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t ^5 ^ ?j l?-?j 1 j?.i.^i.!d sc;mi. weekly. ' \ * ? v^ l. m. grist's sons, published J ar'aniilti |lfirspaptr: jr'or ths promotion of the jdotitirat. ,Social, atgrirulturat and (I'ommercial interests of the people TER"Si^wt.efitino^ra^NC,. Established isss YORK, s. C.. TI'i:sday, \()VEMBER 33, 031. no. 93 VIEWS'.AND INTERVIEWS Brief Local Paragraphs of More or Less Interest. PICKED UP BY ENQUIRER EEPOKTEKS Stories Concerning Folks and Things, Some of Which You Know and Some You Don't Know?Condensed For Quick Reading. "The recent storm through Florida surely ruined this section of country," writes E. Bam ford Garrison of York No. 3, from Kissimmee, Fla., whqre he is spending several weeks. "The citrus growers lost heavily," Mr. Garrison went on to say, "and the crop is going . to be short?at least 25 per cent. Conditions are worse on the west coast than on the east coast." MianlaceH Charitv. "Had an incident to occur the other day that made mo fighting mad," said J. Clyde Ford, well known young business man of Clover. "Fellow dropped into my place and asked for money to get something to eat. I gave it to him. A, short time later I had occasion to go by the eating house where he had gone for a meal. He had already eaten and had asked for a ten cent cigar. The proprietor had nothing but 5 cent cigars. Do you know that skunk wouldn't take a five cent cigar but went somewhere else where he could buy a ten cent cigar. And pandhandling me for money to get -a meal. Say what d'ye know about that anyway?" The Bankrupt Law. That the bankruptcy law is a mighty unsatisfactory proposition there is very little ground for dispute. In faci no reasonab'e man who knows what he is talking about will deny it. _ Sj>eaking of a certain concern of which he had knowledge, a prominent business man who is about as good for all his obligations as any man ever gets to be, and who knows whereof he speaks said: "There was no sense in putting that concern in bankruptcy. The owners are good honest men who intend to pay and who would mv it let alone. They had gotten into such shape that they could not realize at once on their assets; hut if let alone they could get more for their creditors than anybody e'se. Hut now that they have been forced into bankruptcy on the strength! of a collection of claims no one of which amounts to more than a thousand dollars, their estate will he literally destroyed. "Hut of course, it is a difficult thing to manage. I suppose it is impossible, because good and bad men took alike to each other, and with many people, the temptation to plunder a good man is as great as it is to plunder a baa man. "There have been several cases of bankruptcy in this section and so far as I have reason to believe in no case have the creditors got as much or will they get as much ar they would have gotten had they left the matter alone.' The Liquor Laws. In his charge to the grand jury yesterday morning in opening the November term of the court of general sessions and common pleas, Judge Hayne F. Rice dealt at length on violations of the liquor Jaws, "here is no question," said he. "that the liquor laws are b ing violated extensively but my judgment tells me that there is not so much drunkenness through the state and not so many violations of the liquor laws and all laws as there were during the regime of our iniquitous ?$?;*'>' dispensary system. sd? "Our liquor laws art* perhaps the most drastic of any state in the union. The statute prohibits the handling of liquor or beverages used to produce intoxicntion in any shape or form. It is VS up to good citizens everywhere to assist in enforcing the liquor laws. V Whisky is the mother of crime. The V man who sells whisky is the lowest W order of citizen. The man who runs a country store and wh% sells any beverage that will produce intoxication is violating the laws of the state and he should be brought before the bar of justice. The drug store that sells medicines for beverage purposes is as much of a %blind tiger as is the man who sells liquor from a jug or a bottle. There are many citizens who think the courts should be light on the violators of the liquor laws. I do not agree because as I told you I do not believe there is a lower order ofN-itizen than the citizen who sells liquor. "The situation is much improved as compared with the old days. My duties as a circuit