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VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
Brief Local Paragraphs of More or
Less Interest.,
PICKED DP BY ENQDIKER REPORTERS
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Stories Concerning Folks and Things,
Some of Which You Know and
Some You Don't Know?Condensed
For Quick Reading.
... - ... * ?..* fr\rt 1i I
"I'd UKe lo see some euun i>u> ,
now having1 as its object the building |
of a good road from Rock Hill to Great
Falls over in Chester county,'" said
Peter Ihrie, well known business man
of Rock Hill, who was talking roads
with Views and Interviews the other
day. "In my opinion such a road would
means thousands and thousands of
dollars in increased business to Rock
Hill every year. I have talked with
scores and scores of people living down
that way and I know that they would
like to trade in Rock Hill. A good road j
is all that is needed for the city to get J
the business."
Foxes on Allison Creek.
"There n,re still plenty of foxes In
the vicinity of Allison Creek," said Mr.
F. H. Moore, enthusiastic fox hunter of
Rock 21 ill. who was talking about fox
hunting the other afternoon. "I haven't
had opportunity to enjoy the sport out
that way myself recently," Mr. Moore
went on to say; "but a number of
other hunters have and they tell me
that there are plenty of fox signs
there. Dr. J. S. Beattv of Winnsboro
has promised to bring his big pack of
dogs over this way in the near future
and his pack together with the doge
belonging to hunters in this section
. will make a pack that should worry the
foxes very considerably."
Where Has Business Gone.
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"While holiday business is picking
up to some extent it is nothing like it
should be now that Christmas is right
at hand," said a Rock Hill merchant
yesterday. "Just what the trouble is i
don't know. It either isn't oeing done
or else it is being done in some other
town. . ,
"I am reminded of the Jew whotx
friend told him that he didn't believe
there was a hell.
.. i.,,11,,,,^. ihop? is n hell?' in
LJKJll c ucucrc bt?v* v w ?
quired the Jew.
" 'So,' replied the friend.
" 'Veil den,' inquired the Jew, 'where
^ has business gone?'"
Freight on Fruit.
".Maybe you didn't know it but the I
freight on a ear load of oranges and !
grapefruit from the shipping point in;
Florida to say. Rock Hill, for instance
is greater than the cost of the fruit in
Florida," said E. Bamford Garrison or
the Philadelphia section the other day. j
Mr. Garrison is engaged in the wholesale
fruit business and. has recently j
sold car loadi of grapefruit and!
oranges in Rock Hill, Gastonia, Hickory
and other towns in the Carolinas.
"Because of the fact that I go down to
Florida and buy the fruit myself 1 am
able to sell it at a pretty good price,"
he went on to say; "but if the freight
rates were not so high I could seij it,
at a much cheaper figure."
Dog Tags.
l.'p to Wednesduy morning County j
Treasurer Harry E. Xeil had sold 7' ;
dog tags to owners of canines in York !
county. That is a number far in ex-,
cess of more,than the counties up to
this lime, Richland county for instance,
not having issued more than1
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200 licenses thus far. "Of course I
can't tell how many dog licenses I wi'l
issue this year," said the county)
treasurer the other day. "I have 4.000
lags. There were about 4,000 dogs returned
for taxation in the county last)
year and calculating on that basis I j
h ive sufficient tags for that many dogs 1
this year. But of course there js no;
way of correctly estimating the number
of licenses that will be sold this
year."
Rabbits in Fort Mill. v
Babbit hunters would find a paradise i
along the banks of the Catawba river |
and country adjacent in the region of
the cherry bridge, according to Edgar
Jones, prominent Fort Mill farmer who
was among the visitors in Yorkville
last Wednesday. "I don't hunt any
myself," said Mr. Jones in talking
about gam"; "but 1 notice an over j
abundance of rabbits in my section th's'
year. I don't keep a dog and they i
come up in the yard and play around.
They are very numerous along the
riv?V bottoms and in fact all over the
whole country."
Asked about ducks, Mr. Jones said
that he had noticed very few ducks
along the river this year. "Most of the
ducks,' 'he said, "are to be found in the
hack water from the Southern Power;
Company's dam which is not a great
way from my house. The ducks don't j
stay in the vicinity of the bridge because
they are very wild and timid
and traffic across the bridge frightens
tll< m. However, J IliUC uvruu) V..
served some rather largo specimens J
flying toward the backwater."
