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^ ^ ^ ""tc.sucd semi- weem^, ' - - - l. m. grists sons, pubii.hers. Q Aamilg ftepapcr: jfor the promotion of the political, Social, Agricultural and (fommmial interests of the people T E R" ^^!^p*.Em vi**n *"0* established 1855 " YORK, S, C., TtJESDA Y, X()VK\IHEH jl, l!a2. ll^O~93~ VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS Brief Local Paragraphs ol More 01 Less Interest. PICKED UP BY ENQUIRER REPORTERS Stories Concerning Folks and Things, Some of Which You Know and Some You Don't Know?Condensed For Quick Reading. "Yes, we are going to get the bond buyers to take the full amount of our township coad bond issue?$75,000," said Col. T. B. Spnrtt of Fort Mill, the other day. "For a while attorneys for the bond buyers were oniy wining ^ take S50.000, due to certain legal technicalities; but recently it has all been straightened out and we have sold the full amount to a Cincinnati concern and the bonds will bring a premium, while wo will also save about two years' interest." How It Feels. Talked to John T. Roddey over at Rock Hill for a little while the other day. Since Mr. Roddey was appointed tv>r. Tjmr.'istpr Mercantile conr.pany some months ago most of his time has of necessity been spent in Lancaster, and he hardly gets back to Rock Hill except for a few hours at a time. 'How do you feel since you had that operation for appendicitis?" he was asked. The reply was: "Well, I still feel a little touchy on the appendix side- a little stiff and sore like with an inclination to dodge or draw away when any one approaches me on that side. While I would not say that I have fully recovered from the effects of that operation, still I am gradually recovering. But it is an operation that requires a long time to recover from at my age.' York's Cotton Crop. "It is beginning to look like now that York county'.? cotton crop this year is going to run between 20,000 and 25,000 bales," said D\ J. B. Johnson of Rock Hill, president ol' the South Carolina Cotton association, in discussing the matter the other day. "For a while," Dr. Johnson went on to say, "I thought York county would get between 25,000 and 30,000 bales; but it would now appear that my estimate was a little high. Still, with a crop around 25,000 bales for the county I am of the opinion that the farmers are in pretty good shape, all things considered. Reports coming to me from nil sections of the county would indicate that they are sowing much more wheat and oats this winter than is generally the case and you will find that a big home grown crop of wheat and oats will help very much next spring and summer. No, I am not making any predictions as to the price this year's crop will finally bring; but if the crop of the entire country is proportionately as short as that for this county 1 think you will find that it will reach a higher figure before long." nuniing inc ucurniucms. Man from Bethcsda township came to the sheriff's office the other day to see aoout a tax execution against a negro on his place, for whom the man had already paid last year's taxes. "I know I paid that negro's taxes," said the man, "hut I cannot lay my hand on the receipt, and I want to see what is the matter." The speaker was a responsible business man, whose word or memory was not to be epiestioned in a matter like that, and Deputy Sheriff Quinn, as he does in the case of every complaint, went in to run the matter down. After a careful search, it turned out that the negro had made a return, or some white man had made a return for him, in York township, and he had afterward moved to Ebenezer township, where he was living at the time the Bethcsda mart paid his taxes for him, and as he had not been credited with a return in Bbenezer township he was entered in that township as an additional. Then in due process, an execution had been issued against the return in York township, and in the service of this execution the deputy had located him in Bcthesda. The white man had paid the tax as ho had stated and of course did not have to pay again; but the trouble was not ended here. The original return in York township, having in the metfn^ time been carried forward by the auditor, there will be another execution against the negro next year. "There is just no other way for it." explained Deputy Quinn. "The auditor has made up his hooks and turned them over to the treasurer, and the treasurer has nothing else to do than put the matter through the due course. It was not the auditor's fault, and it's not the treasurer's fault. The trouble occurred when the negro failed to make proper return at the proper time, and have the auditor transfer his return to the township in which he was then living. It is just one case out of many like it. Mainly because ol ignorance those fellows fail to gel their returns made as they should, tint) they give us r.o end of trouble." "York County Banks." "I read that editorial in Friday's issue of The Yorkville llmpdrer on tlw York county hanks," said one of then