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' . itv SEMI- J l.m grist's sons, pubii?h.rfc - % ^family |}eirspapen #'or the promotion of the political, Sociat, Jgrirulturat and Commercial interests of the {Jeopl?. T E R" ^^copt'pitk"* ?t?*NSS ESTABLISHED 1855 york, S. C? Fltl day, .TANUARy"2Q, 19'22. . , VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS Brief Local Paragraphs of Kore or Less Interest. PICKED UP BY ENQC1KER REPORTERS Stories Concerning Folk* and Thing*, Some of Which You Know and Some You Don't Know?Condensed For Quick Reading. "It would appear that the oil stock salesmen are specialising in preach ers," remarked Rev. J. K. wamer, pastor of Trinity Methodist church. Yorkville, as he read nn oil circular. "This paper says that stock in this particular well will be sold to preachers only at $20 per share and that no others need apply. But I am not buying- any oil stock," said Mr. Walker. Will Not Lease Building. "It is not the idea of the city council to lease the new city hall auditorium," suid J. H. Carroll, clerk of council, the other morning. "Council proposes to rent the auditorium to local organizations who desire to put on entertainments on a basis of twenty-five per cent of receipts from such cntert: inments. Of course, where the audito"rium is desired for community meetings of a public nature where no admission ch.rge is made, there will be no charge made for use of the hall." Thinking. * oaf/i nnc this morninir. "is a I bit of verse that I think is worth passing along": If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but vou think you can't, It's almost a cinch you won't. For out of the world we find Success begins with a fellow's will, It's all in the state of mind. If you think you're outclassed, you are: You've got to think high to rise, You've got to be sure of yourself before You can ever win a prize. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; Put soon or late the man who wins Is the one who thinks he can. After the Agents. ."It would appear," remarked an observer yesterday, "that a number of the county legislative delegations in their zeal to reduce county expenses are going to do away with the services ot iarm aoniuuiiiiawuii ?bvmc . ? ... , stance, I understand that the Green-1 ville county delegation has decided to J tnake no appropriation this year for the work of the home demonstration ngent in that county, although it is expected that they will continue the farm demonstration agent. The Greenwood grand jury recently recommended that the services of the home demonstration agent and the farm demonstration agent in that county be discontinued." Afraid of Newspaper Men. Toy Rhea, the genial assistant cashier of the Peoples National bank in Rock Hill, is afraid of newspaper men. lie said so himself the other day. Asked what was new, when Views and Interviews met hjm on the street in Rock Hill the other afternoon, he said smilingly: "Don't you ask me anything. I'm | afraid to talk to you newspaper mm. Some time ago I talked to a newspaper *r>"n in nn ndlninine town and the next! issue of his newspaper contained anj interview based on what I had said. And maybe I told him some things I j should not have done, because that interview got me in trouble. Son. I'm off newspaper men.' Mr. Rhea did admit that business ir Rock Hi'l wasn't as brisk just now as it has been. Lobbyists. "The meanest feature in connection with being a member of the general assembly," remarked a member of the South Carolina body the other day, "is in dealing with the lobbyists and with these fellows who are always seeking jobs. Around the capitol and in the hotels in Columbia you are constantly pestered and bedeviled by some smooth fellow who is interested in this bill or that and who seeks to get you to pledge your support. These folks simply hound the life out of you. Then there . is the fellow who seeks election to some state job, honorary or pecuniary. They flatter you and worry you and almost make love to you aVid keep at it j so everlastingly and continuous'y until j you feel like kicking them. They have > all sorts, qf w^ys of coming at you and you are o^ the defensive all the time. Ueing a n>cmber,pf the general assembly isn't suc,h an easy job as one might think." , Wanted No Lot. Charlie Caldwell of Yorkvi'le, vouches for this story: "A citizen of a neighboring town?Chester, to he exact? wanted to buy a house and lot some time ago. He found a house that suited him. There was a large lot in the rear of the house and that was the part that didn't suit him. "I'll give you $1,000 more for the! house if you'll buy the lot in the rear or dispose of it in some way," he told I the real estate agent. The agent was surprised. "'Why man,' he said, 'I don't understand. Sure'y you want a good big lot.' "'So. I don't,' replied the prospective purchaser. 