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' *' *VJ. -"7 ' " * "v . . * > -, . ~r -r- , # ^ ^ |i SEMI- WEEKLY. l m grTst's 80ntpt-ii^?r.r 4amil!j 2>"Mjaj)er: jfor the promotion of the political, Social, Sgriculfural and Commercial .interests of the iJeiyjte. ter"^e^or^e?ivinc?i? *NCt established^ 18?^, YORK, S. C., FRIDAY. OCTOBER lit, 19'22. NQ 82T VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS Brief Local Paragraphs ol More or Less interest. . PICKED UP BY ENQUIRER REPORTERS . , Stories Concerning Folk* and Thing*, j Some of Which You Know and Some You Don't Know?Condensed For Quick Reading. "There are numbers of good colored farmers as well as white farmers in York county who are going to have money this fall in spite of the boll OT.iA.r4i Tn<? \f. Tavlor of Ebe nezer the other day. "Take Sam Jenkins of Ebenezer for instance. Sam is going: to make eight bales of cotton this year on eight and one-half acres. On the same land last year he made fifteen bales. Still he made the crop this year for much less than that of last year and he'll have money in the bank." Cattle Hard to Sell. "There is practically no sale for beef cattle in our city and section now," commented a Rock Hill citizen who was in Yorkville yesterday. "Had a ?"- tn tii<1 other dav wanting llltAll VVIItV vw ?*?v ?? w ? to know if I could tell him where he could place flfteeif head of cattle. He said that he had been offered 3 1-2 cents gross for them but he couldn't afford to take that and he didn't want to feed them all the winter. But then I guess the lack of demand is because there are scores* of people who have cattle that they don't want to feed over the winter." For Sale. One Ford car with a piston ring, Two rear wheels, one front spring; Has no fenders, seat nor plank; Burns much gas and hard to crank; Carburetor's busted half-way through, Engine's missin'; hits on two. Three years old; four in the spring; Shock absorbers, 'n' everything; Radiator's busted, sure does leak; Differential's ary, can near n Ten spokes missing, front all bent; Tires blowed out, 'taint worth a cent. Got lots of speed, runs like the deuce; Burns either gas or tobacco juice. Tires all off; been run on the rim? But it's a d? good Ford for the shape it's In. Gambling at Gastonia. "Dropped up to the Gaston county fair Wednesday night," remarked a | Yorkville man yesterday. "Noticed J that the old time pan-gambling game was going on among the concessionaires right along and no questions asked. Each man placed his money and if he hit the lucky number he got the money; if he didn't the house got the money. The dind was cigarettes instead of money. Those games are all right at fairs, it seems; but if a cop should come along and catch me with acres and kings and the man sitting across the table from me had ; queens and jacks and there was a pile of money on the table why it would be the 'coop* for us, I reckon." The Prize 'Possum Story, "That story about Auditor Love ' catching the 'possum the other day reminds me of an experience I had several years ago," said Mr. J. E. Lowry of Yorkville this morning. " I caught three 'possums in my bed room. It has been five years, I guess. My wife awoke me one night and called my attention to a scratching noise. Peeping under the bed I saw a big 'possum shining his eyes. I got the! ? 1 vo rrnrn A hini ntlt flnfl I CUU1 IWIIKO ?wiu wiohhvw ...... after cracking: his neck, threw him out the window. I went back to bed but the noise continued and taking: another look I found two 'kitten' 'possums there. These I caught and killed. The next morning I found that they had climbed into the room by means of a grape vine." Survived it All. "Well, I am still alive and fairly happy,' writes Leltoy Moore, Esq., of Spartanburg, formerly principal of the Sharon school and successful candidate for master of Spartanburg county in the recent second primary. "It was my first experience in politics an< I learned just what kind of man I was and what I had done and things that I hadn't done. Among other things my political enemies told that I was constantly drunk on the streets. They told that I was married and that my wife had left me because of non-support and you know that I have never been successful in getting married. Hut I decided that it would be best not to try to