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' v ' . v ' __ . , 1 , I II III I I' ' <: -; J SEMI- WEEKLY. ^ ^ * L. M. GRIST'S sons. Publisher* & 4amilH linrspaper: ^or ihs gromoiion of the |3oliticall ^ocial, Jigrirulfuiial and (Tommerrial Interests of the |eopty. TER^^?Mc^f^Now f^l ( ' - ... . 1 a 1 ESTABLISHED 1855 YORK, 8. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 192-2. / 1STO. 3 ^ views and Interviews Brief Local Paragraphs of More or Less lotere& PICKED UPBYtfWftER REPORTERS 8torM Concerning Folks and Things, 8oms of Which You Know and v.# r ' Some You Don't Know?Condensed Par Quick Reading, "Noticed In The YorkvlI16 Enquifcr Inst Tuesday that old man Bill Sharer was dead," remarked a Yorkville mstfi this morning. "He served throughout the War Between the Sections and I have heard Colonel Asbury Coward, formerly of Yorkyille and now of Orangeburg, say that he was a mighty fine soldier. And when Col. Coward made a remark like that about a soldiei yop may be sure that he was a real soldier." . ?. Heads the List. Mention has previously beeft made of the most excellent Christian Endeavor society at McConnellsville. Rev. R. C. Wilson, pastor of Olivet church, took Occasion to remind Views and Interviews the other day, that the McConnellsville Christian Endeavor won tho silver cup offered at the recent convention in Chester for the best organization in the state. "And we were told by high authorities," said Mr. Wilson, "that we have the best organization in the United States.\ Johnson Sounds Warning. "The Order of Shifters seems to be growing in Rock Hill," observed a citizen of that city who was talking about things generally the other day. "It is said that some of the students 'of Winthrop College have been showing some interest in the order and it is reported that president Johnson told the girls at Chapel exercises the other day that the first Winthrop girl seen wearing the badge of the Shifters would be requested to pack her trunk and leave for home immediately." Precinct at Aragon-Blue Buckle. "The county convention next Monday will be asked to provide a new voting precinct at the Aragon-Blue Buckle Mills In Rock Hill," said James N. Benton of Rock Hitl, who was in Yorkville last evening. "At the meeting of the Democratic clubs in Roc)t Hill last Saturday the city was divided into four voting precincts instead of two and it was the intention to create a fifth; but so far the matter has fallen through. There are something like 5?0 voterfe at the two mill villages and now they are badly handicapped in that they are so far removed from the voting precincts up town. The convention will be asked to recognise a new club for their benefit-" Wants Radio Outfit. "I'd like to see the business men of thb town go in together for the purchase and' installation of a large radiophone outfit," said J. H. Carroll of Yorkville, who was talking radio the omer ariernoon- wnn a large uuun the dally markets could be secured as well as daily news reports and other matters of general interest to the people of the community. 1 am sure that arrangements could be made to install the radiophone in the new city hall huilding where it would be convenient and accessible to all. The cost to any individual by this plan would not be great and the feature would be one of pleasure and profit to everybody concerned. 1 for one would gladly go my share In the venture and I have heard of a number of others who would gladly contribute." Will Run for Governor. "Yes, I intend to be a candidate for governor," said ex-Lieut- Governor Andrew J. Bethea of Columbia, who was a visitor in Yorkville Wednesday night, having been invited to make 'a talk at the 103rd anniversary celebration of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Discussing the political situ ation with Views and Interviews, following the celebration of the Odd Fellows, Mr. Bethea said: "I have definitely made up my mind to be in the gubernatorial race this year and I am meeting with considerable encouragement at the hands of my friends over the state. However, I find so far that the people of South Carolina are as yet not showing any great amount of interest in the approaching campaign but are more concerned with problems concerning their own private business." Mother's Day. "I hope," said one this morning, "that Mother's Day which falls this year on Sunday May 14, will be observed generally over York county. It is to be observed nationally and people in .every state and county of the union are to pay tribute to Mother that day. The national effort nt nhsfrvnncp will ho Kvmbolizod bv an impressive ceremony over the body of the Unknown Soldier in the National Cemetery at Arlington, Va. Tribute will be paid to the unknown mother of this soldier, who was buried with distinctive honors last Armistice Day. Ceremonies will be held over the graves of war dead in other pa>ts of the country. It is planned to have Legion and Auxiliary members unite in community church services, to be held in all towns on