Making the Government Pay.
"My brother Fred who is a patient
in a. government iiospital at Johnson
City, Tcnn., and who was home on a
visit not long ago was telling how disubYd
men at the hospital there get
their compensation front the goverif
nient," said Grover "\\\ Brown, well
known young farmer of the Hickory
Grove section, who was in Yorkville'
recently. - "According to Fred, the ex-J
soldi! rs at Johnson City, have long* ago!
j gotten disgusted with the lethargy of
! government officials there in adjusting
i monthly compensation for disabled
[ men. There is in Johnson City, an exs?rvice
man who is a sort of a lawyei
and who knows all about the workings
of the U. S. Veteran's bureau which is
I supposed to look after compensation
for disabled men. A man who feels
that he has compensation coming to
him pays this fellow's expenses to
Washington. The 'military* lawyer
goes to the office of the Veterans' bureau
in Washington and he sits right
there until he finds the proper official
to take the case before. He doesn't
leave until every thing is straightened
put and he has every guarantee that
the monthly check of the disabled man
is going to come regular. -The scheme ]
is pretty expensive to some of the I
boys; but it gets" results."
Liquor Not so Plentiful as Formerly.
-"It is all bunk about there being as
much drinking now as there was when
we had a dispensary, or when we could
get liquor legitimately by express,"
said the barber, as Views and InterI
views was getting shaved the other
day.
A fellow who had had a drink of
white lightning, and who wanted
another; hut did not know where to j
get it had made the remark that called
forth the barber's declaration.
"Of course it ijs all bunk. Who is in
a better position to tell than me?
Don't about all the people who drink
liquor com? to the barber shop, and
is it not a fact that there nee some who
never come unless they have a drink?
Of course that is so. I have been in
the business more than fifteen years
and I have had ,'v chance to- observe
some things.
"Yes, I lake a drink occasionally and
sometimes I pet drunk; but I t^on't
make a habit of it. It will slip up on
any man who drinks'once in a whi'e.
Of course there are-those who say they
never get drunk; but all I have to say
is that if he drinks at all I don't believe
him< when he says he never gets
drunk.
"But I was talking- about liquor
drinking'before and since prohibition.
There is plenty of drinking now; but
not nearly as much as there used to be.
It used to be that more than fifty per
cent, of the men who came in to have
worjt done smelled of whisky, and now
we often work all day, somctinfes:
even all day Saturdays, without getting!
a whiff or it. No I do not mean that i
is a regular thing. Very often we have [
a run of customers who show sings of
liquor; but I do not hesitate to say
that where ^ one __man is .drinking
"white lightning" these days there are|
a half dozen drinking this "Peptone";
stuff or "Predlgcsted Beef" or "gin - 1
ger," or something of that kind. You \
don't often get the old corn whisky
smell, and rye whisky is rarer still.
But counting nil that, there is not near
as much drinking as there used to be.
and I don't mind saying that while 11
like a drink myself I am glad of it. I j
have got more respect for myself when I
I am sober anyway."
Talking Boll Weevil.
There were three of them In the.
smoking compartment of the South-1
hound C. & N.-W. when Views and In- i
terviews entered last Tuesday aftei'- J
1100:1, on his way to Columbia. They
were unknown to each other as well as
to Views and Interviews. But it turned
out that one of them was a farmer,
the other two traveling men. One of
the traveling men was selling, or trying
to sell fertilizers. The other was
from Charleston. He did not say what
he was selling. The farmer was from
Cleorgia.
"The merchants are not buying anything,"
said the fertilizer man, "ana
although it is rather early, I am going
in, No use to be out on expenses, with
nothing doing."
"These people up here have made
good crops of cotton," remarked the,
Charleston man. "but the merchants
are not buying. They seem to be in
the shadow of the' fcoll weevil."
"That's tih- fellow that broke up my
business and put mo to working for a
salary said tiie fertilizer salesman. "1 t
had a good trade, had lots of goods in;
the country; couldn't collect anything
and had to give it up."
"That's what's the matter with me,"|
volunteered the fanner from Georgia.j
"I expected to make 200 bales of cotton ^
this year and got IS. I'm bankrupt.'
