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"Ah tinks dat of ah wus In do prisoner's dock an' had de least idea dat dey had muh numbah ah would plead guilty an' not tak' no chances wid dat white man. Yas, suh, dat's whut ah'd do." Officers on the Job. "Looks like the moonshiners "had come to the conclusion that this would be a good week for them to get in lots of work in the belief that all the prohibition officers would be in court," commented Magistrate R. E. Love of Clover Wednesday. "Several stills have been taken over the county this week by officers who were released from court duties Monday and Tuesday by reason of the absence of the judge." Scarcity of Eggs. "Never did know eggs to be so scarce as they are just now," commented Mr. Wyche Elder, proprietor of the Cash and Carry Store of Yorkville the other afternoon. "I don't know whether or not it is because the hens are just simply not laying or because folks are hoarding their eggs for sale about Thanksgiving and Christmas. I don't think there have been more than two dozen eggs offered for sale at my store in the past two weeks. Of course we are getting plenty of cold storage eggs for the trade; but there is no question of the fact that there is a difference." Wasn't Satisfied. Several petit jurors souirht to be excused from jury duty for various reasons when the November term of the court of general sessions convened Wednesday morning. One petit juror who had no physician's certificate sought to be excused on the ground that he was hard of hearing. "Judge, when several people get to talking at once, I can't hear," he explained. "But," replied the judge, "in court we don't propose to let several talk at once. Now if several get to talking at once, why you just let me know about it." And the juror did not pursue his reason for excuse any further. Long Time Between Visits. Mr. J. A. K. Garrison who lives in the neighborhood of the Catawba dam was in Yorkville Wednesday, and in conversation with Views and Interviews said that it was the first time he had been here in thirty-one years. He is 72 years of age. "The last time I was here before today," he said, "I came after a tombstone; but having no business here since why I just have not come. I am here this time as the guest of my neighbor Mr. Gaston, who is a member of the grand jury and who insisted that I come along with him. I have never been a witness in court or even a juror." Mr. Garrison enjoyed his stay very much; but when Views and Interviews expressed the hope that he would not allow so long a time to elapse before his next visit he replied: "Well, I cannot promise but I hardly expect to be back again soon unless the sheriff comes after me." Procedure is Different. "The procedure in your courts in SSfiiifh Pfii'fiUnn i? nuito fTiftVrr-nt from ours in North Carolina in a pood many respects," commented Hon. John G. Carpenter, solicitor-elect from Gaston and Mecklenburg counties who was a visitor in Yorkville, attendant upon the court of general sessions. "For instance," Mr. Carpenter went on to say, "you can try a man in his absence in South Carolina and such a thing can not be done in North Carolina, and 1 notice many other practices and customs that are quite different from ours iii the old North State." Speaking about South Carolina courts Mr. Carpenter went on to say: "There is a certain d'gnity and decorum relative to the conduct of your courts and attached to the demeanor and behavior of all court attaches that is pood to see and that goes a long way toward helping to uphold-the majesty of the law." Mr. Carpenter takes ofiice as solicitor for Gaston and Mecklenburg counties on January 1. having been elected by an overwhelming majority on November 8." Drowth in Texas. Speaking of Texas, from which state he returned last week after n visit to his brother E. F. Aycock. Mr. S. V. Aycock of Sharon No. 2, said he could not see that the farmers out that way, especially in the country through which he passed, had been especially prosperous this year. They have been having a good deal of drouth this year," said Mr. Aycocfr, "and many of the wells having gone dry, many of the farmers are having to i haul water for drinking and other purposes. They have not made much cotton, and the corn crops also seemed to be short. But of course, that is the section through which I have been only that I refer to. Texas, you know, is a tremendous state, and from one end to the other there is ro<5m for all kinds of conditions. "No there is no cotton to pick out that way. It has all been gathered. I saw a little cotton in the field out in Arkansas; but not enough to amount to anything." About Oats. "If it had not been for oats, I do not see how I would have ever made it