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V. - +X. ; - ; - gg - - - ? ' ^ " , . ? ^ ^ ~^ t^su^D semi- weekly. ?=?-5=^=^?=5??===========rr??=rT=!-?rrr?^^^ ? ? ? . . .,. . - . ,?j l. M. ghist'8 aoNs, Publisher* ^ <$amilg ^purspapci: <J[or th$ promotion of the political, ^oqial, ^jgricultur.al and Commercial interests of the people. TER^^^o^E?iviNCKNTCAN ESTABLISHED 1855 YORK, S. C., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1922. NO. Z7 VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS Brief Local Paragraphs ol More or Less Interest PICKED DP RY ENQUIRER REPORTERS Stories Concerning Folks and Things, Some of Which You Know and Some You Don't Know?Condense^ UWU!1? T -mamM nnt nroafo fhft i TT1 - w nuts x wuuiu nvk v>v_.v -? ? pression that it is epidemic by any means, there is no question of the fact that there are a good many cases of diphtheria In this section of the county just now," said a well known physician the other day. "I know of cases in Yorkville and vicinity and I understand that there are one or more cases at Sharon and at Hickory Grove. However there is nothing alarming about it." They Want a Coach. Manly young chap who is interested in the Yorkvllle s hool football team, a , berth on which 1 e hopes to land for , himself, walked in the other morning with troubled a'r. ] "You, see," said he, "we football fellows are in trouble and we want your help. We believe tnat our scnooi couiu have as good a football team as Rock , Hill, Chester, Fort Mill or any of these other towns. By that I mean wo have the men. We have 'em big enough to get eleven fellows who would average a weight of 160 pounds. "But we've got no coach and a coach to a football team is just as necessary as is a teacher to a Greek class, and according to my way of looking at it, the coach and thJ football team is worth as much to growing, husky, redblooded young fehows as the Greek. "We were just wondering if our parents or the school trustees or whoever is supposed to do it in employing another teacher or two for our ( school would be careful and look around and try to get one who knows a lot about football and can coach. ?? ? * -> HIWa L1 rtnni rni' "oay someinuia iu j.uc j about It, won't you?" . i The Curb Market. "York is the only county in the state i supporting two curb markets or 'country stores' " said Miss Margaret Fewell, I York county woman's home demonstra- ' tion agent last Saturday in talking ' about tho market in Yorkville. "I am delighted with the interest being I shown in the markets by both the i ladies of the town and country al- 1 though I must say that the market in i Yorkville is going better at the present < time than that in Hock Hill. You can ' see for yourself the quantity and va- ' riety of vegetables and ether produce i that have been brought here today. ' Early this morning we had a quantity of eggs?pecks of them; but they went readily. They were sold at 37 1-2 cents 1 a dozen, a price under the price in the 1 stores. We could have gotten more for them but we calculate that it is worth something for a customer to come to market and carry his or her own purchases home." From men and W UH1C11 KJL 111C OUIIVUUUIIIg V/UU" ?.* J rw ?.W had brought vegetables and other produce to the curb market Saturday, it j was learned that the supply of vegetables is becoming limited and after another Saturday or two the amount 1 of vegetables offered for sale at the , market will not be nearly so large because it will not be available. Those Dreadful Rats. i This story was told Views and Inter- 1 views the other day for a true story: A young boy of Yorkville recently entered one of the South Carolina colleges. In a letter to his mother a day or two later, doscribing the college, among other things he said: "in all there arc , about seventy-flvo rats here." And the fond mother in telling a neighbor about her college boy and the ? I?i*?J f Uitw ?'lrorl XTWCIVCU XI Will Ulili X . "My, goodness, why they would allow seventy-five rats in that college is , more than I am able to understand. Why the idea of allowing such a condition when a little poison or a cat or two would exterminate them quickly." Farmers Suffer From Hail. "How many farmers of Western York suffered hail damage to cotton and corn of 50 per cent, or more in the destructive storm of August 3?" inquired one of Charles R. Caldwell of Yorkville the other day. Mr. Caldwell who owns, and operates a farm in the Sutton's Spring section which was hit by the hail, replied: "While of course the figures I am giving you are only an estimate, 11 should say that at least sixty farmers, white and colored, suffered 50 per cent, damage or more and the crops of most of those sixty were a total loss." BaOe Has a Babe. "Every small boy and grown boy, too, who loves baseball and that includes most of them knows of Babe Ruth, the famous home run hitter of the New j York Yankees," remarked a Yorkville j baseball bug this morning. "Here's a story about the Babe and his baby, daughter I believe