the afternoon of i . Mothers* Day. Auxiliary units will arrange concerts in hospitals in which .tl.t*ro are veterans of the late war and programs of entertainment also will be given in orphan asylums in which , there are children of men of the World war. The auxiliary also will promote the observance of established features of the day, such as church nttendanoe. in the morning, preaching i t appropriate sermons and the urging of ^veryone to write or wire his mother on . that day or send her flowers. Mothers' Day was originated by Miss Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia. The American Legion Auxiliary is composed of the mothers, wives, sisters and daughters of Legion men." Choice Driblets. "Here," said one yesterday, "are some choice driblets gathered by Evcrvhfldv's Mairazine from various publications all over the country." Men?Experienced on ladies* pocketbooks and hand-bags; steady work. Wanted?Maid for general house,work in. family of two adults. Must know how to coo. For Rent?In Townsend apartments, a'large, newly finished and furnished room, with widows on' four sides. S'ilkv Socks?40c. 200 pairs purchos#1 for this sale. You never saw such values- They won't last long. Wanted by a widower a respectable woman to nurse a little girl at least thirty-five years old. For Sale?Assorted lots of ladies of numbers we are discontinuing. Practically all sizes represented. Mostly blacks and values up to $1.00. For Rent?Second-story front room; I onmLnrltfoto Ho * Vi a 1 or* t r* i r? Hirh t I Wanted?Thirty or forty good young laying hens wanted. Must be reasonable. The Church in Polities. . Several people two of them considerably experienced in politics were discussing matters generally in the presence of Viqws and Interviews a few days ago, when the subject of the church in politics came up. More properly speaking the subject was denominational partizanship. "These Baptists stick together more than any other denomination*" said one; "but I do not know that they are much worse about that than the Pres-' byterians, the Seceders or the Methodists. It has been my observation that most any of them will stick to a man of their own denomination as against a candidate of some other denomination." "Well, I have watched this matter for quite a long time," said the other politician, "and I think most of you have a mistaken idea with regard to the situation. Suppose there are two 01 three candidates of the same denomination running for the same office, what then? You don't suppose a congregation is going to caucus and centre on one as against the other, do you r Also it is piain mat it wouia make a pretty kettle of flsh if one congregation should array itself against another of the same denomination. That is not likely to happen in politics. If it should happen it would certainly not do the church any good and it would not get anywhere. ' 'IBut I grant you," the speaker continued, "that denominatlonalism does cut some figure in a campaign; but it is along perfectly legitimate lines, and with no reflection on anybody. For instance, look at it this way: In this county the church, meaning all denominations, includes the leading elements in business, social and educational affairs. All of our more prominent leaders are connected with one or other of the denominations. If a candidate happens to be at all prominent in his church, it follows that his more prominent and influential friends will be members of that same church and other churches of the same denomination, and here will be the principal basis of his support. Indeed it will sometimes look like a denominational affair But as a matter of fact it is not denominational. There is not a single denomination in tue county with strength enough to elect anybody, and oiiuuiu any t'unuiu?uc uc su iwnou oo i to make an issue of denominationalism, especially relying- on nis own denomination, he would certainly be licked. Xo, the churches are not in politics; but don't let anybody fool himself about the church not being a powerful factor. Without question it is the greatest single influence in this county, and if any man be doubtful about that, just let somebody try the gime of arraying himself against all of the churches. WOMEN WILL WATCH T---- P-I 1 AA/III ftuarrl I wo OITIUUI I cavnvi 0 ?? -r. ? ?? Aga inst Mountain Fires .Two good looking school teachers, Amy Kross and Cora Thomas, have been named to serve for two months this summer at a lone fire lookout station on Sourdough Mountain, north or Bellingham, Wash., in the centre of an immense area of forests. A lookout cage or small cabin lo catea ai an eievauon 01 i,uu? itii 10 their vacation home. Steel cables extending over the roof anchor the cr.bin to the rock, so that the winds will not hurl it down the mountain side. The girls will be alone on the peak but connected with the outside world by telephone and telegraph with which they can report locations of tires. ] Their eye range is ten miles in every i direction. A radio telephone set made and perfected