farming." That is what Mr. J. Frank Ashe, of McConnellsvillc, one of the best all? 5 v.h Ij (innnlv thinks ilUUJIU xaillivin ill AUin WV...VI of this important feed and cover crop, i as declared in a talk with Views and Interviews yesterday. "Yes, I think oats is one of the most i profitable crops that can be grown. It will make you more and better feed to the acre than any other crop, and it will help to protect and build up your land. That is my experience." Continuing Air. Ashe went on to remark, that he had been raised with the idea that oats was not much of a crop. His father followed the old rule of "Dust in wheat and daub in oats," but he has long since found that this old saying is no good; it has lived more because of its being so easy to remember and repeat than because of its value. "I do not know of a crop that will respond better to good preparation. You prepare your land properly and it will always pay you." In reply to a question as to the best time to sow oats, Mr. Ashe replied: "My answer to that is September. I always prefer to get my oats in during September if possible; but the best crop I ever made in my life wa3 sowed on Christmas day. The thing is to select good land, prepare it well, use a liberal amount of fertilizer and get your oats well rooted so as to better withstand the winter. Then in the spring about-the last of February or the first of March put on your nitrate of soda. Many people profer to wait until later; but my experience is that the soda should be applied.about the time I have said to get the best advantage. "No, it is not too late to sow oats, i Your danger is in having them frozen out in the winter; but if you sow in an open fuirow there is not much danger even of that. "But whatever you do, you must properly prepare your land." COLLEGE MEN AND WORK Thomas A. Edison Makes Quite Serious Charge. "The main objection I have against a college graduate," said Thomas A. Edison in an interview, "is that he objects to work, especially if it is dirty." Mr. Edison expressed his views at his laboratory in Orange, N. J., to he Princetonian. "The college graduate does not want a job with work in it," continued the electrical wizard, "and when he does get a position, he expects to be appointed ioreman at me eiiu m o?jv weeks. Most men working for me never attended college. The college men I have usually show lack of imagination. They scarcely have any suggestions to make in their daily routine which might load to improvement in the various departments. "College is no place for a man who wants to work, but, unfortunately, there art very few of this type nowadays. Yet, if a man wants to succeed, j it is not necessary for him to go to |college. He will broaden himself withlout it. We have enough lawyers, | doctors and literary men. Also we have many $100,000 jobs, with no one capable of filling them. The main quality for success, in my estimation, is ambition with a will to work." DEMAND FOR CASCARA Late Infant Industry Grown to Large Proportions. A half ."illion dollars was the value of this season's cascara bark, harvested by Grays Harbor (Wash.) folk. It is the peeled leather-like skin of the barberry tree, stripped by settlers and city dwellers who spend six weeks each spring in the swampy forests near IIoquiam. Six years ago this hark gathering industry was a babe, the few who attempted to c.ill the peeled bark getting from 3 to 4 crnls per pound for it? not knowing just how to properly cure and pack it. Then came the drug famine. The wholesale price which has gradually been rising is now 15 cents per pound and skiliful strippers make $10 to $15 per day. With a knife an incision is made near the ground and a piece of bark once loosened there may be pulled from the tree upward for tor to fifteen feet. Taking but a part o! J the bark does not injure the tree. 1 ? - S. S. Hale, chief of police of Williamson, who on May 15. killed Rior ijCox, was acquitted at Anderson Tues, day, on a plea of self-defense. Tin jury remained out on the case flv< 1 1 hours. ;| CLlEMS MESSAGE ? Tiger ol France Rewlews Situaiion in Europe. AMERICA DOMIMATES THE SITUATION | Says Militarists of Europe Are Plotting Another War for the Overthrow cf Democracy?Germany Making Cannon? Russo-Turkiah Combination i Serious Menace. The militarists in Germany already | are preparing another war. Georges Clemenceau, war prenierof France, declared in New York Tuesday night in the first address of his American tour. "Don't you read the newspaper?" he demanded. "Don't you know what that means*"' , The Tiger of France, speaking fervently before a packed house at the Metropolitan opera house, reviewed , the situation in Kurope, pointing to an approachmcnl of the Turks and Soviet Russia as ominous