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VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
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Less Interest.
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8tori?s Concerning Folks and Things,
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For Quick Reading.
Whera the Diversification?
"Do you read the Cotton News?"
asked Dr. R. A. Bratton of Views and
Interviews, one day recently.
"Well I get it, and I read more or
less carefully. I have Just beeij look- j
ing over reports from the cotton states,
and I note where many increases in
cotton acreage axe noted. In connection
with these increases I note also
that in many cases the report says that
there will bo much diversification. Now
what puzzles me is how in the mischief
they are going to increase the
cotton acreage and still diversify their
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Legislative Pay.
"Never was as near busted in my
life as I am right now," said Representative
Pursley, when he pulled his hand
from his pocket and displayed a dime
and two nickles, whi> waiting for the
train in Chester the other afternoon.
He said it with a smile and then
went on to say that if the legislature
continued, in session many more days
he surely would be in a bad fix.
"But it is the representatives from
the lower counties in the boll weevil
section that are strapped. Usually the
custom has been to wait until the end
of the session and then pull down the
whole of the session's pay at one time,
but it is a fact that many of the fellows
have been pulling down their per diem
without waiting for the end, some of
them collecting when the Urst twenty
ilavs had nassed bv. Yes. sir. those
fellows are up against the real thing."
Formerly of Yorkvillo.
"From eight hundred acres of land
I got six bales of cotton last year."
That is the statement of Mr. Frank
Smoak, of Branchville, Orangeburg
county, to Views and Interviews in
Charleston, Wednesday last. Mr.
Smoak will be remembered as the gentleman
who with Hugh G. Brojvn formed
the Smoak-Brown^Mule company,
which did business In Yorkville a few
years ago. Mr. Smoak aSked about
the folka in Yorkville and the country
around. He Inquired particularly
nhnnt Mr M T. Thnimasson. about
Sam M. Grist, Hugh Bfbwn, Hcetry
Nell, Henrj^ James, Qulnn Wallace, his
\ brother. A. W. Smo^k, and a score or
more of others whom he knew and asked
to be remembered to' his Yorkville
friends and said he was coming up this
way next summer. Mr. Smoak went on
to say that during the past eighteen
months he had lost $12,000 in his farming
operations and now has three cotton
crops on his hand. "I was a fool
not to sell at 42 cents when it was
offered me," he said. "You can just
tell your fo'.ks that if the boll weevil
touched them lightly last fall this is
the year he will celan them up; but
to be sure there are lots of them that
won't believe it until it is too late."
Acid and Nitrate of Soda.
Mr. Dixon Lesslie, of Rock Hill, was
in Yorkville Saturday. Mr. Lesslie is
an experienced farmer, and knows
quite a lot about business^alBO. Until
he lost his arm some years ago he
was more interested in farming than
he was in anything else. Since then
he has been devoting himself mainly
to other lines.
"Judging by such information as I
have gathered around so far this year,
the farmers are going In principally
for arid and nitrate of soda for ferti
lizers. Some may use cotton seed meal
as a source of ammonia; but most of
them will use nitrate of soda; because
it is cheaper. In this connection, however,
I notice that the price of fertilizers
is steadily advancing. The cash
price seems to be going up toward the
credit price, and some of the salesmen
say that it will not be long until the
only difference between the cash and
credit price will be the carrying charge.
But of course there is going to be a
very serious cut in the cotton crop
acreage this year. A few will cut because
they do not care to risk the boll
weevil; but the biggest cut of course,
will be because of the inability of the
average farmer who has no capital to
get credit.
"But somehow," concluded Mr. Lesslie,
"I cannot feel seriously alarmed
over the situation. Of course, I agree
hot It mio-ht Hcrht on n?a a whilp*
but in three years from now I predict
that York county will be the best
county in the state if not in the south.
There will be more real property here,
and it will be the best country for
business. It is easy to talk of course;
but I think I can just see how and
why my prediction will come true."
Office of County Treasurer.
The announced purpose of H. E.
