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~ THE SOLDIER SONUS Experts Say Increased Taxation Will Put Heavy Burden on Veterans. WOULD MEAN CURRENCY INFLATION Deflation*cf Average Man'# Purchasing Power Will Follow?Morse Warns? 1 Will Pall On Ex intiuaonu CIAUM.I, ..... Soldiers As Well as the Rest. (.Perlif or (re ir^.Yew York/World) Politicians at Washington, facing national deficit^ confronted with treaties on partial disarmament to reduce taxation, arc opening their mouths to swallow n came). They arc shaking In their boots in anticipation of a reverse veteran vote, forgetting that an American veteran of the great war is just as good an American as when he shouldered a rille and wont ^versous to fight for civilization at a* feu^ -dollars a month and came back a better man and bettor fitted for success in his trade or vocation, with the memory, of a great adventure burned in his soul. Elections in the United States aro not won by < lass votes, by sectional questions, no: issues created by pro -l_ 1 ? dliU *??? The Soldiers' Bonus bill Is not a class issue; it is purely an economic question, projected by political exigencies. At Hi-st glance it looks like sin attempt to rob Peter to pay Paul, but analyzed in its present proposals it is in reality as much or more on Paul than cn Peter. ' Tax Veterans Too? Paul is the soldier, 4,000,000 strong, who went to Vrar for Peter as well as for himself. The Pauls who died in serviee can never he repaid by a grateful country; the Pauls who were injured cannot be rewarded, too liberally by the nation; ^?ut the Pauls who came back safe and sound, restored to their waitiug.families and their places in the nation's affairs, alongside the Peters who stayed home and fought the batties behind the trenches, are now an issue before the whole-nation. Shall they be taxud1 alAng with the. Pet?rs who stayed at homo, to give further expression, in uonars, n-um *. grateful nation? And how yill this tax be collected, and who will pay the bill? J 00 A government, our government, is not a money-making business, it is a lorfing business, an overhead on the taxpayers, and' ali exiiejrtlitures must be taken by legislntive'iiction out of the earnings of the people. Income is j now taxed to the saturation point; can i it also bp levied to raise another live billions as a gift to our Pauls who went forth- to war and returned safe and j sound to thei^ homes? Some of tho Wayi lt-4-iita Him. The proposed Bonus Bill levies on outgo, upon expenditure," upon purchasing power and on the very items that our Pauls consume as liberally ; as our Peter-Stay-at-Homes. Thus, the proposed boniir on gasoline] hits every returned soldier who owns a j cat- (and there are 5,000,000 cars in the . United States) or who uses a tractor or truck in his business life. For every few miles that he rides, or trucks, he would pay a cent out of the bonus he might get. In addition to this, he would have to pay an extra 25 cents on every horse power of his motor. It is further proposed to tax every cigarette he smokes, in order to raise the money to ivayjiim a bonus. The cost of cigarettes would be lifted accordingly?50 cents for every thousand. Every pound of smoking and chewing tobacco would carry a tax of 2 cents, no matter how cheap a , grade. Two cents out of l'aul the soldier's pocket to pay Paul the veteran. Every show that lie attended, every motion picture, would cost him twide the tax he now pays, twice as much for his girl, his wifiv or his mother and children?quite an item on the family of some 4,000,000tauls?to pay i'aui a uuuun. Taxed Again if He Invests. Again, every package he-sends by parcel post, lie is chhrgrd an extra 4 per cent.?4 cents on a dollar's worth of mail by parcel post. -And the bulk of parcel post matter is home packages?not business mail. Mother sends, n pt|ir of socks that she has knitted to l'.'tul. Paul sends a package home to mother?ail 4 per cent, extra, to raise SAYS U. S. TOO GENEROUS IN JUNKING BATTLESHIPS ' Senator James Reed has ast made know, his views on the arms conference. Although .approving in principle the naval armament treaty, ho says that the United States hrs been too cenerous in junking naval vessels. QUEER 'FANCY' I ? ^ I Earl Palmer of Plattsburg, N. Ti one three barrel obstacle and then ?without breaking bis neck. I . la bonus Cor Paul?out of ins own | pocket. If Paul, veteran, buys a home, or real estate, lie pays a tax of $5 per ?!,000 op the transfer.