judge carry me to all sections of the liquor laws. "There is no more than three drunk inen since the advent of prohibition and my work and my travels have taken me into places where I would have opportunity to see. "A railroadf conductor remarked to me recently that life had been made tolerable for railroa'd employes since prohibition came. It used t<? he that drunken men got on the trains at every station and often caused trouble whereas now it is a rare occasion that a drunken man gets on a train or is seen in any other lace. There aire still many violations," said llis Honor, and it is up to the grand jury and to all good eitizens to assist in rounding up blind tigers and all violators of tlu prohibition laivs." ' The Peace Conference. '<?ene Hutchinson, secretary to Congressman \V. F. Stevenson, of the Fifth South Carolina district is spending n few days at his home in Rock Hill, having come clown on private business and incidentally to l<?"k after a few i matters for his chief in the district. Air. Hutchinson talked interestingly to Views and Interviews about affairs in Washington, Saturday. "All of Washington," said Air. Hutchison "is talking about the disj armament conference or peace eon| ference as most peop'.e call it. Washington really doesn't know what to j think about it. According to the I Washington Post, the organ of the Harding administration in Washington. I it is going to mean the end of war for J all times. But there are lots of public men in Washington and lots of plain Washingtonians who don't think that j it is going to amount to anything. "The capital is thronged with visitors?peace confc/encc delegations from various countries, newspaper correspondents from every country on the face of the globe almost and visitors from all parts of the United States who have come to see what is doing. "Maybe it will surprise you to know hut the Chinese delegation at the conference is the largest of any "of the countries represented there. Ther^ must b<* sevoral hundred of those Chinese, counting the whole works. What in the world they find for all the staff of attaches to do h don't know but you never saw so many Chinks herded together in your life. "Government employes had quite a ' lot of fun out of one of the delegates) to the peace conference last week. I don't know what nationality he was, whether French, Italian,> Spanish * ot' what. He had evidently gotten lost from his crowd and he was socking ho- J tel acommodations. . He dropped into one of the government buildings think- j ing that it was a hotel. He inquired for lodging and government employes) to whom he applied wishing to have a' litt'c fun at his expense se nt him to I another government building, telling him it was the hotel he was seeking, i Other employes there eauglit on and , sent him to another building and the poor peace repri sentative no doubt f< 11 | like a fighting man before he did fi- J Rally find the quarters which he. was seeking. I don't know whether he cvei caught on to the fact that he had been p'.ayed with or not. "Nothing definite has been, decided upon at Washington y t by the (inference and I don't know whether anything is coming out of it oi not. But believe me a small army of foreigners is having an apportunity to see [ America and they have already seen enough to cause tlietu to realign that the i'nited States is the greatest cottn- j J try on the face or til? globe." I SOUTH CAROLINA INVENTORS Winchester Rifle .Said to Have Been Invented by Chester Man. "it may not he generally known," j remarked Mr. \V. W. Evans in eonver- : Ration with ;i Dillon Herald men tiliout [ the world's greatest inventions, "but I | the Winchester ril\e was invented liy ' I a mail of tlio name of Winn of ('lies- | I tor, S. ('.. and that is how it got its: name, it was during the civil war. j j Winn was a native of Chester. Ilei ' tried to get 1 lit; Confederates to use i the rifle in the Civil war, hut for sum? i unknown reason the head of the war department did not seem to think ' much of it and he turned Winn's ofI for down. Winn then went north and ' J ; disposal of it to the I'nion army. The i rifle was used against the Confcdqr! ati s with deadly effect toward the close of the civil war. When the war . was over northern manufacturers soI cured tlie imtcnt righffe and made a i tremendous fortune out of it. 