Neil, county treasurer, to give up the
place at the"end of the present term,
has created a profound, impression
about the courthouse, and a similar impression
will no doubt spread over the
county as the information becomes
known.
Of course nobody about the courthouse
liked the idea. Treasurer Neil is
held in the highest esteem by his cotleages,
both personally and' officially.
They all understand the vdhiV of his
thorough understanding of ifrbiinVy bus;i
i t. "
iness, and all have learned by experience
that when he gives his Judgment,
especially about fiscal matters, there Is
no need for further consideration; that
the question is settled. On this account,
If for no other, his proposed retirement
would be a matter of concern.
But that Is not all, because his personal
relations with all the other officials
jare exceedingly close.
But nobody has tried to persuade him
to reconsider. All understand the situation,
and they feel that he is doing
what Is fully justifiable. "I hate like
everything to know that you have decided
this thing that way," said one of
his colleagues, "and I would rather see
you stay where you are; but from what
you cay I'll have to admit that you are
doing the right thing, and that is about
all there is to it." This sentiment is
generally approved by the others.
"But this occurs to me," said the
same official, "of course they will find
somebody to fill the office when he
quits; but I am here to tell you that it
will be some time before it will run
again like it is being run now. Efficiency
and competency count for a great
deal here, and that is essential 10 wnoever
succeeds him successfully; but
the long years of experience he has had
cannot be picked up all at once by anybody.
Had you ever thought about It?
Neely was treasurer for twenty-eight
years, and when Neil finishes out his
present term he will have held the office
for fourteen years?42 years for
two men. That's some record. During
that period there have been five
clerks, four judges of probate, eight superintendents
of education, five sheriffs,
six county supervisors and five auditors,
to say nothing of the senators
and representatives.
"Who will succeed Mr. Neil? Well
that will be altogether a question for
the people. It has been suggested
that possibly the office of treasurer
might be the first York county office to
be administered by a woman; but it is
not altogether clear "whether the woman
contemplated in the suggestion
cares to undertake the job. But there
is time?plenty or rime?iui me puupic
to arrange all that."
LAW ENFORCEMENT.
Issues Involving Appointment of Additional
Federal Judges.
A new fight, involving enforcement
of prohibition, opened Friday in the
senate during consideration of a bill to
authorize nineteen additional federal
district judges. Democratic senators
opened fire on the bill immediately,
sSme opposing more judges, others
criticising the assignments proposed
for the extra Judges and others opposing
a provision which, it was Baid,
might place "dry" judges in "wet"
states, or vice versa.
The prohibition enforcement ques< '-?
Ki-nnoht 11 r> hv Spnator Hrous
sard (Democrat) V)f Louisiana, one of
the leading opponents of the Volstead
law. He said the bill's provisions authorizing
the chief Justice of the supreme
court to assign district judges to
work in other than their own states
might result in trials by judges who
were "not in accord with the ideas of
the community."
Senator Carraway (Democrat) of Arkansas,
said he had been approached by
a man urging support of the bill and
to'.d that "the only excuse" for the assignment
provision was to meet a situation
caused by refusal of certain
judges to enforce the law.
Senator Cummins (Republican) of
Iowa, in charge of the measure, said
that never during its consideration by
the committee had he heard any suggestion
that some organization was behind
the bill for the purpose cited by
Senator Carrawav. adding that he de
plorod "any narrow or sectional view"
in dealing with the bill and lack of confidence
in the chief Justice. He could
not assume the assignment power
would be abused.
"If I believed that I would want to
abolish all courts," said Senator Cummins.
*
The extra judges proposed, Senator
Cummins said, were needed urgently
to correct present "shameful" administration
of justice, and the condition of
federal court dockets.
The bill went over( for further consideration.
German Submarine Casualties.?
Germany paid an enormous price for
the submarine warfare she waged during
the World War, according to
flgurea from the war archives of the
German admiralty, recently made public.
Out of a total of 1,014 casualties
among naval officers, excluding
marines and coast artillery, 518 perished
in submarines; 86 more were slain
in aircraft battles and only four out
of every ten naval, officer casualties
met death in their element for which
they were originally' trained.