* If he Invests his savings in stock he would pay 1 per | cent, on every dollar of stock bought. Of course, ail the tax to raise the j bonus dpes not come out of Paul's pocket: only his share, but the inI creased taxes on an already overtaxed I country must raiso the price of commodities all along the line. The Peters who stayed at home will have to pay | too, and their net earnings wiU he less. So will Paul's. The business of the nation, just entering a period, of slight improvement, | will suffer a tightening of the taxation stranglehold that has already been a factor in holding it down. ExApa Taxes to Pay Interest. Immediately, under the bonus plan, there must be some three hundred and j flfty million in cash raised. This must he borrowed by the government, u put at once into effect, to meet the necessary cash obligations of the bonus. J The government will have to go to "Wall Street'*?to the bankers?who, in turn, go to the investing public. The government will have to borrow the money and pay interest upon it. It will be years before the borrowed three hundred and fifty million can be paid off. During those years Peter and Paul will have to pay extra taxes to meet the government's obligations for interest upon the loan. The government can't get the interest money any other way. Three hundred and fifty millions means an Additional tax of $17.50 upon the head of every family in the United States, assuming the general average of five people to a family?plus the interest upon the three hundred and fifty millions?until the loan is paid. What if the bonus obligations run up to five billion? To pay eventually this five billions it I would take $50 out of the pockets of J every man, woman and child in the j United States, or say $?50 for each family head, of whom 4,000,000 vet! erans, if not now as family heads, may eventually be included. Hits Averago Man's Budget. Aside from the menacing defiance <>f this burdensome additional tux legislation, it is a measure that is adding I vast obligations to overtaxed business (and incomes. It will fall upon the i I'e.'lCI) llie CIHl i.i a railiuuvv , <11111 my I i ' boy's heart was convinced that, but 1 ! fur the woeful accident, I would have f ar ived at the end and got the Bag of | . i Cold. It was a sorrowful, distressed little I j buy liint crept homeward. The birds I sang; the hens hummed; blossoms t ban d their hearts to light and warmth; | s and over in the field Daddy Will 1 j sang to his mule, as he plowed along, f Ail the world was bathed In glory and j q light; but these tilings were as nothing, j 1 The rainbow was gone and with it | jthe Dag of Cold. ' budget of the average man. It is generally recognised by economic experts that it would be suicidal to'increase tax burdens upon the business of the nation. How. then, can we hope, to restore business conditions to normal and thereby provide jobs for the unemployed if we still by further taxation reduce the purchasing power of the salaries or wages of the average man whose income is less than $2,000 a year? While we are condemning Russia and (leiinany for issuing depreciated currency, we are proposing to increase taxes *to a point of deflating the purchasing power of our own currency by increasing the cost of tilings and thus reducing the buying value of the dollar To date the different states' bonuslegislation carries nearly $ Km,000,000? and more contemplated?permanent obligations; the national obligations tc , disabled soldiers to date exceed $1,000,000.000. Our war obligations in government bonds exceed $25,000,000,000. Tax on Coming Generations. We are heaping up a tax upon tht coming generations, of our Pauls wh< I fought abroad and our Peters win stood behind them at home, that is al the saturation point of national ability ; to pay; for it roust be remembered that 'whether a bonus is naid by state gov , crmm-uts or the Federal government i all comes out of tlu> public. If tin nation would give the vctcrai | :i reward, le t it he a helpful one am 1 out of the nation's own wealth, out o I its* unoccupied lanchj, forests, minerals oil territory, awaiting the hand of in Ul!i;cnt industry to develop into groa 1 value and untold riches. ! This is the kind of a reward tha would pay dividends?as similar act did after the Revolutionary and Civi Wars?and not increase the burdens o i taxation and the cost of living at th< I expense of deflation fre the dollar nm 1 the retarding of business recovery. SKATING STUNT. . ? ...y.... s.... :*.jB*': .