deny all those stories but to trust to the good sense of the folks to i discredit them and 1 managed to 'come J through.'" York County Fair. Miss Marie Pcwell, secretary of the York county fair. Miss Margaret Fewcll, home demonstration agent for York county and \V. P. Goodman, city j manager of Rock Iiill were visitors in Yorkville yesterday en route to Gastonia to the Rig Gaston county fair. ! "Everything is in readiness for the York county fair at Rock Hill next week," said Miss Fewell in talking of the York county attraction. "I am very much afraid that our exhibits of, York county fine bred cattle are going; to bo scarce because it is necessary that the eattle be tested against tuberculosis before they are brought to the fair and many of the farmers do not want to submit them to this test. A number of Chester county cattle breeders are going to bring their cattle 1 ' 1 to the fair, however and everything is all ready for the attraction which we hope and believe is going to be bigger and better than it was last year." DEFIES THE KLAN. Fayetteville, N. C., Man Says Ku Klux Are a Bunch of Cowards. | J. R. Harrison, Fayetteville alderman, who is a tobacco salesman by vocation and baiter of the Ku Klux klan by choice, has once more defied the lightning and is very well this morning. Harrison, who beat up the or- J ganizer of the local klan a few months ago, published an open letter to the ! klansmen * yesterday afternoon, in which he urged, even begged them to come and take him out last night. He spent the early hours of the night | around the hotels and cigar stores on Hay street, where he was seen and spoken to by hundreds of persons, but was not molested. It is said that it took Mr. Harrison more than an hour to get up town on account of the number of people who stopped him to congratulate him on writing the letter in which his opinion of the klan was expressed in unvarnished terms, Harrison broke into the limelight last April when he had the encounter with E. C. Stevenson, the K. K. K. organizer. During the fray Stevenson pulled a pistol and Harrison bared his breast and dared him to shoot, when Stevenson dropped the gun to the ground. Harrison's letter was brought out by Or* irt/)i/1nnt tirltinh noPlirrpH In ?*t FVidjlV night when the Ku Klux held a big parade here, during which one of the robed and masked horsemen drew up at the home of one of the most esteemed ladies of this city, who was ill in a hospital at the time, and left a missive for a young lady boarder. It is said that a leading member of the local klan had been turned out of this boarding house. After telling how he had been approached by Stevenson last fall and asked to join the klan, and had seriously considered doing so, but decided not to because he did not believe their principles were in keeping with the American spirit, Harrison concluded j his letter thus: "Now, we will take the scene that was staged on our streets last Friday night, that will go down in history as a damnable disgrace to our town. Were they murderers, thieves, robbers or gamblers? Their faces were covered; so we have no way to tell, but we do know one thing?not one drop of gentlemanly blood flows through their veins, for no gentleman would pull off such stuff as they carried on Friday night. "Here is their claim: That they are 100 per cent American and . 400 strong in Fayetteville. "In regard to the 100 per cent American that they claim to be, during the World war 90,000 mothers' sons of North Carolina gave up their homes and loved ones and sailed across the i sea. and fmurht on foreien soil to sun- I press just such principles as the K. K. K. stands for, and I today have friends and loved ones that sleep in unmarked ? raves in Flanders' fields, from whose blood the lilies of France have grown richer and sweeter. Ask these fathers and mothers whose*sons made the supreme sacrifice if they were one hundred per cent American. Now, you may have to be a 100 per cent American to be a K. K. K.; but thank God, you don't have to be a K. K. K. to be a 100 per cent American! "Now, in conclusion, you claim to be 400 strong in Fayotteville. I am one single man that makes this suggestion to you. Thursday night is your meeting night. After your meeting Thursday night, you take me out and give me a good whipping. Now, don't be