by Miss Kross, will be a novelty this summer and a source of entertainment. Former occupants of this station declare snow blows there in July and August. THE PASSION PLAY Anton Lang Offered $1,000,000 to go Into the Movies as Chrlstus. COMMERCIAL IDEA ABHORRENT TO HIM . i ! Famous Pageant Is to Be Held Again In Little Bavarian Village This Summer?Cost to Visitors for Admission, 1 Two Nights' Lodging and Five Meals Will'Be $1.25?Character Sketches of Principal Actors. < It will coat the American visitor to ' the Passion Play this summer writes ' Aksel Faber from Oberummcrgau, f something less than $1.25. This in- 1 eludes the price of the ticket, lodging for two nights, and five mountain ' meals. The price has been fixed at 400 ' marks, everything included, and 400 1 marks are right now worth' less than 1 $1.25. There is no knowing how little ' they may be worth by the time the ' first performance is given on May 14. 1 The town of Oberammergau is in ' danger of ruining itself in its insist- s once of asking as little as possible of ' the thousands of -visitors who will * come to their quaint mountain village this summer. They want above all * things to avoid the slightest suspicion 1 of trying to make money out of the 1 pageant in honor of Christ which they have performed as nearly as possible s every ten years since they vowed to do so following the great plague of 1 1633. This was always easy to do in ( the years before the war, when money ' had a fixed value, but with the value 1 of the German mark changing from day 1 to day and the price of living con- * stantly increasing, it is going to be an " expensive business to feed the quartef 1 of a million visitors they are sure to 1 have this summer. Then there is the r question of renewing the scenery and 1 the -costuming, in which the village J has already invested a million marks. J They Are Not Worldly. Hence the money question is really beginning to worry these simple, idealistic people, as I have learned chief- ? ly from private conversations during the few delightful days I have been here in their pure, religious atmosphere. Curiously enough, I have 1 heard a great deal about money matters?not that the Oberammergau ? people want to know about or think v about worldly questions, but because they are constantly having the disagreeable matter shoved in front of t them. Perhaps it is the oft-repeated s scene of Christ driving the money- i changers from the Temple that has f given them a disgust for money, or a perhaps It is the crude way their r idealism has been shaken by theatri- t cal and movie managers eager to put a them on the boards and make a for- o tune out of them. Incidentally most F of these offers have come from c America. \ A Million to Film it. a For instance, Anton Lang, the vil- v lage potter, who has entered the soul t and broadened the religious con- t sciousness of hundreds of thousands c of spectators of the Passion Play by A ' - * rn * ?4 wn V> P n his presentation 01 vnnsi, imu ...v, had been offered $1,000,000 by Ameri- v can film producers to stage the Pas- e sion Play for them. The sum struck me as so large that I could not have h believed such an offer had been made a If I hod not had it from Lang himself, c He also told me there was a second a offer of 70.000,000 German marks, f which was something near $1,000,000 v at the time the offer was made. A II German film company made the more t modest offer of 3,000,000 German t marks to film the performance. r Lang's attitude toward all these r money offers is one of annoyance, e J When I talked to him the other morn- g ing at breakfast over the coffee and f jam he shared with me, he happened 1 to have his mind turned that way. t "I have just received a letter from e an American bishop," he said, "which r I appreciate very much. The bishop e begs me by no means and under no consideration to be tempted by the r fortune held out for movie picture I s rights. 'Don't let anyone induce you to make money from the Passion s Play,' he writes. 'It stands out as a \ great religious festival, something so far above and remote front mere mon- r ey that there is no price. t "Even before the war I was made offers to produce the Passion Play I ~ ~ ? T .-a- i elsewnere. une uucr jwa * <member, was $25,000. It astonished me at the time, but it is only since we decided to renew our vow this year that . the offers have been persistent. . A.Grsteful American. "You can imagine how distressing such offers are to me. But I have been , compensated by other offers of money of a very different kir.d. 1 have here a letter from an American who writes offering to build a crucifix in the vilI lage in compensation for the great . spiritual joy he experienced while watching the Passion Play here in J 1910. He wrote that he had been so moved by the spectacle that it has J made a lasting impression on his life, and he only hopes he will have enough j strength this year to come to see it | once more before he dies. Such an ofj fer brings us great satisfaction. It