time is rapidly approaching when this cotton must be sold, and j after a long holding spell, such as the farmers are having now, when they begin to sell they all begin, .and they s 11 as fast as they can. and when that ! happens the price will break t<> i smithereens. Tli supply will be very j heavy, and the demand very moderate! or very light. It is freely predicted ' that cotton will go to ten cents, and it ' looks now as if it were headed, that wa y. "1'topic say they can't pay their debts if they sell their cotton at the j present prices, but they will pay less <?r j them when cotton goes lower. Some j say this acreage will lie reduced, and j it probably will bo reduced some, though we have been hearing of acre- ) agu reduction nearly all of our lives: and have never seen much of it. I'.til j if tin y should reduce tlie acreage some, , as they probably will, they will make j marc to the acre and the crop won't be reduced in proportion to the acre age. so that brings tip the supply again, and what's to put it up? If we wait , until ail the farmery In-gin to sell we j will take considerably less than we are ! taking now. It looks as if it will be prudent to sell ahead of the crowd. "A very successful member of the, exchanges of New York some years ago ; made his fortune and retired, lie was' asked how i! was l.lsat lie made his for- ; tune so much faster than the others, lie si.id. ?h, I don't know," but the others always saui "I sum wn> ?o..... | 11?. s ild ahead tin* crowd. lie knew when tin* crowd sulil tin* price would 1 break. Ii looks as if it were time some of the eolton farmers were waking no. "The unsold entton in tin- eounty will j bring around three and o:ie-i|tiarter j million "dollars when sold. That amount of money turned loose in Anderson enmity would make everything easy; and busiinss would an An ,as usual in- 1 stead of ha vim; everything demoralized as at present, people not knowing ! where they will g^l money to run their j farms ami other business."?Anderson ! Maily Mali. The Opposite View Next day after the publication of j the loreg'dng the I>;iily Mail publish- j ed the following:: i "Wait mi III consumption overtakes I j production." is the advice one farmer I gives all other cotton growers. This j iv.iu- M-.ii ,,r. : larmcr eniue mm im I lire this inniniim ;111 I look issue with | tin* . mlviee given cotton men l?.v ;i prominent business in.-in nf this city ; in :i published interview in Thursday's J : Paily Mail. "The farmers have business :i I til it >' ! jus v.'-li jis the business innn" this ' tanner declared. "Why shouhl the business inun tell us farmers to sell cotton now when we will be selling for shout one-third tile price we eX peeteil when the cotton was grown? i "We may as veil raise nothing at all as to work ami get nothing for our i work. That is what it wouhl mean if we sohl our estion. which cost so mtieh to produce, al tie* present market price." "Kvi ry cotton owner who can afford to hold 'tis cotton should bold it. j \\ .iit for tin nstiuipiion to overtake , the predic tion before seliinjr, ami we'll ; uet a living price for our cotton. The i 's'li'l It is to bate eoltoti, ami wliat neither a rit<m!;ii iinr ;i |.;inum. nn m.* sissiststiici* \v:?:-s \vh"l!y invt?l?1111:i y. j .r?!iim in 'llii' sl??ry inM. ihr<'<'i I it 'tenners |il:ililVil (lie j;iil ileliveiv, j iiiu ;it iesirl s''Vi'ii siml possibly insiny j murv iv iv in )ic;ii lit ihereby. A \v:is in lln* secnnil i l'l? ?ir nl' I In.' bniMing nsoil sis tin* jiil j l>y ifisinviirr si 1 in jsiekei I'mm | siiu'Ui'i :i flimsier pipe. Prisoners. sic- , ru|-i!;;r; in tin* pistil. were I?i crsiwl i!ii'<iii;!i tliis hole Id lln- kitchen below 11: 11 (nil nl" si wimlnw ;111 I innlcr t In* \vire fence siii'ini'l lln- prison. ! A|i'-li: i"ii wsis liersiiisc nl tin* xjiim ii-il shIvimh nl' inspectors. Tli.' sii<l nl :i prison srsm y wsis cnlist I. siiitlniiiti's ssiy. snnl tliis sentry. si I hi \ I si ! m| t'j Ii i?. ] nl" mil" ! Use lejnles's, wsis in pi-nnii I In' prisoners in psiss n*ntin* wire iisicli.