< ? ; ' ^ Copyright by Dnderdood A Underwood r., a fancy and speed skater, hurdles dives over the other at high speed THE END OF THE RAINBOW I t ' ; 'J '? ; By JAMES HENRY RICE, Jr. The plantation was passing from winter into spring. The leaves were forming on the trees. Bumble bees were poising in sunlit spaces. New birds were flocking in; old ones were leaving for the north. Spring was in the air, even though nights were cool and daybreak came with a chill that lasted until well after sunrise. I-fMrHHIK U1V ill.ll WiO III uvrr./ uv, quired knowledge, obtained through i divers talks with old darkeys, was the | fact of the Bag of Gold found at the Rainbow-End. Nobody doubted it. On the plantation this belief was an article of faith. From that time on all rainbows were narrowly watched; but somehow the few that appeared had no end at all, or the end lay too Yar oft to think of getting to it. Hope was growing faint. The Glorious Rainbow. Ono day there was a warm shower, followed by a lifting of grass blades, a burst of blossoms and a humming of bees. Standing ?n the long front piazza, looking out beneath the waving black locusts, toward tho orchard and the woods beyond, I saw all at once a glorious rainbow. It not only spanned the sky, but ono end fell In the adjacent wood3, lighting with glory the little knoll where we gathered nuts. There it was plain as day, the end touching the ground and within a I quarter of a mile, just beyond the old. i straw field. With just time to catch breath, I I darted down the steps and through the gate, passing the apple orchard and going over Ihc fencp like a grey hound. , The thick straw nuu Briars in n, nop these scratched the skin off my legs, but on 1 went. It was a race for life r.nd death, for the treasure meant everything. Nobody had ever said how mucli gold was in the bag, but.it was reported as being sufficient for all human needs. A rabbit jumped and sped away. He was hardly noticed. Just by the other fence which shut the field from the woods, there was an old rotten log. Around it the bushes and briars grew thick. This was only now remembered; but 1 could not turn , aside; there was not a minute to lose, for the rainbow still showed tmd its end still bathed (he ground in splendo". Through the hushes and briars I tore my way and clambered up the fence' , in feverish haste. 11 The prize was within my grasp. I There it showed, grandly beautiful in Ij the spring woods. ] On this side the little knoll there , was a gully, so deep we could hardly i throw a rock out of it, and it was also . wide. The gully had been forgotten in j I the rush, hut it was there and just as ; 1 reached the edge, my toe caught in a ; I root and over I went, pitching forward .land rolling down to the very bottom, every nerve and muscle protesting at , each roll. When the bottom was reached I . started up the other side, like a cat squirrel going up a grape vine, and crawled out as fast as possible. It was , an honest race front start to finish. No j , time keeper was needed. > It Had Vanished. I j Then I stood upright and looked. The . rainbow had vanished. There was not t 'a trace of it. I This was the one and only time I j l had even the ghost of a chance to AFTER CROOKED BROKERS; ~-f - . New York is Going After 'ducketshop Buccaneers. MANY INniCTMFNTS ARF EXPECTED Most of Men Under Scrutiny Were In Firms Now Bankrupt?Many Victims Come Forward With Evidence. Twenty indictments of brokers in the financial district are expected this week as a result of evidence to be laid before grand juries in general sessions und in the Supreme Court by Assistant Di3tr.cf Attorneys Simmons and Schreiber, who are sifting evidence from more than 200 complaints of bucket shop and wash sales victims, relates the New York World. All told the prosecutors expect to obtain thirty or forty indictments before they discontinue tho investigations. Mr. Simmons made known yesterdqy that during the past ten days he had supervised the secret raiding of several offices in the financial district, seizing books and records, which it is intended to use as the basis for prosecution. Only three or four of the individuals whose indictment is sought are still aqtively engaged in a brokerage busIriAaa Mr Simmons cviilninecl that in most coses the men under scrutiny were the' partners in now bankrupt firms. Evidence accumulated of wholesale frauds will be presented first to-day to the "February Grand Jury in General Sessions and in other cases to the Supreme Court Grand jury tomorrow. Stacked up in the District Attorney's office arp ledgers, account book.