'You see it is this way: I; work hard all day and when I coniei home in the evening r don't want to do gardening work. If I have that lot my wife will make me work a garden just J as sin e as shooting. And I'll be dinged j if I atu going to do It. There'll l? no] / . I ' ?' 4 peace in the family if 1 have that lot attached to the house. Get rid of the lot?every b'.ooming bit and I'll buy it/" Folk# Will Talk. "Lot of truth in this bit of verse by Frank Woodell," said one this morning, "and if folks would be guided by the advice handed out they would be a lot happier:" You may get through this world, But it will be very slow If you listen to all that is said As you jro. You will be wearied and fretted And kept in a stew For meddlesome tongues must have something to do For peop'e will talk. And then if you show The least boldness in heart Or slight inclination To take your own part, They will call you an upset coquette in vain. But keep straight ahead, don't stop to explain? For people will talk. And If threadbare your dress And old-fashioned your hat, Someone will sure'y Take notice of that * And hint rather strong That you can't pay your way. But mind your own business? There's naught to be made, For people will talk, i The Hazard of the Crop. Tom Brandon, a hard working and well-to-do negro farmer, who lives on One or Ml\ IS. M. iioves ptuvca, in i King's Mountain township?the Barber Old Mill place?came into The Enqui- i rer office Wednesday to say that he I had killed 2,000 pounds of hog meat I this season and that he lias not bought < any flour for a number of years. i In reply to questions, Tom said that 1 he owns three mules; that in 1920 he i planted 45 acres of cotton and made 21 i bales; last year he planted 35 acres 1 and made 17 ba'.es, and this year he i proposes to plant 30 acres. < "Did the boll weevil get you last 1 year?" i "He got my top crop right smart. At I first 1 thought it was the dry weather;' i but now I am satisfied that it wa3 the < weevil." s "Suppose you knew now Tom that , you would not make five hales on thirty acres this year, what would you i do?" "If I was cortuin of course 1 would i mil n'nne hut not heinir certain 1 am i g ing to risk it." Tom wont on to say that he has in 15 acres of wheat, intends to sow 10 acres ' of oats, will work p'onty of corn, and < ho does not see any other way for it i than to risk 30 acres of cotton without . much fertilizers. If he has good luck i ho will he in that much, and if he loses, I the only satisfaction he will have will i be that he will not he in debt. ' "But, I'll tell you this. Mister, 1 am ' going to try to make as much corn und I meat as I can," he said. ' Not Ready to Give Up. ( "Whi'e farmers in the counties sur- 5 rounding Charleston were hard hit by 1 the boll weevil last year still they are ' not going to give up," said Mr. Ben K. J Adams, telegraph and agricultural editor of the Charleston News and Cou- ( rier, who was a visitor in Itock Hill and ^ Yorkville Wednesday and yesterday. ' i ne I'uuun crup was meruuy snoi iu pieces on account of the ravages of the \ boll weevil and the city of Charleston and the other cities and towns down state are feeling tne fact keenly in a financial way. Don't get the idea, howover, that the farmers down that way I' are so discouraged that they are going i1 to stop growing cotton all together. (' This year they are going to proceed j' along different lines and are going to! plant much more feed crops than they ( have been doing, although they are go- 1 ing to continue to grow cotton largely as a money crop. Their practical experience with the boll weevil has ' taught them a lot and the most of 1 them believe that they are going to know how to prepare for him this year. I believe that if you read the census, ' reports at the end of 11)22 you'll find | that the production of hop and hominy down state has been increased ' wonderfully." Mr. Adams delivered an ( address before the state meeting of Woman's Home Demonstration Agents at Winthrop college Wednesday afternoon on the subject: "News and Howto Write It." lie was the principal 1 speaker at the annual meeting of Meech Stewart Post No. C<? of the | American Legion in Yorkvife Wednesday evening, his subject being. "The American Legion." ' * ' < LARGE APPLE TREE i Kentucky Specimen More Than Three Feet in Diameter. ( Probably on? of the largest apple trees it: the state of Kentucky stands or. a farm known as the Grisson farm. I two miles east of Hestand, Monroe County. The tree is more than 3 feet in diameter and is around 110 years , old. It hears a yellow sour apple of medium size and flavor, and is known