I'm going where there is business to!
see if I can't get a now start, and it'j
I make it I expect to go bark to my.
farm and take a new start.
"Y<?u know wnui is >;"uik m min-v.. t
to these people up here next year?"!
asked ^he fertilizer man. "They arc
going on planting eotton another year
and they are going broke. One of the(
merchants up here at Yorkville toid)
m" that he had traveled all over his
county during the growing season;!
that although tlie government reported
cotton condition in August at 52 ptr
cent, he knew it was closer to 70; that
during the last of August lie saw the
eotton tiields while except at the top
and that the top was all green; that!
there eame a scorching hot spell about
that time and killed all the top crop. I
"My. my, hut that story sounded;
pitiful. 1 told that fellow that it was
the same o!d story of the 'ust twenty |
years, ever since the weevil came out
<?!' Mtxieo. The weevil begins flaying
the cotton the latter part of August,
and the first of September. He gets
the top crop the first year h~ comes.
The farmers uttribute the failure of
the top crop to some other cause?j
i first one thing'.hnd then another, nndj
(Continued on rage Eight.)
| FRATERNITIES GROW 1
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Year Just Coining to a Close Has
Been Seccessfu! One For Orders.
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NEW LODGES HAVE BEEN ORGANIZED
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, Membership Gains Are Shown by
Records of All Fraternities?York
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county nas uoaces ot many vanou *
j ' Organizations all of Which Are in j
Thriving - Condition.
That fraternalism has made great;
i progress in various York county communities
during the year just coming
to a close both from a standpoint of
increased membership and in general
\ interest in thoso principles for which
all regulated orders stand is the opinion
of a number of the leaders in fraternal
circles. Inquiry among the Masons,
Odd Fellows, Red Men, Moose,
Juniors, W. O. W. and other fraternities
indicates that the ending of the
yeay shows a decided membership in- I
crease. Masonic lodges which are lo- I
ented in Hoodtown, Yorkville, Rock ;
Hill, Fort Mill and Clover have had an j
unusually good year from a standpoint ;
of Increased membership, although In
most Instances attendance upon lodge ;
meetings has not been as regular as
might have been desired.
In addition to taking in new mem- '
bers several of r.he York county lodges,
have furnished candidates for degroes
higher than want is khown as the <
"Blue Lodge" degrees/ The majority '
of those candidates have elected to go '
tho York route although there have I
been quite a number to tako the Scot- 1
tieh Rite in Masonry. - I
Rock Hill Masonic lodge recently i
held a banquet in the Chamber of i
Commerce hall in that city at which l
there "were a number of invited guests 1
?members of the craft who are thor- l
oughly familiar with the teachings of 1
Masonry. The meeting was describ- i
ed as one fraught with great inspir- 1
ation and valuable lessons for Masons <
rnd at least one Mason who attended 1
described the meeting as being "the
most beneficial and elevating meeting
cf the kind that I ever attended."
Philanthropic Lodge.
Philanthropic Lodge No 32, A. F. M.
of Yorkvlllo is the second largest Masonic
lodge in the county. Like the
other Masonic lodges of the county It
' 1 ?nnnai/1..
nas im.Tt-uin.-u ?i.-> mvm./v.r,...*, ~
crably during the year and is going
into another year expecting to continue
its progressive policy. Clover nnd
Fort Mill' lndfr-a are about e?n?nl in
membership and each lodge Las had a
most successful year. Hoodtown, the
smallest lodge in the ccainty in pclnt
of membership- is no slouch in the
matter of general interest and good
.attendance upon regular meetings. In
fact, it would not bo surprising if
Hoodtown's attendance on lodge meetings
is not larger than that of any
other lodge in the county in proportion
to the membership.
Othor Fraternities Grow.
Hut while the Masons have grown
and prospered during the good year
1921, other fraternities have done likewise.
There are two lodges of Odd
Follows in the county?one in York- j
ville and the other in Hock Hill. They |
have gone forward to a remarkable j
degree, especially the lodge in York- I
ville which has its headquarters in the
fraternal hall in the Cannon Mill village.
The lodge has a flr.e 'degree
team and the majority of its members
are men who try to sec to it that noth- j
ing prevents their attendance upon!
every regular meeting.
New Lodges for County Seat.