The number of submarines lost during
the war, before the fleet surrendered
to the Allies, was, according to official
figures, exactly 199. The com..id,,.-.
r>f i jft nt thr.?r> vessels Derish- i
ed with their ships, as indicated by the
ominous dagger sign before their
names in the official lists.
That virtual certainty of death for
all engaging in submarine warfare
hindered toward the end the activities
and enterprise of German submarines
and made it increasingly difficult to
get crews to man those floating coffins.
The Zeppelins made but little bet'ter
record, as 23 out of 29 rigid dirigibles
were lost during the war, proving
veritable death traps for their commanders
and the ehtiro crews.
DOINGS IN COLUMBIA
\
Gossip and Rumor of Things Mostly
Political.
PROBABLE CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR
Street Car Company in a Bad Way?
Suggestion That 8inking Fund ia Be
ing Conserved for Future Gobbling?
Board of Health Expenditures of
Doubtful Wisdom.
A. M. Grist.
"What is the legislature going to do
about the insuranoe of the rural
schools in the mutual insurance companies?"
asked a gentleman from a
rural district of a representative the
other evening in Columbia.
"Well, I think it is going to be just
like it has been," replied the representative.
"You know that the sinking
fund commission claims that if they
are left alone as the law now stands
requiring rural schools to insure with
the sinking fund commission for ten
years, I believe, then after that the
commission will be able to insure rural
school property for nothing. But I do
not believe a word of it.
"My belief is,'' continued the lawmaker,
"that these sinking fund commission
fellows have an entirely different
idea, but to be sure I might be
mistaken. I believe however, that the
scheme is something like this: vYou
know those fellows down there in Columbia
have been making a demand for
an offloe building for a number of
years past for state offices. Well I
feel sure this sinking fund commission
is helping the thing along and when it
gets a million dollars In the sinking
fund then we'll begin to hear propaganda
to the effect that such a building
would save quite a large item of
expense to the state in rents and that
this sinking fund be used for this purpose,
and of course the insurance on
rural school property to be paid for
will go in just the same, and Columbia
will pat itself on the back and laugh
in its sleeve at the way it has outgeneraled
the boys in the sticks. You
know Columbia works on the theory
hot tVi/i rent nf Iho ntntp r>Wf?S PVWV
thing: to it and the only thing necessary
for it to do is to collect Just what
is coming to it and she pretty nearly
does the collecting.*'
Poor old Columbia. She is just beginning
to wake up?that is some Columbians?to
the fact that she is in the
grip of an octopus of the genus
monopolus trustus doziplesus, the more
common appelation of which, is the
Columbia street car system, mostly
owned by one Mr. Edward Robinson.
There hasn't a street car run on the
streetB of the Capital city for some
three weeks or more. The stoppage
was originally brought about by a
strike of protest by the carmen's union
over the fact that Mr. Robinson or
anmn nf hin tindnrnMldVft had nertmn
torily fired some twenty men, on the
ground that the company wasn't making
expenses and that retrenchment
was vitally necessary. The carmen
claimed and yet claim that the firing
of the men was due to the fact that
Robinson and his understudys were
trying to disrupt and break up the
carmen's'union and a large part of
Columbia's thinking people think this
explanation is the correct one. However
the cars run not and the people
walk .and they are getting tired walking.
Many Columbians who work for
a salary have built homes in the suburbs
on property developed by the
street car people and the cars are the
only means they have of getting to and
from their jobs every day, except the
taxis, which charge 50 cents each way
for the riding. That means $6 a week
or about $2G a month, which knocks
quite a dent in the pay for the working
folks who are facing declining
wages. These have naturally protested
to the city authorities, and they are
powerless. They have appealed to the
legislature and it is powerless or at
lonnt aooms to he and so Mr. Robinson
is holding his grip; but it is suggested
that the city might take a hand yet by
refusing a continuance of the franchise,
which is believed to be nearing its end,
and Mr. Attorney General. Wolfe has
given his opinion to the effect that the
railroad commission has authority to
act, and it may. But whatever may
be the final outcome it is now plainly
evident that up to this time Mr. Robinson
has proved himself bigger than the
city government, the legislature, and
the general public; but he might find
it profitable to remember that the
canal was taken away from him after
he had said it couldn't be done.