would be of interest to them if you care to use it:" New York, Sept. 2".?The secret is out. Babe Ruth has a baby. For 1(5 months the big bambino has been keeping this big secret to himself and now we know why the Babe was so ram- ' pant with home runs last season and played this season so erratically. I^ist ' season, it was the pride of having n i baby, even though the little girl did | weigh only two and a half pounds at j birth. This season it was?well figure it out yourself. If you were six feet something: and weighed the best part of 300 pounds, and could hit a ball a wallop that would send it over tho bleachers and were the pride of the whole baseball world as the one and only big bambino. If, as wo say, those things were so, and your baby, the pride of your heart, was so little it had to be raistu in an incubator and kept in cotton wool, and if all the roughnecks in creation were just waiting for a chance to have a laugh on you and hung around the dugout all day waiting to sec you fall down or get struck out or something! Well? wouldn't it kind of jar you if you thought maybe rtir>lr nn fnill- hflhv for a laUCh. having been in all the trouble there is with High Commissioner Landis and that outfit? Wouldn't *" you Just conclude to let that baby grow a bit first and then spring it on the Hyenas? Anyway, maybe that's what Babe Ruth thought. But now that the baby is grown up?well, almost,? and looks kind of normal, even though small, the big secret is out and everybody can laugh or shake hands or have a drink or what you like. Mrs. Ruth took the baby and a nurse to the Polo grounds today, from the Hotel Ansonia, where the Ruths have i an apartment. And of course, there was a laugh right away, naturally, Babe being in Cleveland. So the Hyenas start.ed laughing and Mrs. Ruth got so mad she would not even let the photographers have a look at baby Dorothy. "Adopted," she cried, in answer to a questlop, at the hotel tonight. "I should say not. That baby's mine, mine, mine." But when the news spread arouna inere was a rusn iui tho telegraph office, and for the Ansonia. The first thing some folks thought about was a josh wire to Babe. The next was to see the baby Dr at least see somebody who had seen it. The hotel clerks smiled, yes, Big Babe used to sneak out of the hotel evenings with Little Babe in his arms, but everybody supposed it was an adopted baby, or some friend's child. His own? Well, of all things, said the hotel clerks still smiling. What did it look like? "Why, she is healthy, happy and fat," answered the clerk, which doesn't seem surprising ivhen one thinks of the babe. Mrs. Ruth wouldn't let anybody see the infant phenomenon. It has been sick right along, she said, and the i>abe had worried all the time about it. she said. He has been sensitive ibout the child's sickness and that was the reason for its premature adrent having been kept a secret. She said the baby had been in the care of the nurse until a month ago when nurse and baby joined Mr. and Mrs. Ruth at the Ansonia. Up until that time she said the baby's life had been despaired of. SYNODICAL AUXILIARY Ninth Annual Meeting to be Held in Presbyterian Church of Greenwood. The program of the ninth annual meeting of the Woman's Auxiliary synodical of the synod of South Carolina, Southern Presbyterian church, has just been announced. This meeting will convene in the First Presbyterian church of Greenwood on Tuesday evening, September 26 at 7:30, and a large attendance of representatives from all sections of the state is expected. The synodical is composed of eight presbyterials, 187 auxiliaries, and 7,900 members, with the following efft- I cieni oincers; mis. r. u. luayea, president, Greenwood; Mrs. A. Bramlett, vice president, Rock Hill; Mrs. Leslie Stribling, secretary, Seneca, and Mrs. A. R M^rse, treasurer, Abbeville. The keynote of this meeting is "The Church at Work," and important features of the program are as follows: Tuesday evening-, 7:30?Response to welcome by Mrs. J. B. Townsend. Address by Dr. E. E. Gillespie on presentation of work of the five departments of the Presbyterian progressive program. Address by Dr. Egbert W. Smith, executive secretary of foreign mission committee. Wednesday morning, 9:30?Devotional and observance of the Lord's supper conducted by Dr. E. E. Gillespie. Message by president of s.vnodical, followed by annual reports and announcement of committees. Wednesday afternoon, 2:30?Address by Mrs. E. P. Heid, president North Carolina synodical, on "Life Enlistment." Address by Dr. Melton Clark. Wednesday evening, 7:30?Addresses by Rev. Ray Riddle and Dr. Homer McMillan, executive secretary home mission committee. Thursday morning, 9:30?Election and installation of officers, reports of committees and adjournment. ? Fifty-two per cent of the foreign commerce of the United States in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, moved in American shipping, according to an analysis of the country's foreign trade made by the .shipping1 board