cowards and say, as you did to the minister of the Gospel over at Laurinburg, who refused your money, *\Ve will see you later.' I am aware that you can overpower me arid do what you want to do, but please me, men, one time, and take me this Thursday night and do what you are going to do or admit to the public of Fayetteville that you are 400 common cowardly curs." BUYS BIRTHPLACE President Harding Now Owns House Where He Was Born. The old Harding homestead, birthplace of President Warren G. Harding has just been purchased by the nation's executive. It is just out of Blooming Grove, Ohio. "Sentimental reasons only," is the ' explanation given by French Crow, i postmaster at Marion, O.. who closed the deal for the president. The old Harding homestead consists of 2CG acres, and until rcpurchas- 1 ed, has been owned by two different ' farmers. The house in which the president was born burned down years ' ago, according to Dr. C3. T. Harding, 1 the president's rather, but the ol<i house still standing was the family home during the early years of Warren l-Iardlng. ' * * I ? Rev. C. C. Coleman has just completed eight years of service as pastor i of Citadel Square Baptist church of i Charleston. In that time he has re- i ceived into his congregation 558 mem- ! hers by baptism and 6118 otherwise, a > total of 1.247 which is about three- < fourths of the church's membership. 1 Contributions during his pastorate have amounted to $230,500. ~ GO OVER THE "TOP Presbyterian Congregation of Clover Raises Money to Complete Church. LADIES TO PROVIDE FURNISHINGS Taylor, Father of Family Partially Wiped Out by Faries is a Visitor in Town?Big Registration for Sewer Bond Election?Mill Construction Worlr Rrinns Manv Peoole to Clover. a_ , ?. - - -(By a Staff Correspondent.) Clover, October 13.?The congregation of the First Presbyterian church of Clover has raised $4,399, a sum sufficient to complete the building of the new Presyterian church, which building has been used for religious services for several months past in an uncompleted state. At a recent congregational rally the various members responded quite liberally to an appeal for the necessary funds to finish the house of worship, and construction work is to be resumed in the near future. The basement of the structure which was completed months ago has since been used for preaching services as well as Sunday School purposes. It is understood that the furnishings including the seats will be provided by the several ladies societies of the church, they having been busily engaged in raising funds for the purpose tnrougn various acuvuira iur ?i iuuk time past. When complete the building will have cost the congregation in the neighborhood of $65,000 it is stated. Construction work was begun about two years ago and the congregation has made a plucky fight to continue the building project despite adverse conditions. Hampshire Mill Project. It is estimated that all told there are now about 125 men employed in building the Hampshire Mill and the mill village. The workmen have been gathered from several states. Numbers of farmers from various sections of South Carolina whose crop this year was a failure have come to Clovoi and found employment on the mill work The town is literally filled, with strangers employed either on the mill project or other building projects go ing on. Boarding house keepers are doing a rushing business and Clover merchants note an increased trade especially Saturdays, due largely to the big pay roll that is turned loose by the mill contractors each week. The Hampshire Mill is to be of concrete and steel construction and because of the nature of the work an unusually large force of workmen is being used. Election Next Week. Citizens of Clover vote Oct. 24, on the question of issuing bonds in the sum of $G5,000 for the purpose of building a sewerage system and extending the water system in the town. According to John A. Jackson, supervisor of registration there are about 250 voters who are registered to vote in the election. If there is any oppo-1.: nvnnncnrl SCWPr hond iSSUC it has not come to the surface; hut the indications arc that it will carry by a big- majority. Selling Many Flivvers. Despite the alleged shortage of the cotton crop in this section the automobile business is said to be mighty