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"No, Faries cannot be executed on December 2(J?not if there is an appeal," said an attorney to Views and Interviews yesterday. "Under the rules his attorneys will have ten days from the rising of the court of general sessions in which to l'ile motion of an appeal, and they will have twenty days from that in which to perfect the appeal by serving on the sfate a copy of the grounds on which they will ask for a new trial. Then after that they have 30 days more in which to print the case. "Notice of intention to appeal serves as a stay of execution, with no way to help it. "While of course, the state, on being served with a notice of the grounds of appeal, has a right to move for a dismissal on the ground of frivolity, even this motion cannot be made until April. Then it will take quite a while for the court to dec'dc it, and granted that the court dismisses the appeal, it will certainly be July and possibly November before the man can bo re sentenced." Wonderful Surgery. Was over to the Fennell Infirmary the other day talking to Dr. Fennell about things generally. Dr. Fennell is a kind of Dr. Jeekyll and Mr. Hyde in a way., Let me hasten to say that both of them are good fellows. He works with men's lives, cutting into their \-itals and removing disorders that would otherwise kill them, and while. h?- is doing this his whole soul is concentrated on the job. JJut too, afterwards he is laughing, telling jokes and conducting himself as though he had never had a serious thought in his life. Noticing a long strip of blackish looking substance coiled in a jar, curiosity impelled me to ask him what it was. "Oh, that is part of the entrails of a little boy," he said. "Joking?" "Xo, that is exactly what it is." "How long has he been dead?" The doctor laughed and replied; j "Why he was over here a few days | ago as fat as a pig." Then the doctor explained how a I few months ago they brought from the Western part of the county a little boy who had been mysteriously ill for some time with a stomach disorder, the nature of which seemed to be a puzzle. After making examinations that led him to the conclusion that there was nothing else to do but cut into the boy's abdomen and investigate the trouble, he found it. A section of the entrails were diseased until it was rotten, almost falling apart, and ho took it out. "There is five feet of that stuff," said Dr. Fennell. "What is the entire length of the entrails of a man?" "Oh, in a boy like that, about twenty feet." "Ana you say nc will suiter no in- | jurious effects from the loss of what's :n that jar?" "I tell you when he was over here the other day he was as fat as a pig. He's all right, anil lie has about as good a chance to live out his expectancy as any of the rest of us." Most Efficient Collectorship. The office of Collector of Internal Revenue in Columbia stands the highest in efficiency of any in the Unifed States. That sounds big but it is a fact. Major John F. Jones the collector is responsible. When lie took charge of the office it was away down in the list?near about tbe last in fact; but the major was not content to remain there, and he lias been climbing ever since. Mr. IJlair, the commissioner at i Washington, is a thoroughgoing -business man who takes pride in efficiency, :>eil ivlin rlpimtnds etHeienev fit' ill ra' i his subordinates. Major Jones is built ] tlie same way, and nothing: pleases him i better than to see things move along j exactly right. He knew nothing: about the business workings of th" internal revenue department when he took charge: but he had been accustomed t" big business all his life, and it was not long until he was in his natural element. Mitch of his work is done on general instructions from Washington. I'or instance. In- will bo told that a certain line of business must be tinishcd up by a certain date. Immediately la* lays his plans to do it thoroughly, and to get it done before the time limit expires. The records show that the reports of the office formerly went in lute?sometimes several months late; now, more often than otherwise, they precede the reports of any other state. In proportion to the amount of work done, the office and field forces of the South Carolina collector are smaller than those of any other state in the Union, and the cost of collecting a dollar in proportion. There have been reports that Major Jones has cleaned all the Democrats out of the office. That is not true. His force includes about 75 per cent of the people who were there when he took charge. He freely admits that he has no political | sympathy with a Democrat, and he is j unable to understand why all sensible men and women are not Republicans; but he will not stand for political pensioners of whatever party. "I am here to run this office as it should be done," ho says. "We do not want