last weex. American shipping constituted 49 per cent of the tonnage entering and clearing front American ports, the survey showed. Sixteen ports handled more than 65.000,000 of the 80,000,000 "long" tons of freight moved into or from the I'nited States in the fiscal year, New York leading with 18,1167,007 tons. Now Orleans was second with 7.105.29S tons and l'ort Arthur, Texas, t.drd, with 5,082,085 tons, but in the cases of both these ports the freight imported consisted largely of oil shipments. Fiftyone i>er cent, of American foreign trade was with Mexico, Atlantic Canada, or the "Havre-Hamburg range," according to the board. Ten additional ports were listed as having moved more than 500.000 tons of cargo each. They included Savannah, with imports of 213.0U0 tons and exports of 659,000, end Charleston with imports of 261,000 end exports of 2l5,o00 tons. I GLOVER NEWS BUDGET City Fathers Determine to Take no Chances With Mad Dogs. POLICEMEN HAVE ORDERS TO SHOOT ; Andrew Jackson Chapter U. D. C. Elects Officers?Cotton Sales Brisk and Business Picking up?Man Wanted in Great Palls is Arrested? Other News Notes of the Metropolis of Northern York County. (By a Staff Correspondent.) Clover, Sept. 25?If you live in Clover and own a dog you must keep the dog tied up in the yard somewhere or else take chances of having your dog shot by the police. For the town council has passed an ordinance already effective that all dogs must be tied up for a period of ninety days and the policemen have orders to shoot and kill all dogs that are running at large. For some time past there has been much talk throughout the town of mad dogs; and the storv has it that several dogs have recently gone mad and have bitten other dogs. Since there was no way of telling whether the dogs that were bitten were going mad or not, the city fathers deemed it best to cage all dogs for a period of ninety days In order to ascertain whether or not any of them are going to develop rabies. While the new ordinance appears to have met with the approval of the majority of folks, on the other hand there has been much protest. Some claim that the practice of keeping the dogs confined will not determine certainly the immunity of the dog and that furthermore the policemen are more or less certain of getting into trouble if they kill somebody's pet dog that accidentally escapes confinement. But anyway, the ordinance is already effective and what developments there may be as a result of it, remain to be seen. Wanted at Great Falls, Charged with the theft of a pistol and a shirt at Great Falls, Waldo ~ii o.tiUo mno nrrested in Clo ?>l?UJlt WtziA, nuiwv, ??ww ver last week and carried back to Great Falls by Chief of Police J. Cal Steele of that place. Blackwell was ...crested at a locui garage where he had been working a short time. The pistol which he is alleged to have stolen was recovered. Registration Small. Thus far few citizens of Clover have registered to vote in the election to be held here next month on the question of issuing bonds to build a sewer system for the town of Clover. Less than twenty-five people have registered, it is stated. There is nothing surprising about it, however, for the reason that the great majority of the citizens of Clover are already qualified to vote in the coming election. No Football Team. It is, announced that Clover High School will not attempt, to put out a football team this fall for the reason that there is no football coach available. While the personnel of the high school enrollment includes a number or husky youths who would doubtless prove bulwarks of strength in a football line, the Clover boys realize that they cannot develop a successful football team without a coach and therefore the Clover school will not be In the football sun. The local school expects to develop good basketball teams, however, both among boys and girls. Mixed in Dates. Rev. N. A. Homrick, popular pastor of the Clover Baptist' church told a good joke on himself the other day. Having been invited by a Baptist minister of Union county some time ago to attend a meeting of the Union County Baptist Association this month, Rev. Mr. Hemriek some how or the other got the impression that the meeting was to be last Thursday. So in company with several members of his congregation he went to Union by auiomoune eun> muisuu; uiv>u>?B. When he arrived he learned that he was a week ahead of time since the meeting- that he desired to attend is to be held Thursday of this week. Mr. Hemrick insists that it was not his fault that he made the error but declared that his friend the minister, gave him the wrong information. Good Week for Merchants. Sales of cotton were so brisk the past week on the Clover market and business among the merchants and everybody else in business was so good that the surliest, grouchiest business man in town had to admit that things were "fair." Several hundred bales of cotton were sold; many debts were paid and scores of farmers returned to their respective homes