'And there v.as another useful article invented by a South Carolina man who lives nearer home. The old tgrn plow was the product of the inventive genius of a' Mr. Williamson, the father (if ISright Williamson and Mel ver Williamson of Darlington county. This was along about 1*70. I'ntil then everybody used the old shovel plow. Mr. Williamson was a i larger planter and used the most modern methods of the day in carrying on i his farming operations. His son. McIvcr Williamson, also a larjfo planter, is the originator of the Williamson method of growing corn. I don't think Mr. Williamson ever patented the turn plow, hut gave it as contribution to the advancement of the agricultural industry." "Although history gives him Hie full ' "III III l.'li 1l'l.iln..? ...a tlx. inventor of the cotton pin," continued Mi. Kv.iiis. "lie was the patentee, lull not the inventor. Wiiitncy. as history teaches us, was a northerner who came down here to teach school. It" taupht near Itainhnrp. an old town on this side of the Sa\'aunah ? '- opposite the city of Aiipnsta. The reel inventor of the cotton pin, strunpc as it may seem, was an old neprn?a slave. IJefore the pin was invented liicv used the old method of "rollinp out" Ihe lint cotton. This was a slow process. This old ncpro conceived the idea of puttiup nails in the rollers with the small ends pointinp outward. It was a success. The nails stripped the lint from the seed with a preat deal less 1 lahor. W hitney saw the invention and 1 built a machine witli brushes thai would work against the protnldinp nails, and from this (Turin affair lin evolved the present day noltrin Kin. II Is true that he improved km the old negro's idea, but the idea of the coti ton gin originated in the brain of this old slaverv rtnrkev" [ NEWS OF CLOVER Two Carpenters Were Hurt When Platform. Fell'to the Ground. m NEW AUDITORIUM IS ALMOST READY Clover Mill to Run at Night?Farmers Continue to Sow Grain?Other News Notes of Northern York County. (By n Staff Correspondent.) Clover. November 21.?\V. J. Beami guard and Sflas Glenn, well known carpenters, had a narrow escape from death last week wflon a scaffold which they were using in construction work on the new home of Ji. A. Jackson, gave way and threw them to the ground. -Mr. Beam guard suffered in| jury to his head and Mr. Glenn's lag was hurt. JToth men were confined to their respective homes for several days following the accident. To Use Auditorium. The auditorium of the new high school building will he ready for use before Christmas, Prof. W. S. Reid, superintendent of the Clover High ! school said Saturday. Just when it will l)o completed Prof. Raid docs not | know, but it is only a matter of a few i weeRs. High school pupils expect to I open the new auditorium with a debate on the subject, "Resolved, That the {Si i tod States Should Provide j Compensation for All Fx-Scrviee I Men." | The subject is one of peculiar interI est at this time and those who are to | take part in the debate are making strenuous efforts to get all the information possible regarding the subject i in order that they may lie in position to' maintain tneir respective Sides of this much debated question. Many Hunting Licenses Sold. There are many people in this section, especially negroc,s, who are going to do little except hunt rabbits and 1 partridges and other game from now 1 until the close of the hunting season, according to Frank McKhvee, assistant cashier of the Rank of plover, who issues hunting licenses for the bank. I which is an agent of the county game warden. Mr. .McFlv.ee said Saturday that so far he had issued nearly 300 hunting licenses and that the end is not yet. "In addition to the coiurty ! hunting license^ we have issued something like one dozen slate hunting licenses," said Mr. MeKlwee. "It looks In nit* like |ip tl.