to Views and Interviews, "and i wan! to say that the writer evidently has ; pretty good idea of what he is talking about. "I would not claim," the banker went on to say, "that we bankers are any bettor than other business people; but naturally I hold that we are about as , good as any of them. "But when you intimate that some of us sweated blood during the depression you had it about right. In fact i you had it exactly right. This was cs' pecially true during the latter part of 1920 and the early part of 1921, when ' the situation had reached its lowest ' ebb. ' "The country was pretty shaky about that time. I believe The Enquirer is correct in the statement that at no time were depositors of any York county bank in danger of inconvenience even, to say nothing about loss, but it was a most trying time nevertheless, and every banker in the county without exception, was in a state of stress. I will say things to you now that I would not have said then. Yes, we were sound, as sound as wo are now; but not as coiafortable. Business people of all kinds were in more or less stress They were not sure as to whether the country would stand the strain, and it made them nervous. You could see signs from time to time in the case of the little fellows who had a balance of from $">0 to a few hundred dollars. Some of them withdrew their money and put it in their stockings or somewhere, and you did not know how far this nervousness might extend. Almost any little thing might have started a run. such as occured in the case of banks in Charleston and other places and we had to keep ourselves prepared. Yes, we could have stood it?that is. so far as any of the York county hanks are concerned. they could have stood it. I know I could have stood it; but I am sure I did not want any such experience, and I confess that I saw things at times that made me nervous. "But it is all over now. There is no doubt about it, as was said in that editorial, the banks performed a wonderful service?a sendee to be proud of and while a great many people understood the situation all the while, from the way you put it, I think you have made that understanding more general." SPEND MORE MONEY, DON'T SAVE Ford Says Man's Career Begins at Forty Years of Age. "Until he is forty, a man should 'be gaining experience; he should be learning all he can. particularly how to cn^nri monev." says Henry Ford, in a Boston interview. Spend your money ?on yourself; pet all the experience you can. Don't try to save money and be a miser. "Give me the man of forty who has had lots of experience, and if he's honest and truthful his success is a certainty. "I was thirty-eight or thirty-nine years old before I bopan to think very much about making: money. Before that I was too busy learning: things and petting experience, which I have found to be of p -cat value to me in recent years. "Now a man should not be discouraged because he wakes up one day and realizes he is for'y years old and hasn't nny money. He is really better off if he has a clean record and has pained much experience, because he has the incentive to put his experience to practical use and profit by It." During the talk, for it was more of a friendly chat than an interview, Mr. Ford revealed what he believes to be the secret of his amazing success and why he is confident that plenty of riches will continue to roll in for years to come. "My son and I," he said, "have often talked about this, and we are agree 1 as long as our motive is to provide employment' for just as many people as we possibly can we will always have plenty of money. I haven't really tiled to make money in recent years. I realized lonp apo that I had ail- the money 1 needed. ' Sfinir- renresentntives of Hntro Klin nes came to out- Detroit offices recently. I asked them what Stinncs was trying to do; what they were after. They admitted his motive was to make money: they were out to get control of business and to make all the money i they could. "If that were our motive T wouldn't be very confident of our future. We are now employing about 100,000 people and we hope to employ many more. As long as that is honestly our purpose?to provide lucrative employment for just as many people as possible? my son and T will always have plenty of money to do the things we want to do." j ? Deputy Sheriff XV. P. Probst, of Cabarrus county was shot and killed; four others were wounded and Lie MeHarge is in jail at Ka una polls charged with the shooting which occurred at 1 that place Friday night according to reports from police headquarters at j Concord. Mcllarge, according to police . i entered a cafe and drew a gun. Chief Forger who followed him. attempted j to make an arrest, whereupon, it is | said. McHarge tired at liirn. A Mr. i i'.ostian was wounded. cttiei r.??rsr?;v j then eante to Concord where he got in I touch with Peyiuly Probst who im> , mediately jmoeeeded t<. Kannanolis. In i .he chase which followed. Mr Marge is t J alleged to have shot and killed the i | deputy, and to have wounded Patrol; man