-illi-nyil. Kvcryt hism iiinvi'il liki- clockwork. Tin' ! siili'i's li-.'i tiit-l si11 I 1111s wire Sl'il'.vn SIIn Wili. Il silnlllil follow. W'.lls .!r. vv I: it It |.l: Willi his I'ni I . -! i i iii - i 11 -! i girth in- stuck in lln i < : 111 ! \ li.MTili", i-srii|?r ?*f t!io \.nil:ii'Z" |*ii oifis. i'in s' s pi : yi-vs :i\ :i ii I it*>111i 11 Tin- li.ii !* ' Ik* v.r:-,'vl*?l 1 > Iiiililli~111?-K. Tit.- 111'\. !"? : t~iitvr ?l?-i ! i<*n. x;.v** ill*- :?):tTlf \v:iit!H4 j.rlsi'ii ! < i :ill* ( \\'<*l!s f.tn ?.i Inili*. I?*:i-r ..ni.M.fs * 1 i- ? ?i\ *i| i!i,. mi mis lis* -1 :ni*l n.*w Mi*- <i' t*r ir--f.!**:H is ?!?*l"i lyiHl <-:i11n<>1 drive, this is m.? ' >! ! I'll drive it myself ;ii:d you sire imi luuitiK tu >;t't t ''lis wheel." Then ' s;iid tin- weevil. "Alayhe it is your e:ir J imw. Imt I'm hen- to st:i,v :ind at this time next year this will he my ear."i.Motiroe. i x. c.) Kii<iuirer. | Lady Vielory, a white leshorn j owned by the deii.irtiuont of airrienlf | line has laid 7."n e'.:4;: in live years. diers," Sir Philip pointed out. "She is milking ;in ollionce with the Mohammedan powers. .Also entrenched in Lit rope is hatred between certain penpies. Germany may start war." A Parable Fact.?A South Carolina citizen, who iives in the section where the cotton holt weevils appeared last year, had a dream recently which lie I thinks is siipiilicant. The man dreamed : that he was ridiiiK aloiifj the road and la boll weevil hailed him and asked for a ride. The weevil was "tfiven a lift" and took a seat by the owner of the ear who was at the steering wheel. "Let nie drive awhile," said the weevil. The owner of the car said. * N'o. common sense?inspired sense, as I like to call it. Il is that spirit which counts, the spirit of liberty and. justice to the common ifiun." War Yet Menace. There arc two great perils which menace the world at the present day, another war. or the danger of anarchy spreading from Russia and other irotihled countries until the entire world is jioisoncd hy its contagion, llihlis helicvcs. "Russia slill has a great army of what have he<?ouiu professional sol .?.! tl JM.n JMMpv. Chance Not Gone. !!ut America still lias that opportunit.v in tin- opinion tit Sir Philip. "Ynu still have that chance." he pointed out. "You are still the deciding power in the great alternative. You may he either the great builders or the great destroyers." Picturing the I'nited. States ;\s the wealthiest country in the world today,) able to evoke the most powerful army I and navy in the world at will, he do- I elared that the destiny of the world [ was in the hands of tiiis country. "Yon may play the kaiser's game. Yoti can destroy Knropc if .vou like," lie said. "IJul you will not do that. I believe in my body anil soul that you will not. No, the American people are distinctly builders and not j riivics. You are the people of forward." America had the fireatest opportunity to benefit humanity at the close or the war ever offered any nation in modern history the sneaker said. "Hut she missed it," he added to an audience so hushed that one might have heard a pin drop. "All looked to America as the arbitrator of tht world,'' he said. "At the close of the war Europe was ready to lie lifted up. as any hysterical people. She looked to the United States as the power that would save her, a power made up of people who had no direct interest or concern in the disputes or the Old World, a power that would net I <4J * I illvt illHrr,, pressed liimseir as nopeiui mac cue inspired sense of the American people would prevail and that the Irish problem could meet with a satisfactory solution. Refers to Irish. % "Although I am a loyal Englishman I believe that the BJaek and Tan outrages are an indelible blot upon the chivalry that fell in Flanders," he declared. "And equally strong is my abhorrence for the tactics of the Irish who shot down in cold blood in 1910 some of my own friends who, unarmed and defenseless, were peacefully walking along with their wives and sweethearts. The whole thing is revolting, terrible, and harks back-fattier than .Britain. Any man who say.s that there is* a possibility is a damn fool!" The above statement was made by Sir Philip Gibbs, British author, publicist and journalist before an audience who listened intently to his lecture, "What America Means to the World," at Poli's Theater recently, relates the Washington Herald. Ireland is the only possible cause of unfriendliness between the two countries, Sir Philip believes, but he ex wo have on hand will keep, if it is properly housed and cared for." "Hold your cotton," he advised, "and plant but little cotton?if any at all?, this year and wc won't have to soli it at a loss." "Will manufacturers sell their merchandise at half the cost of them and then turn 'round and begin making new goods at a loss?" he asked. "Not much." "Of course there arc some men who can't hold their cotton but there are a great many men who can hold out for better prices. Those who have to soil, will sell, but I am opposed to everybody dumping their cotton into the market now. It will still lower prices If they do." "The farmers should hold their cotton, plant little of it this year, and plant everything they need for their tenant's use, and their own family use. I'lant corn and- other foodstuff for their own use. I'lant little cotton and hold what they have. But plant a small crop if any cotton at all this year." NO CHANCE FOR WAR Britisher Admits U. S. Greatest Nation On Earth. "There has been some extraordinary talk lately about the possibility of war hi'.tu'pon i ho United States and Great THE NEWS ABOUT ROCK HILL Large Attendance Held Upon the Annual Meeting of the Chamber. i NOTED EDITOR PRINCIPAL SPEAKER Arrangements Being Made For-State Sunday School Convention?Streets nnrt Rnarlc in Rnrl r.nnHitinn?Bank er Returns from Conference?Other News and Notes of Metropolis of York County. (By a Stall Correspondent.) Rock Hill Feb. 14?With Dr. E. A. Winship of Roston Mass., editor of the Journal of Education, as the principal speaker, the annual get to-gether meeting banquet of the Rock Hill chamber of commerce was held Friday evening. Nearly 300 representative men otf the community were in attendance. Dr. Winship who was introduced by President D. 13. Johnson of Winthrop said that he brought 4 b ft T">ftftlr U 111 /iKo iviHnr gieuilllo?) LU Hit' liVOi\ inn v.naiunv.1 from the Boston chamber of commerce. He told of the work that the Boston chamber is doing for that city, mentioning the fact that the Boston chamber is now building a $5,000.000 club house in which to center its many activities. The speaker paid compliment to President Johnson of Winthrop, said that he wanted to tell the business men that Dr. Johnson was at the head of the National Education Association at,jthe most critical time in history; also that the convention presided over by Dr. Johnson was considered the greatest ever assembled. Your president. he said is the senior college president in point of service in a single institution in the United States, thus making him a dean of college presidents in the United States. Getting down to ins sunject trie "Public Schools," Dr. Winship stressoil Hit" fact that we are living in a new age. we must have a new conception, a now inspiration; Ave must live in this ago. The people, he said must fully appreciate the fact that the public school is really the public's school. It is impossible, he said to build for the future by using the methods our grandfathers used. Things are today moving with tremendous energy and we must be ready to grasp the opportunities. Our boys and girls are our only assets and their value lies largely In their education, moro-so than ever before. Practically every Line of Industry announces that workers of a high education are preferred. The man who has not completed the high school courses is at a disadvantage. Rev. J. P. Tucker, pastor of the First Baptist church of Rock Hill delivered a brief address on the subinr.t "fa 1,1,1 fiii'/.onsliin." in which he outlined what he thought to he the ideals of pood citizenship. I'rnf. J. \\*. Thomas paid a tribute to the women members of the organization and .f. C. Cauthen presented the matter of raising the funds for the state Sunday school convention to ho held in Rock If ill. The chamber unanimously wont on record as approving the raising of ? 