to oppress anybody unjustly and we are not going to do it if we can help it; but as tolerant as we may be about honest mistakes, we do not mind putting the screws to those who try to dodge taxes that tluy know to be due." " - n -Ci. .r C~.r.l?v/?e ror Dcneui ui "Here," said this morning: an employer of men, "is a sermon in verse that would be worth much to young: employes if they would read it and j profit by it": "I'm not supposed to do that," said he, When an extra task he chanced to see; That's not my job, and it's not my care, So I'll pass it by and leave it there." And the boss who gave him his weekly pay Lost more than his wages on him that day. "I'm not supposed to do that," he said. "That duty belongs to Jim or Fred." So a little task that was in his way, That he could have handled without delay, Was left unfinished; the way was paved For a heavy loss that he could have saved. And time went on and he kept his place But he never altered his easy pace, And folks remarked on how well he knew The line of tasks he was hired to do; Fcr never once was he known to turn His hands to things not of his concrrn. But there in his foolish rut he stayed And for all he did was fairly paid, But he never was worth a dollar more Than he got for his toil when the week was o'er; For he knew too well when his work was through i And he'd done all he was hired to do. If you want to grow in this world, young man, You must do every day all the work you can; If you find a task, though it's not your bit, And it should be done take care of it! And you'll never conquer or rise if you Do only the things you're supposed to do. LAW AS TO APPEALS After Discovered Evidence Don't Go Without Permission. The state supreme court Monday afternoon handed down a decision WHICH 11K!1K'II> still 1U1UICI IIIC 1UU|Jhclcs in the criminal law and criminal legal procedure in South Carolina, when it announced the adoption of what will be known as "Rule 31," which prohibits the making of appeals on the ground of after-discovered evidence, without the supreme court first giving permission for such a motion. .Rule 31 reads as follows: "The following practice shall be observed in the matter of motions for now trinIs upon after-discovered evidence: . "Kirst: In a case which the circuit court has not been deprived of jurisdiction by appeal or otherwise, the motion may be made in the circuit court. "Second: In a case which is pending upon appeal in the supreme court, the motion may not be made in the circuit court, until alter the supreme court by order upon motion therefor, sraii nave suspenaeo. me uppuui uuu granted leave to the movant to make | the motion in the circuit court. "Third: In a case in which the ap- i peal has been disposed of by the supreme court and the remittur transmitted to the circuit court, the motion may not bo made in the circuit court until after the supreme court by order upon motion therefor shall have granted leave to the movant in these circuit court: and when the defendant shall be under sentence of death, the motion in the supreme court must be m: de not later than the 10th day before the day assigned for the execution of the sentence (exclusive of said day) and upon four day's notice to the solicitor with copies of the moving papers." j ? Mrs. M. F. Harrison, driver of an automobile which on Monday afternoon ran down and killed Mrs. \\\ H. K< lly on the Two Notch road, near Columbia, I was exonoiated by a coroner's jury \V? dm sdav night, the jury holding that the accident was "unavoidable." It appears that Mrs. Kelly ran in front of 'the nuuhinc in an effort to rescue her : little grandchild, who was crossing the . road at the approach of the car driven J by Mrs. Harrison. BRITAIN'S LABOR LEADER J. Ramsay Macdonaid Next in Line lor Premiership. HISTORY OF INDUS! RIAL MOVEMENT Organized Effort Be?:an Within the Past Fifty Years?Now Funds are Raised by Per Capita Assessments on All Members. The next Bogy man may be the next Premier of Great Br tain. Following upon tho election-of J. Ramsay Macdona^d to the Sessional Chairmanship of the British Labor Party, Bonar Law walked by his side when the Commons were summoned to the Lords to hear the royal assent to the election of Speaker Whitley. In accord with all tradition, this constitutes recognition of Macdonald as leader of the opposi: tion to the British cabinet now in power. If it should fall ho would probably be called upon to form a new one. In 1S74, less than ffty years ago, British labor, through the Labor Representative League, formed in 1869, returned two members to parliament frankly and openly committed to the furtherance of labor's nterests, at that time a vague term an 1 embracing demands ranging from the suppression of machinery to the distribution equally of all wealth. Occasionally a Libeial M. P., before 1874, had undertaken 1o achieve minor reforms