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- ? __ _ _ _ _ ___ ... --- , l J:. - i , ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ '^ISSUED SEMI- W^EKLn^ ^ ^ _____^??^ L. M. GRIST'S SONS, Publishers. % "dfamiig Iteirspaper: |jor the promotion of the political, Social, ^jgriculturtal and Commercial Interests of th{ $eopty. "^JSSK^py,.EwviNo?SSflhlC" ESTABLISHED 1855 ~YOBK, S. C., TUESDAY. DECEMBER 1-j, 1922. KO, '<? VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS Brief Local Paragraphs of More 01 Less Interest. PICKED DP BY ENQUIRER REPORTERS Stories Concerning Folks and Things, Some of Which You Know and Some You Don't Know?Condensed For Quick Reading. While in Gastonia the other day, I had a pleasant chat with Mr. James F. Thomson, formerly the head of the Thomson company of Yorkville, and now manager of the H. P. Stowe con"*"* ?- tho en mo eern. jvir. i numsun ? juoi clean, agreeable gentleman he has always been, and he is still handling the class of dependable goods that he used to handle, and while there is no probability of his coming back to Yorkville, it is evident that he has never forgotten his many friends in this section. "I don't believe anybody ever lived in that old town for any length of time," he said, "without forming an affection for it. It is certainly a fine place, filled with fine people, I can't help thinking about them often. Fact is, I don't want to help it." Thomas Has Good Record. "Moffatt Thomas who lives near Filbert has made an enviable record as a football player with the Bingham team at Asheville, N. C., during the season just closed," remarked a friend of the young man's the other day. "Thomas has been picked by the sporting editor of an Asheville paper for the position of left end on the All-Conference team of North Carolina, the team being picked from among the best high school players in North Carolina. In writing of the work of Thomas the sporting editor comments: 'Thomas, left end, all conference team. Good scrapper and hard tackier.' During the football season which came to a close at Bingham recently that school won six games, lost one and tied two." Liquor at Great Falls. "Chief of Police Cal Steele of Great Falls and other officers of our town have been having: their hands full trying to round up the liquor peddlers," said a citizen of Great Falls who was m Yorkvillc the other day. "Last week they got a quantity of liquor and a good automobile although later the liquor was stolen from them. It seems that two tigers had taken an order from some of the employes at the m^ll office for three cases of bottled in bond rye liquor and then tried to deliver it. When an officer appeared on the scene an exciting chase followed for about three miles. Then the bootlegger's car broke down near the office of Magistrate Gibson and the liquor and car and men were captured. The officers hid the liquor while they went to Chester to arrange bond for the alleged tigers. The liquor later was locked up in Chief Steele's office and while he was away unknown parties broke in and stole the booze? thirty quarts in all. There seems to be no question that the identity of the parties who stole the booze is known. But anyway the bootleggers had to be released after it was learned that the evidence had been stolen. The automobile, however, is still in possession of Magistrate umsun. A County Divided. Views and Interviews was talking to a Lancaster citizen who was in Yorkville Saturday in connection with the Jones-Springs-Stevens row. "It is really a mos* unfortunate affair for Lancaster county, th s controversy is," the citizen went on to say. "Why practically everybody in Lancaster county is taking sit es in it and the county is really' suffering on account of'it. For months and months this matter has been the chief topic of conversation. Of course Charles D. Jones has a lot of friends and Leroy Springs and John T. Stevens, the litigants on the other side have a lot of friends. All kinds of rumors have been and continue to go the rounds about it all. Former good friends in many instances have becom > enemies on account of it. As far as the town of Lancaster is concern' 1 this quarrel has simply torn it all to pieces. Why every lawyer at the Lancaster bar has been employed in the case on one side or the other with one exception. That lawyer is in politics and therefore declined to get into the case. Talk about your factional quarrels und about the warring klans in Kentucky and West Virginia. Why man they don't hold a palm to the Lancaster leaders." Farming in Indiana. They were a lot of drummers talking. in the hotel lobby, and the conversation drifted to agriculture in the north middle west. One of the speakers r< marked having sin nt six months traveling through Indiana, in an automobile, and how he was struck with what looked to