j l>v,air..u iiu wp ni-p doinir our part - I in glorifying God and in fulfilling our ( vow. To this offer 1 was glad to reply in the spirit in which it was written, and I informed the writer that we already had so many crucifixes I believ- j ed he could do us a great service in letting us use the money he offered to construct the church bells taken away ana melted during the war. We used to have eight, and now we have only three. . They Lack the "Thirty Pieces." "Speaking of money, we have had some embarrassment over the thirty pieces of silver which Judas received for betraying Christ. We used to have the necessary silver, but during the war we spent them for the poor. Learning that we lacked them we have had a number of offers. One A .Mn.l/inM iMultnr nfforr./l y i a fhlff u niurnwaii ???*?/? w?lv? v.w ua * ? American dollars, but -there 1b a saying: now in Germany that you can buy almost anything1 for $30, so they will hardly do. However we will not lack for silver pieces; we have many friends. "This is the third time in my life [ am to take the part of Christ. I im forty-seven now and the longer I ive the more deeply I feel it. Peo3le are constantly writing me about t, and only recently I had a letter 'rom a father who told me he took lis wayward son to the Passion Play :welve years ago and the youth was to completely .carried away by it that t jnade a man of him. To hoar such hings is a great satisfaction." Lang's wife, who served as a lousehold domestic in England and ipeaks quite good English, interjected I lere: "I hope the Passion Play v/ill be i bridge betweeij the nations." These words, and the deep sincerity vith which thdy were spoken, are julte characteristic of the atmosphere n this little Village. Visitors durng the Passion Play can hardly get his 'to its full extent. But I have teen living with them, though only i few days and I am impressed and f it were not so interesting I fear should be oppressed by the serious nien of these mountaineer. Even heir outward aspect is Impressive. Ls 800 of the 2,000 inhabitants take >art in the Passion Play they must et their hair grow long, which gives hem in their ordinary life a solemn innonrance. And in fact they are lolemn. It is as if the whole village lad consecrated itself to the Passion 'lay. Usually it is gay enough, I am old, buCthis year even dancing is aboo. Someone opened a modest litle moving picture house, where he ihowed once a week, but there was a rery meagre attendance. An Ideal "Virflin Mary." Martha Viet, the girl who will play, he Virgin Mary this year, ip the most erious young woman one could imagne. I am sure she never swerves so ar from the narrow path of her duty is to attend the movies. In fact she arely leaves the home of her father, he woodcutter, who has never played , more important role than a member f the crowd. They could hardly have >icked a more demure and virgin-pure haracter. It is a great honor in Ba'aria to be named for this part, and iccording to an old tradition the priest rho takes the village confessions has he veto power on any candidate. Marha has that virginal forehead which haracterlzes the bert i>aintings of the firgln Mary. She is only twenty-four, ind has never played before, but she rill make the proper impression by her vident purity and character. Martha was much embarrascd at laving to receive a strange foreigner .nd talk about herself. She led me out f her father's shop, where I found her nd into her own room. The only place or me to sit was on her little bed, rhlle she faced me nervously from a ittle stool. I don't know which of the wo of us was the most embarrassed, >ut she gradually relieved, our mutual estraint as she told me how she was eared in the convent and had receiv>d the education necessary to be a ;overness. She lived so hidden in her ather's house that she could not beieve it when she was told last Novemier that the village council had eleetd her to the role of Mary. She did lot suppose any one had noticed her nough for that. "What are you going to do with the noney you will get?" I asked, my mind till on the forbidden mercenary angle. "I don't know," she replied, rather itartled. "There is not anything I vunt." "Yes, but the last Mary got 900 narks, which would be forty or fifty housand marks now." She turned surprised eyes at me as mentioned the figure, but said nothng. A Gay Little "Magdalene." Paula Kendl, the Mary Magdalene, s quite a gay little person. She is only wenty-one. She come^ from a family vhich has produced many Passion >layers. Her mother is a daughter of iosef Meyer, the most famous Christ >f the last century. Her father is the ,vood-carver who has played the part )t John the Baptist. When I asked her what she was gong to do with the money she earned, (he said she was going to travel. She las spent all her life in the village and she wants to go out and look about a sit. All the Mary Magdalenes in the >ast have shown a livelier spirit than he average, and Anna Reiter, the girl ,vho played the role last