*} and other seized docijments that reveal | varying methods of luring cash from the gullible. The bdeicot shop metho^ predominated, with wash sales a close contender. One brolter. Mr. Simmons said, made $80,000 in a single day by the latter method. This man, who sold by prearrangcment with an agent, created an artlfi- | plal market at $7 a share on, an industrial stock selling ordinarily for $2.80.J On the strength of this "New York market" hp unloaded quantities of the stock on victims in all parts of the United Stages. Just beforp going Into bankruptcy the broker make $8ff,0C0 by ordering an agent to buy at $7 a share. Through his accomplice he so^d his holdings at this price, gathered in the proceeds and disappeared. The buying agent was thus unable to make delivery, finding himself with the stock, no longer fiii'ppofted, by the created market, on his hands.-j( Mr. Simmons cited the case of a wo- j man in business in New York as a de- l signer of women's clothes who lost $4.800 to a brokerage firm which for four1 months exacted- additional margins from her on a' stock which had declined steadily. The brokers pretended they had executed her order to buy the Stock, whereas they kept, the money she put up iov it land bled her for more as the stock dropped. Among other schemes to be brought^ to the Grand Jury are those whereby brokers formed 'pools, including investors Co contribute in the expectations of "killings." Invariably the investors heard no more of what became of their money or the pools. Still others bucketed orders on standard stocks. That is, orders to buy legitimate stocks were never executed, tho brokers simply using to their own ends the money '/aU/\A V*a t\tiuobouou Major Frederick R. Rich, Deputy Attorney General, and Post Office In- | spectors who are co-operating in the District Attorney's investigation, have many complaints, including 140 cases of using the mails to defraud, that arc still to he sifted for evidence on which j indictments can be asked, Mr. Sim- j inons said. WHERE STOLEN CARS GO. Mexico I9 Said to Be Literally Flooded With Them. American Consul John \V. Dye at Juarez, Mexico, has found what he- J comes of many of the automobiles stolen every month.' They go across Ihe international-bridge into Mexico in 3uch numbers that the legitimate automobile trade of Mexico has become seriously affected. According to Mr. Dye, thousands of stolen automobiles are steadily pouring across the boundary. For the most part they come from California and states bordering on the Rio Grande, but many are known to have come from as far away as Chicago. The cars are sold in Mexico for about half their value. Many are stripped of pieces of any value and 1 ? ?UIIA Athm.o orn fn Iron into ununuout'di wmic UIV ... - secret hiding places and new bodies placed on old chassis, or otherwise changed so as to be unrecognizable. The consul cites one case of where a Mexican offered a boy $25 for a "good Ford." The boy got the Ford, but was caught before he could deliver it. Officials are now taking the number of every car crossing the bridge. FINDS LOST BROTHER. Soldier Who Suffered f om Shell Shock Suddenly Rf -s Memory. Confronted *' .y by his brother, a wealthy Moi x rancher, Frank U. Durwarde, who disappeared from his parents' home on Riverside Drive, New York city, four years ago, while suffering from shell shock, recovered his memory in St. l'aul police court, and cleared a mystery which has puzzled Eastern detective agencies, says a St. Paul, Minn., dispatch. Durwarde lost all recollection of his history and since he disappeared has been wandering ""over the United States with neither money nor friends. The police had arrested him here on a vagrancy charge. By a strange coincidcrtce he came face to face with his older brcther, O. V. Durwarde, Just out Side the doors of the police court. O. V. Durwarde, who had accompanied a large shipment of cattle from his Montana ranch, came to the police court to pay the fine of a cowboy who had partaken too liberally of moonshine. Meanwhile, Frank Durwarde, arraigned before Judge J. W. Finehout on the vagrancy charge, was freed because there was no evidence that ho had been causing trouble. As he was leaving the room he bumped against his elder brother. He stared at the rancher, and then grasp ed his arm. Words of recognition I broke from both simultaneously, j As memory returned to the younger, | he became unnerved and sobbed. Tho