to have produced numbers of season.? from sixty to seventy-five bushels o.' I apples. It is in a perfect state now except that a few of the top limbs are decaying. It sprang from the ground where it stands and was never transplanted. After it reached bearing stage a large 01 chard was set around it but those trees have long since died out and the giant apple tree still stands and bears fruit in favorable seasons. ? ? No one can learn to'assume reI sponsihilily unless be is made to as- ! i some the consequences of his acts. | LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS Woman Chosen on Winltirop Board of Trustees. MARION NAMED A SECOND TIME Seven Circuit Judges Re-Elected Without Opposition?T. C. Callison, v of Lexington Elected Trustee of tnuj South Carolina University overThos.! F. McDow of York. Columbia State Thursday. Mrs. Mary Nance Daniel of Saluda, president of the Winthrop College Alumnae association, was yesterday elected by the general asembly a member of the board of trustees of her alma mater and so became the first woman to be named on uny of the administrative boards of South Carolina's state institutions of higher learning. Mrs. Daniel succeeds the late D. S. Henderson of Aiken, whose term as a member of the board would, have expired in 1924. The other members of the Winthrop board named yesterday were: J. E. McDonald of Winnsboro and D. W. McLaurin of Columbia, both of whom were re-elected without opposition to succeed themselves. Mrs. Daniel, who was nominated by Senator O. P. Goodman of Laurens in Mm nnlv nnmiiiitimr ??noorh of the ioint assembly's session, is a graduate of Wlnthrop col lego in tne class of 190*1 and since her graduation has been a leading figure in educational circles'of the state. Immediately following her college years she taught in the schools of the state, leaving the actual teaching work to become state supervisor of school improvement. In this capacity she contributed no little to the advance and improvement of the state's educational system. Her interest in Affairs educational, however, has not been entlre'y. confined to the public schools of the state as she has always maintained liaison with her alma mater md is now the head of the Wintbrop College Alumnae association. She is ilso a former president of the Rural Association of South Carolina. Mrs. Daniel, who before her marriage afic \ii?? Mnrv Vance, is the wife Of VV. L. Daniel, attorney of Saluda, nnd i former member n'f the house of representatives. Mariort Again Named. Senator John Hardin Marion, wh(. ( was recently elected associate justice it the state supreme court to fill the i jnexpired term of the late Associate ] rust ice George W. Gage, was named without opposition for the full term, beginning August 1; 1922. Senator ( Marion's name was placed in nominn-j; ion by Senator Proctor A. Donham of j ireenville. The seven circuit judges, whose :eritu expired this year, were all with-j )ut opi>osition nnd were all named to , succeed themselves as follows: I. W.j Bowman of Orangeburg, judge of the! First circuit; Hayne F. Kiec, of Aiken,i : iudge of the Second circuit; John ?>. j | Alison of Manning, judge of the Third j :ircuu; wawara , jiciver ot tncrjw, , |udgc of the Fourth circuit; Ernest; , Moore of Lancaster, judge of the Sixth: drcuit; Frank IS. Gray of Abbeville, , ludge of the Eighth circuit, and T. J. I 1 Mauldia of Pickens, judge of the > j rhirteenth circuit. J. J. McMahan of Columbia nnd J. . Clifton Rivers of Chesterfield werei| >lected insurance commissioner andj. warehouse commissioner respectively, joth succeeding themselves. Neither | net with opposition. Mrs. Virginia Clrcen Moody also sue- ] :eeds herself as state librarian, being,1dected on a viva voce vote without i opposition. | ( The only contests of the day came n the races to sclert the five trustees ? >P the University of South Carolina ind CUmson col'ege, and the two mem- i H-rs of the board of directors of the <tate penitentiary. Two roll calls were i lecessary m the university trustee con est while the one roll call taken in the penitentiary board election failed to fill - juv <>i ine iwu vacancies ancl me sec- 1 >nd rol! call will bp taken today. Trustees of University. Julius S. Mclnnes of Darlington, < ncinher of the house from Darlington ind.itn alumnus of the university, le<i < ho field of four candidates for the >oard of trustees of the university and ivas named on the first ballot. T. C. Allison of Lexington, also an alumnus if the university and solicitor of the Eleventh circuit, was named as the dthcr member of the board,' two vu- I fancies having b?