Two new fraternities have ' broken
into" the county seat field during the ;
year Just coming to a close. They are j
the Loyal Order of the Moose which j
was organized in September and which !
now lias a memnersmp 01 nuee uiau
100 and the Junior Order United
American Mechanics organized only a ,
few weeks ago r.nd which already has :
a membership around forty with every j
indication of rapid growth and pro- j
gross during next year. Whi'e it is not
generally known, the Junior Order is I
one of the strongest fraternities in |
York county. It ranks right along I
with the Masons if it is not ahead in i
membership. One of the largest coun- j
ells of tlie order in the entire state of |
South Carolina is located at Clover, j
while Itock Hill also has a Junior
lodge with a large membership.
Growth of the Loyal Order of Moose j
in Yorkville is considered really re- j
niarkable. Organized at a time when
money began to get "real tight," it ,
was predicted then that it would lie
impossible to organize a large lodge1 (
here. However when the principles of; ]
the order were explained to men of!.
tho town and community they began ; ,
to show immediate interest with the j .
result that each succeeding meeting j f
has seen new candidates initiated and i (
the indications are that this growth is :
going to continue during 1922. At the;,
head of the fraternity* are a number of j
men who are devoting much time anc! j
thought to the fraternity and who have x
pledged themselves to do even more in c
the future.
The Moose lodge in Hock Hill which
was organized several years ago was L
recently reorganized and according to j,
Moose in that city, is rapidly getting ,
on its "feet" again. Tin- Moose Lodge '
in Hock Ilill, !>;< the way, is housed in
the most commodious <|iiurtcrs of any 1 j
iriiitrmiy m iu?* ruuit' wum.*. ; i
An attempt to organize a Moose1
lodge in Fort Mill some time ago was .
not shccessful for ii^ne reason or j ,
J
other; but it is stated from headquarters
of the district supervisor of the
Order in Greensboro, N. C. that such
an organization may be perfected even
yet.
Woodmen Grow.
The several camps of woodmen of
the World in York county have gotten
along nicely, during the present year
and reeords of the clerks of the several
camps show "membership increases.
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/ Red Men Hold Own.
The Improved Order of Red Men is
holding its own. There are strong
lodges of the fraternity in Rock Hill
and in Clover. In liock Hill dnly recently
somo thirty pale fr.cea were initiated*
into .the mysteries of the order
and were made good Indians. The
Clover tribo -has. gained a few members
during the year. Big Chief Tribe
No. G1 of Yorkvillc has been disbanded.
Just why nobody seems to know
and there has been talk from timo to 1
time during the year of reviving tho
tribe: but nothing..has bpen done
about it. ?T
Elks Havo. Grown.
Thcro is only onomlk lodge in York
county whlcli is loA^cd in Rock Hill *
and liko the other fraternities the B. P.
O. E. have been gating oh fine this
year. The RockiHiR Elks are housed
in- handsome quarters on Main street
In that city and tho club feature appeals
strongly to nttiny members. 1
vDo Much CH rrity Work. '
\Vhilo of course 1 :tle is known of it 1
cr should be kr.o? h to tKe outside
world?certainly no specific cases, the 1
various fraternal or ers in York county
have done mucl i charitable work 1
this-year and not ajl of It was among I
their respective ificmbcrs by any i
V?..t Un* iiio mn a ono _ 1
son approaches there will be more of <
this thing and many a Tiny Tim will 1
haw. a happy and, merry Christmas <
his season, little .dreaming that the l
vherewithal was provided by the s
members of some flfaternlty who love 1
little children and f^*own ujis who are i
3own and out and unable to do for <
themselves. 1
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MARCH GIVES WARNING 1
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Military Man Would Have Army of 'l
Not Lees Than 200,000.