war clouds. , In the meantime, he declared, Luden- . dorff and other German militarists . were planning a coup against the i democratic government. ^ Describing the present as a time of "greatest crisis," he urged that the United States should renew conversa- , tions with France and England which, , without definitely committing this ] country to any set program, would present to German eyes a picture of 1 the three unpleasant folks who faced , her in the war. < He said sooner or later America , would have to interest herself in the post-war affairs of Europe, because ( she could not continue to be comfort- , able and wealthy if Europe was covered , with blood. , lie expressed hope that the United , States might establish a plan as to , what was to be done in carrying out the terms of the peace treaty and join j with England and France in imposing < it on Germany. i Frank in Criticism. , He was frank in his criticism of America's post-war attitude, declaring , America had had a large share in im j posing the peace terms and had a l.ity ( to see that they were enforced. Challenging the worth of Germany's ( signature to a treaty, the Tiger de-clared that if France had known in ( 1918 that reparations would have been ( unpaid four years later, she would ] have gone on to Berlin. ^ The Tiger received a great burst of applause for the assertion. ( M. CIcmenceau, who protested mat he camo to America on no official mission but as a private citizen to present the truth as he saw it, declared that reparations was an American idea, because President Wilson had come I forward with his famous 14 points and the armistice represented essentially the American point of view. At mention of Woodrow Wilson there was another great burst of applause. Expressing the hope that America could find some way of renewing conversations with France and England looking toward enforcement of the peace treaty, Clemenccau said: "I don't want to speak of the league of nations. But I might, I might." The Tiger said he did not believe in the league as a means of preventing war, but he believed in it as a means of arranging matters, deferring war and giving people time to think. "You have seen one of the greatest dramas in the world," he said. The Greatest Crisis. "We are now in the greatest crisis. Nobody knows when it will end and what effect European misery may have on American prosperity." He asked what America had made war for and what she had gained. He j said America had cotre to the last point where she was granted time to ( think. No sacrifice was demanded of her except the will to assert herself as , the people she had vanquished were unable to do anything just at the prcsi ent moment. M. Clemenceau, showing little sign ( of fatigue, spoke for nearly an hour and a half. . There was only one hit of disturb- | ance. That was when a heckler in the ( balcony screamed a few words. "Put him out" came cries from various parts of the house. The speaker never hahed, continuing as if the heckler had been a mute. The , Tiger of France faced his first audi- j ence on his tour of America to expound his country's post-war needs. ! To the strains of the Marseillaise ^ land "The Star Spangled Banner" Clemenceau, oft time premier of France, who now proclaims himself a simple! "citoycn" stepped upon the stage of |, ! the Metropolitian opera house and faced an audience that packed the huge i auditorium from orchestra circle to topmost gallery. He entered the building by a side ] entrance, dodging a crowd that would have filled the auditorium several ' j times over, and that, denied ndmit1 ! tnnee, lingered anyhow in hope of get1 tine n 'limnsn nf ttio nietnrosiilio R1 : year old statesman. When ho stepped from the wings j [ there were cheers and cries of "Vive j le Tiger" and "Vivo la France," min- ! gird with the more polite handelapping. | Clemenceau took his place behind a j . low semi-circle of palms and chrysan1 thomums that obscured bis squat fig. ure almost to his waist. ? Chair for Simple Citizen. ; The chair provided for him was a small, cane seated affair, appropriate, as the Tiger said, for "a simple citizen." The management had provided e big throne clmir but the Tiger, visiting the auditorium late in the afternoon for a final inspection, had ordered it out, declaring it would make him "look like Queen Victoria." Above his l/ead hung a cluster of amplifying horns to carry his voice to tlte big audience. Flags of the'two nations which the Tiger hopes bjl his tour to weld more closely, were intertwined over the stage. The fatnous golden horseshoe also was draped in French and Amcri can colors. The audience was a select one. Evening clothes predominated, even in the upper gallariesi An army of plainclothes men lilted