good and numbers of farmers who were not able to buy a flivver when | prices reached a war peak are buying them "now. This flurry in flivvers, however is said to be confined largely to the second hand variety. Yesterday a local man sold for $300 a flivver that cost him $480 originally although he had been operating it three years and he had his eye on four other second hand cars that he said he knew where to place speedily at a profit. "Lots of folks are complaining about what the weevil did to the crop," remarked a second hand flivver dealer yesterday; "but they are able to buy 'em all the same." Taylor in Town. James M. Taylor, former cotton mill operative of the Clover Cotton Mill, four members of whose family were wiped out when William C. Faries, his neighbor who lived across the street from him ran amuck on the afternoon of September 6 and killed thorn, was in Clover Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Taylor was accompanied by C. M. Austin, Esq., of Gastonia, one of the lawyers who will assist in the prosecution of Faries whose trial is expected to come up in the court of general sessions for York county at the term beginning November 20, with Judge James E. Puerifoy of Walterboro presiding. The two were in town for the purpose of conferring with certain witnesses for the prosecution xnd to consult certain other persons in Clover who are more or less familiar .?lit. ni-oiimotnnpds ?>f the tragedy. Willi UIC \-l? V ... Mi*. Taylor said that his daughters Misses Clcrtie Taylor, 20, and Dolly Taylor, 1G, who were wounded by buckshot at the time Faries is alleged to have snuffed out the lives of his nephew, Claud Johnson, his daughter, Miss Lola Taylor and his sons Fred i ind Xewton Taylor had about fully recovered from their wounds and bore no ill effects physically from their harrowing experience. The survivors r>f his family are now living in South [Jastonia from which community they had moved to Clover when the tragedy occurred. Although now living outside of York county, the Taylors are keeping as close track as possible of the various manoeuvres that are being made in connection with the case and the father and his friends arc leaving no stones unturned to see to it that thoir interests will be well represented when the case does come to trial. It is learned here that Faries' will under no circumstances be returned to the York county jail before the November term of court. While it might be and probably is a fact that the accused prisoner would be as safe in the jail as in the penitentiary, the authorities are quoted as saying that they do not propose to take any chances in the matter and that Farles will remain right where he is until he is brought to trial at the county seat or other such courthouse as he might be tried in. It is said here that there is fully as much interest in Gaston county, the home of the Taylors for several years past, in the proceedings o/ the case as there is in this section. Each week-end numbers of the curious from Gastonia and other sections come to the Clover mill village, it is reported, and go over the ground that less than two months ago was the scene of one of the most , terrible tragedies in the annals of ( southern criminology. POLICE PUZZLED. Napoleon of Crime Having Full Sway In London. A Napoleon has been reborn in London?a Napoleon of crime. Great jewel robberies have been the outstanding feature of this London 1 season, robberies so huge that Scotland Yard itself admits that these robberies are the work of a master-mind, a super-crook. , Newspapers are likening this supercrook to Prof. Moriarty?Conan Doyle's famous fiction character. Scotland Yard sleuths have already named the unknown super-crook "Moriarty." They are fully convinced that h<; is at the head of an international protective organization of crooks, which plans burglary, safe-breaking and jewel stealing on an unprecedented scale. "Moriarty," they say, has a town house and a country house, a fleet of motor cars, and a host of friends, both straight and crooked, in London's best society. They do not know what Moriarty looks like. He may be a lord for all they know, bi't they are convinced that he is a an high in society. / V J. W. Bell, one of London's leading assessors, claims to know the man, but dares not give him away. All