>en caused by the ex- ' piration of the terms of the late C. E. < Spencer of York and L. 1'. HoMis of [Jreonville. The other two* candidates in the race were:- L. 1'. Hollis of flreenvillo and Thomas E. McDow of York. With 7-4 votes necessary for an dec- ? tion the race on the first roll call stood: Mefnncs. IIS; CallWon,"71'; XIrDow, 7ft,| bind Mollis, 30. Mr, Ilol'is' name was withdrawn after the first roll call, Mr. Callison defeating Mr. McDow by a vote of 07 t > 54. K. M. Cooper, Jr., of Wisacky, Josiah J. Evans of lionett-sviHe and I. M. ' Mauldin of Columbia were selected on the first ballot to fi"! the vacancies of 1 the board of trustees of Clo:?son College, Mr. Evans and Mr. Mauldin succeeding themselves while Mr. Cooper takes the place left vacant by the resignation of It. H. Itawl of Lexington, lloth Mr. Cooper and Mr. Evans are alumni of the t'diversity of South Carolina while Mr. Evan:: is also aj graduate of Chanson College. Two other candidates, J. C. Pepper of Eas-J ley and T. C. Shaw of Anderson, were in the'race, the roll call vote standing: Cooper, 113; Evans, 134; Mauldin, 115; Shaw, 81, and Pepper 5. No Opposition Met. John P. Thomas of Charleston and James H. Hammond of Columbia were re-elected members of the hoard of visitors of the Citadel without opposition, while J. M. Xick'es of Abbeville was also nahied to succeed himself as a member of the board of trustees of the John dc la Howe Industrial school without an opponent. Dr. L. H. Jennings of BlshopvUlc was also without opposition in his race for election as trustee of the Medical College of South Carolina. The contest to fill the two vacancies on the board of directors of the state penitentiary brought a field of six candidates, J. A. McDerinit of Horry, a former member of the board, being the only'man e^ted on the first and only ballot taken yesterday. The other candidates were: A. II. Hawkins of Prosperity, J. A. Hinton of P'ckens, W. H. Canfleld of Anderson, Albert CJilbert of McCormick and A. II. Macaulay of Columbia. Both Mr. Hawkins apd Mr. Canfleld are candidates to succeed themselves, their terms on the board expiring this year. The balloting will bo resumed today at noon, when the joint usembly, under the provisions of the concurrent resolution authorizing the elections, will convene to complete Its task. The vote on the first roll call stood: McDermit, 82; Hawkins, 47; Hinton, 43; C5Ubcit 21, and Macaulny 10. WOMAN TO HANG MAN < Iowa County Sheriff Says She Is Ready to Do Her Duty. "I'm ready to do my duty!" The speaker is Gundti Martingdale. a woman and a mother?and sheriff of Alpmakee county, Iowa. "Her duty," may be hanging a man ?a man accused of slaying one of Mrs. Martingdalc'a best friends. If Earle Thorpe |p convicted of the brutal slaying of bis former sweetheart. Miss Inga Magnuson, young school teacher, Mrs. Martingdale will have to spring the trap that will send Thorne to his doom Thorpe is said to have confessed. Officials dcrlnre ty; plans to plead guilty. That is taken to mean the death sentence, so high does public sentiment run. Mrs. Martingdale Sr. the widow of a sheriff. On her husband's death, tho hoard of supervisors appointed her to fill his office. A woman could do K easily, they said?even a frail woman like Mrs. I Martingdale?for Alamnkee eounty was a law-abiding community. Then? Miss Magnuson's mutilated body was found in the basement of her rural school house. The woman sheriff was informed. She telephoned for bloodhounds. She askeu a neighbor woman to care for her children. She clad herself In rough serviceable clothing. She started the hounds an tho scent. Over roads, ankle deep in mud, across frozen hills and fields all night Ihe little woman followed the bloodhounds until? The trail led Into the next county i and Sheriff Murtingdale placed Thorpe under arrest as he was about to board a train in tlie next county. She took her prisoner back to Wau- 1 kon. An angry mob of farmers and townspeople gathered. There was talk of a lynching. But Mrs. Martingdale stood off the crowd. "I shall see to it that my prisoner jets justice!" she said. She took Thorpe to the Jail. All night she cross-questioned him. She gathered the evidence on which ihe state will base its case when rhorpe's case comes up. Then?at last?she went home to deep ar.d to "catch up" with thei: aousework! Next April the Rev. Winifred E. Robb, a clergyman and sheriff of I'olk county, will be called upon to hang Eugene Weeks and Orrie h. Cross, convicted of murder. OLD ENQLI8H ESTATES. Many of the Greatest are Passing to Other Hands. * Historic estates of England are still being sold under the auctioneer's hammer. One notable example is the sale >f the IJradgato estate, in the heart of Charnwood forest district of Leicester, formerly owned by the seventh earl of Stamford, and Warrington which was the birthplace of the ill-fated Lady