Warning against a permanent reduc;ion
of the regular grmy below 200,^)00 ]
:nllsted men is sounded In the last an- y
lual report of Major General Peyton i
2. March, now retired, war-time chler <
>f staff of the army.' The report covers ]
the twe've months' i period preceding
.he generpi'3 retiugjpent from the chler! ^
rtaff on last July 1, when he was sue- I 1
:ecded by General Pershing, with 1
dAJor General Harboard as deputy i
thief of staff. <
General March declares in his re- (
ort that the Idea that ait army or s
150,000 men, the strength now author- I
zed by mandate of congress, furnishes 1
T5 per xent. as much national defense
is a force of 200^000 is a fallacy." t
"The 50,000 men above the 150,00' i
todays, "is the combat part?in instant t
eadiness to meet whatever wnergency i
hat may develop. Tho reduction to <
.50,000 will almost annihilate the force, j t
;onstantly needed in peace, and provid-!
ng the life-saving first line to hold, s
nick the enemy in time of war until l
he second line elements of defense are t
mobilized." , j '
General Marsh asserts that now that j i
he war has been won there is "grave j
lunger" that the American people will' ?
ose sight of "the fortunate escape; c
Yom indescribable calamity that ordi- i I
larily is the fruit of unpreparedness." j j
_.et it not be forgotten, he adds, that it t
equircd seventeen months for the 1
Jnited States to put an independent^
trmy in the field in France, and asks t
vhat would have happened had France i
equired so long a time to put into Jine
ho first fighting unit. " j s
"And yet wo hear," he sa*ys, "a niif- t
ion men can spring to ar\ns over 1
light." | i
Turning to the question of universal t
nilitary training, the general says that r
'if that portion of the manhood of the
lation yvhlch would serve with the col- i <
>rs in timo of war could appreciate t
vhat it means when untrained men's
nust be hurried into .battlo they prob- > 1
ibly would vote overwhelmingly for t
he training in time of peace that c
.vould fit them for their duties in war ! i
md would Insure them a <!u?cont chance1 \
or their lives on the field of battle. j t
"The untrained men that were rush-ic
>d to the front in our armies," he adds, I
'must pay a fearful toll in needless loss i
it lire oecause oi meit iui n. m na...- .
ng." r
Tho former chief of staff reviews the i
ictPvities of the army and the staff c
luring: his last year of service at great c
ength and declares in conclusion that i
'the general staff as now organized
.inder the provisions of the act of Juncj
I, 1920 (army reorganization act), is r
functioning smoothly and with a high s
lrgrce of efficiency." I 1
"In the face of criticism, undeserved j (
ind unwarranted," he adds, "their work! t
las continued on a high plane of excel- i <once
and their morale has remained i
inshaken and unimpaired. They'have j 1
leserved well of the country." ! 1
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? At a regular meeting of the board't
if trustees of the South Carolina uni- l
rersity last Wednesday, there came a 1
request from Dr. W. S. Currcll, the! i
'V Mlh nr. Tf> DC ill uwt'u lit icm r i/ii |
May J, 192.1, his Gist birthday. This is
Lti< r? iruiur retiring age, according to
precedent. Dr. CuitcII has been presi- *
[lent of the university since July 14. i i
1'M-t Tin- t 'v action as toj f
In- request of lTesidenl Currcll, further i ?
i.an to postpone consideration to a fu-j"
are and more fully attended meeting.j '
ROUNDING UP VETERANS
Some of the Experiences of Government
Clean Up Spuad Men.
MORE THAN 500 CLAIMS,ARE FILED
Many Vets Appear lo be Ignorant of
Kignts?une r-eiiow wants mass
Eye to Replace Stolon Optic.
By Frederick J. Has kin.
Washington, D. C.( Dec". veteran
of the World war who is petitioning
the government to give him a
new glass eye, because the first one
they gave him was stolen whilo he was
in swimming, and another man who
had the most of his face blown away
while in the service, but does not ask
compensation because he dpes not consider
himself a hero, are a couple of
the curiosities revealed by the roundup
of World war veterans which has
just been conducted by the veterans'
bureau here.
Like many other varieties of government
officials working in the field,
the representatives of the bureau
found themselves frequently handicapped
by the fact that people be
uevea mey were revenue omcers iooking
for stills. The bureau sent its
representatives Into all parts of the
country, resolved to find every'veteran
of the war who had a claim for
r-oropcnsation and give'him his due.
Over 06,000 disabled ex-service men
have been interviewed since August.
Evidence in the case of 56,334 of these
veterans indicated that claims should
be filed, and government representatives
assisted these claimants to compile
and prepare the necessary evidence.