he will say is that "Moriarty" is the financier and brains of the thieves who work for him. Women Agents. "Moriarty," Bell claims, has women agents as well as men?some of them he declares, are titled. They will watch an intended victim for months, trail him across continents, work their way into his homes as maid servants t or confidantes, until the time is ripe to strike. Detectives declare that in all the latest big jewel hauls the victims have been shadowed for months. Here are a few of the big "jobs" which have taken place this season: Mrs. J. Byrne, an American, robbed of $60,000 worth of jewelry. Business man's wife robbed of $20,000 worth of jewels in a big hotel. World-famous collection of gold coins stolen from the Albany apartments, London. Theft of thirty pearl necklaces from a fashionable jewel store. Robbery of 130 Kold snuff boxes and ruby set goblets from a house on J Brighton road. > In no case has there been any trac6 I of the missing valuables. Usually in 1 the case of common criminals '"part I of the booty turns up here or on the continent." I New Coupe Daily. Every day the newspapers banner- * head jewel hauls. Recently two wo- ^ men, said to be agents of "Moriarty," C walked into a jewelry store and asked * to be shown a gold bag. When the s bag was produced the two girls, both ^ of whom were pretty and stylishly dressed, asked the shop assistant to weigh the bag. The young man retired to the back of the shop, and the > girls calmly put their hands through the partition separating the window from the shop and scooped up two t trays full of diamond rings valued at r $95,000. a When the young man came back he r noticed nothing, as the partition had Ibeen closed after the theft. The girls s calmly asked the weight of the bag, v and, being told, declared it was too ex- n pensive. a They smiled sweetly and walked out. s They have not been seen since, but f< police say they answer the description j h of "Moriarty's" most aristocratic wo- c men assistants. f< London is echoing1 with the theft from a married couple living in Corn- c wall of the following: Twelve diamond n brooches, rope of 2S-1 pearls, gisantic o ruby, formerly in the fez of a famous s Shah of Persia; other jewels valued at p $50,000. And again the police are baffled. h Rewards offered already run into v tens of thousands of dollars, but the k police say such rewards are uselcsss. The master mind, this Xjijjoleon of c prime, pays his agents so well that at h a paltry bribe they turn up their aria- t tocratic noses.?London Letter. d NEW DIOCESE CREATED Church Home Orphanage May Buy Property of D. D. Thomas. WILL MEAN INCREASED FACILITIES New Division to be Known as Diocese of Upper South Carolina?Bishop K.' G. Finley is at the Head?Churches | in Twenty-two Counties Included?j Executive Council and Standing Committee Appointed. Episcopal churches at Yorkvillc and j Da/vIf Util n i?a nmir fuH In ! ivuuiv xiiu uic nun uivut }/wtubvu mv Upper South Carolina Diocese of that denomination which was created ^it a meeting of Episcopal ministers and lay leaders held in Columbia this week. Bishop W. A. Guerry of the diocese of South Carolina relinquished his custody of this part of the old diocese with reluctance after fifteen years of service and on Tuesday made a touching farewell before he turned the diocese over to. its new bishop, the Rt. Rev. Kirkman G. Finley, D. D., in which he offered his hearty co-operation and assistance. Twenty-two counties constitute the diocese of Upper South Carolina and according to Bishop Finley in them is a.white population of 513,841 and a negro population of 394,387. In this territory there are 46 white Episcopal churches and 14 negro Episcopal churches." The money raised in this field for the period of 1921 was, for self support, $175,545.26 and for church extension, $66,259.23. Orphanage May Buy Property. At the primary convention of the Upper South Carolina Diocese held in rrinity church, Columbia Tuesday afternoon. Rev. T. P. Noe, superinv UnrviA OenUo n _ ICUUt'IU Ul LilC V^IIUIV,!! 