\ murij cvcrj ! In this section who can get njw the price of ;i license is entiling after it.'' To See Football Game. "Big Thad'* Clinton, alumnus of the j University of North Carolina, is-mnk- ; ing his plans'and preparations to go to C'ha|>el Mill. N. ('.. Thursday, to see j the annual football game between the i I'nlversity of North Caroling, ami the [ University, of Virginia. "Big ,T. P." wouldn't miss Unit game for anything j in the world and lie has nlrca.v notified . the Chapel Hill authorities to reserve j two seats for him. since one isn't bicf.j enough. He hasn't missed aj\ annual j Thanksgiving footlwll game lietween 1 the two schools in a long while. The / j University of Virginia won the annual j classic last year and "T. P." lias it j doped out that North Carolina should 1 win this year. Anyhow he is going-to risk his roll on North Carolina and is either coming hack to Clover a la Pullman or a la foot. Sunday School Grows. As the result of a campaign for new members which came to a close j last week the Clover Methodist Suni day school lias increased its member- , ship to 2?M. Sunday school members 1 wen* divided into two groups, known las the "I teds" Hf.d 'Mines" for the campaign for new members. A total of 5C new members were ndded and the "Mines" turned in the largest number | of new members, with the result that the "Keds" entertained them at an oyster supper at the opera house Saturday evenirtjr. .las. A. Marrett is superintendent of the Sunday sehool. U. D. C.'s Held Supper. Andrew Jackson Chapter I'. D. <\. entertained at a hot supper at the op- i I era house here Friday niaht. receipts from the sale of edibles going to the benefit of the chapter. .More than * ',() was taken in. Mill Runs at Night. I Night work is to begin at the Clover I mill beginning; tonight and it is t xl iH-eled that it will be eontinued ind. Vinitely. A number of new lam li.s have recently moved to the mill village ;iii<l .is \v;is announced in this covrespnndence a week ;iR<>. tin- mill management is preparing l? l?uil<! new houses uilli a. view In providing for still further In- p. Stewards Entertained. Kev. and Mrs. J. ('. Hoggin eiiterlainrd I lie hoar I of stewards i?f t'luvor . circuit at an nystor supper at Hi" Methodist parsonage here last Thurs?I a \ nigl.t. Fifteen stewards, reproscnlalivc nf tlu* three churches composing the circuit. were present f?r the necasiun. Alter supper a number nf business matters were taken up for consideration and ' eorganissat inn fur another year was perfoeted. The salary i of tlio pastor of (ho if*-?iit for the next year was sei at $2,30ii. Still Sowing Wheat. Farmers of the Clover seetion are still sowing' lots of wheat ami oats land seed wheat, is said fo still be it; ] rro.it demand Some farmers who # for years have been areustomed to sowing a little wheat just from force of buhil more than any oilier cause, are going into the wheat growing business with all seriousness this fall and are going to pay more attention to the growing of grain than ever before. Saw Phillips Beat Clemson. Several Clover, football enthusiasts and friends of Dode Phillips, the great; j Chester athlete who played baseball j 1 here and at Yorkville, went to Clemson College Friday, .where they sawPhillips and other members of the Ersklne dleven defeat Clemson 13 to 0. It was mostly the work of Phillips that won. the frame, according- to the Clover spectators. It was the last football game that Phillips will play in, since he will romplctr his college career this year. According to his Clover friends he will go down in football history of the state as one of the great, if not the greatest football athletes'! that South Carolina has produced. The following dispatch from Clemson rela- . tive to the performance of the mighty Dode, will he of Interest to his York county friends: "Dode Phillips, the great IJr.skine full bark, wound up his gridiron career in a blaze, of glory by scoring two touchdowns which enabled Rrskine to defeat Clemson 13 to 0 on Riggs's Fiol^f ere this afternoon. Phillips was the sjtar of the Way, plunging through .the Clemson line for practically all of Erskine's gains, tossing some pretty forward passes, and doing all of his team's kicking. "Clemson fought hard and came very near scoring in the second half, but was held for downs on Erskine's 4-yard line once and had several forward passes intercepted by Phillips when they were in ^rskine's territory, j The Tigers made some beautiful gains,, but seemed unable to take the ball any further when they got nearly to the lust wjiite line. The stars of the Clemson bark field were Emanuel and Tlollohan and Hurton, these men doing1 a large portion of the Tigers' gaining. "In the line Webb, at center, and Spearman on end, were the stars. Hoi- I lohan called signals and ran the team in great vtyle. "For Conch Dave Parrish's Seceders. Phillips was of course the shining light, but be wa.sW?y r.o means the only | man on the tenm. Young and the Kennedy I trot hers gave him good assistance in tlie baqk field. while Brled, lUakelcy and Scoggins were the stars In the forward line. Sroggins particuiarly" played a ^nc gamy at center until he was limT anil removed from (lie game in the seeor.il hall. "I'hillips. who was playing his last gallic for the Sece?