for his horny-ianded constituents, but the league openly proclaiming its intentipn of organizing working class constituencies for benefit of the working class rcpresente'd, was the first to proclaim its recognition of special interests to be protected specially. Agitation Long Unorganized. For about twenty years labor agitation in England continued, mostly unorganized and with a great divergence of aims. For the most part there was no general labor program, but only a collection of local goals and specialized grievances. The organization of the Independent Labor Party on Jan. 13, 1893, however, changed all this. The Independent Labor Party had two aims: First, to propagate Socialism: second, to form a labor political alliance distinct from other parties, based not upon class status but upon ideas of social reconstruction and supported by people in all ranks and grades of life. James Ramsay Macdonald, born in ? a ?a-- ? ? ? - ? ? K a Tn _ ldGf, was iweuiy-Bt'vtii ?mu luc dependent Labor Party was formed and has spent tlie rest of his life in its service. Its announced program, in particular, indicates exactly the things for which he had become known?the propagation of Socialism and the formation of a separate labor party. The Independent Labor Party is a combination of trade unions, co-operative and Socialist societies, professional societies and local labor parties. To this extent it?or the larger and basically similar British Labor Party I ?is obviously the model for the American labor party which made its first appearance at the November elections. The American labor party as it is now is strictly speaking, not a party at all but a holding company. It is made up of the Socialist and Farmer-Labor Parties and a number of trade unions, each operating in the elections under its own standard and party emblem and through its own party machinery and funds, if any exist. The arrangement amounts practically to an indorsement of each other's candidates Dy uic panics unu the larger organization and an arrangement for an agreement as to the allotment of elective offices. Tail Wags the Dog. The original idea of the Independent Labor Party may havs been this, but it rapidly changed, in a large part through Macdonald's efforts. The tail began to move the dog. At all events the component parts of the party gradually went into a decent obscurity and the party itself dominated the situation. The party's funds are derived from constitutionally fixed payments per head of its membership nd from an [annual fee of nffiliatio paid by local [ labor parties. "Whether one sees progress as the struggle between vested and unvested interests for power," said Macdonald, | "or the effort of the whole life of so'ciety for freedom is of fundamental importance, and the second view is that of the Independent Labor Party and of predominant British Socialism. The British Socialist societies which took the other or Continental -view never flourished in this country." This is distinctly not the socialism familiar to America md explains in some part the readiness of British liberal voters to vote for labor candidates where their own have no chance of i success. The essential difference between Macdonald and Asquith, for example, is one of degree and not of kind. It in no way resembles the essential difference between Jlilquit and a liberal Democrat or Republican like Walsh or Borah. The emphasis on the general struggle of society for freedom, as against the struggle between vested and unvested interests for pnver, is shown in tiie British Labor Party's fight not i for the socialization but for the nationalization of industry. ".Make the mines, for example", state property," says Macdonald, "hut secure public control in working tlicm through committees representing labor management, the consumer and thi state owner." Faith in Macdonald. Pictures have frequently been drawi in England of labor descending upor the commonwealth armed to the teeti and prepared to se.zc all property everywhere. Maedonald's determinec stand against the communist organiza tion in England did much to weaker the effeef of these pictures. "The labor weapon against reaction' ary revolution," he said, "is not armec j force, but a strike with the governI nrent at its hfead, such as happened ir I Germany when Kapp marched intc j Berlin." He was discus?sing possibl< obstructionist tactics in the event tha Ills jJiiriy It'ttU) v;uiuu;iicu |;ai iiuiiivn and referred to the action of the German Socialist cabinet in March, 1920 with President Ebert at its head, ir leaving Berlin to the revolutionists bu1 issuing a call for a general strike thai made the revolutionary position impossible within less than a week. Macdonald has written and spokcr much concerning the probable tactics and actions of his party when it takes over the reins of British Government a prospect no