11UII1C Vft pi?u*|ige, the official orphanage of the lenomination which is located in Yorkrtlle, explained a proposition by Mr. and Mrs. \V. B. Moore of Yorkville egarding the erection of a $10,000 cottage at the orphanage, provided the iioceses buy the adjoining property it D. D. Thomas which included 128 icres of land and a ten room house .'alucd at $20,000. The orphanage su- ( perintendent explained that the pur- ( ^hase of this property would increase . the housing facilities of the orphanige by 20 per cent. It was stated that , the orphanage trustees have approved the proposition and that Christie Benet , it Columbia haB been named chairman it the committee on the purchase of the property from Mr. Thomas. Home for Bishop. It tvas decided to select an Episcopal ' -esidence in Columbia for Bishop Finay not to cost over $20,000 and a com nittee consisting of J. P. Thomas, R. r. Manning, E. R. Heyward and IThristie Benet was appointed to select ;he residence. Executive Council. ' 1 'PIia avo/iiitiuo pniinnd i q nnmnospft * >f the following: Bishop Finlay, the Rev. F. H. Har- ; ling of Camden, secretary of the dio- ! :ese; W. A. Clarkson, of Columbia, reasurer of the diocese. The Rev. W. i. K. Pendleton of Spartanburg, dean >f the Greenville convocation; H. V. *. Schroder, of Greenwood, and Mrs. F. J". Challen of Greenville, layman and aywoman of the Greenville convocaion; The Rev. G. Croft Williams of Columbia, dean of the Columbia con ocation; R. I. Manning of Columbia, ind Mrs. D. G. Ellison of Columbia, ayman and laywoinan of the Columbia :onvocation; The Rev. F. H. Juhan of Greenville; The Rev. W. P. Peyton, of rVinnsboro; Dr. H. A. Ligon, Jr., of Spartanburg; W. B. Moore, of Yorkrille: The Rev. A. R. Mitchell, The lev. A. R. Morgan of Chester; Henry Cillman of Greenwood; A. C. Davis of fountain Inn. The standing committee was ap>ointed as follows: Dr. R. D. Phillips of Columbia; The iev. A. R. Mitchell, of Greenville; ?he Rev. W. E. McCord of Rock Hill; 1 Christie Benet of Columbia; N. C. lughes, of Laurens; W. F. Robert- a on, of Greenville; M. A. Moore, of s Jnion and R. I. Manning1, of Colubmia. EDITOR ATTACKED. \nd He Didn't Fill Bully Full of Lead As He Should Have Done. My mother! One day last week for he first time in my life a man called r?e the vilest epit et one may hurl at nother, writes E ifejne Ashcraft in his taper, the Monroe (N. C.) Enquirer, "oiks, it was a wonderful experience? t hocking as it wa3. Instantly a most ivid panorama was presented to my Q lind. I remembered my dear mother c s she appeared to me as a child?how he slaved, endured all, asked nothing ( jt herself in return?that I might ( ave the very best of care?bodily g omforts, warm clothing, plenty of (j ood and it well prepared. Then my mother being an educated, (ultured, coll go-trained women, was lost desirous that I receive the best f instruction. Practically all my a choolir.g was under her personal su- g crvision. d When I left home as a young man a o ?tter or two each week followed me ti wherever I went?I regret I did pot eep them. A number of years ago I was strick- P n with typhoid. Mother would not C ear to any other arrangement than it hat 1 go straight to her home. All n uring those long weeks she would go H to my bedside almost every hour during the long nights. I would fain sleep that she be not too greatly worried. They tell me I had an unusually light attack of the fever, because of the splendid nursing I received. Then when I was married?mother said not a word?she literally took the new daughter and her son in her dear arms. The children came and she was as proud of them as were their parents. When mother was at last mortally stricken, tears would come into the eyes of those ministering unto her? mc guuu auui nau tvaucu uit umi'ia 3" long and patiently she, herself, wanted to be "such a little trouble," It was my privilege to hold her in my arms as her kind and loving heart beats grew weaker and weaker and then ceased altogether. Mother was dead! Then, too, hundreds of boys and girls?now men and women?throughout the Carollnas, who during the many years the late Sallie MarshAshcraft gave the better part of her years to help them to a higher and better life as their instructress, will rise up and call her blessed. Folks, I knew I was going to have a personal encounter with a man with whom we do not see a certain proposition in the same light. A friend of mine had begged me a few hours before "not to take a thrashing." The man who believes he has been abused, himself has a family of exceptionally intelligent