1,-150 to finance the advertising campaign incident to the holding of the South Carolina Sunday school convention in Rock Mill in Juno. T. A. Moore was unanimously reelected president of the chamber and George A. Reach, vice president. Xine directors to servo during mo year woro elected as follows: F. H. Moore, S. II. Sponeer, J. K. ficttys, J. 1'. Titokor, T. I-'. Cart wright. E. C Cokcr, O. S. I "oe. W. J. Roddey, Jr., Alexander Martin. A font tire of tho evening's banquet I was a well rendered musical proj gramme Including the I'astime orI oliostrti, Mrs. dairies T. Fuller and Messrs. J. Wilson Moore. E. II. Trevcrton, It. E. Moll and John Itusscll. His Brother Dead, [ I'rof. It. C. Hurts, superintendent of | the Hock Ilill city schools on Friday received intelligence of the' death of his brother, Mr. S. I,. Hurts which occurred iu Atlanta, (ia? of appoplex.v. The deceased who was about 1") years of age. was division superintendent for the Western I'nion Telegraph Company. Blue Buckle Operating Again After a suspension of several months j the Hi tie Heckle Cotton Mills, the i largest mills in I took Hill, resumed ! lull time operations today and so far as the management is aware just now, J work will continue permanently. Several departments in the lug cotton mill resumed operations last week. About 100 workers are employed at the Id tie 1 I Suckle when the mill is running full ! I imo. Cotton on the Market. Several lots of cotton wore sol it l?y i farmers of the community to Rock i Hill lmycrs Inst Saturday, the best ; price being slightly above 14 cents. Few Fertilizer Inquiries. Comparatively few farmers have made inquiry siliout fertilizers for this j year according to several merchants i who were asked about the matter Sat; unlay. "I don'.t suppose we have had a dozen inquiries so far this season," j said one large local dealer. "It appears that the fanners are just simply not in I crested in the matter of fertilizer. The way the tiling looks just , now I doubt seriously if fal per cent las much fertilizer will be used in the j Rock liill territory this year as was | I he case a year ago." After Farm Loan Bank I Mr. Ira IS, Pun la p. president of the ? Tito annual agricultural income of the state of Washington is estimated at sion.onn.noo. which amount represents half Ihe total industrial income of the state. In Chicago. "Well, rotten night! I didn't expect to have a good time when I came, but I did hope you'd serve a dinner lit to eat. That steak was terrible. T will not come again as long as I have my right mind!" That's a sample of the simple truth the truth-tellers of Evanston high school are dispensing in Chicago. Miss Dorothy I'iekard is the presij dent of the Truth club, which was j formed by the high school club of the Congregational church. "We are pledged to tell the truth on all occasions." explains Miss I'iekard. "Instead of telling folks that we arc glad to meet them when really we don't care about it. we just tip and toll them so We are warring to the death on the 'pink vices' and the 'white lies.'" So. far there have been no fistlitrhts renortod. j la iin miuwauiu ulkuluuxi. ?, uviwtvii .she is cmiiloyed solely in caring for the farmer's own household no deduction can bo made. In arriving at net income upon which the tax assessed, deductions may be made for ordinary and necessary business expenses. The revenue act specifically prohibits the deduction of personal, family, or living expenses. Such expenses include rent for a home, wages of servants, cost of food and clothing for the family, education of children. "and all items connected with the maintenance, well-being, and pleasure I of the t; * .aver and his family." UNUSUAL SOCIETY A "Truth Club" Has Been Organised to whether the taxpayer ln'tftisfness for himself may deduct from his gross earnings an amount of