Jnnc Grey, the old hall, which was destroyed by lire, having been built by her grandfather, Thomas Grey, second marquis of Dorset. It includes the ruins of the ancient I'nverscroft priory. The priory was founded by itolwrt Blanchmains, earl of Leicester, in the reign of Henry II for Augustinian hermits, and the priors became persons of great importance, with evidently strong sporting proclivities, for it is said, "they kept their hounds and hawks; they employed a ranger, a huntsman and a falconer, thoy had seven woodmen constantly employed in cutting firewood for the house; they brewed ten quarts of malt weekly; they kept open hnur.e for all visitors and wayfarers and maintained all the poor in the surrounding parishes." DESTROYING FORESTS Practice of Burning Over Wood Lands is Foolish and Destructive. IKFOBMlTloiutBOUT TBBiPINE .TREE Average Yearly Cut Sirice 1898 Hat Been On* Billion. .Feet-*-No Taxes Paid on Output of the. .Mills?At tention Directed to Subject of. Vast Importance. By James Henry' ftlce, Jr. Perhaps, instead of abusing people that call attention to our low standing in education, it might be just as well to eradicate the ignorance by giving the people genuine practical education, with no politics in it. When Sir Charles Lyell, the great geologist, said in 1864, that the South's difficulty arose from devoting too much attention to the production of orators and politicians and too little to making scientists and men of affairs, he struck home. We are still doing it. When college graduates advocate the burning over of forests, a prac square miles of Chin:, smitten with famine? The answer lies in the destruction of the forests on which civilization depended. It is, and always has been, irupotfhible to build up civilization in a treeless region. A few people can eke out existence there perhaps, making fire from camel dung in the East and from llama dung in the West; hut It will bear little resemblance to civilization. The subject is n vast one. It is not easy to comprise In short space its manifold bearings. We can, however, throw out hints strong enough to convince anybody but a born fool. This we are trying to do. The Pine. Commercially, the most important timber in the state is pine. For practical purposes pines may be divided into Long Leaf, or Yellow pine and Short I^eaf pine. There are many varieties of Short Leaf, known by various names in different communities. They have different qualities, but for trade purposes they are all grouped under the one name, "Short Leaf," sometimes marketed as "Old neia or .North Carolina pine. It is called "North Carolina Pine" because a little of it grows in North Carolina, its rarity attracting a special name perhaps; most of it grows in other states. Up to the year 1898, Short Leaf pine was regarded as worthless, or nearly so, in South Carolina, by the state. This was one of the sad defects in their education. Plenty of other people knew better, hut it war, no business of theirs to inform timber owners of the value of what they owned; whereby some hundreds of millions in property were lost to the people of this state. Ignorance is a costly commodity, and its purveyors are luxuries. We could afford to ignore such a loss when every year we were turning out a noble army of orators and politicians. What is money any how? The average cut of pine timber since 1898 has been a billion feet a' year, with the exception of one war vear. when it dronned to 545.000.000. Did the people of the atate get any return for this vast amount of production? They did not; but then the lawyers did and as our principal educational output was lawyers, we may be said to have benefited through them. It was encouraging the line nrts. Dut the tax department is no richer. There has not been a cent paid on stumpage or standing timber; there has not been a cent paid on the output of the mills. Very few states are rich enough to give away so much, and South Carolina is to be congratulated. Ten cents a thousand on the mill output would have meant one hunhundred thousand a year, or more than two million dollars since the rush began. Work of Years. In forty years a pine tree will make good sap lumber. Covered with paint it will have a long life.. North Carolina has almost nothing but this sort of timber left. Kor its full growth into heart stuff a pine tree requires nearly two hundred years, at least ISO Yellow pine requires a third more time. If there has been selection in cutting. if no tree under 10 or 12 inches in diameter at small end of the first cut. had been logged, then there would have been a continuous supply. But everything was cut; the woods were lull of brush and pine needles. The bushmnn came along, set fire to the mass and sent a blaze roaring