rancher hurried him away from the court room to a hotel, whero a doctor 1 attended him. A short time later, the brothers boarded a train for the East, after telegraphing their parents, said | to reside in Boston. | R. T. Fitzman, an employe of the rancher, said O. V. Durwarde and other members of the family have spent J thousands of dollars in the search for the young man. ASPARAGUS BY MAIL . ? , r? ? Growers to be Allowed to Utilize Majl Privileges 'in Carload Lots. Asparagus in carloads may be sent through parcel post, according to a decision of W. H. Riddell, general superintendent railway mail service, postoffide department. Asparagus growers of the Elko and Wllliston districts had asked for the ruling1 that an agent of the railway through Representatives James P. Byrnes. Superintendent Riddell stated service would be immediately sent to Elko and Willlston to make arrangements for the ship'rfients. Shipping Carload lots by parcel post 'will be a novel experience in the history of agriculture and the postoiTlce department. It will result In great saving In freight charges, and lie of great benefit to producers of vegetables. As to whether the ruling would affect all other commodities, no - / decision has been announced. . 1 ? ' Paradise of Swindling. ? Bucketshops are a horse of one color in the swdndlipg garpe and selling bogus stocks is a horse of another color In the same game. The bucket-shop is a local institution which wins its way by its close imitation of regular stockmarket operations, and New York Gfand-Jury indictments found yesterday against? nineteen persons testify somewhat to Jiow it hns been flourishing of late in the Wall Street district. The bogus-stock operation is as national in its scope.as the postal service and some idea or now it nas Deen flourishing may be gathered from Attorney General Daugherty'a statement that 480 cases of the kind. Involving some $140,000,000, now" clog the calendars of the Federal courts. All of which is by no means the new story It Is being made to appear. The bucket-shop goes back to the time when some one in Chicago bethought himself of a bucket of wheat as a unit in speculation instead of the bushel of the Board of Trade. And the prosperity of the bogus-stock swindle dates back to the timo when Wall Street finance began to demoral| izo the states into chartering any old I prospect or hole in tho ground as a corporation empowered to issue shares ad libitum bearing the seal or sanction of an American Commonwealth. When the loose-corporation States ar.d the New York Stock Exchange | and the Chicago Board of Trade have so far cleaned house as to be able to shake off all responsibility of their own for these forms of swindling we i may be able to get permanently re| straining results. But beyor.d that the pro Diem enters me nmiuess ncia 01. American get-rich-quick illusions and credulities whose fertility is the constantly repeated wonder and despair of all observers. Let these swindlers be prosectited to the limit, but as long as a great army of suokers will insist upon being born every minuto there is certdin to be a new Ponzi or 520per cent. Miller or Bischoff or bucket-shop or bogus oil well appearing in place of the old.?New York World. Anybody Seen Webber??"Has any one seen Webber?'* That's what wc have been hearing around Chester for the past few days, in fact since last Friday afternoon. W. W. Webber is the man who came to Chester to put on the play, "The Fortune Hunter," for the local post of the American Legion. Everything was going line and it was planned to stage the play at the Chester opera house tonight. However, last Friday afternoon Webber left Chester in an automobile with a traveling salesman and his whereabouts has not yet been heard of. He had collected some money from various Chester merchants for advertising in the program for the show. He took this with him and he also is still indebted for about two weeks board at one of the local hotels. . possibly money orders to cover both of the items mentioned will ' be received in Chester, but as yet we have been un able to learn just which train tney will come in on. Several "Hawkshaw" meetings have been held but as yet no decision has been made public as to ! just why Webber left without advlsI ing the local post, since they are of the opinion that from a monentary standpoint he would have done much better to have remained until after the play. Things are being whipped into shape and the legion is expecting to put the play on at an early date regardless of the whereabouts of Mr. Webber.?Chester News. Too Much.?Personally we think it is nice for a man to he always cheerful, but it gels on our nerves for a dentist to sing at his work.?Dallas News. i . .