__These thousands of claims
have been speedily acted upon, for out
of the 56,334 claims filed only 4,398 are
pending, the remainder having been
adjudicated and notices of Settlement ,
forwarded to the claimants. As re- (
suit of this unique program of taking
official Washington to the veteran,
unusual cases from all parts of the^
country many of which the govern- i
nent* is meeting with difficulty,- are ]
coming to light of day for the first '
:ime.
An Unattached Fighter. 1
There is, for example, the oase of C.
H. Pearl, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, i
veteran who lost his left hand and arm <
is a result of a shrapnel wound in
currcd in the trenches. Pearl is ap- ]
parentis "a soldier without a cpuntry." '
It ?.ppears that this, unproven vet- (
cran 'enlisted in tho American ambu
once service of the French army in
1917. After serving his enlistment he ]
t^l^uvu iui uaiinici iu me rviiiciivati j
ixpeditionary forces, but on advice of i
lie attache, he re-entered the French i
lervlce for three months. Six months- I
ater he was wounded and sent to a ,
loppital. j t 1
Four weeks after his Organization
vas transferred to the United States
irmy, but Pearl was not sworn Into
;he United States service beqause he
va3 in the hospital and was overlookid.
Consequently, when released he
vas a free agent and not a member of
my army. The soldier obtained a portion
with the quartermaster's de- ,
jartment, but his condition became ,
vorse and he reentered the hospital.
L'pon liis release he worked in France j
tnd last July came back to America.
When the Michigan clean-up squad
irrived in Grand Rapids to handle lo- ^
;nl claims for compensation, Pearl' ap- j
died to it for an award due to his inuries,
but he was unable to show by
i
ifficial records that he had served the
Jnited States during the war. Neither
:ould he prove that he was actually in ^
he service of any country when he
vas released from a French hospital, "j
Nevertheless, Pearl is getting a
.quare deal regardless of his inability .
o prove that he was ever in service.
His case is deemed to be one of those (
11 which certain technicalities must be
emporarily removed in favor of simile
justice. ^
From Michigan also comes an uni- v
jue demand of another veteran for a ^
lew glass eye to be purchased by the
rovernment. The former soldier lost
lis eye in service and among other {
:ompensations was awarded a glass
;ye. A few months ago his glass eye .
vas stolen together with his clothes
vhile he was in swimming. He asked ,
lie Kim eriiuieiit mi u. uvu uuv luuuc
I lately, but the claim was disallowed.
Had the eye been broken, the ruling
end. it would have been replaced, but
nasmuch as it was stolen the govern nent
could assume no responsibility
n the matter. The veteran asked the
lean-up squad to make an effort to
>btain a reversal of the decision,
vhich is now being done.
Veterans Ignorant of Rights
There are many instances of veterins
having been found and compeniated
by cleaning squads, who did not
enow that they were entitled to gov rnment
aid. At Stockton, Cal., a bat- I ,
le-scarred ex-service man desiring i
:ompensation came before the clean- I
ip squad. He said he had heart trou- J
>le. So slight was his heart ailment j
lowever. lliat the examining physician i ,
'ound that it would not entitle him to
lompensation. Hut to his great sur- f
>riso he discovered that the veteran
lad a scar about 10 inches long and 2
nehes wide on his hip where a muscle
lad been shot off. f
His chief complaint seemed to be ?
hn lmil lu-.'ii't h'nnlilp l.nt li
milj- mentioned the t'net that he hail! N
his ugly Hhrajfnel wound in the hip j j
mil besides a bullet wound in one arm. c
-to almost forgot to mention the lat- t
ter disability, the doctor said.
It was also found that he had not
fully recovered from a sort of paralysis
of the.throat, arms and legs. The
vet said he had always been too busy
iu ini: a L iuiru jor compeosauun, oeiore,
but that while working1 in the mountains
he saw a postal announcing that
the clean-up squad was coming to
Stockton, so he decided .to go there
for an interview. He" was rated as 50
per cent, disabled and therefore entitled
to $10 a month compensation.
"When the clean-up squad sat in
Hartford, Conn., a veteran came before^:.
Ho showed the doctors of the
squad a wound in his left side that
made them ste.nd aghast. Tli^ head
of the clean-up squad was called into
the room and he, too, admitted that in
his crowded experience in the department
with disabled ex-service men, he
had never seen any such a ghastly
wound. This soldier had not received
a :enny of allowance since his disNa-go
over two years ago.