after selling a part of their crops carrying bundles of merchandise and other articles sold by Clover merchants. Business onange. A business change of local interest was made last week when Paul Drennan purchased the grocery business and home of John Forbes who has de- j cided to move to flastonia, X. C., to; make his home in the future. The Country is Safe. This section of the country is perfectly safe in the opinion of M. I... Ford, venerable "sage of Clover." According to Mr. Ford, "about the only thing wrong is that a lot of r-eoplo who aiej not working ought to go to work. The cotton crop is going to be a little short; but still it is going to be a pretty good crop. I'm selling my crop as fast as I pick it as I usually do. I notice that a lot of farmers are coming to town, selling their cotton, stopping at a hot dog stand and getting a hot dog or two and a soft drink and whistling as they return home. Things could be a lot worse and I've seen 'em a lot worse." U. D. C. Elect. At a recent meeting of Andrew Jackson Chapter U. D. C. of Clover, the following officers were elected: Mrs O. A. Neill, president; Miss Agnes Youngblood, vice president; Miss Louise Smith, secretary; Mrs. II. L. Wright, treasurer; Miss Mary Beam guard, registrar; Miss Grace Williams, historian. SAVED MAN'S LIFE Story of a Rabbit Thai Camo to Rescue of Imprisoned Miner. ThlB true story of the almost miraculous rescue of a man imprisoned in the shaft of a lead mine, was told to the writer, Cora Cole McCullough, by a member of her family. We quote it from Our Dumb Animals (Boston): Many years ago I was living in Montana. A smelter had been built and it created a demand for silver. I owned an interest in a lead mine that had been sunk over thirty feet. Thinking the time had come to make it available, I decided to go there and get some ore and have it tested. I did so, and reached the . place just in time to take shelter in the mine from a terrible hail storm. I lighted my candle, went to the bottom and went to work. I had not been there more than five minutes when I heard a noise that sounded like a cannon. The rock over my head shook, and in a moment the shaft caved in. You can imagine my feelings better than I can describe them when I found myself buried alive. I tremble even at this distant day, when I think of that moment. The roof of the shaft was made of rocks, and when they came down they did not pack so tightly but that the air came through. There was nothing I could do to release myself. I knew that if relief did not come from the outside I would perish. No one know that I had gone there. A road ran past the mouth of the shaft, but it was not traveled much, and I was not likely to attract attention by calling. Nevertheless, I shouted at intervals all day. The fallowing morning I commenced calling n?31n, and all day, whenever I thought I heard a sound, I shouted. When night came again, all hopes of being released were abandoned. I will not dwell on the agonies I endured. The morning of the fourth 'ln'* T VlAfltvl t something crawl Into my grave. I lighted my candle and saw a rabbit. There was only one aperture largo enough to admit him; I closed it to prevent his escape. I saw in him food to apease my hunger, when a thought occurred to me that prevented the blow from descending. I had two fishing lines. Their united length would reach to the road. I took off my shirt, tore It into strips, tied them together, and then to tho fish line. I then lied the end made out of my shirt around the rabbit's neck and let him out. He s^on reached the end of the line, and I knew by the way he was pulling that he was making a desperate effort to escape. Soon the tugging ceased, and as I knew that gnawing was one of a rabbit's accomplishments, I thought he had gnawed himself loose. About three hours afterward I felt the line pull, and some one called. I tried to foAklo HAIo/V T mn/la ? I I L.^ \Y LI , Ulll HIU iuruiu UWMU A IIUUIU died away in the cavern, I then pulled the line a little to show that I was still alive. 'All grew still again, and I knew the person had gone for assistance. Then came the sound of voices. I pulled, in the line and it brought me food. It took all the men who worked in the shaft nine hours to reach me. A very large pine-tree that stood near had been the cause of my misfortune. It had been dead a number of years, and the storm had blown it over. The terrible blow it struck the ground had caused the caving in of the shaft. The rabbit had wound the line around a bush and tied himself so short that he was imprisoned outside as securely as I had been inside. He was taken to town, put in a largo cage, and supplied with all rabbit delicacies the market afforded. He, however, did not thrive, and the boys, believing he "pined in thought," voted to set him free. He was taken back to his old neighborhood and liberated. He not only saved my life, but became the benefactor of all ?AUKlin nAOP tl.A lu.ff'iln mu l UUUils nctu , mv iiiiuri a iniaiu- j ing from shooting