I was talking to a representative in
Columbia, the other night and something
was said about the huge appropriation
asked for by the health board.
It was evidently a sore spot with him
and he was ready to talk about it and
he talked pretty plain. In effect he
said that about Do per cent, of it was
an unadulterated farce and fragt. He
said:
"I wanted some facts about this
venereal disease department or office
that is maintained here in Columbia,
taking it for granted that one was but
a repetition of another. I visited this
place and talked with the doctor In
charge. lie was quite frank about it.
I asked him if there were ever any real
cures effected in the place. He said:
'Yes, these venereal diseases can be
cured; but our difficulty is like this,
suppose a patient comes in here?we
I treat from 50 to 75 cases a day?and
|we treat this patient for sometime and
get him or her on the way to a cure.
Then the patient takes a notion that
the danger is passed and we never see
that patient any more. That is not a
cure." I asked this doctor how many
immoral women he estimated there
were in Columbia, basing his estimate
on his experience in his office. He said
there could hardly be less than 2,000,
and possibly more. Then I asked him
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wnere iney an civ. nt bhju nicy
were on the streets, in boarding houses
and hotels, almost everywhere. And
then there is another side to this thlnr,.
Take a. case like this, for instance, anu
it Is happening every day right here?a
young boy of 18 to 20 years old Indulges
In Immorality and contracts a
venereal disease. He goes to this clinic
and is patched up and goes his way
and his father or other responsible
guardian is never the wiser. The clinic
serves as a sort of a blind behind which
the immorally inclined young men, and
women, find an eas^ place to hide. No,
I don't take any stock in the thing,"
concluded the representative.
I didn't hear much politics in Columbia
when there Tuesday night. But
politics is being talked all right enough.
The manipulators: and engineers of
things political In the interest of Columbia
and ?the vested interests, are
doing some real, sure enough, cross
my-heart thinking about the coming
political battle for* the governor's office.
Heard it down there that the political
high priests in Columbia have
given Representative Liles Glenn of
Chester, the once-over as possible gubernatorial
timber. They think he is a
pretty nice, level-headed young fellow
and everybody who knows the young
man will agree that he is all of that,
but for reasons best known to themselves
the political high priests, bo I
heard, decided that he wasn't seasoned
enough for the particular piece of furniture
desired for the governor's sanctum?didn't
get it whether Mr. Glenn
was too bendable or not bendable
enough. Any way he was pitched on
the slab pile. Then of course there is
more scouting going on, but the piece
of timber seems to be rather hard to
find. To be sure It Is the understanding
that John Duncan and Mr. Bethca
will be in the race and possibly. Lieutenant
Governor Harvey, and several
times I heard It said that Samuel T.
Lanham of Spartanburg was and is inviting
the gubernatorial bee to play in
his back yard and while I understand
there has been no public announcement
from Mr. Lanham^'I did hear a gentleman
who knows ^iim well soy, "And
Sam likes for you to ask him if he is
going to run." Blease is the most commonly
mentioned candidate for governor.
He's announced himself and his
friends are doing the rest of the wireless
phoning for him. From the talk
that one picks up in private conversation
with men from different sections,
one statement is almost invariably
made before the conversation ends,
'There are men in my section who never
have voted for Blease; but who say
they are going to do so this year, because
they believe he will try to do
something to stop this wild extravagance."
The wording is changed
around a bit, but the meanings of these
statements are all about the same, dui
to be sure there is quite a bit of
time between now and election day and
all kinds of things political can happen
before the votes are counted.
Also heard that Jennings K. Owens,
representative from Marlboro, and a
native of Rock Hill, has a bug In bis
bonnet. He is modest about what he
wants. He wants Mr. Harvey's job. At
least that Is the grapevine rumor about
the state house.