liini like the substantial prosperity of the fanners up that way. He made the usual statement about the barns being better than the homes, and another speaker said: "Those people up there have a good deal more energy than our people, and do as much work in six months as we do in twelve. "Not a bit of it." declared the first speaker. "Our fanners will do just as much work as any of theirs. We've got just as muc h energy and just as much intelligence. I am a southern man, raised on a farm, and having heard this old stuff so often about the northern people being harder workers, I paid close attention to it. It's simply not so. Fact is, those Indiana farmers , do not work as hard as ours. Where our farmers walk all day behind the plow handles the Indiana farmers ride all day and mostly with an umbrella i over him." ' Then the conversation drifted on to how the Indiana farmers got along so 1 well, and the gentleman who had-introduced the subject and still had the floor, said: 'They cannot raise a thing that we can't raise. The average production of wheat for the state of Indiana is only 118 bushels to the acre. Their corn is not as good as ours. They don't pretend to raise either wheat or corn ns a money crop. They 30w wheat mainly for home consumption and sell the surplus. <3f course they have good facilities for thai as all of them have elevators handy. But their .main reliance is in cattle, hogs, etc. They raise practically all of their food supplies and they feed their grain to their stock. Then they have no regular time to market their stuff; but just turn it into money as the need arises or when a good opportunity offers. There are times when they can hardly sell anything but looking after everything as they do most of them continue to grow steadily wealthier. They have the stuff around them, and one way and another they manage to get enough money to keep them going. They have not a thing on us down here except that they are probably more thrifty and better managers." He Had a Dream. Mr. W. O. Guy of Chester, who used to live in the Bullock's Creek section, and who is familiar with many of the incidents that happened in that township fifty or sixty years ago by reason of personal recollection of the people who lived there then, and by hearsay with neonle of an earlier day, was in reminiscent* mood a few days ago and told of several humorous incidents that occurred in the long ago. "There once lived in Bullock's Creek township," said Mr. Guy, "a man by the name of Andy Kirkpatrick, who was well known as a fighter when he was drinking, though peaceable enough when sober. Also there lived down there a man by the name of Alex McCluney. One day in the early fifties these two men met at a neighborhood store where there was an election being held and they got into a fight, during the progress of which Kirkpatrick stabbed MeCluney in the stomach with a knife, and apparently very seriously wounded him, though he recovered in a | short while and was none the worse for ! I his experience. MeCluney had a warwant issued for Kirkpatrick, and John | P. Hood, then justice of the peace, sent his constable and another man whom he deputized, to arrest Kirkpatrick. The two officers had in previous days been involved in scrapes not to their credit. The regular constable had at i one time been sentenced to be whipped ! at the public whipping post for the thnff ?,f n nidp nf bacon, and received ' nine lashes on his back. The other fellow at one time in Chester stole or attempted to steal a pound of butter in a Chester store and slipped it under his hat. The proprietor of the store saw the attempted shop-lifting, and it being a cold day, he invited the would-be thief to come back to the stove and get i j warm, first having built a big fire in ' the stove. The fellow accepted, the ini vitation and the proprietor slyly got hiin behind the stove in a corner and kept the fellow there without mentioning tlie butter, and in spite of the fel- j j low's protestations that he wasn't so j 1 cold, until the butter melted and ran i down over the face of his victim. "Well, these two men," continued Mr. | Guy, "knowing that Andy was a scrapper, went to his home early in the morning and looking for trouble. They 1 reached Andy's place and he met thern | | in the front yard. The officers stated ! their mission and Kirkpatrick said, that I he would go with them, but stated that | ! he would like for them to wait until he had breakfast. He invited them in and j said: "And 1 want to tell you a dream | 1 had last night. 