any, for fear it might bo my rabbit. ? The question of revising article X of the league of nations covenant or eliminating' it altogether was passed on to the fourth assembly at Geneva Saturday without other observation or recommendation than the subject be considered in ail its bearings. The Canadian delegation showed no disposition to rush Charles .1. Dohorty's amendment eliminating the article. M. Hartln lomv of France, said article X ought not to have been changed in the hope of bringing the United States into Ihe league. There was no assurance that a change would have that effect, he declared, and in any case the article ought not. to he changed until the United States was on the scene to deliberate upon it with the rest of j t lie world. 1 mm WON'T BUDGE Cherokee County Preacher Will Not Resign His Pulpit. MAY HAVE TO PREACH TO EMPTY PEWS Baptist Congregation Objects to Minister Who Supported Cole L. Blease ?Hickson Says Ho Has Always Taken an Active Interest In Politics and Has No Apologies to Make? Has Pity for His Persecutors. Gaffney, September 22.?The Ledger says: If Dr. F. C. Hickson, moderator of the Broad River Baptist association, persists in his announced determination to keep on preaching at Skull Shoals Baptist church, instead of accepting the invitation of tho board of 3 iU. deacons to resign, ne may expuunu me Gospel to empty pews, It was intimated ye. .erday by J. G. Kendrick, a member of the Skull Shoals board of deacons, who was a visitor in Gaffney. While no definite announcement has been made, It i.t understood that the deacons have already started negotiations to secure the services of another minister, and arrangements have beea made to change the regular preaching day from the fourth to the third Sunday in each month." Mr. Kendrick expressed regret that the present situation should have developed, especially in view of the fact that he has been a personal friend of Dr. Hickson. a tim? nm the hoard of dea cons of the Skull Shoals church unanimously deckled to request the resignation of Dr. Hickson as the pastor because of his alleged political activities. It was only a few days before the second primary that Dr. Hickson published a statement advocating the election of Cole L. Blease for governor, and he himself had been a candidate for a county office in the first primary. Mr. Kendrick yesterday recalled the fact that several years ago Dr. Hickson quit conducting a revival meeting in the Rehoboth church when the Littlejohn's box returned a majority in favor of Blease. In the last primary, the Sarratt's box, where most of the Skull Shoals people vote, the vote was more than two to one against Blease. Dr. F. C. Hickson, Gaffney minister, who is moderator of the Broad River association, Tuesday issued the following statement concerning the action of the deacons of tho Skull^Shoals Baptist church in asking him to resign. "noase announce mai x shoji uu regular appointment to preach at Skull Shoals Baptist church on the 4th Sunday and ask everybody to be present at 11 o'clock. "At my last appointment, 4th Sunday In Augrust, we had a most delightfull service, baptismal, communion and preaching1. "The pastor conducted the revival services this year, first of August, himself. So far as I could seo from tho size of the congregation and hearty cooperation of the membership the church was never so united and hopeful, nor so cordial in their support of mo as their pastor. ' I shall make no reply at present to statements attributed to Mr. "Wilkins in today's Ledger until I see the church. "The public ought to know that the Rapist church government is purely democratic, and that the deacons have no authority to call or dismiss a pas tor. "There was not a member in. the church, certainly not a one of those named, who did not know from my own lips that I was in favor of Hon. Cole L. Blease for governor before the first primary. "in 1012 I was pastor at Skull Shoals and I opposed Mr. Bleaso in the Lodger and otherwise. Those who were frinds of Mr. Blease at that time made no objection to me as their pastor. "The fact that those who oppose Mr. Bleaso now object to me being pastor because I now support him. only shows that Mr. Blease's friends have more of the Christian spirit than his enemies. "I have always taken an active part in politics wherever I have lived or preached and this is the first time that any church, or part of a church, has taken exception to it. "My reasons for supporting Mr. Blease this time were my honest convictions and will stand the test of time as to their wisdom. "My motive in this and in all my actions was purely unselfish. There was nothing for me to gain and everything for me to lose. "J took my stand with Mr. Tillman in the eighties when I was a popular town pastor and I took my stand against Mr. "Wilson on the war from the same motive, viz.: that as a human and especially a Christian, my I sympathies are with the weak against the strong. The question of Germany and England did not influence me at all