longer fantastic and bj many considered almost certain within a year or twfli "A labor 'ifing'a Speech,'" he said in 1920, "would 'regret' the condition ir which the w?r lias left Europe, th( failure of the work done since the armistice, oilr Russian policy, th< blockade and. particularly the parlous positions of tne League of Nations. II would welcome our lute enemies Irtc the League a^d would try to enable the League to reconsider its own constitution so that it become a council oi peoples and foot merely an executive of governmems." The Labor Pnrty, he believes, would be better equipped to conduct the foreign office than the parties that have been in control of it in the past, Particularly through his party's international conferences and connections, he says, would it have a clear picture of negotiations with foreign countries in the terms of humanity and the real interests involved, rather than in those of misty documents and coded principles. Uses Beefeaters' Simile. "The foreign office," lie says, "its mind and methods, are in relation to vtswl tv Visit tVlP P-fl 11H i 1V liveried beefeasters of the Tower are to the modern policeman." The Labor Party's astounding" vote in the recent election would have beer much larger, it is generally conceded, but for the party's stand on the question of a capital levy. On this subjocl Macdonald said in his book, "A Policy for the Labor Party:" "The capital that has been lost owing to the war still 'stands in our private ledgers at old figures; none of us own what we try to maintain that we own, and it is in the interest of everybody severally and collectively that our figures should approximate more nearly than they do to the actual wealth which we command. Upon these principles of honest and. real finance the Labor Party stands when it proposes to reduce debt by conscripting wealth on a scale adjusted to correspond with ability to pay." Maedonald was born in Lossiemouth in I860, and after completing his education at a board school went to London in 1888. For a time he was a clerk and then a private secretary. In 190C he became the Secretary of the Labor ! Party (L. It. C.) and in 1903 he was returned to parliament- from Leicester The charge is thus frequently made against him that he is not a working mar. himself, though aspiring to be a labor leader. Alacdonald was an outspoken opponent of the war from the very beginning. On Aug. 3, 1914, he made a speech in the house of commons criticising the policy of Sir Edward Grey in bringing England into the war, Worked to Bring War. "When Sir Edward Grey failed tc secure peace between Germany and Russia," he said, "he worked deliberately to involve us in the war, using Belgium as his chief excuse." He denounced the atrocity reports that were spread early in the war, as he had denounced atrocity reports in the Boer War. In 1915, writing to a clergyman who had taken him to task for his attack upon Sir Edward Grey, he said: "I believed and do so still that the policies of Entente and Alliance were wrong, that they had to issue in a competition of armaments and ultimately in war. I therefore did not sec the war, when it actually came, in thai aspiring simplicity of a struggle be tween tne uiacKest sin ana tne purest virtue, and if that kind of mind is tin only one that can serve a country during a war, I. am sorry, but it is noi mine." During the war a report was circulated by the German wireless at N'auor that John Burns, Keir Hardic and Macdonald were advocating a new radical party urging the speedy termination ol the war. Macdonald denied this report hut insisted the warring parties should make every effort to meet and arrive at a settlement. He particularly believed. in July, 1915, that the workers of the belligerent countries should use all their efforts for peace in line witli the manifesto issued at that time bj the German Socialist Party. At the caucus of the Labor Party ir London, Nov. 21, Macdonald was elect(Continued on Page Two.) i MORALS OF MR. RODDEY , Says Honesty is the Greatest o i All Virtues. i , INFLUENCE OF DOLLAR IS GREA1 i Rock Hill Man Directs Attention ti Present Day Evils?Presents Hii Opinion Relative to Several Matteri ^ of Current Interest. In my opinion we do not realize fh< 1 really greatest devil in tliis country > today. 