salary paid to himself. Wages or salary drawn by a taxpayer from his own business are more in the nature of a charge out of profits than a charge against profits. If deductible they would merely be added to his income and the effect would be to cake money out of one pocket ana put it in another. Therefore, claims for such deductions are not allowable. Salaries paid to minor children employed in the conduct of a taxpayer's business arc not allowable deductions. If, however, a son or daughter has attained majority, or is allowed free use of their earnings without restriction, a reasonable amount paid as compensation for their services may be claimed. A farmer who employs a man to assist in the operation of his farm may deduct from gross income the amount puid for such services. Likewise, if he employs a woman whose entire time is occupied in taking care of the milk, cream, butter, and churns, or if hot services are devoted entirely to the preparation and serving of meals furnished farm laborers and in caring for their rooms, the compensation paid her . ? _?i 1^1- ir UAiirnvDf iMimerous i-oras xraveung aiong me back streets Saturday found themselves stuck in the mud and it was really dangerous to try to travel in them without chains on the wheels. Many of- the streets of Rock Hill are in the worst condition possible for them to get in. Personal Mention. There is little improvement in the condition of Mr. \V. J. Neely who has been quite ill at his home here for several months past. R. A. McGinnis of Yorkvllle was a visitor in Rock Hill Saturday. Mesdames R. E. Montgomery and W. r. Barber from Yorkvllle wore visitors here last Saturday. J. F. Carroll of Yorkvllle was in Rock Hill last Sunday. INCOME DEDUCTIONS. Here Are Some Facts the Taxpayers Should Consider. Frequent inquiries are received by collectors of internal revenue, from storekeepers and other business men as National Union Bank returned Saturday from Richmond, Va., where he went as a member of a committee representing: bankers of the Carolinas to appear before the Fifth District Federal Reserve Board in the interest of a branch reserve bank to be located in the Carolinas. Other South Carolina bankers who attended the committee meeting were J. W. Norwood of Greenville and John Law of Spartanburg. The bankers are hopeful that a branch bank of the reserve system will be established in one of the Carolinas and in all probability if it is established will be located in either Columbia or Charlotte. Of course people here would like to have it located in Rock Hill; but there is little probability that the "Good town" will get it. The Cotton Grader. Farmers of Catawba and Fort Mill township are keeping A. B. Smith, Federal cotton grader for York county very busy. Mr. Smith said Saturday that since the office of Federal grader was established less than a year ago lie had graded between 5,000 and 6,000 bales of cotton and that the greater part of it had been brought to him by people in Catawba and Fort Mill townships. Streets in^Bad Shape. Hard rains of the past several weeks have gotten some o,| the side streets in Rock Hill in almost as bad shape as are the public roads in the county. ABOUT THAT VARMINT Mysterious Animal Still Manage ft Evades All Rooters; MANY THEORIES AS TO (ft IBENTYfT One Man Thinks He is a>iffrou/)jka|n fc~iuri ui mwu vsc*?. yviuiv^ i ; v? Fort Mill is Sure it is a?*^l& -Dpg ?Animal is Still Keeping* Fbtks in at Night. "V\V That "varmint" which ' has'.been troubling people in York, (3aSton a^nd Mecklenburg counties _ has extended his operations to Monroe, N. C.i according to the Monroe Enquirer. If he hasn't done that he has brothers and sisters over that way. There also comes a theory from Fort Milf that the "varmint" is not a panther but: p wild dog. The following stories jjtpe calculated to throw more light op'tfi? varmint: . Thinks It Wild Dog. ....... Ed Scott, reliable 'and, intelligent Fort Mill negro, believes be hias 't^he solution of the question of the identity of the wild animal which has been seen northeast of Fort Mill In the Providence section of Mecklenburg county, N. C., commonly referred .to as the "Providence pant^6&V\Vi J^or several weeks numbers o?y i.trantors from Charlotte and other sections ,'of Mecklenburg county have\tV.i.Vd -to trail and kill or capture tfy^'y-strange animal whose presence and/depredations are reported from day?'