Dropped Into the senate chamber on
Thursday night, just about 11:45. Senator
Laney of Chesterfield, had the
floor. IIo was holding on to it with a
deadly grip. Didn't get there soon
enough or stay long enough to grasp a
real good idea or wnac ne was rnea
about, or maybe he was just playing,
stringing the gallery along, so to
speak; but he did appear to be a bit
riled at some amendment thai the senator
from Cherokee had offered in regard
to the school appropriations. He
was all fired up. Watched him for
about fifteen minutest-looks like a likeable
fellow?guess he is; but say, he
sure can paw the air, and to be sure
that you get what he is trying to put
over, he repeats every third statement
about three times?kinder beats it in.
whether you will or not. Yes, he was
in dead earnest about it?more so than
the rest of the senators on the floor
seemed to be, because of these those
that did not appear to be amused, looked
as though they were bored?they
may have just been tired?and the gallery
gods who were there seemed to
consider the performance a flap-stick
comedy with the senator from Chesterfield
in the heavy comedian part. But
really I hope the senator got what he
wanted, because any man who works
as hard as he was working, is entitled
to what he wants. J
"Take It from me," said a representave
in talking about the senate and
the senators, "there might not be a thing
on which Senator Christensen was justified
in hanging his insinuation against
the senate in regard to the victory of
capital over the farmer, as some of the
senators seemed to think he was insinuating;
but one thing is sure, Christensen
certainly sthred up a hornet's
nest and he made some sore spots."
? The income tax law provides that
persons and corporations that pay income
taxes to the government for 1921
must pay 33 1-3 per cent of the amount
to the state for the same period?1921.
EGYPT DEMANDS FREEDOM
British Rule is Now Near the
End.
QUESTION IS jNOW PRESSING HARD
Turkish Claims Thrown off During
j World War?Leaders of Ancient Nation
Willing to Allow British to Control
Canal, But Nothing Further.
W. P. Crozler in .Dearborn Independent.
Ireland becomes a Free State; In
India the ferment grows; in Egypt it
has boiled over and settled down again
for the time, with Znghlul Pasha the
Nationalist leader, and Ave of his
principal lieutenants prisoners on a
British warship bound for exile in
Ceylon. The demand of Egypt for.
complete freedom is a simpler thing
than that of the Hindu-Moslem leader
in India. They are a medley of
races and religions; they are divided
into two main sections which from
ancient times have been at each
other's throat whenever a strong controlling
hand was withdrawn; and
from ancient times, unless a protec- [
tor were at hand, they have been the
prey of enemies pouring down into the
plains of India from the mountains of
the northwest. But Egypt is a nation,
lying compact in its river valley with
its fourteen million inhabitants, and
until Europe stepped in some 40 years ,
ago it enjoyed powers of self-govern- !
ment that were only limited by the ;
ohnrinwv ?ii*prAlntv of the Sultan of
Turkey.
Neither England nor any other European
power had any legal right to be
master in Egypt. But Europe had
great financial interests in Egypt,
net to mention the Suez canal, and the
Egyptian government was weak and
corrupt, inviting intervention. England
went in and established herself,
very much to the benefit in a material
sense, of the Egyptians, who have
had the, for them, unknown experience
of the honest, upright government
to which Theodore Roosevelt
bore outspoken testimony during his
famous tour in the Old World. But
although an English agent like Lord
Cromer was not only ruler but auto
crai in Rigypt, ne was in ineory umy
an agent on the same level as the
agents of France or Italy. Only, he had
troops and ships behind him. (France,
to whom British predominance In
Egypt was a most bitter grievance,
only patched up the feud In 1914, when
England gave her a quid pro quo In
Morocco).
With the Great War, England declared
the suzerainty of the Sultan of
Turkey abolished. Egypt became a
British ' protectorate by British proclamation.
The Suez Canal was the
great highway for the transport of
troops to and from the East. Egypt
furnished a great labor corps for use
in the Sinai and Palestine campaigns.