|ers? fully lived up to his reputation as Smith Carolina's, | if not the Smith's, greatest back. He plunged through the Tiger line almost at will for gains of from five yards up. In addition he threw some pretty forward passes and intercepted a number of the Tigers' aerial attempts." SUPER STAR REPORTED Scientist Claims to' Have Discovered Great One. Discovery of the existence of greater stars I ban Betelguse, the giant star J whose diameter was measured as 300,/ 000,000 miles, was announced by Professor Albert. A. Mieho.lson in an address before the convention of the - ' * - ~ r ~ ......if, .NflTlOnni .waocinv Ul ritiniic , nwui public In Chicago. An tares, the star fin the constellation of Scorpio, was named as one of the super stars, but its exact size has not been determined, he said. Other stars whoso magnitude may surpass either of these are to be measured, ho said, by means of the new interfcrmetor, developed by Professor Michelson, Other speakers before the academy. Professor Ituymond Pearl, of Johns Ifopkins university, and Professor K. K. Jlernardi, of Verxes observatory, described investigations of human mortality and the astronomical "milky way." Too much pampering and hospitalization are weakening the human race. Professor Pearl declared, drawing his conclusions for the experiments with species of lie. His experiments showed. he said, that there are more centenarians among the Ilies titan among huiuans. The fly. he said, has a poorer chance of life than the human, up to the relative ago of seventy. After that he has a better chance. "* .Man has a better chance of life, he said, up to the time lie reaches seventy. After that he has a poorer chance. "t'nder present conditions," he said, "the human race is taken care of so well that weaklings are kept alive much longer than they would live normally. Marriage of the weak ones result iu a gradual weakening of the l ace." Professor Iternardi exhibited a series of photographs of the "milky way," which demonstrated, he said, that the dark spots in IN- "Milky Way" were not holes nor openings, but really dark, or non-luminous bodies thrown into relief when projected against the bright background of dis, taut stars. ? Cotton rjiiuit il prior to November I t amounted to T.JTo.nTf) running hales. Unhiding rouiul l>nlt?, 1 ?.? IT ' hales of Ameriean-Kgyptian. and halo's ol Sen Island. I ho Census Ituronii nnnounnd yesterday. To that . ?l;ite last your N.i'l I. >I ? runniU hales | were Mini <1./iin ludiiii; lT.'.j'SI 101104) j hales, ,'tl."<11 hales of AmericanI C"\plinil and ''I hah I'll' i.i i lallti ROCK HILL NEWS BUDHET Mayor and Councilmen are to tie Elected in January. WOMEN WILL VOTE FOR OFFICES * T i Fair Officials Still Checking Up?Red Cross Drive Goes Over the Top? Farmers Have Sown Three Times as Much Wheat as Last Year?Other News and Notes of the Metropolis of York County. (By a Staff Correspondent.) ( Rook Hill, November 19.?Rock Hill's I municipal political pot is beginning to boil. Report has it that Dr. David | Lyle is going to be a candidate for mayor to succeed Ralph Armstrong, #he present / mayor. Thej-e may be other candidates but the understanding is that it is pretty certain that Dr. Lyle is going,to make the race and Rock I Hill people are expecting Mayor Armstrong to be a candidate' to succeed himself. Dr. Lyle is one of the best known men in Rock Hlfl. Mayor Armstrong's friends say that his administration bus been a most progressive!v j one und they want to see him continued in office. The election comes in January and ! there will be a number of changes in ! the city's .method of government. The number of councilmen is to be in| creased from three to five and the | mayor is to be elected by direct vote of the people. Under the present com- ( ! mission form, the mayor is elected from the trio of councilmen who com pose uie uuara ui i*ny laincio. ning with this approaching- election the mayor is going to have a majority of the votes of the city or rather a .ma- 1 jority c.ikSt in the election to gjet the plum instead of getting the vote of one councilman besides himself. . The women are going to have their first opportunity at the approaching election to cast their ballots for city governors. Ri^ht now it is the newly qualified women voters who are sh?