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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^
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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.
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"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
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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
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"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
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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
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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.
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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
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