the corridor through which he entoied. Notables on the stage included General Pershing, Alvin Owsley, national commander of the American Legioh; Acting Mayor Hulbert, Maj. Gen. R. L. Bullard, commandant of th<}' Second army corps area, and Maj.jpcn. John F. O'Ryan. Clcmenceau aat between Pershing and John W. Dftvis, chairman, smiling at the cheering audience. When the lpplause that greeted the noted Frenchman ceased, Mme. Peralta of the Metropolitan, sang a stanza ot "The Star Spangled Banner." Then Rothier, another Metropolitan artist, 9ang the Marseillaise. Clemenceau stood facing the singer, his eyes sparkling with emotion. John W. Davis, former ambassador to Great Britain, introduced the war premier, the grizzled veteran of statecraft who had a finger in the history jf the world, as "Le Pere la Victoire." Explaining that the council of foreign relations, under whose auspices the meeting was held, believed that nothing was of more consequence to the well being of the American people than the relations they entertained with distant countries, the chairman paid tribute to the service of France in the World war, and the man who, 'when the hearts of men grew faint in 1S17, breathed fresh life into tnivenry hosts of all the allied armies." Clemenceau began his address with in allegory in which he contrasted himself with a Buddhist monk who called his disciples together in an Indian village, a thousand years ago, ;o hoar him preach. But instead gf a human voice me lisciples heard only the golden voice >f a beautiful . bird, perched on a oranch above the monk. That was :he sermon. The "Tiger" expressed regret that he could not thus convey his message vithout speaking, saying "in fact you may have heard It, I came here on jurpose for that." First he said, he wanted to say he vas "more accustomed to grinning 'aces than the smiling faces of ladles" ind that on this night he was "rather, ilthough it has not happened very )ften?rather timid." "Really Wonderful Welcome." Then he expressed his gratitude for he "really wonderful welcome which I lave met in this country which is most marvelous since only 57 years ago I :ame fresh from the imperial Jails of Napoleon III to find there was another vay of living and a much better way." As an immigrant he brought to this :ountry a fresh outlook but he said he lid not know "whether it had been apireciated," that he had never been assured as much. He has looked around n America and "learned what Europe lad not taught me?to help myself." "And now, like the pupil who comes >ack to his teacher, who had gained xpericnce, I come back and it is very liffcrcnt," he continued. "I come hack vith changed ideas and to express my hanks for the good practical education hat I received." He came, he said, "with the American spirit and ready lo find fault in lifferent ways. "I must confess that I did not find is many faults as I expected. And oday, having been taught through independence, I am trying to find adLice. I have no mission; I did not ; omc with a mission from anybody." Clemenceau sat in his "pleasant Utile house by the sea" in his native j country and there lie said, "I heard i here had been bad words for France. [ did not like that at all. "At the same time there came people and hard critics, one a very distinguished Englishman, and I said 'Well, now, if England misjudges France, and the Americans misjudge France, what are we going to do? I had better go and sec what is the matter,'" Thus, he said, he left France "without really knowing whether I was going to plead against you or to defend you." In a challenging rumble, the "Tiger" then dared "any one to te'i me that I have a personal end in this trip to America and that I purpose any design, political, personal or any kind." ' * n oen?>*?xrl 1*/-* Un /I Knnn luttV) ill lUtl, iiu aooi;i iuu, 11 u imu uuvu nv* v long enough to decide he "was not going to have much trouble in establishing a basis of common thought on a very important matter." Of the opposition in France to his visit, he said: "When a man with his own nature tries to aim as high as he can it is encouraging to hear the raging shrieks from below." He came provided with such encouragement, he declared. America and France, he said, "have a great deal in common in some of the greatest events" seen in war. And he expressed particular pleasure in (Continued on Fage Six) FAMES TRIAL TODAY Noted Clover Case Is Set For Trial Friday Morning. PLEA OF "NOT GUILTY" ENTERED Alleged Slayer of Four One of Coolest Men in Courthouse When Arraigned Wednesday?Farics Looks Around Court Room for Friends and Kindred ?Crowd Leaves Following Plea, Apparently Satisfied for Timo Being. Calm and collected, his gaze taking in the entire court room from the judge's