1 have heard sermons, lectures i and talks about the demon rum, th( 1 awfulness of gambling, and various t and sundry terrifically terrible devils but the sure-enough devil (this is my opinion) is THE DOLLAR. I often 1 hear: "You sec that crowd of fellows; t wouldn't they do almost anything tc t get whisky?" Unquestionably yes, but couldn't we throw out an arm, point, turn completely around, 360 degrees, i and say: "You see that crowd ol i fellows; wouldn't they do almost anyi thing to get the dollar?" ,, Is there really any honor any more? ' What will men and supposedly respecti able men, not do for the dollar? Wouldn't Diogenes with his lamp have 1 considerable trouble in getting together i a good-sized bunch of really all-round ! honest men? Lying, deception, trick ery, anything to get the dollar, is con} sidered shrewdness, sliekness, smart> ness. I don't say that is practiced cx: cept for the dollar, but in my opinion i it is in practice from the supposedly ! highest to the lowest where the dollar is concerned. ! When you see anything in the news papers out of the ordinary where the dollar is concerned, you can look for I the joker, and nine times out of ten i you will find it, if you have sense , enough to see it, because the man or men pulling it off try to keep it hid, and if he or they are smarter than , you, you will not find it until possibly it is too late and you are "stung." i There is nothing to this being religious I without having religion, and the chances are the man is "fooling nobody, not even himself, certainly not God Almighty. If a man is not honest, I wouldn't give a nickel for all his prei tended religion, for he hasn't any, and i where the dollar is concerned the ma jority of our people are at least on the i ragged edge; what per cent, has slipped over, be your own judge. Some men , won't stick you for the last dollar they i can,x but those men are very few. You IiaViC UUUUllCBO unuu KJL ItlC aviviuc v???v. old man gave to his son: "Get money, ; my son, honestly if you can, but get money." Is not the majority of the people trying to follow his advice? Thinking about God five hours a week , and the dollar 55 hours won't get us i anything. The percentage is entirely , too much in favor of the dollar. We have dollar days and then we have every way, any way to get the dollar. The fever temperature of the almighty dollar seems to be running around 106, the fever temperature of the Almiglfty God seems to be running around 94. Hadn't we better get some medicine to raise one and lower the other, and try to get nearer normal? Let's not "strain at a gnat and swallow a camel" about some of this gambling business until we stop all of this publicly matching for drinks by church officers and our supposedly I best people, and until the bets on the . football game last Friday, for instance, amount to le3s than a thousand dollars per game. Get the dollar is the pre", vailing idea, but I think more of the . man who bets and gives the other fellow a fair chance, than practicing deception, "putting one over" and irettintr a man's money by some trick or scheme?one is a fair chance, the other is a steal. Are you getting your whisky fairly? Arc you making your bets fairly? Don't everybody say "Yes" at once because you might be lying. You ofter hear: "I get it as cheaply as I can and sell it for every dollar I can." That is possibly all right, if you don't take advantage of ignorance and tricks, but some of the things pulled off right here in Rock Hill arc as low-down as an 18-year-old boy beating up a 10-year old boy; th^y would make the devil blush. Heating up a 10-year-old boy would be frowned upon; taking advantage of ignorance and tricks is considered by many as slick and shrewd. "Hit a man your own size." If you don't, you are a coward and a crook, I don't oare what you think you arc. , You often hear: "Mr. fso and So . and Mrs. So and So will be around collecting for such and such a thing, and . you can't afford, no matter what you i think, to antagonize them. You will get public opinion against you." What do I care for public opinion? It is as variable as the winds, and is formed in a community by what a few people ! think and can get in the newspapers before the public. Courting public I j opinion, if you think public opinion is , wrong, is cowardice. Jesus Christ | didn't seem to stand very high in j public opinion. They crucified him, , | and in 1920 they practically crucified I Woodrow Wilson. Five years ago , public opinion was, you could get all the whisky you wanted and it was all : right. Twenty years ago you didn't , see a woman's dress above her shoes. Now you see lots of them above the t knees, and it is all right. Thirty years ago a man's word in business was worth something. Now he must sign |and his wife must sign, and a lawyer must look it up to see that nothing" is "put over!" Public opinion now is "get the dollar." | Sometimes when I see or hear of some of these subscriptions where they sign up widows, orphans or anybody else for all they can get and for as r long as they can get them to sign, ' whether it is for the church or not, doesn't look straight and honest to me. 3 It was to be admired when the "widow s gave her mite," but it didn't mean that * she was solicited or persuaded to give it. It seems to me that committees ! are sent out to get the money from * anybody or in any way they can, and 1 fhn nk/tm U ,wv ^ ^ I t + ,v ^ i tiic auuw caun 11 mu maiv^o i ! the more they think of themselves, i Men are still nothing but overgrown , boys. The boy says: "You gave Willie a baseball, you got to give me one, i too." The girl says: "You gave Mary a dress, you got to give me one, too." ? The man says: "The Methodists or Baptists or some other denomination got a new church, or Sunday School room, you've got to give us one, too." No one cared much about it until the other got it, and then vanity and rivalry come in and we have just got to ' have it whether we have the money or not, and right now, just any way we can get it, and then the dollar looms up, and then the schemes to get the dollar. Some fellow pulling crooked details, some fellows taking advantage of ignorance and conditions, some fellows soliciting subscriptions from widows, orphans, clerks and others who can hurdly make ends meet will probably say this is all "bunk." Well, perhaps, so, but I say, as far as your conscience is concerned it is all "bunk;" you haven't any. The almighty dollar is the biggest devil today. Religion ' should, in my opinion, encourage character building and our lives should ho built* nri fart truth?Tr?hr* T Roddey in Rock Kill Record. WOMEN TIGERS IN JAIL ' No Discrimination Should be Made Be- 1 tween Soxea, Says Greene. The imposition of heavy jail sentences upon two women in liquor cases during the recent term of criminal court in Anderson, which was adjourn. ed Saturday afternoon and the attitude of Judge William P. Greene, of Abbeville, in which he made it obvious that in the administration of justice in his court no discrimination is made between the sexes, establlsh?s somethihg of a precedent in criminal court history in Anderson county. Rather than manifesting a desire to be lenient with feminine violators of the state laws, Judge Green impressed upon the two women sentenced by him the fact that their bad example would j only make lawbreakers of their children. Should any distinction be drawn between them and women violating the liquor laws of the state he intimated that the latter would generally be supposed to be more scrupulous In this regard and while it is detrimental enough to a people for its manhood to become involved in such violations, a sad state of affairs, indeed, -exists when its womanhood is similarly inclined. "You're not giving your children a i chance, except to become lawbreakers," | charged Judge Greene, when he passed | i a six months Jail sentence upon Mrs. Mamie Crumpton, Joiptly indicted for a violation of the prohibition law with ' her son Robert Crumpton, both of near j Williamston. The son drew a similar term but the judge declared in passing sentence upon the young man that had be been set a good example by his mother, or had her bad example not existed to actuate him in the commission of the crime, he would have received the limit of the law. In sentencing Crumpton, Judge Greeite said in part: "You've not had a good example set, but you may as well make up your mind that the man who violates the law is going to be punished." The sentence of young Crumpton was passed prior to that of his mother and when the woman was told to stand the I judge asserted that "You've been re- I sponsible for the trouble your son Is i in. People," he added, "will not stand 1 for places where people drink liquor and become disorderly for this cause. It is a hard thing to do to sentence a woman to a term, but you're not giving your children a chance, except to become lawbreakers." In the trial of this woman, testimony adduced indicated that Mrs. Crumpton had poured out a quantity of liquor when the officers had arrived at their home early during the morning. The other case in which a woman was sentenced to a jail term of imprisonment was that of Gordon Lcverette and his wife, both of near Pelzer. The ease was a parallel in some ' respects to that of Mrs. Crumpton, for ; it was alleged that Mrs. Leverette" was pouring out a quantity of liquor when ! officers arrived at the home. Gordon | Leverette drew a sentence of six: monliis while his wife was sentenced; to lour months in the county jail or a j i similar term in the state penitentiary, j The imposition of jail and gang sent- j ences upon defendants in liquor cases j and the refusal of the court to impose! money fines in such cases featured the' ; term of criminal court here last week. ^ ! ?Eve, the mother of the human race , ! is buried, according to a very old ! legend, at a spot about a mile north of Jedda in Arabia. Her reputed tomb is of enormous length, being nearly 400 feet long by ten broad. It is now in the possession of the Mohammedans, who do not permit many Christians to enter it. DEN3Y IS RILED. f r Says Naval Academy Disgraced by Much Drinking at Football Gama. The conduct of the Annapolis midshipmen at the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia last Saturday, was arraigned in a public statement last Monday by Secretary Denby of the navy department, declaring that members of the corps had brought dla! grace not only upon themselves, but Ion the Naval.academy. "How many midshipmen drank heavily I do not know." said the secretary's 3ta.tement, but he added that despite the good behavior of many, enough midshipmen had "failed to do their duty to their uniform and to their country to bring shame upon all." He announced that an investigation would be ordered. Secretary Denby's statement follows: . "jj "My attention has been called to the misconduct of a number of midshipmen from the Naval academy on Saturday night, after the Army-Navy game. I have no desire t<j minimize in any way the fact that many of the JJ midshipmen did disgrace themselves and bring disgrace upon the Naval academy, for I know it to be true. I am shocked beyond m^isure that such things could have occurred. Tho misconduct on that occasion was, as far as I know, the mo it flagrant that has i ever been charged against the a cade- * my. How many midshipmen drank heavily I do not know. The wholo * regiment was in Philadelphia. Only a .. relatively small proportion of the regiment attended the ball. Of thla small proportion I think the great majority conducted themselves with propriety, but enough failed of their duty to their uniform and to their country to bring ohnme upon all. Such an occurrence will never be repeated, for such steps as are necessary will be made to make it impossible. "In this connection I wish to make it quite clear that the Naval academy has hitfiertofore set an example to the country of good conduct on such occa sions and will set examples in the future. I was so proud of them at the game, which was one of the most thrilling I have seen and where I saw absolutely no evidence of drinking among the midshipmen, that later events of the evening came as an absolute shock. When I think of the pic- ) ture presented by our 2.<00 young men standing at cap salute in honor of the visitors while the cadets celebrated upon the field the well-won success I can hardly reconcile their sportsmanlike conduct then with what occurred afterwards. An investigation will at once be ordered." OFF TO PENITENTIARY Roy Henderson of Cherokee County Begins Life Sentence. Officers from the South Carolina state penitentiary are expected to ar-. rive in Gaffney tonight or tomorrow to take in custody Roy Henderson, 18 ] years of age, young Cherokee county man who has been sentenced to life I imprisonment, and they will carry the youthful Cherokee prisoner to Columbia where he will begin the service of the sentence. Orders that Henderson be taken to the South Carolina penitentiary were issued in Court of General Sessions T nrrt T VU DAnrmon nrouiHinv last Saturday afternoon and followed a motion to that effect presented by Butler & Hall, attorneys for the defendant, says the Cherokee Times of Tuesday. An nppeal has- been taken from the sentence imposed in Court of General Sessions, and transporting Henderson to Columbia to begin the service of his sentence does not mean that the appeal has been abandoned, but merely gives the attorneys sufficient time in which to perfect the appeal, the case having already been filed in the solicitor's office. When motion was made last Saturday by Butler & Hall that the defendant be taken to Columbia to begm serving his sentence, no objection was offered by Solicitor Blackwood, and accordingly the order was entered. When Henderson was 16 years of age, he and two little Kirby boys, one eight and the other six, were hunting in the Goucher section of the count?, this community being their home, when the two little boys were killed. After several days had elapsed. Henwns nrroHtrd nnrl rhn rpprt with the crime, but he maintained that the little boys had been killed by a negro. He was sent to the state hospital for the insane at Columbia for mental examination but was later returned to Cherokee, the alienists stating that he had the mentality of a nine-year-old boy. He was then arraigned and tried in Court of General Sessions, the jury returning a verdict of guilty of murier, with a recommendation to the mercy of the court, this verdict carrying with it an automatic senteuce to life imprisonment. His attorneys then appealed the case, since which time Henderson had been in jail here. % Although he has been a prisoner in the Cherokee county Jail since November 20, 1020, Sheriff Watklna says that Roy has always made a splendid prisoner. He says that the youth has never caused him the slightest trouble in any respect and that never but twice has he asked that any favor bo performed for him, these occasions being when he desired a few cigarettes from town. ? Girls have supplanted boys as messengers at the Women's Party headquarters in Washington, D. C. ,;j| . .. :