through the country, destroying millions of dollars in property to find pasturage for his cow. He sees no harm, because he is a half-savage, dull-witted and with no more sentiment than an alligator. Besides it is not his property. He owns no land and wants none. This is the way our pine timber went. The people of the Up-Copntry ure taxed to educate these people, but are | now allowed to restrain their crlm| inal activities. The Up-Countryman might well consider this. Keep up the education, by all means; but stop crime and sabotage. LEGISLATIVE NOTES Interesting Sidelights Regarding the General Assembly. ,, (Fort Mill Times) There is more talk this year of economy in and around the halls of the General Assembly than there has been for years, but of course it remains to be seen whether the talk will amount to anything more than talk. The people of the lower section of the state especially were hard hit by the ravages of the boll weevil last year and from that section .many stories are heard of ruined farmers and bankrupt business men. One member of the house of representatives, a professional mat:, from a county south of Columbia was telling a few days ago of his experience during 1921 as one similar to that of many people in his section. "When I was here last year," he said, "I had $10,000 in bank. Shortly after the legislature adjourned I Invested it in a drug store in my town. A few days ago we took stock and found that the inventory amounted to $2,000. Most of our business was done on credit and we cannot collect a dollar, because those who owe us have nothing with which to pay. I am looking for a location !n the upper section of the state." For the first timi in eight years Cole L. Blease last Thursday was a visitor to the house of representatives. During his stay on the floor he stood behind the rail and apparently watched with Interest the proceedings. At the time the house and senate were In joint session balloting for an associate justice. The session was being presided over by Lieut. Governor-* Harvey, who in announcing the result of one of the ballots, became gligtuly confused in. stating the number of votes necessary to a choice whereupon Mr. Blease was heard to remark, "If he can't count any better than that, I am not surprised that his bank in Charleston is in bad shape." One of the former governor's friends facetiously remarked that he Jind come to the house to look over the membership so that he could tell the people next svmmer who should be left at home. The moving picture exhibitors of the ] state are up in arms against the bill introduced in the house to tax them $5 < on every thousand feet of reel they put on the screen. The exhibitors in i a numbet of smull towns in the state say it will put them out of business, that they cannot stand the tax, and 1 that they will close their doors the day the proposed law is put into efTect. Meanwhile, however, the bill has been reported favorably by the Judiciary committee, to which, by the way, it i should never have been referred, be- < cause it is a revenue measure and under the rules of the house should have i gone to the ways and meanB committ I Why there should he men in the , house of representatives at every ses- ( sion of the general assembly who seem , to deligbt in opposing even small things, much less the larger ones, Intended to advance the interests of Winthrop college is hard to under- 1 stand. An instance of this crept out ' on the floor of the house Friday. A 1 memorial was received from a wo- ( man's organization in Aiken county 1 urging that Winthrop be treated con- ! siderately In the appropriation bill this 1 year. The usual motion, that the 1 memorial be received as information | and printed in the journal, was made. ( Mr. Evans of Marlboro objected on ' the score of economy. The cost of 5 printing the memorial would have 1 been $1.50. The talk by Mr. Evans in 1 opposition to printing it probably cost ! the taxpayers $50. 1 RATTLESNAKE FEAST J West Virginia University Students Have a Mess of Reptile. I A score of students and laboratory < instructors at West Virginia University were treated to a rattlesnake feast one day recently while P. A. M. Reese, head of the department of zoology, incidentally attempted to prove that a great deal of meat gofcs to waste every i year owing to common' scruples, relates a Mnrganton, W. Va., dispatch. The rattler from the West Virginia hills was presented to the university several weeks a?,o. When it declined to eat, Dr. Reese killed it and prepared it much in the same way that other meats are prepared. Those who partook of the meet said it was not unlike the breast of the chicken and had the same appearance in color. ? A tourist can't help but noticing that the