bench to the front entrance, one of the coolest men in the York county courthouse when he was lirrmirht in shnrtlv hefnre noon Wed nesday to answer an indictment charging him with the murder of little Newton Taylor, aged 12 at Clover on September 6, last, was William C. Furies. A little over 60 years of age, grizzled and gray, with a clear, blue eye, his general carriage and demeanor informing 'he world that so far as moral or physical fear is concerned, he knows it not, Faries came into the court room in charge of several deputies, his wrists manacled. He bowed his head in the direction of his handcuffed wrists as he strode into the court room in charge of his keepers and there appeared just the shadow of a smile on his whitened face as he looked at his bound wrists. There was no threat in that look. There was nothing that would warrant the suggestion that ne even entertained the slightest semblance of an idea of trying to escape from custody. He took a seat among several negro prisoners who sat in the row of seats Just inside the enclosure reserved for J court attaches. Attired in a coat of | dark grey texture and trousers of lighter gray material, he held his black slouch hat in his hand. He wore a dark blue work shirt and he had ho tie. People who have known him for years say he was never in the habit of wearing a tie. As soon as he had gotten his bearings in the court room it appeared as though he wanted to look around to see who was there. He wanted to sec those of his own folks, it seemed, who were there. Asi his glance went to the front door of the courthouse he must have seen James M. Taylor,.four mem uers ui wnuae iciiiiuy nu ia uiuikcu with slaying. It would appear that he could not have missed the glance of the bereaved parent. Taylor is an unusually tall man of dark complexion. His is a gaze of unusual piercing and concentrating continuity. He had been unable to obtain a seat and he and Faries must have exchanged glances when the alleged slayer glanced back that way. Indictment Read Then Solicitor Monroe Spears in his brisk and straight-to-the-point manner, proceeded with the reading of the indictment charging the defendant with the murder of Newton Taylor. The solicitor had hardly concluded with the words: "What say you, William C. Faries, are you guilty of the murder whereof you stand indicted or not guilty?" before Faries spoke out: "Not guilty of wilful murder." Nothing more was said publicly by the prisoner. There was nothing more for him to say. He looked at his counsel, mutely asking, "what is next to say?" And there was no answer to his question. Trial Set for Friday. Then Solicitor Spears wanted to know if the defense would be ready to go to trial Thursday. Thos. F. McDow, chief counsel for the defense replied that the prisoner would be ready to answer Friday morning at 9:30 o'clock. Defense counsel, however, reserved the right to make any motions in the interval that might be advisable. Taken Back to Jail. Then Faries was released from the prisoner's dock where he had been arraigned and again for a few moments took his seat among the swarthy, stenchy, negro prisoners. In a few moments. Deputy Sheriff Tom Quinn informed him that ho was ready to take him back to jail. It appeared that it was all the same to Faries. He held up his wrists together. The handcuffs were again adjusted and in company of deputies lie walked back to jail. The large crowd which was present principally because of the fact that they expected something to be said about the Faries matter, appeared to be satisfied and as he left by the rear door, they left by the front door, apparently satisfied with events for the time being. Numerous other cases engaged the attention of the court during Wednesday but there was no case to hold the general interest of the crowd who had gathered for the Faries case; most of whom with others are expected to bp back again Friday morning when it will again engage the attention of t"hc court for a little while whether it is tried or not. Will Plea Be Insanity? I In view of the fact that Faries promptly denied the charge of wilful murder when indicted Wednesday, there was considerable speculation yesterday as to whether the defense would stick to the plea of insanity as already outlined. It was suggested yesterday that the defense would probably rely on a verdict of manslaughter or at worst, guilty with recommendation to mercy, which carries a life sentence. SHIP SUBSIDY IS NECESSARY. President Says That ths Withholding of Help Means Loss. Enactment of the administration marine bill was urged upon congress Tuesday by President Harding as necessary to relieve the government of present "staggering losses" in operation of the war-built merchant fleet, and to