LEGISLATIVE MATTERS
Representative Bradford Summarizes
Situation as it Stood Tuesday.
Fort Mill Times.
Half of the constitutional 40-day
session of the general assembly ended
Friday with few, If any measures of j
statewide importance having1 been sent
to the governor for his approval. The
gasoline tax bill, hel<^. over in the senate
from the 1921 session* if* yet to
pass that body and it now begins to
look as If the measure will be materi~u..
htfnrn it finds a way into
OI1J Ulucuuvu v
the statutos. The house bill proposes
a tfix of 2 cents a gallon on gasoline
which the consumer would have to pay
as he would also have to pay the 1 cent
a gallon proposed on kerosene. An effort
is being, made in the senate to reduce
the gasoline tax to 1 cent a gallon
and to eliminate entirely the proposed
tax on kerosene. "Catch the Joy riders"
seems to be the principal argument of
Uhe house friends of the tax on gasoline.
They lose sight of the fact tfiat
not one gallon In ten of the gasoline
consumed in South Carolina is burned
by joyriders.
For once at least, in the history of
South Carolina legislation, the senate
is acting more wisely ttyin the house
In its refusal to allow important measures
hastily put through the lower
body to pass without giving them the
consideration theiv wide reaching effect
warrants. None.of the "new source
of revenife" bills passed by the house
at the present session has yet come up
for discussion in the senate, but when
they do reach the talking stage on the
floor of that body it is certain many
faults will be found with then* and that
it will take morp than the recommendation
of the Michigan "experts"
to convince the senate that they are
what this state needs. Two of these
measures, the moving picture license
bill and the inconie tax bill, may be
expected to produce much discussion
and it is not unlikely that there will be
changes in both before the seiiate gives
them its stamp of approval. \
The house was to take up today the
o/^aiioH liivnrv tax bill. 4rhich its
friends say will produce something like
a million dollars a year for the state
treasury. The bill contains numerous
objectionable features and if it should
become n law as it is written, there is
the promise of widespread complaint
throughout the state.
South Carolina may be at the foot of
the list in the literacy column of
American statrs, but it isn't going to
stay there long if the appropriations
for education continue to grow for the
next few years as they have grown
since John E. Sweringen became superintendent
?of education in 1$09. A
few nights agoMr.-Swsiingen said to
a house committee that the first year
he was superintendent of education the
legislature appropriated $50,000 for the
public schools. Last year more than a
million and a half was appropriated for
the schools.
Supervisor Brown and Treasurer
Neil were given a hearing by the York
delegation In the interest of work
planned by his office for" the year and
the latter to make the gratifying statement
that he had so arranged the
county's finances that the mil! levy put
on the county a few years ago to build
the Fort Mill-Rock Hill river bridge
could be left out of the levy for 1322.
Mr. Neil also stated that it would not
be necessary to collect this year the
mill levy voted several years afro by
Ebenezer township for bonds for the
old 3C's railroad. '
TO REFUND FOREIGN DEBT
Senate Passes Bill 39 to 25, Democrats
Opposed.
Washington, Jan. 31.?The bill a*uthorizing
the refunding of the eleven
billion dollar foreign debt into securities
maturing in not more than 25
years was passed tonight by the
senate.
The vote was 39 to 25. Final enactment
of the measure must await adjustment
of differences between the
house and senate, which is expected
within a week or ten days.
Three Republicans?Borah, LaFollette
and Norris?joined with the solid
Democratic minority in opposing the
bill.
Under the terms of the bill a commission
of five members, headed by
the secretary of the treasury, would
have authority, subject to the approval
of the president, to refund or
convert and to extend the time of payment
of the principal or the interest,
or both, of the foreign debt.
The date of the maturity of the obligations
accepted by the commission
could not extend beyond June 14, 1947,
and the interest rate could not be less
than 4 1-4 per cent. Bonds of one
foreign government could not be accepted
for those of arother nor could
any part of the foreign indebtedness be
cancelled.
The life of the commission would be
three years from the date of the ap
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proval of the act and the meml>ers
other than the secretary of the treasury
would be appointed by the president
subject to confirmation by the
senate. During its life the commission
would be required to make annual reports
to congress at the beginning of
each regular session in December.
Only members of the cabinet and of
congress will be appointed on the debt
commission, according to Senator Watson,
Republican. Indiana, who told the
senate during debate today, that, although
he was not authorized by the
president to make such an announcement,
he nevertheless knew that this
was the president's intention.
Aside from the section proposing
that interest on the refunded debt be
not less than 4 1-4 per cent., which;
was added as an amendment from the i
finance committee, the only important t
change made in the bill by the senate c
was the elimination of provision which
would have given the commission au- \
thority to settle and refund any claims r
which the United States hereafter i
might have had against "any foreign r
government,'* 1
Efforts to add a soldier's bonus i
provision to the measure, to limit s
the authority of the commission in de- i
ferring interest payments and to re- v
quire congressional approval of the
bond conversion agreements, failed.