When at last the v/ar was over, Egypt
was moved by the same breath of freedom
which blew through all the world.
She had heard so much about the
principles for which the western powers
had fought the war; she expected
some of them to be translated into
fact. In particular, her spokesmen
said that the protectorate had been an
emergency measure of the war, that
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II HI1UU1U UU 1W1 IIIWIVU UMUiioticu u-itu
Egypt's sovereignty restored. In 1919
there was a rebellion?due to many
causes, besides political grievances?
and then the British government took
action. It is unfortunately true that
imperial governments rarely do take
action to extend the bounds of freedom
until an outbreak of violence has
forced their hands. (Witness the Irish
Free State!) The British government
sent out Lord Milner to inquire how
the demand of the Egyptian nation for
its freedom could be fulfilled without
undue injury to foreign interests
It should be remembered that there
are other foreign interests of great
magnitude in Egypt besides the British?notably
French, Italian and
Greek. The British government has
always been troubled by the thought
hot if It mnvoH out of R?vnt and the '
Egyptian government failed to keep
peace and order (which is not at all '
unlikely), another power might sud- *
denly step in with military force. So '
do they trust each other in the Old '
World. ]
Lord Milner reported, the British
government refused to accept his rec- '
ommendations in important respects '
and made its own proposals to the
Egyptian delegation headed by Adly '
Pasha, the prime minister. These the
Egyptian rejected and the whole na- 1
tion, including both the moderates
under Adly and the extreme wing under
Zaghlul, now stands united in the
demand for genuine independence.
Lord Allenby, at the first sign of disorder,
applied the "firm hand" of
military rule?a reinforced garrison,
warships up the Nile, arrests, deportations,
threats to disperse unlawful
assemblies by bombs from airplanes.
Now let us sec what really is at issue:
The Milner plan promised Egypt an
"inJmu.n^nnf nnnvHI ullnnnl mnnarrhv" ^
?note well the "independent." The
British government plan also proposed
to recognize Egypt's sovereignty as
expressed through "a perpetual treaty
and bond of peace, unity and alliance."
But this "sovereignty" and
"independence" are to be severely
limited, how severely may be judged
when the provisions are compared
with those of the troaty Just concluded
with Ireland.
There Is a British army in Egypt. It
is on this, and on nothing: else, that
the British control of the Egyptian
nation rests. The Egyptians, however,
freely admit that the communication
with the East through the Sties
Canal are so Important to England 1
(and, it may be added, to many other
rnnntrlna fVint F.nfflati/) tn'ttv
reasonably demand the right to keep
a military force somewhere in Egypt
until Egypt shows that she is willing
and competent to act as trustee for
the canal. But where should this
force be? >
The Egyptians say they would not
object to Its being stationed In the
"Canal Zone"; that Is, at certain
agreed points on or near the canal.
Then it would be in a strong position
to protect the line of communications
and at the same tlraei it would not offend
the pride and dignity of Egypt,
as anything in the nature of an army
of occupation necessarily must.
The British government will not
agree to this. Even the foreign office,
which expresses the moderate
British view, will not hear of it The
foreign office declares that the se
curity of the canal is only one of England's
primary interests in Egypt. The
other is the security of foreign lives
and Interests in the country. It recalls
that last year disastrous riots broke
out in Alexandria; that they were directed
against foreigners and especially
Greeks; and that they could only
be quelled in the end by the use of
British troops after native resources
had been tried and failed. What, says
the foreign office, will happen If, after
Egypt has gained her Independence
and the British troops have withdrawn
to fixed camps on the canal, mob *rule
breaks out in Alexandria and numbers,
say, of Frenchmen and Italians are
slain? Will anything prevent France
and Italy sending troops and warships
to interview? And, when they
have once set foot in Egypt, who will
nake them withdraw?witness the
chain of events when once the British
had landed in Egypt after the Alexan
ana riois in ;ne eariy ova: op me
foreign office demands that British
:roopa, after Egypt becomes sovereign
tnd independent, should be stationed
not actually in but near the great
towns. This, say the Egyptians, Is
not compatible with the existence of
i free and independent Egypt. It is as
though in the new Irish Free State
large bodies o( British troops were to
be posted- in c&mpe 'outside Dublin,
2ork, Limerick and other Irish cities.