time, went to \merica and acted in the movies, which las shocked the village almost as much is an earlier Mary Magdalene who ac:ually lived in her own life the role she played in the Passion Play. John the Baptist. The man who will play John the Baptist this year is also a first-timer. (Continued on Page Eight.) BILLIONS OF DEBTS Interest Charges Pile up and Keep on Piling. MONEY, GREATEST GOVERNING POWER System Developed^ Gradually from Small Beginning, and Now Enables the Few to Control tfao Activities of the Many?What th?? End y/ill be Cannot be Foreseen. Interest?premiurft paid /or the use of money?is a word with which every American schoolboy Is familiar. But tho history and romance, the trials |and tribulations, and the joys and sorrows wrapped up within its meaning are less generally known. Interest results from the borrowing or lending of money upon pledges for profit. Money placed out on intere:t knows, no eight-hour law, holidays or summer vacations. Interest may become a willing slave or an onerous task master. It plays with fate and holds the destinies of industries and governments within its grasp. \ Money was used at one time In the world's history solely as n medium for facilitating the exchange of commodities. When the charging of a premium for its use was inaugurated, its character began to change until it In turn became a commodity and now it is quoted on the financial pages of the newspapers alongside. the market on eggs and butter. When men are badly in need of it they will pay a larger premium for its use .or when there is plenty of it available, the premium becomes smaller and, like other commodities, its price becomes governed by the law of supply and demand. The borrowing and lending of money for profit was at one time in the world's history looked upon as a rather degrading custom and as far as the needs of the poor were concerned, was forbidden. The laws of Moses did not contemplate any raising of loans for the purpose of obtaining capital. Such persons as bankers and 'sureties, in the commercial sen^e, were unknown to the earlier ages of the Hebrew commonwealth. The law strictly forbade any interest to be taken on a loan to a poor person. Not omy was no usury of any pretense to be exacted, but relief for the poor by way of loans was enjoined and excuses for evading this dpty were forbidden. The feeling of antijiathy toward the practice of .usery add also of Suretyship began to give way, however, as commerce increased. Expeditions to the Orient and to Africa required large cash outlays. The owner of capital began to take pledges for his money and charge interest?leaving the risks and the profits to the other party to the agreements. There is No Armistice in This War. Putting mqney to work for the stipulated price proved profitable and business has grown by leaps and bounds. The discovery of America opened a great field. Here was a virgin country rich in natural resources aw aiting development. Railroads, highways, mills and factories, mines, smelters and kindred enterprises all awaited tho coming of capital and cr.uital found it a Drofltable field at high interest rates. The result is the wonderful expansion of industry and commerce in America during the past few centuries, alcng with which came the greatest interest-paying nation on earth. It would be interesting to know just how much it costs the American people to pay the premium on the money they borrow. We know the totals are enormous. There is no doubt but that the interest payments at least equal $1,000,000 an hour for every hour in the day and every day in the year but how much above that amount is merely a surmise. When the war was costing the United States $24,000,000 a day, the people accepted it as a matter of course and bought Liberty bonds in amounts up into the billions. The money was used to end the war. The people could see armistice day in the near future, when the conflict would terminate and the expenditures decrease, nut tne payment ot interest goes on and'on at a rate equal to the cost of the war at its most expensive period. And with interest there is no armistice day in sight. We have become so accustomed to receiving or paying interest that we cannot realize the growth of the practice. It is like the child who grows from day to day under the eyes of his parents until in the course of time he becomes taller and larger than his daddy before they realize he is no longer their baby boy. The United States government, probably the largest single borrower of money in America, makes the largest interest payments for the use of this money. At the end of 1921 the public debt of the government was $23.438.984.351. It costs Uncle Sam a tidy sum of money to nay the pre mium for the use of this money. For the fiscal year of 1021 the amount actually paid out in interest on the [public debt was $999,144,731.35 and General Dawes, budget director, estimates that it will take at leust $975.000,000 in 1922 and a similar amount in 1923. The war made us so familiar with