*wiq? Most interest in the approaching j election. Tl^ey are doing a bit of ta!k| itjfe and som^ calculating and figuring, j it is said. There arc a number of 1 mighty tjhrewd women politicians in Rock.Hill. Most of them it is satd hav^long since cut their political eye 1 teeth through association and affilia[ tion with women's clubs and other organizations hero. Every male voter is j agreed that the women are going to cut quite a figure in the approaching olccj Lion. Many are ready registered andl many others arc going to register when the municipal registration books are thrown open. It said that several of the shrewd lady politicians of the city arc after their sisters now to ; qualify at the first opportunity. Grape| vine gives it that there are going to I be some mighty interesting developments in municipal politics in the next several weeks. Car of Seed Wheat Sold. One car of seed wheat, a total of 800 bushels has been sold to farmers of Rock Hill and vicinity for sowing this fall and another car is en route to Rock Hill, it was learned today. Not I in many years past have farmers) i shown such great eagerness to sow j wheat and oats as they have this fall. A Rdck Hill farmer said today that the I farmers of this section were going to put three times as much wheat in the ground this fall they did last yci and possibly more than that. ? /*! 1 -: - - iL. C v^ricv^fMny U;J wric rein# ! Secretary Fewell of the York County Fair Association was busy today checking up receipts and disbursements for the recent York county fair with i view to learning just where the Fair association is on its latest enterprise. The secretary's figures were not available this afternoon; but it was stated that if the ledger showed a balance on the right side it would be a s/nill balance. Because, to tell the truth about it, the attendance on the | fair this year was a distinct disap> pointmcnt. There was only one big crowd and that was on Armistice Day when ex-service men and several thousand school children- were admit-' ted free of.charge. People didn't at-! tend, say the fair authorities, simply for the reason that they didn't have] the money. The fair was up to-stand-> ard and those directing the enterprise left no stone unturned to make it afi tractive and worth while. It will lie of interest to many to! learn that in all probability the last j carnival, has played at a York County j Fair. The carnival which was a feature of the recent fair raised a storm of protest because of alleged gambling| games and devices which were a fea-' lure of it. It is said that numbers of' IH-ople were tleeced out of their hard i 1 earned money by sharks and sharpers connected with the Midway and ai guslifr of disapproval went up. The local illli I noon riiiiicu .in ^tutorial tin' day after the fair protesting; against the gambling houses andvcarnival. Numbers of religious workers , of the city, it is said, have voiced a i protest against allowing carnivals to come to tiie fair in Rock ilill again. The fair officials are worried about what is best to do another year, ''We I don't care so much about having a ! | I carnival at the fair," said one 'of the, officials today. "J!ut the people demand diversified amusements when! tin v com - to a county fair. We've got i.i-oti.l - soi o i - a in 11 sclllt-lit for them. I We expert to try to make arrange-! ( I nielli- i i ;:l 11 :iw:iv I" luiiip. liit'li el:is?-|, ' , \ V shows to the fair next year?shows that do not carry the gambling and other concessions. But we must have some kind of amusement features or we cannot make a three day fair a success and that Is all there is to it." Catawba* Sell Pottery. Indian women frofn "the Nation," the Catawba Indian Reservation near Rock Hill were in the city today selling pottery. They had quite a variety of pots, pipes and other articles and they were making strenuous efforts to dispose of their wares. It used to be that the Catawbas traveled all over York, Chester and Lancaster counties in the summer and fall selling pottery of their own Manufacture. Now they hardly ever go anywhere except Rock Hill. Girl students at Winthrop College are good buyers and Rock Hill ladies buy quite 'a bit of earthen ware from them. 