But the demand of the foreign Office
by no means satisfies the war office,
which has the powerful support
)f Wii.tton Churchill. The business
>f the 7ar office is to look at all
:hings from the strictly military point
nf view) and this idea of having troops
?oated at fixed points outside the
:owns hampers the plans of the general
staff. The war office asks, in a
word, for the right to have any number
of troops anywhere, and the British
government has acceptod the plea
?nd now imposes It as a conamon
upon Egypt. As this is the rock on
which above all else the negotiations
have split and Egypt has become
icutely hostile to England, I quote the J
:lause: t
"British forces shall have free pas- s
jage through Egypt and shall be main- g
:ained at such places in Egypt and
tor such periods as shall from time to f
time be determined. They shall also
it all times have facilities, as at pres- c
;nt, for the acquisition and use of
rarracks, exercise grounds, aeroiromes,
naval yards and naval har- f
jors." n
Now, the necessity and the morality c
)f such a condition as this may be 0
irguable, but it is surely npt arguable r
that any nation on which such a re- c
itriction is imposed enjoys sovereignty c
)r Independence. It is quite plain that t
t does not. But the conclusion that r
3gypt is in fact being offered some- e
Lhing trial is rainer une a invwktwaw t
is confirmed by the other restrictions c
>n which the British government in- h
lists. ..' c
For instance, foreign relations. That
s always a test of sovereign rights, h
Thus the Afghans, by the war of 1919, t
nave won for themselves the right to a
iirect their own foreign policy and so t
nave asserted their complete lndepen- s
lence of the Indian government. The li
Vfilner report mado this proposal: s
"Egypt will undertake not to adopt c
;n foreign countries an attitude wljich i
s inconsistent with the alliance or
will create difficulties for Great Brit- s
lin and will also undertake not to en- I
ter into any agreement with a foreign t
power which is prejudicial to British f
Interests." s c
a (imitation, it 8
IN UL UIl uiiicaouiiai/iv ' - nay
be thought, if England is with
irawing from the virtual possession
which she has to Egypt. But the c
ictual proposal of the British govern- e
ment goes beyond this. It is that the *
British high commissioner?the Egypt- c
tians object to this title?should be
consulted before Egypt enters into any
tiew political agreement. This is to 8
Jay, Egypt wjll have to obtain the ap- '
proval of the British envoy on the spot '
before It can moke any contract with '
i foreign power. Again, there may 1
or may not bo a good case for this, J
but according to all accepted notions t
It involves a most serious diminution 1
of a nation's sovereignty. The right
which would be granted Egypt to have,
her own ministers and consols in Jyrn- J
(Continued on Pnge Six.) '
FOR PUBLIC SERVICE
Text of the Aet Reorganising the Rail*
road Commiaaion.
One of the most important acta
passed at the present legislature provides
for the reorganisation of the
railroad commission. The full text of
the measure Is as follows:
Section L , Be It enacted.by tbegeneral
assembly of the state"!4jr w4ith
Carolina: Jt commission Is hereby ?se tabllshed
to *be known as "The Railroad
Corrnhtsetom" which shall becomprSH' '
St seven members, whose powers over ,J|
111 transporting and transmitting cor- 'SB
^orations, and public utilities and duties,
manner of election and tOrm of office
shall be prescribed by law. "
"Sec. 2. The present general assembly
shall elect seven members of said
rommlsalon, one from each <_
sional district, to serve 1, 2, 3, 4, $,'?
ind 7 years, respectively and upon the
expiration of said terms said members
rhall be succeeded by their successors In
office who shall be elected by the
general assembly for term of two yeats
ind until their successors shall tthvp
seen elected and shall have qualified.