Swing and Pruitt. Mel-largo was | twice wounded then overpowered and t j taken to jail. MYSTERIOUS MAN OF EUROPE Has Tremendous Influence In International Affairs. IS SIR BASIL ZAHAROFF MAN OR MYTH? Strange Individual Who Has Exercised Influence Over All Loading Eurcpcan Statesmen in Behalf of Greece. Literary Digest "Suddenly and sensationally the illusive personality of Sir Lasil Zaharofif," to quote one Eurojiean observer's phrase for a phenomenon which most ' i !.??? U1 lllt'lll imvc IIUIIUUU ill llivi v UI ivow detailed dispatches, '"has been catapulted into the European political tumult." Zaharoff, according to reports, is classified as a Greek by birth, a naturalized Frenchman by choice, and is deputed to be the richest man in the world, lie has been likened to a modern Count of Monte Cristo, "who applies his immense wealth for the manipulation of nations and dynasties." Now, observes a writer in the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, comes so responsible a publicist and editor as Lord Beaverbrook, with an amazing summary of Zaharolt's international plotting, coupled with the demand that "this man's interference with Britain's affairs come to an immediate stop." The Bulletin writer goes on to give further details, both as to Lord Beaverbrook's details and as to Zahoroff's remarkable life and influence: The significance of this categorical statement that Zaharoff was pulling the wires in Downing Street lies in the authority behind it. Ix>rd Beaverbrook, as Sir William Maxwell Aiken, sat in the Coalition cabinet during the v\ oria v\ ar, noicnng among oyier portfolios that of Minister of Information. In that capacity it was his particular j business to obtain intelligence about | sinister figures in the world. No one, therefore, can doubt that j Beaverbrook speaks by the card when i he characterizes this 72-year-old Greek, who lives most of the time in Paris, where he maintains a magnificent establishment. Zaharoff, he says, owns Monte Ca/ io, and indeed it has been understood for a year or two that he had practically bought out the proprietary interests of the Blanc family in the Casino. He had been for many years a large stockholder, and ; the final purchase was facilitated by the disastrous effects of the war on the gaming establishment. Roulette, baccarat or other games do not in' trigue him, though the enormous revenues from the Casino, now that the i goddess of chance reigns at Monte j Carlo as of yore, doubtless furnish him ; With some of the means for his vastly more hazardous games at the political ! tables. Lord Beaverbrook says that the destinies of nations arc the sport of this multi-millionaire "Mystery Man." The movements of armies and ! the affairs of governments are his especial delight. "He can hardly estimate his own wealth," says the article which Lord Beaverbrook is believed to have I written or inspired, because "it so per mcates the financial arteries of Europe that every move of the political nervous system reacts on his fortunes." To understand this and other al'usions to Sir Basil it is necessary to re- j member that while he i3 ostensibly a banker, having supremely important national connections, he is also large- [ ly interested in munitions and ordnance enterprises in different countries. These include in England the famous | Maxim and Vickers gun works. The j Reaverbrook article goes on to declare that "in the wake of war this mysterious figure moves over the tortured1 areas of Europe," a statement that involves the most sinister implications, j Specifically he is accused of having ini fiuenced Lloyd George to back the j Greeks in the Near East, and to have | been the real wire-puller in recent l'rilish policies which brought the Empire to the verge of a war with Turkey land a rupture of the entente with ! France. This would be the logical sequence of his reputed manipulation of 'Grecian affairs in the past ten years. : During the Balkan war of 1913 he is : said to have granted Greece $2,500,5)00 a year. During the World War his !donations to the national treasury! | amounted to half that sum. No doubt lis felt that he was the financial backer j I of Verizclos and the Venizelist party, i and his continued subsidies for the1 ; i | Greek armies in Asia Minor are certain j beyond conjecture. What manner of man, asks the I writer, is this mystery monger, the, parallel of whom cannot he detected in the pages of huthontic history and must ho sought in glowingly imagina: tivo romance? The reply runs: The place and date of his birth are) ! not definitely known, but lS'.O is assigned as his natal year. His full' name is said to he Zacharie Hasilo- I Zaharoft'. A fashionable suburb of Constantinople. Athens, Russia and London are all mentioned as places where he was born, but lie is claimed ir. Alliens as a native-born Greek. He j is tall and slender, straight of figure, I distinguished in bearing and address, with iron-gray hair and a silvery im sjtarlie and small imperial. He is an unostentatious dresser, rather