'Several of the best pottery makers among the Catawbag have died in recent years and now there are very few Indiaigp at ,the reservation who give attention to it. Red Crocs Drive Successful. Rock Hill's quota of $3,000 in the national Red Cross drive was reached this morning and it may be that the city will go over the top and beyond to the extent of $1,000. Workers were hoping to exceed their quota by that sum at least and this morning reports from a number of workers had not been received. The city suppofts a Red Cross nurse and representative who has offices in the Chamber of Commerce building here. She handles all local charities. When beggars come around to the doors of Rock Hill people they are referred to the Red Cross. Rock-Hill Yorkville Road. The State Highway Department has done wonders to the Yorkville-Rock Hill road in the past ten days. The road has been dragged and great holes that had made their appearance especially between Rock Hill ahd New port have been filled up. There is some work to do yet; but the work already done constitutes a wonderful Improvement. The road leading from the metropolis to the county seat is the most largely traveled road in the county and it had gotten into bad condition because of lack of attention. One could make the distance between the town towns in a fltvver in thirty-five minutes this morning without difficulty.' The Monk Amused. A yoiing Italian, swarthy and greasy looking with a hand organ and a monkey drnppe# into, town this morning. He kept small crowds amused all over the city?the monkey did. People blocked tho sidewalks and a cop had to compel them to make passageway for the public. The monk was trained tQ catch a rubber ball thrown into the ai^und to collect nickles and dines from thos6 who would give. "Ffcst Italian and monk to come into town In quite a while)" observed a cop. Personal Mention. W. H. Hope, well known merchant and prominent citizen of Rock Hill who has been sick for some time past is able to be out again although he has not fully recovered. Mr. Hope has been suffering from the effects of influenza which he hdd last year. Information from Mr. \V. S. Lesslie nt r who has been sick for some time past is that he is improving. His son Mr. Grier Lesslie who was here today said that the senior Mr. Lesslie was able to be up and about the house and was getting along as well as cou'.d be expected. OUT OF CHRIST Noted Newspaper Editor Comes Over on Right Side. Of all hard jobs in the world, that of mak'ng a public confession is the hardest. But if it is the only square thing to do, it must be done. This, therefore, is an open letter to the young fellows of Fountain Inn?the "good fellows," the fellows I love and loaf with at times?the fellows I have taken drinks with and fellow-shipped with. * All this while I have been a member of the church?just that and nothing more. And when my conscience bothered me about taking a drink when I could get it, I said to myself: "Why, I am a liberal supporter of the church: I pay the tithe; I am a gentleman and a man of intelligence; there's no harm in my taking a drink when I want it, for I can handle it." I said that, hut i was a iuir. aiui while posing as a church member and 11 follower of Christ and yet reserving the right to take a drink at ray pleasure, I was considerably lower down than a snake's belly. This is a bitter dose to swallow, fellows; but I had it coming to me. And if my conduct has led any of you to believe that a man can retain his honor \yhile carrying water on both shoulders. I want to make it clear that it's an impossibility. I'm through. I'm thirty-four years of age, and have never struck a lick for my lord. From now on I am His, to use as He thinks best, and I'll stick lo Him if it costs m'e everything I have and every friend I have. I'm ashamed, fellows. Forgive me lor not having been square. Robert Quillen. ?Fountain Inn Tribune. ?A tree seed takes three years to ? Ko tranunlont. ?d, and. another forty-four before It is Htoui enoimli to be cut for timber, ? GROWN UP FOLKS . _ : Average soldier Had intelligence 01 Normal 14 Year Old. EDISON MAKES SOME EXPERIMENTS Chang* In System af Education la Fundamental Naad?Grown Man Of? ten Haa Viewpoint and Tastaa of a School Boy. By Frederick J. Haakin. Washington, Nov. 13.?Scientists, studying: tho records here of the intelligence tests applied to American soldiers, have reached the conclusion that these men had on an average the intellectual