Said commissioners shall take the oath (
>f office provided by the constitution
ind the oaths prescribed by law tpr
itate officers. The governor shall have
>ower to fill vacancies In the office -of
commissioner until the successor In
inch office for a full term or an unek
aired term, aa the case may be, shrill j
lave bean elected by the genera!
tasembly. . V.$
"Sec. 3. The said comraiMioa shall t
sleet one of their number chairimn of
he commission, who shall receive in'
innual salary of <2,600, payable In the
tame manner the salaries of other state
sfflcera are paid. The other commissioners
shall receive a per diem of fj(0
md their actual traveling: and hotel
sx pen see while engaged in the work of
he commission. A majority of said
sommisal oners shall constitute a quourn
for the transaction of all business
>ertalnlng to their office. They shall
>e furnished with an office, necessary
'urniture and stationery, and may e&t*
>loy a secretary .or clerk: Provided,
hat the said commission shall meet at
east once each month and the chairnan
shall call a meeting: at arty other
I me upon the wrlpten request, of Mtty
wo members of the commission.
"Sec. 4. It shall he the right and the
luty of the attorney general to repreient
and appear for the people of the
"* "v-v" -"T V? -TJ-V
nlsston In all action* ana proceedings
nvolvlng any question of gtr ;eral and
)uMlc Interest w^thirth*. Jurisdiction
>f said commission and, if directed to
lo so by the comnitseion, to llltovMfs, if
wssible, in any action of proceeding in
vhlch any such question Is involved;
o commence, prosedtlte anjl expedite
he final determination of all aOtfflMi'
md proceedings directed or authorised
>y the commission; to advise the ctrtnnission
and each cohlMlssioner when
io requested, in retard to all mattitrt
onnected with po^rei4* and duties^
he commission and members thereof;
ind generally to perform duties and
tervice as attorney to thf commission
vhlch the comn ssion may requii'r ot
tlm. '
"Sec. 6. The tenure of the prepStf);
ailroad commission and of thf'&iaftifW
tubllc service commission shall ' end
ipon the election and qualification of
he members of the railroad com mi* lion
provided for in flection.) of this
ict: Provided, That the present mlload
commission fhdil sCsve during the ' j
emainder of their tertns respectively
.nd receive their present salary, and
inly four additional commissioners
hall be elected by the present rencral
asembly: Provided, furtfadf, That the
irescnt chairman of the railroad comnisslon
shall remain chairman of said
:ommission during his present tenure
it office. All the powers and duties
iow devolved by law upon tfle railroad
ommisslon and (he public service
ommisslon, as flow constituted, shajl
>e exercised and discharged by the
ailroad commission hereby establish-'
d and the officers of the siud railroad
ommission and the said public Service1
ttmmlssion, as they now exist,[ are
icreby consolidated into the railroad
:ommlssion hereby created.
"Sec. 6. The railroad commission is
lereby vested wiin power ana juruuiv
ion to supervise and regulate the rates
,nd service ot every public utility inf
his state and to fix such just and reatonablo
standards, classifies tions, rpguations,
practices and measurements of
ervice to be furnished, imposed, of y
observed and followed by every public
itillty in this state.
w8oc. .7. The comptroller general
hall collect from every corporation or '
tublic utility under the Jurisdiction of
he railroad commissioners as provide*!
or in this act, its pro rata share of the
xpenses-of said commission in the'*
iame manner, as is now provided bJ
aw for the railroad commissioners.
"Sec. 8. All acts or parts of acta In- '
onsistent herewith are hereby repealed
and this act shall take effect inune*
llately upon its approval by the gov*
mor.''
? The house and senate conferees
tgreed Saturday on tho income tax law. ["he
law is modeled exactly after the
ederal law. The taxpayer is required .
:o give the state a duplicate of his rt'-*
urn to the federal government, and to
jay the sthte 35 per cent of the amount
je paid to the federal government. Tito
ax is to be collected by the county .
rensurers.
I !! i ,, ( J
The Changing Scene.?He used to
valk in the moonlight with one arm
'ull. Now he walks the floor with
ioth arms frll.?The Mnlteaser.