large figures that it Is difficult to realize what $99,144,731.35 means. There are 525,600 minutes in a year. If the government paid out $1,900 every minute in each hour, 24 hours i a day, every day hi the year, it would be within a million dollars of having accomplished the payment of its Interest when the last minutes of the year expired. Auothen way to visualize the amount is to recall that the largest private loan ever floated in the United States was the Anglo-French loan in 191S for $500,000,000, or just about half the amount this government paid out in interest charges last year. There is another class of loans which call for interest payments Just about double the amount paid out by the government. These are the loans and discounts of the banks of the country. A composite statement of the national, state and private banks and trust companies of the United States, comprising 30,100 institutions, as of June 1920, shows total loans, and discounts of $31,256,147,000. These are the loans made by the banks to their customers' and are mostly secured by real estate and farm mortgages, or collateral of one kind or another. Estimating the average interest rate at six per cent, It means that the people of the country must go up to the bank counters and pay $1,875,368,820 a year for the privilege of using the money which the depositors have left with the banks. These two item? are only a small part of the enormous sums passed from hand to hand each year as premium on borrowed money. Two hundred and twenty-seven cities of 30,000 or more population had a funded Indebtedness at the end of 1919 of $3,455,580,993 and the interoof nn thia mnndv rv>M Kv iViAoo pIHoq VMV VI4 hlllO (I4VIIVJ >A4IU W/ 4llV.OV> V1WIVO in 1919 was $156,630,209. Inasmuch as most of the towns of the' country under 30,000 population have funded debts, the amount mentioned above would be greatly Increased if this information was available. How far 9hort the figures are from the real totals may be surprised whep Dr. Edwin R. A. Scllgfnan, professor of political economy of Columbia" University, estimates the amount of tax-exempt securities outstanding in this country at $30,000,000,000. Of this amount, he says $10,000,000,000 is composed of municipal, county, state and school bonds and notes. They are exempt from taxes, but they give no exemption of interest! The funded debt of the 48 states of the Union at the end of 1919 was $625,098,881 and the interest paid during that year for the use of this money waa $34,079,806. The fjjhded .debt of the counties wltH?n These states at the end of 1919 was $382,236,161 arid the'interest payments during the year amounted to $17,417,593. . The railroads ot the country are borrowers of vast sums of money. The funded debt of the Class A railroads, those with a gross increase of $1,000,Q00 a year or more, was $10,015,273,670 on Dec. 31, 1920. Estimating the average rate of interest at four and one-half per cent, these loans call fcr annual interest payments aggregating $450,687,915. The Class B rail road will add approximately $1,800,000,000 in funded debt and $81,000,000 a year in interest charges. / The Federal Land bank had $434,534,775 In bonds outstanding on December 31, 1921, which call for the payment of around $19,554,064 in interest each year. A total of 6,542 companies operating central electric light and power stations in the United States had a funded indebtedness on December 31, 1917 of $1,297,319,859 and the interest payments for that year amounted to $58,379,393. One thousand three hundred and seven electric railways on the same date had founded debts amounting to $3,050,179,272 which call for annual interest payments aggregating $126,654,327. Two thousand and two hundred telephone systems had funded debts of $503,558,971 on December 31, 1917, on which the annual interest amounts to $26,868,861. The-census bureau places the farm mortgage debt of the country in 1920 at $4,012,711,213 and the average interest rate at 6.1 per cent, which means that the farmers have to pay $244,775,383 in interest on their indebtedness each year. Interest earned in 1920 by 62 life incuiance companies amounted to $307.954,929. This' indicates the face value of the loans to be around $6,159,098,560. The figures already given show that the people and corporations of this rnnntv nrfi in Hpht fnr hnrrnwpH mnn. ey to a minimum amount of $87,562,133,106 and that they are paying for the use of this money approximately $4,447,584,930 a year. In order to appreciate the size of this amount of money let us point out that It would take 77 per cent, of all the gold and silver coins, Federal reserve and national bank notes, treasury notes of all kinds and descriptions in circulation in the United States on June 30, 1921, to pay the interest on the debts enumerated for only one year. $38,880,000 a Day Post-war Interest. If the total unnual interest requirements were known it would be found that there is not enough money in the circulation in this country to pay the interest on