in my stand on the war. I saw clearly that in my own country the poor and weak would suffer, and that the rich and strong would profit. If I had not been a Christian, I would have been human enough not to hesitate in my path. And when I had bathed my spirit in the teachings of Jesus, the , world, the flesh, and the devil, could j j not move me. "How much that stand cost mo my inhuman enemies know, for they have measured every ounce of it to me, in the spirit of savage deviltry. I have taken it without voicing once. "If God were not God, and Jesus were only a helpless martyr, and the consensus of human opinion and hope that right will receive its reward, were tfnly a fiction, I still would act as I do. "The only reason I don't spirit contempt on my persecutors is that I pity them." UP TO DATE DANCES Fort Mill Observer Describes Performances of "Social Leaders." "I've been In my day -vyhat some folks might call a rounder," a day or two ago said a Fort Mill man, "and every now and then, or once in a while, as you prefer, I yet take a look in on phases of life which would not be recommended in Sunday school. For a year or two I flopped around in Franco trying to bump off Germans and otherwise having a good time, including a fow visits to dance halls, gambling joints for both sexes, cabarets and cafes where liquor was sold and the women guests were of the free and easy class that gives the country none too good reputation abroad; but in all theso places I did not see anything quite so advanced as the things one may see at some of tho swell dances in this country. "Not long ago I went to one of these dances in a town not a thousand miles from here. There was plenty of liquor to be had at tho dance, but I did not drink any of it and was there? ? 1? ?a?, i a aUaam?&? nfViQ ^ nrnq lure ill I'uiiuitiuu iu uuaci vt; wiuii ?a,o happening. Some of the things I saw lacked a good deal of recommending the town for orderliness and gentility. The police finally came along after midnight and took in tow some of the young male drunks who were getting a littlo too gay with their obscene singing, loud swearing and other acts of debauchery; and that was all right, but the thing I could not understand was why some of the women at the dance were not also run in for indecent exposure of the person; but of course these things did not jar me, as I saw just about what I expected to see. "Ever been to one of these up-todate dances, where the paraphernalia of the women consists of enough clothes to flag an ox-cart and a sufficient quantity of powder to blow up a hill side and enough paint to cover several barn roofs, and the principal characteristic of the men for the time being is their liquored-un condition?ever been to one of these dances? No! You don't know what you have missed. The women are nlwn.vs full of 'nen' while the men, are full of liquor and I the combination means a gay old time. I'll take you along with me to the next swell dance or semi-swell dance we have in this section if you care to go."?Fort Mill Times. TURKS PROPOSED PEACE But Kemalist Envoy Was Laughed at Says Story. | All Fethi Bey, a Kemalist envoy to western European governments, is the man who gave tho signal for the atI tack upon Greece, according to semiofficial information received in Paris. Fethi Bey was- in London endeavoring to see Lloyd George to propose a peace conference. He was refused an audience and was referred to the chief of the bureau of Near Eastern affairs, it was said. The British foreign office is described by the Kemalist enI voy as having laughed when he suggested that unless peace could bo arI ranged quickly the Kemalists would turn the Greeks out of Asia Minor. Tin* Wnmnllst- <linlomnt then rose and told the British officials soberly: "I am sorry that you have laughed. Turkey has lost two millions of her people by war and there are too many orphans for us to join in the laugh at the idea of another war, I feed sad." Fethi Bey then sent his cipher message to Mustapha Kemal Pasha, saying that nothing could be done with the British government toward peace and that the oifensive need wait no longer for he had exhausted every effort. WOMAN RUNS AMUCK Chops Church Organ to Pieces and Then Makes Bonfire. Because an organ had been installed in the Christian Church at Bordley, K'y., against her wishes and those of some other members, Mrs. C. P. Baldwin wife of a prominent farmer went to the church alone with an axe, chopped the costly instrument to pieces, took them outside, i>oured kerosene 011 the pile and burned it. For months the congregation had wrangled over (having an organ. Mrs. ??'! fnllna'Arc onnfnnrlprl I>U1U >\ ill till'4. JlCl aVTAAVf ?? ? ? vv/.