inclined to carelessness, but invariably wears a I '.lower in his buttonhole He has b?? 11 lilo ned to Haroun a! Rasliid, the d s; guised Caliph of tin- "Arabian Xighfs," as he moves unrecognized from capital I to capital. fto little does his personality I suggest power that a French official's reported.to have kept ZaharofTs check for lialf a million francs lying carelessly on his desk for several months | under the delusion that it had been paid in by a harmless crank. Yet the suspected lunatic could command the ear of Clemenceau, Briand, Poincaire, ^ Millerand, Lloyd George, whoever happened to be president, premier or prime minister. I Zaharoff's bapking connections in Paris, London tttid other cities are of the highest in the world of finance. Nevertheless bis name has been figured so prominently in international bank- 11 ing as those of lfss significant men. No J i doubt he was a very rich man before | the World War,; but his profits from i munitions multiplied his wealth. He is ; a large stockholder in numerous i steamship lines. ' He owns grain cle- ] vators and theaters in various parts of tho world. He controls newspapers in < many cities, according to tho Beaver- s brook article. In the Persian petrol- i eum fields two years ago he was the \ energizing power of an Anglo-Persian \ syndicate that challenged competition t with Standard Oil and the Dutch Shell t Oil group. Thid fails to exhaust his l commercial and industrial activities, c which are as diversified and important as those credited to the German t colossus, Hugo Stinnes. j Sir Basil was llrst publicly interject- "5 ed into British p:litics last July, in the t course of the discussion on trafficking in honors, when Ja question was raised z in parliament as tq why this alien fi- a nancier had received a knighthood and t been nominated to two of the most t coveted orders of chivalry in the be- t stowal of the sovereign. A statement i had been thrown out intimating that t ho had helped Great Britain with a t loan in the war, and the government a was called on to explain why, if this j i was true, the reason had not been ' 8 mentioned when the decorations were t bestowed. Now, as a sequel to the Beaverbrook revelations, there is a demand in 'The s Spectator, a weekly of the highest' f character, that the Coalition govern- h raent should cleer themselves of the ^ Imputation that Sir Basil, influenced them, more properly the prime minis- / ter, in the Near East policies. f Mr. Lloyd George's retiremenj before parliament meets presumably side- \ tvuolru tho nrnenoot of si rtnhato on the o subject. But there is so much bitter y feeling, and so much smothered talk which has at last come out into the a open, that it is not likely the subject g will cease to be, a tppic of political dis- y cussion. i For more than a year tho undercurrent of political gossip in the London i clubs has alleged that Sir Basil was a applying his powers to correcting what h he conceived to be the mistaken policy ^ of Great Britain in the Near East up to the spring of last year. This "cor- ^ rection" has caused Lloyd George to : v veer from anti-Greek to pro-Greek, t According to Lord Beaverbrook he f] spent hundreds of thousands of t pounds, which means millions of dollars, in putting Venizclos in power and p organizing the Hellenic dream of con- p quest in Asia Minor. As an?example t of his non-political financing there is t cited his masterly procedure in averting a panic on the Paris Bourse at the p outbreak of the war, whereby he earn- / cd the gratitude of the French gov- p ernment. lie has tried to mold politics in Upper Silesia as well as in the v Balkans and Asia Minor, siding at the f same time with or against FranCe, y with or against England, as conform- t cd to his plans in different theaters of s intrigue and action. Sir Basil's philanthropies, benefac- p tions and charities are falAilous. He i lias founded chairs of aviation and p rroncn and nngiisn literature in i?ng- I: lish anil French universities. France c lias made him an officer of the Legion f of Honor. England has knighted him t and decorated him with the Grand n Cross of the Order of the Bath and the i t Grand Cross of the Order of the British s Empire. Oxford has conferred on him her highest honorary degree, that of D. r C. L. He lias donated enormous sums < to public purposes, including a $500,000 s radio station at Venice and suitable c mansions for the Greek legations in different European capitals. He on- j dowed a chair of modern Greek in .t Cambridge University. With all this f power and importance the public would j l scarcely recognize^ a portrait of the l slender, spare "Mystery Man." r When a Quarrel Becomes a Policy.? c In one of his many recent speeches Mr. a Lloyd George admonished his follow- j i crs not to nurse grievances over thejt recent had treatment he and his party . I had received; and in that connection I gave an observation 0:1 the effect of j making a grievance a policy that is as j i true as it is keen. He said: {a "I would like to give what I con- j t sidcr the attitude and policy we ought. 