average small-town public garage is the best building in the place. I THE POWER OF SOLD Henry Ford Inaugurates a New nlcial FlgW. - ; j WOULD ABOLISBEB All WTUEJT Monty to be Useful Should be Croat* ive, and Modem Financial Systems Would Make for World Pregeeea ft They Were Established on a Creative Basis. Washington Hera!d. "(rold Is useless, except possibly , for decorative purposes. Money, to be of value must lie creative. Gold is not creative, hence Is not u fair basis value." . ' JW 'f This is the theory upon which Henry Ford Is proceeding In a new CWflpuign he hos Just opened to put Ahierican money on a new itasle. He has dropped his tight against the "international Jew," through the Dearborn Independent, so thut the entire energies of his publication may be tfevot- 'J ed to the tnonoy issue. He Intends to reduce the price of the Independent. Ford's new fight, which was revealed in detail while he wus in Washington during the past few days, is bound up in the now famous Muscle Khoals project, in oiner woraa, uie Dig reason behind hie desire to take pver .the Muscle Shoals work is to deraonrtrate that his money scheme is sound. He would apply It in financing the Shpala project. Ford Explains Idei. > The Idea, ns explained l>y Ford, Is this: ; , If this government Isnued bonds at 4 1-2 per cent to complete the Muscle Shoals work It would cost 140 rOO.OOO, plus the interest on bonds, tk aging the total cost to 1100,000,009. Undir his plan, however, money invested - at Muscle Shoals would be "creative money." He 'would give employment, through the products from the project, new industries would be started, giving more employment, and the *over?tment would have a steadily increasing Income from leases, rentals, etc. With the start of the project Ford, AAMaAniiAnllu tKo ncsa Ki'O mAn. v.uuac?|ucm i j , uiiuvi n?v vt mimw iuvh ? ey Hcherne would hax*e the government issue $40,000,000 in say. special I'-'O "Muscle Shoals" btXs. These bills would have the same vsltio ss osdU nary currency. Wages would be paid with them and' general expenses Is carrying on tht l&r&^ooM be tffiritlarly paid for. They would, in effect, he non-Interest paying, - negotiated bonds. Ford would pay back the government at the rale of about $1,200,000 a year. Would Apply It to Railroads. The Issue of special notes would be completely retired within less thMu* forty years by these payments. At the end of the 100-year period covered by Ford's agreement he declares the government would be Ip compete control of the entire Muscle Shoals project without having spent a c$nt a either In principal or Interest. The "creative money" invented In the project would pny itself back, accordtWfto Ford's theory. Ford would carry his theory far beyond Muscle Shoals. He would apply It to the railroads, buying up the hold- . ings of all stockholders with "creativemoney" that would be issued. ,,The value back of this railroad money would be the productive power of the roads. Being relieved of their present very* heavy payments for interest, Ford argues, the roads would he able to make Improvements that cannot now bd . made, and pot the transportation "syji- < terns.of the country on a higher level. Sees Interest Evil. Interest, in Ford's opinion, is the' nlllst-me about the neck of all modern t ndustiial enterprises. Too many money lenders are drawing Interest or dividends, without contributing to the ivork of industries, tic believes. Hi* system of issuing currency on specific projects, with the possibilities in the project serving as a guarantee or the , rnlue of the currency would, he declares, eliminate tho necessities of loans. Among other things Ford has i complete plan in mind for the building of twenty locks 0.1 the Mississippi river which would, he says, make that stream r great highway of commerce ind at the same time furnish enough dectrlclty to light and furnish motive power for the entire Mississippi valey. This scheme he would also put ihrough under his financial scheme of creative money. Compares Two Nations. In arguing that it is work production and employment that make for real money value, rather than merely fold, Ford points to the present conlitions in the United States and Germany. The United States has most of the yold in the world, and has approximately 3,000,000 unemployed and has ?rnine throuuh a serious financial depression. Germany has no gold, but s perhaps the busiest country in the world industrially. Therefore, Ford believes, gold has nothing to do with prosperity. Money is useless unless It reates work, he argues. Gold in it* ?eif creates nothing, but money based ipon the energy of production which' t represents will create more energy ind more production and consequent* y more money, he says. ,