establish a program of assured shipping to serve the nation in war and give a guaranty of commercial independence in time of peace. Personally addressing a joint session of the house and senate the executive declared an actual monetary saving to the government would result from the proposed law. He challenged every insinuation of favored interests and the enriching of the special few at the expense of the public treasury. The legislation, he asserted, automatically guarded against enrichment or perpetual bestowal. "If success attends, as we hope it will," he added, "the government outlay is returned, the1 inspiration of opportunity to earn remains and American transportation by sea is maintained." Foreigners Anxious. The president said concern about the American merchant marine policy was not limited to "our own domain," adding that the maritime nations of the world were "in oomplete accord with the opposition here to the pending measure." He declared those nations had a perfect right to such an attitude, but that he wished to stress the American viewpoint, which, he said, should be the viewpoint "from which one sees American carriers at sea, the dependence of American commerce, and American vessels for American reliance in the event of war/' Mr. Harding declared it would be most discouraging if a measure of "such transcending national importance" must have its fate depend upon geographical, occupational, professional or partisan objection. A commercial eminence on the seas and ample agencies for the promotion in carrying of American pommerce, he asserted, were of no less importance to the people of the Mississippi and Missouri valleys, the great Northwest and the Rocky Mountain states than to the seaboard states and industrial communities inland. "It is a common cause, with its benefits commonly shared," he said. If government aid is a fair term to apply to authorization, aggregating *vo,uuu,uuu 10 promote gooa roaas ior market highways, the president added, it is equally fit to be applied to the establishment ai'd maintenance of American market highways on the "salted sens." As to present government operation of the shipping board fleet, Mr. Harding said, there was the unavoidable task of wiping out a fifty million dollar annual loss and losses aggregating "many hundreds of millions" in worn out, sacrificed or scrapped shipping. He called attention that the government ships were being worn out without any provision for replacement and that a program of surrender , and sacrifice and the liquidation which, he declared, would cost scores of millions. The cost of the proposed legislation, giving the direct aid, he said, with ocean carrying maintained at the present average, would not reach $20,000,000 a year and the maximum direct aid if American shipping were so promoted'that it carried one-half the nation's deep sea commerce would not exceed thirty millions annually. GHOULS WRECK CEMETERY. Tombstones Broken That Had Stood for Years. Complete wrecking of the Mill Creek Catholic cemetery, near Wadswojrth, 111., by ghoulish vandals has aroused a storm of Indignation in northwestern Lake county. Scarcely a tombstone has been left standing. Many of them have been broken. Religious fanatics are believed to be responsible. A rural mail carrier, passing the cemetery one day last week, was the first to discover the vandalism. He reported to officials of Wadsworth and also of St. Patrick's Catholic church, of which Father J. B. Foley is pastor. There was a hur ied investigation. The destruction scarcely could have been more complete had the little cemetery, established more than seventy-five years ago, been visited by an earthquake. Many of the old tombstones that have defied the elements for many decades were broken. Even the larger stones were pushed off their , bases. There are indications that ! sledge hammers were used. The first theory was that the van dalism was committed by boys, but j j this is not given much credence, be- \ | cause many of the monuments were I ! too heavy to have been overturned by j youngsters. Also, the investigators believe that the natural fear of boys . i would prevent them from entering a j cemetery after dark. The police are working on the case, but up tc the present time have been unable to obtain a clew. Authorities agree that it is the worst piece of vandalism ever perpetrated in Lake county. ? Women and children constitute 42 per cent of all immigrants to the United States. Illl Willi III II H l?B PLAYERS DISQUALIFIED Catawba High School Athletic Asso elation Cleans House. I DOUGLAS N1MS ELIGIBLE TO DEC. 22 Had Received Money for Playing Baseball Previous to Formation of Association?Cases of Steele, ScHultx and Tollison Reviewed. The housecleaning so