The senate did adopt, however, an ?
amendment by Senator Walsh, Demo- S
crat, Massachusetts, requiring the *
commission after the conclusion *of s
each refunding negotiation to report S
the results to the senate. Senator a
Walsh explained that the object was ij
to glvo "pitiless publicity" to the n
worK of the commission.
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CANNIBALISM IN RUSSIA. *
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Baltimore Woman Tells of Stravation s
In the Land of Lenine.
Today I listened to all but an in- c
credible story of white cannibalism, ^
writes Winnifred Van Dusen, a New t(
York newspaper woman.
Surrounded by the ultra modern
civilization of a Fifth avenue hotel,
with human development expressed in v
terms of steam radiators, electric push *(
buttons, permanent waves, I heard her u
gentle voice pick out the story like a v*
fantastic thread from warp and woof a
of the year just past. h
it was about a mother, a young: *
peasant woman of Russia, who, driven e
frantic by hunger and privation, feasted
upon her two little children.
And this incident, which might have r'
been lifted from the anrials of the t]
stone age, is only one of many in the
famine stricken districts of the one =
time country of the czars, according to
the reluctant belief of ray informant.
She is Marguerite E. Harrison 01'
Baltimore, who has come te Now York
to deliver a course of lectures "upon
her remarkable experiences In Russia,
which country she entered without a
passport for a stay of eighteen months.
Mrs. Harrison's book, "Marooned In
Moscow," just published, tells the story
of her ten months' imprisonment in
the "Checka" of the ancient city. Upon
her release she was at once put
aboard ship by officers of the Soviet
government for America with the
warning not to return.
Despite the warning she is making
preparations to visit Moscow upon
completion of her work here.
Insanity Blamed.
It was in the "Checka" that Mrs.
Harrison met the woman who had
maintained her own life by sacrificing
those of her babies. She explained:
"Of course the woman had no realization
of what she had done, stie j
came from Tambov, one of the dis- I
tricts where the peasants naa no iooo
and littlo hope of obtaining any, as
the railroads are in such condition that
it Is almost impossible to transport relief
supplies sent into the country.
"The peasants cannot raise food
furthermore, because they have no agricultural
implements and owing to
lack of fuel and raw materials the
factories have gone to pieces and are
not making any.
"The woman's story was heartbreaking
while it wjts revolting. She
had gone insane from lack of food and
the simplest comforts of living and the
horror followed.
"I do not believe there is cannibalMillion
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NEAR THE COURTHOUSE. I
sm in Russia excepting aa insanity
ollows privation. Personally I found i
inly the one case while I was there." 1
Mrs. Harrison, who began her ad- ]
er.turous career as music and dranatic
critic on a Baltimore newspaper, ]
s a slender, delicate appearing wonan,
altogether unlike one who might <
>o expected to manage illegal entry
nto a war torn country and afterward :
ay that her captors did quite right
n putting her in jail as she was doing
irhat sha had no right to do.
Soviet Not So Bad.
Russia, as she .sees it, is not in such
. bad way after all, nor is the Soviet
:overnment the dragon it some time
;as. been pictured. She told mc of
everal measures accamplished by this
wvernment which in time may be
chieved in our own proud land. One
* complete equality politically of woicn'
With men. She continued:
"I believe the Soviet government is
lerely a phase of education through
rhich the country is poasing and
rhich will soon be over. Its heads
ave worked out, In their sincere way,
ome good with much harm.
"Women have equal weight in govrnment
with men. But so far, they
ave preferred to devote their efforts
> education and welfare work so necssary.
there now, which they can do
etter than men.
"Another characteristic of the Soiet
government is a tendency almost
> Idolize children. They are looked
pon as the future of the country. And
rhilo there is no bit of compulsion
bout state rearing of children, the
nmPK pstnhlished for them offer so
Tjch in the way of comfort that parnts
cannot give, that every instituon
has alohg waiting list, Educaon
is reduced, to a'l art and is cnried
on in many cases by teachers who
ained children of the nobility before
fie war."
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Often True.?Perhaps the classic
example of barroom amnesia is that of
the two drunken men who held the
following dialogue: t
1st Drunk: Do you know George
Robinson?
2nd Drunk (after a period of earnest
Seliberation): No. What's his name?
1st Drunk (suddenly awakened from1
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QUITE A NUMBE:
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ments as to the balance,
press our thanks and app
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want to do anything that
in any way; we prefer th
up promptly and satisfa*
all honest obligations sin
Have Our Money.
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other fellow doesn't eve:
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we read the signs that he
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will be unpleasant to you
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s due or past due, we ccraighten
the matter up at ey.
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