An explosive bullet had opened a
wound across his left side, just above
the hip, over 14 inches long, and hod
forced the hip out so that the cavity
was from 4 to 6 inches deep. It had
not yet fully healed and the veteran
applied for compensation Inasmuch as
he was unable to work.
Humorous incidents come to light
in connection with this work as the
unemployment situation leads some of
the ex-service men to strain a point, in
order to obtain compensation. In
Knoxville, Tenn., a young man presented
himself and told of his affliction.
^rhich he was Informed w^s not
compensable. The young man was
taken aback by this prompt dismissal
of his argument and paused a moment
Suddenly his Ijand began to tremble
while resting on .his knee as he said,
"I am also very nervous."
In some parts of the hill country of
Tennessee and West Virginia the government
representatives with the
clean-up squads were mistaken for
"revenooers." In other remote districts
they were mistaken for draft officials
who the less literate portion of
the population believed were searching
for draft evaders. ' One agent of the
Veterans' bureau who had preceded
the squads for the purpose of making
tho advance arrangements was picked
up by a group of men in an''automobile
who offered to take him to hisdestination.
He. accepted the offer
nr.d got in the car but he had to rest
bis heels on several demijohns of
"corn likker." The trip was interrupted
in several 'places while deliveries
were beihg made.
In Buchanan, Virginia, a man who
had his face almost blown away by a
gasoline explosion In France told the
:lean-up q/ficers that he did not know
Lhat he. was entitled to compensation
because "he*" wasn't any hero soldier
\nd didn't get shot, but. just got blew
up trying to put a Are out in camp."
PEACE ON EARTH
The Disarmament Conference Promisee
Great Things for the World.
The arms conference furnished Suniay
reading which is increasingly
tatisfactory as the weeks pass, writes
IV. J. Hryan for the papers of last
Sunday.
The argument in regard to the isand.s
of the Pacific marks a milestone
>n the road of world amity; not .so
nuch because there is likelihood of
var over the disposition of the islands
jut because the spirit embodied in the
igreement is a pacific spirit It only
'equires two points to fix the decision
>f a line and that decision once fixed
:he line can be extended indefinitely
n both (Jirections.
The scrapping of battleships, cstabished
one point, the four-power agreenent
established a second point and
t will be hard for the conference to
each any conclusion that \$1U be out
>f harmony with this fixed line.'
Sees Freedom of China.
Japan's agreement to turn over to
2hina the public buildings in the
Shantung district is another indication
)f the reaction against war and war
nethods. China is on the road to independence
and that independence is
o be recognized by all the powers.
The doctrine of self-determination
s the working hypothesis which ex^loino
who f f ha nnnfornnpn ia rlrvJn p*
tVhen nations, big and little, are left
o work out their own destiny under
governments of their own choosing
ind subject only to their own control,
hey cause as little friction as suns,
danets and stars.
Invites Lloyd George.
Great Britain and Ireland seem to
)e coming together on the same basis
o the relief of the world, as well as to
he satisfaction of the immediate
>arties. If Premier Lloyd George suc eeds
in solving the centuries-old dis>ute
between Great Britain^nd the
Smerald Isle, he will just have to
ome to the United States to celebrate.
rhoro is no place where he would re- 1
eive a more joyous welcome. And it
nay be that he might be able to give
in impetus to disarmament on land,
he only thing needed to complete the
'circle of our felicities."
Come, Lloyd George, and the Ameri- 1
an people will make your/fetr-.y "one !
;lad, sweet song."
? Governor Cooper has been quite ill
'or some days. He became indisposed ;
ihortly after his return from the con
'ention of governors at Charleston last!
veek and was ill when he attended the
<'oeh reception at Greenwood on De:ember
9, but was hoping to be able to
)e but yesterday.
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YORK COUNTY ROADS
Need lor lord Surface fllgbways Is
Evident Says Sapervbor.