and attractive boys and girls. I may be a coward, but I would rather have a dozen beatings than go into the Great Beyond with "bloody hands." However, when the attack came I waa sitting in my office and was bowled over at the first rush flat on my back. The man who then repeatedly tried to brain me with a heavy office chair, boasted that he brought no knife or gun. The chair was torn up by my repeatedly kicking it as it descended toward my face, 1 scarcely received a scratch. But the personal encounter was only an incident. I have had fights before, but never had I been called the vilest of all vile names. In my heart, I feel that God in Heaven has not damned my soul, as the man said He had. God, too, knows that I am not the -eon ( of the beast the man said I was. This occurred after citizens had parted us ind the fight was over. Not for myself, mother mine, do I resent the hellish imputation. The man i who said it is the dirty, contemptible, . slanderous liar which in his own heart : he knows himself to be. For the sake of his family, I will not name him. , The dozen or more men who were present know the bully I am talking about. WHEN TRUTH HURTS. Newspapers Don't Take Pleasure In Printing the Court Records. Court news is rarely pleasant; it is llr.iost always unpleasant for some jne. The staring lines thut tell of a relative's disgrace are painful. It gives i newspaper no pleasure to add to the suffering of the innocent or increase the mortification of the guilty, but the public has a right to know what ts courts are doing, and as a matter jf news, the records of the courts, from -ecorder's court to supreme court, are jublished. Scarcely a week passes that some 1 >ne does not request, beseech, cajole 1 ind plead with the Index-Journal to 1 eave his name or the name of some 1 'riend or relatives out of the report of :ourt proceedings. It is never pleasint to cause pain, and the Index-Jour- ^ lal regrets that the truth hurts, but mch requests cannot be granted. In ^ 'airness and justice to all, names canlot be deleted to shield anyone. It vould not be just to publish one man's lame and leave another's out. High >r low, the names in the records of he courts are treated impersonally. ^ t is a matter of news that the public vants and has a right to know. The f ndex-Journal makes an honest effort o be just and fair to all. The newspaper that bears grudge ] tnd "has an axe out" to avenge per- 11 onal grievances is a failure as a news- ' >apcr. A newspaper should present a he facts, as accurately as it can, with- j*" >ut bias or favoritism. When it fails 0 o do this, it fails to live up to the thics of the profession, for newspa- (' >ers have a code of ethics, whether 1 he public recognizes it or not. If the f levil himself were to come to town c vith clattering hoofs and brandished 1 itchfork, a newspaper would owe it V o its code of ethics to be fair in its 1 eport of the event?whether it liked ^ he devil or not. Every decent newspaper stands for rder, law, sobriety and decency in the ommunity. It may condemn with vig- ^ r in editorials, practices and j>olicies, ^ >ut when it comes to giving an aco ount of the news, the facts are pre- ^ ented, whether they condemn or con- ^ one, and these facts, cold and unas- ^ ailable, speak for themselves.?The ireenwood Index-Journal. ? In 1916 the total daily attendance ^ t motion picture shows in the United 'E itates was 20,000,000. This year the ? aily attendance has dropped to 10,- n 00,000 to the great alarm of the mo- i ion picture controllers. ? h ? Motion i>icture men were denied rr ermission to film the interior of the oi anadian House of Commons because di , was felt that such a procedure would e: ot be in keeping with the dignity of e? tie parliament. h; CATAWBA PRESBYTERY Oak Grove Church in Chester County Next Meeting Place. REV. WHITESIDES NAMED MODERATOR Rev. Parkinson Succeeds Rev. Phillips as Clerk and Rev. B. G. Pressley it Named Recording Clerk?Excellent Sermons Were Delivered by Student freacners?nrun runts tnw Visiting Ministers and Elders. (By a Staff Correspondent.) Tirzah, Oct. 13.?Oak Grove church ig Chester county was selected as the place of the spring meeting and Rev. A. K. Whitesides, of Pleasant Hill, was named moderator-elect, at the fall meeting of Catawba Presbytery of the