development whloh is con-, sidered normal for a boy 14'years old* This does not seem very flattering to us as a nation, but it is borne out by Thomas A. Edison, who as is well known, has been conducting some intelligence tests of his own on men who apply to him for employment. He expresses himself as amazed at the low average of intelligence which his tests have revealed. He sayt: that not more than two pdt cent, of the adult population can understand a k-elf-evtder.t fact when it is put before them. These disturbing opinions from high authorities arc borne out in a way by ' the new school of psychologists. Their investigations tend to show that an individual who is not given prt>per op portunity to develop his mind and personality does remain a child In all those respects in which his development is retarded. They would say that the typical American man of business, while highly developed in his special line, is "infantile" as a whole, because he is undeveloped in so many other ways. This view, of course, excites the antagonism of every good American, but it is perhaps worth examining just for the sake of understanding a point of view we cannon share. In the first place it is to be noted that this view getfe a good deal of corroboration ini every-day life. How often you hear it said of some man that "he is just a great big over-grown, boy." That .may, according to the psychologists, be scientific descriptiob of his mind and personality. Grown-Up Babies. Many women are wont to remark that their husbands, brothers, or even their fathefrs are just big boys, but a good deal of evidence can be br>ught forward to show that women sure on an average even more infantile than men. Men, in order to make a lkving, have to achieve a certain degree of maturity. The/ may have boyish tmlta Knf lli?v r?nnr?nt nflTord to have the helplessness of children. Women, on the other hand, know that an appearance of helplessness, if accomcompanied by good looks, is often a great asset in the pursuit of a husband. Thus society encourages women to hold on to any infantile traits they may have. The "cuteness," the helplessness, the ignorance, which so many of them effect, are infantile. The women may use these tricks consciously in pursuit of a man, but the mere fact that she uses such tricks at all is an lndicatloik according to the psychologists, thdt she has never become fully adult This prevailing infantilism of women is widely r^o{nized in popular slang and popular songs, which reveal x far more of our ' folk-psychology than does our formal literature. "When grown-up ladies, act like babies, I've just got to lov* 'em, that's all!' The ladies know that. And it is no trouble at all for them to act like babies because most of them have not ^grown mentally and morally nearly as fast as they have grown physically, say the scienlsts. It is not possible to summarize here all of the evidence which might be brought forward to prove that tho public as a whole-has never grown up. Our tastes in reading, movies and theater are 'specially significant, how- / ever. The adult desires to understand life. The child wishes to cultivate hi* illusions about it. Children read fairy xivvat nf thi? stories in our magazines, nearly all of Sur movies, most of our novels and moat of our stage plays are fairy tales in effect. That is, they all foster lovely illusions about life, rather than study the truth of it. The American public is nearly always antagonized by any work of art which sets forth the truth about life. "Why write about such ugly things when there are so many pleasant things to write about?" is the formula always used. "Tell me a nice pretty story, Dad* dy," is what the same individual was saying at the age of ten. How much has his point of viefr changed, asks the psychologist. Do other nations differ from us in this respect? It is probable that in all ports of the world most and women never grow up, but in fhe highly civilized European nations there is probably a larger percentage of real admits, as indicated by the much larger number of persons who show a I mature taste in literature, drama, art ! and music, and have a mature outlook j on life. Education to Blame. What then is the cause of our failure to bring ourselves to a real maturity? Mr. Edison has the support of most of the experts when he lays the chief blame on education. Our edu(Pontinued on I'age Six). -r - ' " J I