1 to adopt. Disregard the origin of this j r break in the combination. Do not go L and examine it. It is not worth it t 1 (laughter). X? quarrel ought ever to be converted into a policy (cheers). It f dishonors, it degrades, it limits the man t who indulges In it. When they are in - i dividuals they are worthless for any j 1 purpose. 1 know men who have been I ruined by grievances, legitimate griev- , t nnees. They have been badly treated jf and they dwell upon them, and they < begin to tell you, and every time they i do tell you, they get more and more \ ; indignant, and at last their whole life | t | ami purpose is obsessed by this one ! 1 I wrong. Uou't you make that mistake i < I wlia I ever you do." ji THE TIGER OF FRANCE 1 Seorges Clcmenceau Arrives In America. 1CC0RDED HONOR BY GOVERNMENT Remarkable Old Statesman Seeks to Bring The United States to a Better Understanding of tho Attitude of France to Conditions in Europe. Georges Clcmcneeau, wartime premier of France, came to America Satirday on a mission of peace. The fiery old tiger earnestly voiced he purpose of his tour in a brief reiponse'at the New York City Hall to in address of welcome by Acting Mayor Hulbert. "In the world at this time," he dedared, "is a crisis which hasn't been icttlcd. How it will end, nobody mows. If you take the wrong side? veil, the war counts lor nothing and ve may have to go to war again. If it urns out right, and the right thing is lone at the right time, then it will >e the greatest step for the civilization >f mankind." Clemenceau's idea of the "right hing" is the message he will give to America in a series of addresses in Now i- - ? ,1 ;? T ?mie Lum fiiiu in ijuoiun, viuvagv, ui. u'-ui-j, j Vashington and Philadelphia. Although he came as a private cit< en, the famous French statesman was iccorded the honors of a diplomat. Red ape was cut by Washington to faciliatc his landing. A personal represenative of President Harding?Assistant secretary of State Bliss?went down he bay to welcome him and invite him o the White House. Jules J. Jusscrnd, the French ambassador to the "nited States, was on hand to put the tamp of his government's approval on lie visit. Word From Wilson. Clemenceau had scarcely set foot on horc when a telegram from another amous World war figure was handed lim. The message, from Woodrow Vilson, read: "Allow me to bid you welcome to tmerica where you will find none but rlends." "The Tiger," who had worked at Versailles with Wilson for the league f nations, hastened to scribble this eply: "Deeply touched by your kind mcsage. Please accept my kindest rcrards and wishes. Am looking forward with great pleasure to seeing you n Washington." Those were the day's serious spots, '"or the rest, it was a day of madcap dventure for the aged statesman, and ic went to it with a' vim that belied lis 81 years. The keen eyes beneath the shaggy irows were sparkling and snapping rith excitement when the committee hat went down the bay to greet him list caught sight of him high up on he promenade deck of the Paris. They were still sparkling and snaping when he was hustled into Charles )ana Gibson's home, in East Seventyhird street at nightfall, to rest up for he morrow. In his reply to acting Mayor Hullert, M. Clemenceau paid tribute to Lmerica's part in the World war, say tig: "We have had a terrific, the greatest rar that ever was in the w?rld. Men ell by hundreds of thousands in the rar and we waited very long some imes and we looked around to see if j otne help would not come. "Help did come and it came magliflcently, I must say, in the shape of he American soldier. I can speak of ( as having seen it on the fields, and I lave seen it, too, on 'the farm. Very iften I met at the peasants' homes a ig, huge American with two children >n his knees, telling stories to tliem nd trying to understand their ques- 1 ions that the old men and women j hould ask about America. "Of course he did not speak French 1 nore than the oilier spoke English. | Some way or other they made them- | iclvos understood. Very soon we dis-, :overed they were all friends. "I have seen them?the American? n the fight and I have seen them in ! he field with the Americans under the | lommand of General Pershing1 lake told marvelously at St. Mihtel, re- j easing a great many people. When I irrived the next day, what did I see?! \i! the American motors in the old i ity full of French women and children ; ind flowers. These poor people who, lad not been allowed to get out of I heir dens for three years were rescued j >y the Americans. Saw All Sides, "And I saw the crowd cry, and laugh ng and crying, I think I saw once in l while an American soldier get a kiss rom some woman. It was the next lay after the battle took place, when J ill hnrl hof?n nmntipil hv tho \mcricans. It was a joy not to be for- ; gotten. "I saw some times the worst. I have i :een the Americans in the mud of the ranches for days and days without be- j ng relieved and looking very sorry, tut the moment I came and brought > diem the crosses of war they had so nagnificently gained they were all miles. We shook hands and we spoke , >f the old place. America was the old ilace. "They did not cry and I could see the winkle in their eyes. Of course they cnew I was theirs and they knew they ivere mine. One day in the highway I net a troop of soldiers going home and I ??? they made me feel sad when they spoke of the old country. "They said: 'Won't you come to America some day?' I said: 'No I am too old; I can not think of going there.' I said, 'You make me make speeches and it tires my lungs, I have very few of them left, poor miserable things.' They said, 'You do come.' 