A. R. P. church, held in Tirzah church Tuesday and Wednesday morning. Rev. Dr. D. G. Phillips of Chester, for more than ten years clerk of Presbytery tendered his resignation as clerk due to the fact that he has accepted a call to the pastorate of the First A. R. P. church of Charlotte and will be out of the Presbyterlal bounds. Rev. W. W. Parkinson was elected clerk to succeed him and Rev. B. Grier Pressly of Hickory Grove was elected recording clerk. Presbytery will present to Dr. Phillips a gift as a slight token of appreciation of his faithful services as clerk, provision for such a gift having been incorporated in a motion to that effect which was offered by Rev. Oliver Johnson, D. D., of Winnsboro. In accepting the resignation of Dr. Phillips, the moderator. Rev. R. A. Lummus of Rtchburg, Chester county spoke the appreciation of presbytery to Dr. Phillips. Opened Tuesday Morning. The fall meeting of Catawba Presbytery opened Tuesday morning with practically every church represented by ministers and elders. The opening sermon was preached by Rev. S. J. Hood of Lancaster the retiring moderator who presided over the organization of presbytery, Rev. R. A. Lummus, moderator-elect taking. charge Tuesday afternoon. Heard Trial Sermons, Presbyterial communion was observed at the session Tuesday afternoon, a large number of visitors in addition to the delegates being in attendance and participating, the communion service being conducted by" Rev. Oliver Johnson, D. D. Following the election of officers and the selection of the place of the next meeting the presbytery heard trial sermons preached by Students Ebenezer Gettys ot Tirzah and Murphy Bell of Ten 1 mnmKaro ll'BHt, UUIII )UUIIK IIICIl UCIII6 JUVUIMV.? if the senior class at Erskine Theological Seminary. Both sermons were heard with inicrest and showed that the ministerial :andidates had given their trial effort nuch thoughtful study. Especially ?ood was the sermon preached by Mr. 3ettys who is the son of Mr. gnd Mrs. IV. E. Gettys of Tirzah and who since, lis return from the World War htfa ieen engaged in teaching in the publfc ichools and later in welfare work, and laving some time ago decided to enter he ministry. In accordance with Presbyterial :ustom the roll of ministers and elders >vas called following the hearing of he trial sermons and criticism was incited. The majority of responses were o the effect that those who had a right o criticise had no criticism to make >f the efforts of the two students >ut were "well pleased." The only iriticism was that offered by Rev. 9. r. Hood of Lancaster, who suggested hat the young men try to begin their areers as ministers by refraining rom the use of manuscript; but that hey try to preach "from the heart." lis argument was that sermons deivered without the aid of the manucript of the whole text were more ef* ective than otherwise. Visitors to Presbytery. Among the visitors of other denomllations introduced to presytery were lev. John C. Bailey, pastor of Tirzah nd Ebenezer churches and Rev. J. B. iwann of Rock Hill, formerly pastor f Bullock's Creek church. In a happy Ittle speech acknowledging the introuction, Rev. Swann took occasion to ell the members of presbytery that he elt that he was no stranger to Assoiate Reformed Presbyterians, having ved among them and been associated ,'ith them all of his life. He remarked hat when a young man he was a freuent visitor in one A. R. P. home and rom this home he got his wife and he ad not yet regretted his action. Heard Dr. Lightfoot. D..AoKidnH?f AM Tiine/lotr ofto>*nnAn X I V.OUJ kvl J KJIt X Uv OUUJ niivi livvu card an addres3 by Rev. E. M. Lightx>t. D. I)., of Columbia, superintendnt of the Anti-Saloon League in which e told of the work of the league In lis state for the enforcement of proibition. Wednesday Morning. The closing session of the presbytery Wednesday morning was given over irgoly to the receipt and discussion f statistical reports and other comlittee reports. During the meeting of resbytery the visiting elders and linisters were entertained in the omes of people of Tirzah and comlunity. A picnic dinner was served 11 the grounds at church during both ays of presbytery, and the delegates tpressed themselves as being delight1 with the hospitality extended them y Tirzah people of all denominations. - 'a