--l ff ASHE Fertilize HIGH ( FERTII ; BUILT U P j i (Reg. U. S. Pit. 4 FOR S/ . i : A. Y. B l i pnric H -' = \?i 1 " _ < I Shoes! < > | ? ' " She f :: if it is shoe! i: see us-it w: * < t > o |; We cany nothing but we do happen on one ths ! workmanship or defectiv right behind them and M Our Prices Are In ^ Tha$ Replacement too Many Shoes ar Stock. I iE NOTHING BUT SOLI I {; SHOES for the baby i j > the family, o We are going to have \\ How about those Heavy II to put you through? NEW SPRIN A i f ?,? ? I * T T _L. ? J i- ? ,1 ^ IJ? or ladies, received iuuu . Let Us Know You: We Can Save You KIRKPATRIi Sells It for Less Trade at Home and V The Utility Side? FINE' FEATHERS are good to look at; but after all \vhat is a hen for? Why of course to lay eggs and that is just what mine do. 1 gathered 1,126 eggs in January and up to Feb. 15, 611 eggs. Get some eggs early and see how well they hatch, and how fast the chicks grow, and they will lay for you next winter when eggs are high. S. C. R. I. Reds, pen No. 1, $5.00 per 15 eggs; $0.00 per 30; $13 per $50. Pens 2 and 3, $3.50 per 15; $6.00 per 30; $0.00 per 50. Pens 4 and 5, $2.00 per 15; $3.50 per 30; $5.00 per 50. Dark C. I. Gumo, pen No. 1, $4.00 per.15; $7.00 per 30; ; $10.00 per 50. Pens 2, 3, $2.00 per 15; $3.50 per 30; $5.00 per 50. S. C. Black Minorca, pen No. 1. $4.00 per 15; $7.00 per 30; $10.00 per 50. Pen No. 2, $2.00 per 15; $3.50 per 30; $5.00 per 50. Write i for prices on larger quantities. . SHADY NOOK POULTRY FARM, Route No. 6, York, S. C. J THE PUBLIC learning The life insurance record,' for the year 1921 demonstrates that llfo Insurance was practically the only business in the "United States that did not show a big slump as compared with the years.1919 and .1920. The report shows that the falling off in the number of policies issued was only ] ONE PER CENT. It also shows that I the public has more confidence in the absolute safety of legal reserve life insurance than any other form of saving. Until within the past -20 years the public looked upon life insurance as an expense, but today it is generally recognized by all thinking people as ABSOLUTELY THE BEST FORM OF SAVING, both for the assured and his lependents, that hn$ ever beon devised. It is practically the dnlv means by which a person can make sure of leaving an estate'or guarding against a poverty stricken old age. FOR SEVENTY-SEVEN YEARS the Mutual Benefit Life Insuranco j Company has been engaged exelusive| ly in this work, and by reason of its * ? ? - ? oV VM I-Q r*nn j long- experjcuue iixm Vui _U nection with it, we are in position to j demonstrate that no other company j has, will or can do as much for its members. If you are from Missouri, ask us to show you. SAM M. & S. E. GRIST, -1 District Agents. II WMMHIBB? POO |J r Works 11 iRADE II .IZERS H , w ~r 'a. i' _ r. | ! ' ' ? '<? jj -^j o a standard Not Down HI *> y or . r \ | to a price ILE BY iYNUM 1 ILL, S. C. J] ' /2r Shoes! )es! ji.f s, come to :: : ill pay you. Factory lines and when j; it shows up defective in ;: ijj e in material, We stand <? 1 AKE THEM GOOD. j; Many Cases Lower , J! ; Prices. We Have id Must Reduce Our. J * D LEATHER SHOES | and for every member of * > some more bad weather. ;; Shoes ? Are they going < I a OXFORDS y. Let us show you.. " r Shoe Requirements. Money. ;; CK-BEl.it CO. i Sells It for Less < J T a<-VI CJoirn Mnnatr < i If C OUbll Have iuuuvj i ll . +1 HERE'S HOPING that everybody In York county will haye a year of jfteAt prosperity and be enabled to largely overcome the shortcomings of the year i just gone. It could have "been woraer? this year can be much better?Let's Go. Whatever your needs may be in Urst class Livestock?Mules, Mares or goo<| Horses we believe we will be able to supply that need. JAMES BROTHERS (TO CA Aluminum QCO yL.Ox) Percolator for Each Can of VOTAN Coffee you purchase from US contains a Coupon. Bring* this Coupon and 95 CTS. and we will give you an ALUMINUM PERCOLATOR If you make your Coffee In a Percolator vou will always use it. SEE US FOR POULTRY WIRE, BARBED WIRE, ;< GALVANIZED ROOFING, DAIRY FEED, HORSE FEED. MULE FEED. CARROLL BROS, j f * \ "t 'x ' . fl Typewriter papers sold by the pound at The Enquirer Office. V w-' ' ?L'" '' 2 - . .1, j.<L .i^jSgki AMLy. 1.