'I won't go,' T said, and for years and years I said 'I won't go.' "One morning I was in my private house bordering on the sea on the other side of the water when I received bad news from America. I heard bad names. We were called imperialists | and militarists. I think that is horrid! and I thought I had better go and tell | them how things happened to pass and to show them their judgment was not correct. "One day a British newspaper arrived. It contained criticisms from a man of very high standing, calling America bad names. At that moment I decided I hnd better go to America. That is the reason why I am here. I do not make sentences. I don't promise anything. I come as you very well know on a mission. No Personal Aim. "Nobody can ascribe any personal aims to my act in visiting this coun- j try. My life is over. But it does seem [ to me that I can do you some service j in letting you know how we Europeans judge the American people. It is necessary because in the world at this time there is a crisis which hasn't been settled yet. How it will end nobody knows. If you take the wrong side?well, then the war counts for nothing and we may have to go to war again. If it turns out right and the right thing is done at the right time, then it will be one of the greatest steps for the civilization and mankind. "That is the question I have come to put to America. I will ask them for the great freedom of thought and great freedom of speech. I must be allowed to speak as a free man to free men who are not afraid of anything. Your greetings encourage me to believe that I will get access to American minds. It will be a great satisfaction iu nitr. "I looked at this country from the Battery. It has not changed as much as it seems. The young ladies look exactly the same and that is the first message I am going to send to my country. I am going to tell my countrymen to come here because there are beautiful ladies to look at. "During over 50 years I have been mixed up with all pf the worst crisis of France?think of that. In my own life I have seen my country invaded twice by Germans. I am the only suivivor of those who protested at the assembly at Bordeaux against the act of invasion. I do not want to see that invasion repeated. I will not permit any one to tell me that I have too many soldiers or too soldiers unless they succeed in soma way in giving us such guarantees. Then, only, with the greatest of pleasure will we dissolve the French army. "Will you Americans show us the similar feeling? Wc must defend" ourselves." AUTOMATIC AIR PILOT Army Announces Development of Re- I mnrkable Invention. Development of an automatically f controlled airplane, which has flown' successfully in flights of more than 90 miles, without a living person aboard, was announced from Washington, a few days ago, by the army air service, following a long series of experiments. Declaring the invention constituted "the most important post-war development of the many novel ideas of new engines of war," the statement added that the experiments conducted had shown it to be possible "to shoot" bomb laden planes, without pilots, at targets on or off the ground with astounding accuracy. In tests of this automatic pilot, ac- 1 cording to the statement, hundreds of : take-offs have been successfully accomplished, and numerous flights of I ninety miles and more have been made, from which results it has been determined that the mechanical pilot will operate under any '\nd of weather conditions and will hold the plane on an absolutely true course, regardless of fog or other adverse conditions, keeping it steadier than could a hu- ! man hand. A small machine has been used in j the tests, one having a wing span of ' 20 feet, a sixty horse power motor, and capable of carrying: a useful load of j 250 pounds. The "pilot" however, it j was announced, can be mounted in any | type of plane made. With the limited gasoline supi^y of the test plane, sufficient for 2 1-2 hours, in the experiments the control machinery held fast to its course until the fuel was ex- ; hausted, except for the natural deviat- j ions due to shifting air currents, it was declared. A wide field of usefulness for the j pilot-less airplane in military operations was predicted by air service officers. ? Clcmson college is completing what is to be the