long needed In the Catawba High School Athletic Association because of the playing of alleged ineligible men by Chester and Rock Hill was done thoroughly at a meeting of the football committee of the utntn a o<cnr?i? t inn hold in Andf>l*ilOH 'J9 Wednesday. Player Douglas Nims, star half hack of the Rock Hill team was "whitewashed" in a measure by the committee, although it was shown that Nims had received money for engaging in athletic contests on a number of occasions. He got by on the ground that he had not f>layed for money since the association was organized. The following dispatch from Anderson of Wednesday, tells of the action of the committee: The football committee of the South Carolina high school league met at the ; high school here this afternoon to ( decide on the eligibility of certain players on the Rock Hill and Chester high school teams. J. D. Fulp, superintendent of the Abbeville schools, chairman L. L. Wright, superintendent of the Honea Path school and L. L. Hanna, principal of the Anderson high school, the members of this committee, were all present. The first case taken up was that of Douglas Nims, a player of the Rock Hill high school, whose eligibility to play on a football team in the state league was questioned because of having received money for playing sum mer baseball. The mass of evidence 5| submitted, pro and con, did show that Kims had from time to time received I small amounts of money for playing , I with the Fort Mill cotton mill team s during 1921 and 1922, but not sufficient | amounts to prove^ to the committee be- 8 yond a reasonable doubt that more I than expenses were received by Nlrae. I There was produced on orders from ? the manager of the Fort Mill team in | 1920 on the treasurer of the team or- 3 derlng the treasurer to pay Douglas jjj Nlms 130 for three games and Nlms | acknowledged both the order and cancelled checks further fulfilling tne payment of the amount, but in view of that fact this transaction took place in 1920, prior to the adoption of the high school league constitution, the committee ruled that the constitution was not retroactive and this evidence could not be admitted. The committee, therefore declared Douglas Kims eligible to play with Rock Hill until December 22, 1922, when he becomes 21 year* of . age. J. D. Fulp asked to be excused from . acting on Kims' case, as both are natives of Fort Mill, and have been more or less closely associated for a number of years. J The next case taken up was that of William Steele, of the Rock Hill school, formerly captain of the Wlnlhrop Training school team. Steele attended the training school for five days, the first week of school, was made captain of the football team, registered on morning of the fifth day of school with Rock Hill high school, yet attended the training school the same day. It was a clear case of double registration and as Steele did not enroll in the Rock Hill school the first week of school the committee declared him an ineligible player prior to October 25, so the games played by Rock Hill before this date, in which Steele pari-rlpated, were thrown out by the committee. The games thrown out were* with Port Mill and Kershaw. In the case of Glenn O. Schultz, of the Rock Hill school, alleged to be over 21 years of "age, the committee uccepted without question the affidavit submitted by the boy's mother, stating that Schultz was 20 years of age on November 6, 1922. The Winthrop Training school's protest of the game with Yorkville last Friday .was turned down by the committee. This was a protest on a decision of the referee relative to an off-side and the committee, as usual, ducided that If a team assents to certain officials before the game starts they must abide by their decisions. The case of Herman Tollison, of Chester high school, who was reported to the committee as being ineligible because he was receiving board and similar compensation in Chester, was taken up next. The committee appreciated Superintendent Brockman's removal of Tollison from the Chester team the same day he received word /?? ? A/tmmUtAA hot Tnlllann'o in_ II UII1 Ull* WUHillllUVt kliUV A V???vu w eligibility was doubtful but in view of the fact that Tollison admitted to superintendent Brockman that he did not know who was paying his board, the committee ruled that the games in which Tollison participated were thrown out. They were with Fort MTU, York and Clinton, Any further penalty to these teams will have to come from the executive committee of the league which has the power by a two-thirds vote to suspend Rock Hill and Chester from the league under the provis ions of article 12 of the constitution. * * A ? Pennsylvania's League of Women Voters has a membership exceeding 30,000. Jg