^vv it was a sacrilege to play any musical instrument in a church, singing being the only and real manner to give praise to God with music. On a vote the organ' won by a small majority, it is said. Mrs. Baldwin alone refused to attend church last Sunday when it was used for the first time. It had been in a week when destroyed. Mrs. Paid win is quoted as saying she is a charter member of the church and as long as she remains a member no musical instrument shall be used. No court action has been taken by members who favored tho organ. . . - - - L ?! SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS , t ; Opposite Views of Service to the Country. ADAMS DEFENDS,' HULL CONDEMNS No Congress in Time of Peace Haa Ever Made Such a Record Says One, And No Other Congress Has So Signally Failed, Says the Other. Opinion as opposite as the poles re? garding the record of the sixty-seventh congress was expressed In formal statements by the national chairmen of the two great political .parties,, last Friday. , " Speaking for the Republican organization, Chairman John T. Adams de-1 clared that "no congress in time of peaco ever made such a splendid record," while on the Democratic side Chairman Cordell Hull asserted that "no other congress ever so signally failed to grasp great opportunities or to meet important responsibilities." * The budget law, reduction of taxes, the peace settlement, the tariff, the veterans' bureau act, and agrieul* tural and. public roads reforms were among the legislative landmarks enumerated by Mr. Adams as indicating i the "constructive" pathway followed by the Republican senate and house. "Newberryism," "Dnughertyism," the strike record, a treasury deficit, farm prices, and failure to re-adopt the Ford Muscle Shoals proposal, suppress profiteering: and settle the Mexican problem, were included in the "amazing: record of non-achievement" recited by Mr. Hull. Adams' Statement. Chairman Adams' statement follows:' . "The congress Just adjourned first convened in special session less thai) 18 months ago. Consider its record. "It enacted the budget law, uhdeT which the economies of this administration were made possible. It CO^operated 100 per cent, with the budget bureau in this economy program.' "It reduced public taxes >818,000,000, It unsparingly cut public appropriations. ' "It found 5,000,000 men idle. To prevent further aggravation of the unemployment situation, it enacted the restrictive immigration law. "It found agriculture facing ruin and assisted 'it on its feet by the enactment of a series of laws which afforded both temporary and permanent relief to the agricultural interests. . . ' > ? * ? ?:?k "it re-esraoiianca peuw v?im w many and Auatro-IIungary. ? , '"It enacted the Sweet law, which created the veterans' bureau and garb that bureau more funds than any other department of the governments "It enacted the maternity act re* ' quested by the women of the country.* "It created a refunding commissiou to get our foreign loans on a business* like basis. "It enacted a permanent tariflf which insures industry and agriculture^ alike, protection and the working maA steady employment at a good wage. " "It granted liberal aid for public roads, strengthened the enforcement at. the federal prohibition amendment^ created more federal courts to relieve' the congestion of business and expedit#., I justice and created a commission iw investigate the coal industry. "In addition, the United States f senate in less than 3 days raii#e? seven treaties formulated at the" arms conference, which moved the world toward peace and comtnitteij'' the nations to a reduction of naval armament. "It enacted no destructive, no sectional, no class legislation. "No congress in time of peace ever made such a splendid record of coni . structive legislation." Hull's Statement. Chairman Hull's statement follows:' "A patient and long suffering public will welcome the adjournment of the present Republican congress, which promised more and achieved less than any other legislative body in history. No previous congress haa been so generally condemned by leading citizens, irrespective of party, on account of its utter lack of constructive ability, statesmanship and fidelity to tho American people. No other congress ever so signally failed to grasp great opportunities or to meet important responsibilities. Hundreds of pa triotic Republican newspapers ana thousands of leading broad-minded Republican individuals are voluntary1 witnesses to the truth of these state* ments. . , "Despite this barren record of tjie, * existing Republican congress, the press quotes Republican national loadw ers in control as stating that they pro* pose to assume an aggressive and not a defensive attitude during the fall * campaign. Meaning What? "Does this mean an 'aggressive* attitude on Xewberryism, on Dougherytism, and on Xat Ooldsteinlsm? "Does this mean an 'aggressive' attitude on the outrageous ship subsidy proposal and on tho record of th? administration in settling the various strikes on a permanent basis of relative fairness between labor and capital, notwithstanding the complete failure of the administration in dealing with these conditions? "Docs this mean an 'aggressive' attitude in support of the administration record on economy and tax reduction, i i (Continued on Page Eight.). "is '*Jt