largest radio sending station in South Carolina. It is to have a sending radius of 250 miles under ordinary conditions and in good weather will be aide to send much further. ? South Carolina with 47.0 deaths per hundred thousand, has the lowest cancer death rate, the census bureau has announced. INDEPENDENT TURKEY Ismct Pasha Says He Wants Peace on That Basis HAS BUT LITTLE HOPE Of OUTCOME Angora Government Doterminod to Shake Off Allied Interference With Internal Affairs of the Rejuvenated Empire. Before leaving Paris for Lauzanno Friday evening, Ismet Pasha, head of the Turkish nationalist delegation to the forthcoming conferenco, said he had full powers from the Angora assembly to conclude terms, of peace. It was apparent, however, that he was not sure he would be able to reach a satisfactory conclusion. Ismct has been much disturbed by reports that the Allies were arranging terms of peace before the conference , and that they would merely present ut fhnt would not permit discussion. In many quarters there is apparently much speculation as to the eventual attitude of the British if the latter attempt to continue the occupation of Constantinople or to restrict Turkish control. The Turks freely assert that '/i there Is no solution other than war. "My Instructions on that point are absolute," Ismet said. "The assembly at Angora reasons not in terms of Europe, but by its own logic. As far as the straits are concerned we are indifferent. "Whatever satisfies the Allies jrnd others interested, will satisfy us." Turkish spokesmen indicate that if the British wish to retain their present forces at Chanak and if the Freuch are willing, there will probably be no Turkish objection. The significant fact advanced in connection with the possibilities of the Anglo-Turkish relationship is that the Angora government's treaty with Afghanistan pro- . vides fjr an offensive and defensive alliance against Great Britain. J While on the one hand Ismet Ip entering the confererce with the firm intention of obtaining a peace based oh the total independence of Turkey from outside political and financial control, on the other hand h^ is prepared to leave the conference if the terms of the Allies conflict with this independence. Ismet Appears to be entering the parleys with reluctance, despite his afr v r.f umlflnrP A.lnni lif nn/1 I 11 tr One of tho factors contributory to thl? reluctance is n secret distrust of Brit- , ish intentions to keep the Turks embroiled In war. It is certain that the Angora government will support Ismet in any action, for it places the fullest confidence in the intellectual powers of the man who organized tho Turkish army nnd led it to final victory. It,,was Ismet who invented the national password: "If we do net win this year, wo will win next year or the year aft**.? One of the hopeful intimations that Ismet has received is that' the Allies will insist only 011 reparations from property losses suffered since 1914 by French, Italian, British and American, individuals. When it was pointed out to Ismet that the Allies would seek to sec:f-e themselves against a fresh German penetration of Turkey, Jie said: "What applies to other foreigners applies to the Germans, and the resolutions. We wish to live at home under our own guise, free from all Illegitimate Interference." -j FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD President Has a Problem in Appointments. President Harding told callers at tho White House Friday that the law prohibiting appointment of two members of the Federal Reserve board from the same state is delaying the selection of a governor of the board to succeed W. t'. li. naraing, wnose term expired August 9. It was learned on unquestioned authority that the president would like very much to name Eugene Meyer, Jr., now managing director of the War Finance Corporation, to head the Reserve board. Mr. Harding feels that Mr. Meyer has demonstrated that he possesses all qualificatinos for the position. The White House also has been In- f formed that Mr. Meyer would be generally acceptable to the business community. Mr. Myer comes from New York and the vice president of the board, Edward Piatt, is also a resident of that state. Under the law this fact prcvents?b* president from naming Mr. MpjrtJfT With the necessarv>etffnination. of the War Finance Corporation chief from further consideration, therefore, D. R. Crlssingcr, at present comptroller of the currency, appears to be the most likely appointee to the Reserve board governorship. Mr. Crissinger comes from the president's home town of Marion and is a close personal friend of Mr. Harding. The administration feels that lie has made an excellent record as comptroller of the currency. President Hardintr's difficulties in filling- the vacancies on the Reserve board do not stop with the governorship. Selection of the "dirt farmer" mi mbcrs as provided for by congress is presenting another serious problem. The various farm organizations /ire lighting among themselves as to who should get this post.