our debts for a. single year. But the totals given above reveal only In part the annual interest requirements of the country. The manufacturing industry, the gas and waterworks utility companies, buyers (Continued on Page Six.) t I NEWS ABOUT CLOVER " Members of the Order of Shlflers, Are Being Solicited. DERANGE! MAN ALL NIGHT IN IMtl High School Ha* Gam* at Homo For ' ' *. ian Friday mn/l Saturday ? Part af Equipment for Oil Distributing Station Arrives ? Other News mad Notes of Metropolis of Northern York County. (By a Staff Correspondent) v jf' '-.jj Clover, April 27?"H&ve you Joined the Shifters ?" ' That is a question a number of the young' folks are ajffclng each other In Clover and the understanding is thft quite a number hereabouts have Joined the newest fraternity which sprang from nobody knows where. It la understood that the "'Shifters" organized in Rock Hill a few weeks ago and recently the movement has started in Clover, a number of persons hpre wearing the little badge of the frater nuy on uieir pvi son?, juqi i?vrr umiy members the society has In Clover Is I^C^nown; but inquiry discloses the fafct^wU there are a good many. Following: is said to be the oath that members of. the "Shifter*'' take: Text of the Oath. "Brother (?r slater)?The.main , object of the Royal Ordi?? of 8Jtffter? is to promote good fellowship. This costs you nothing. - * Lw? "Raise your right hand and iMty I do' after I repeat the' following* "t do solemnly projnlse nevpr to divulge the secrets to Any one oft a member,-or hand sign, grip or papa- , word of the order. "I also swear and promise that tor the next 24 hours I will obey thP order of any member of the Shifters. ,j "I promise that I will sectire as rr.any brothers and sisters qs possible who will be beneficial to tfcs order.*$ ?' gardlfess of sex, race .or previous ser vilude, and to do unto them ai I am; about to do unto you." While those who arc said to belong; to the "Shifters" at Clover regard the society as just a fad-'and joke; it Is cc. using more thoughtful people a great deal of concern and it is said that in the northern pert of the country it has a bad name. There has beiju more or less discussion of it here; and some pSop^***:J**re or Ufti tvohrled about its * : Ltmstic Taken. | . v ' / J A white mail who said his, nam? v/as Thomas and that his family llyedt at the Loray Cotton Mill in Gastonla was captured by Magistrate Ertunett Love and other officers near AJlisdn V Creek Bridge between Cl<jv#r and-Filbert Wednesday, morning. The man is said to. be suffering -from ? deranged mind and when the officer? came upon him Wednesday, he beggqd pitifully that be be not killed. According to Magistrate Love, Thomas seemed to be obsessed wjth the Idea ' that a mob wg# after hitn wjth the Intention of lynching him. Hft \ tolcl the magistrate that he got away from the mob in Gastonla Tuesday afternoon and came to Clover on the., Carolina &. North-Weetern train. Fearing: to remain In Clover; he walk* ed out to Henry*a Knob and found a resting place between two log* wherdfc- ; he slept until thd chlck^hs began crcwing for daylight Wednesday, morning. Then he started towar?' Ycrkvllle. Hearing of the stranger the officers began search for him aa$L ,< found him near Allison Creek, bridge*^ Thomas was brought tb the tawiv jail where he was held until hlb | brother and other relatives at t!* I Loray mill were communicated with* ; They came for him about noon Wednesday and carried him back to Gag* tenia. At the time ho was rhtutnedf to his home he was apparently In norr*. mnl mind In every way with the ception that he persisted In his story , that a mob at the Lioray were seek-, ing his life. It Is understood that the : man suffered a broken, arm some months ago and has been unaMe to nrnrk Hnvinr a uHf? nbri fhll- N dren dependent upon him for ?u>- ; port, it is believed that his dlsa&llitj) has so preyed upon his mind as MI cause him to become insahe. Road Qatting Rough. Motorists traveling' between Cloveir\ and Filbert are complaining COftai<f<jr?$ ably because of the rough rondftftMS of the public road. Large holes halve? begun to appear and tha road is aai<T' to need dragging very badly. Two Games This Weak. * v.; Clover High school is scheduled play Lancaster High on the local 10*^ Friday afternoon and the understanding is that Great Fails is to come tfc Clover for a game Saturday afternoon.' So far Clover High has not lost a single game this season and the strongest rival encountered was YorkvUlf 1 High which battled the champions of* the Catawba High School Asaociatlo^ 1 to a 0-0 12 inning game at the county seat several weeks ago. ' Building Distributing 8tAtion. Two large steel tanks to bo used by* the Marshall Oil Company in the dis tributing station that the company- B expects to set up here hav? arrlverf'B and preparations are being- made to I place them. The distributing station H is to be located beside the plant of a tlie Clover Cotton Oil Company, acrosi';B tho street from the Hawthorn Mill. Bj .