.t&'^ay.in different localities in this s0Ctl6c>.'^e last authentic report ccmlog/f-^om the farm of Will McKinney,' \k- f^ miles north of Fort Mill. f* Ed Scott is employed by-'.th^V^llla & Young furniture store; .aa cjriyci?,of their truck, and makes '.trjips\thtbugh this section for miles &rour$y;\^Bd/,iS an enthusiastic hunt^'/llfivftig,(or years covered all the hunting gfound of this section for any kind of.gairie. He says that for a long tlma , there has been a breed of dog^-^^k^bly the shepherd crossed dog. running wild-in the-thicket# along the creeks near the-;a short distance to the northeast-o/,F^rt Mill. The animals. .n?0ejuol^e), and < show a decided tendency'to. lVgkt jw^en their way of escapespenis-J^eat^i-* " " ^ ed. Litters of.pnpg 'have ^e^vfound. by young Fort Mill boV.s "du'gouts near town and,,tlte.dfttlfl^nArnals. have shown a bad dispo^t(ofl>ait^?$re hard to-.. ;'domcsticat?.r.f,aft^^^^* brought' to homes .here: . ?::<v i> ' Tuesday afternoon whije^i(t,the. locality where the "panther'V.yt'^a last reported to have been' flqbn, a glimpse of a swiftly meaninjal and got his gun ready to.-shoot;lt. but as the animal came clear.of* the ;bush , me saw that it was a dark brotyn dog, one of the breed which he ha^.^thcSrp for years. Except for his .knowledjgto of this peculiar breed of dogs, Ed aayjs he might have taken the animal for almost any kind of a';bttp.!iger.,.2fp^ was accompanied on the trip-TuetftWy. afternoon by a responsible white hsjan who supports the statement .p? the "tie'-' ceitful appearance of the tpilm&l/'tfjntt was followed by Bill Ross,; jgj^,'?Steemcd farmer of the community, who is inclined to the belief,,aftfer thlji, experience, that the "Pra;iden<^v;panither" is simply one of these Wiid'fiogs. ?Fort Mill Times. : 1 . .* . * * Lion or Bob C*t 'i'/:-.' The "varmint" which- bas-;t.been causing so much excitement a(Jl.A(ecklenburg county recently doe's .Hot-aellrl to be new to people llvirfg n'&V Broiirn Creek swramps. One of these grey colored animals was killed near Polkton recently. Dr. F. M. Smltn, wmes ine v Charlotte News as follows: "From the description that you have given from time to time of the action, I am forced to believe that the animal is a large mountain lion or bob-cat. ' I .will say that I have been seeing signs'of these animals in this section for several months, and only a few weeks ago a Mr. Harrington, living three miles from town, 'killed ohe that weighed about twenty pounds.; Previous to the time this one was Jellied two pigs were killed in the town less than a half mile from the Station and the carcass was torn much as the pigs were that were killed in the Pinevllle section. These animals are great fighters and the ordinary dog will refuse to tackle one after cornering' it. The cat killed here recently was tha.iled to bay by a large Kentucky hound we recently purchased and. brought here and this dog, while twice the size of the cat, was badly cut and bitten before the cat was shot." ? ^T1TIIP6 AP- M/AUCkl o i m i u to wr tv wntii Congressional Library Committee Accept Three. Peace was declared recently between women suffragists and the joint congressional committee on library by acceptance of a marble statue of Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Ca?ly Stanton. The committee adopted a resolution permitting the women to place the statue in the capitol rotunda for the purpose of holding ceremonies on the night of February 15 and providing that immediately thereafter the statue he moved to a lower floor of the capitol under the dome. The action by the committee does not definitely settle, however, the disputed question whether the statue is art and is subject to reopening on the point of permanent location. J ' > -.!> .