I |l | ^ , ArA'Vj jJ|
?mn niv Will WIT tTAHB TVAtnf
unuu uuii nibb nui umnv im?ii w
While Hard Surface Cast* Much Mora
to Build 8uporvioor Believe* It Moat
Economical in Long. Run?*Vhe North
Road Will Bo Turned Oyer to Btata
Highway Commieoion in March, Ai|
cording to Plan*.
f * A
That sand-clay roads are not sutflciently
strong to take care of the ever fl
increasing and heavier automobile
traffic in York county and (hat there
will be no remedy until hard surface
roads are built over the mail) thoroughfares,
was the opinion expressed
bif Suprevlsor Hugh G. Brown in an
interview wnn a reporter tor xav ^
YorkviUe Enquirer. 'The sand-olay BH
road simply won't hold up and that is
all there is to it,** the supervisor Went
on to s*y. "It has been tried out thoroughly.
Fifteen or twenty years a^o JK
the sand-clay road was the very thing.
But with an ever increasing number of
automobiles and trucks op the roads
carrying heavy loads, it is plain
the sand-clay road won't stspd up to ft
"As matters go nw we are spending
hundreds and thousands of dollars
each year trying to keep these roads In
repair. As soon as a repair Job
ished it is almost time to start all over
again. Take the Rock Hill rtfod for instance.
s I suppose the road from the
county scat to Reck Hill is the roofct *
extensively used road In York county.
In fact I know It is.
"I haven't the exhet figures; but I
should guess that something like fl.000
has been spent in dragging and Otherwise
repairing that road this year. It
has been a case of coping the same
ything over and over again.
"Hardssurface or concrete roods are
the only practical solution of the road
problem. Take the Cherry road, for UU
stance, that stretch of hard iswrftce
road from Wlnthrop college to tie Catawba
river bridge, between Rock Hill
and Fort Mill .; * h
Several years have elapsed now since
that road was completed, hjtti It la
practically as good tgday as Jtwap the
ifav if nraa flnlihiui TIim Via a .Van n/i
big repair bill there and th^M Vttl not
be for sevefal ye^rs to come. True/it
is expensive- to build?-much more expensive
trtan the sand-day reads; but
the difference cotne/ fn'tllff podtof upkeep,
to say- nothing o? the pleusursand
satisfaction of dalektr travel oa a
good road.
Costly, But EeOflSmioaV ' ' K
"As well as I recollect, that road cost
about I It,000 a mile to build, plus the
chain gang labor, which rtrbs the total
cost away up around the 121,000 mark*
But as I remarked there has been no
repair bill. Suppose we had a hard
surface road between the bounty seat
and Rock Hill. It would not have beets
necessary to spend that $5,00? for upkeep,
that 1 mentioned. '
"Just think how much more business
would be developed between the
towns. Think of the wear and teas
that would be saved on automobiles."
The North Road.
Asked if he had any idea when the
North road project to the'King's:Mountain
township line, on which the chalk
gang Is now engaged, would *be completed.
the supervisor said that he
could not tell exactly; but that It might j
be next March before the road is turn**
ed over to the state highway commission.
"We'll probably finish the worjt
of grading and sanding?4>y the end pd
next week," he said; "but of course we
can't complete the work then. One
can't build a road In a few days, you
know. There is much shaping up ^
be done. Then after the road settles
as It were we will have to go back andJ
fill up the holes and uneven places that' *
appear from time to time. Don't gel
the idea that the chain gang^wtU be
engaged steadily on that road from
nnw nnMl n#?*t Mnreh: but I believe I
that it will be that time before thg road
is in proper shape to turn over to the
state highway commission.'*
Way Into Yorkville.
Supervisor Brown said that the town
authorities had never informed the.
county authorities relative to the entrance
of the new West road into
Yorkville?whether it will be Jby jvay'of
the town pumping station and the Jail
or whether It will be carried out ifo/tfte
King's Mountain road. Business peb-'
pic of the town are apxious that the
road lead Into Yorkville by the watei*
works and Jail. "There Is really rio
hurry about the town's letting us know
about the matter," he said. "Any time
next summer will do becauso we will
hardly be able to come into town before
that time."
Getting back to the subject of hard!
surface road again, the supervisor said
that one good thing was beihg done for
the future in connection with the
.. .
building of sand-clay roaas ana wax
was that when the opportupp time did
come for the building of hard surface
roads the sand-clay roads already constructed
would furnish an admirable
base or foundation.
One Kir^ Wordrr-"Can't you find
anything pleasant to say about the
members of my family?" her husband
demanded hotly. j
"Well," returned his wife In a; coldly j
soothing tone, 'I can remetfcber end j
thing: They were all opposed to our j
marriage."