1 dreamed that 1 went to heaven and on the way I passed two men. One of them had a side of bacon on his back and the other had a keg of butter on his head.' " Another story related by Mr. Guy was about a well known uully who lived in Bullock's Creek township a good many years ago. This bully's nume was Pagan and he was known principally because of his fighting qualities and his readiness when drinking to pick quarrels with men who were less able to take care of themselves. "On one occasion," said Mr. Guy, | "Tom Pagan was at Crosby's store j and had been drinking. Among others, i was a small sized, scrawny man who had little to say to anybody. He was oi,o r-minter anil idlv drillll j ming the counter with his heels. Pagan. apparently annoyed at the drumming. snarled at the other fellow to stop his racket. The drumming stopped at once, but after a little the felI low sitting on the counter forgot himself and began idly kicking the counter again. Pagan with another snarl said: 'I've already told you to stop that racket once and if you do it any more I'll take you in the backroom there I and give you a thrashing.' The stranger kept very quiet after that for ; quite a little bit. but forgetting himII self again bis feet lommenced to beat !n tattoo on the counter. / ' I "Pagan didn't say anything, but JONES SPRINGS ROW Noted Lancaster County Controversy Bobs up in Yorkville. HEATED PASSAGES BETWEEN PARTIES Full Day of the Court Consumed in Hearing of Arguments in the Case ?Large Number of Attorneys Engaged?Judge Peurifoy Reserves Decision?Arguments Not Concluded Until After Usual Hour of Adjourn ment Saturday Evening. Presented by arguments of counsel for both sides, the notorious JonesSprings controversy of Lancaster county broke out afresh here in the court of common pleas before Judge Peurifoy, last Saturday. Attorneys for Charles D. Jones, came into court and requested that John T. Roddey, prominent business man of Rock Hill be dismissed as receiver for the Lancaster Mercantile Company, now in the hands of the court. Counsel for Jones, one of three stockholders in that enterprise, argued that the receiver, John T. Roddey was biased and prejudiced in the favor of Leroy Springs and John T. Stevens the other two stockholders of the Lancaster Mercantile Company. The plaintiff, Charles D. Jones in the action Saturday, charged that John T. Roddey has refused to allow him access to the records of the Lancaster Mercantile Company, which records, Charles D. Jones charged through his attorneys he had a perfoct right to see. Three motions were argued at the hearing in Yorkville, Saturday. Attorneys for Jones requested that in I the event Judge Peurifoy should overrule the motion for the removal of John T. Roddey as receiver that a coreceiver should be appointed. The request was that this co-receiver be authorized to look after the interests of Charles D. Jones. The' claim was repeatedly made during arguments of counsel for Jones that John T. Roddey was a personal friend from boyhood of Leroy Springs ana was antagonistic to Charles D. Jones. The third motion Was that Jones be required to specify items that he denied in a bill of claims that had, been presented against him. The most heated and spirited proceedings that had occurred during the present term of the court of general sessions and common pleas for the November term developed Saturday in connection with arguments in the Jones-Springs controversy. Several near-fights occurred during the argument between attorneys and principals. There wore repeated heated clashes. When Hnrry Hines, Esq., Lancaster, of counsel for Charles D. Jones, made the statement that the present receiver was "morally and mentally" unfit to act as receiver for a concern of the magnitude of the Lancaster Mercantile Company, the court room was tense. Counsel fur mer auegou umi i-uuhbci iui mc . ceiver had colluded with Messrs. John ! T. Stevens and Leroy Springs to work against the interests of Charles D. Jones, so far ns the interests of the Lancaster Mercantile Co., were concerned. There was a sharp denial of that allegation on the part of Herbert Dunlap of the firm of Dunlap & Dunlap, Rock Hill, attorneys for the receiver, John T. Roddey. Jn reply to reflections on the moral and mental character of John T. Roddey, testimonials were read commending Mr. Roddey as a business man, Christian and gentleman. The testimonials were signed by a number of prominent bankers of Rock Hill and Yorkville. Hearing of arguments before Judge Pourifcy required all of Saturday; and In fact, llie conn extenuea us sessiun beyond 6 o'clock in order that the argument might be concluded. It was expected by attorneys for both sides that the judge would announce his decision relative to the motion on Saturday night. This, Judge Peurifoy deI clined to do, saying that there was a ' mass of testimony for him to review and that he would announce his decision later. He spid be would carefully review the testimony before making a decision. During the arguments it was brought out that the testimony taken, before the referee, C. W. F. Spencer, Esq., of Rock Hill, included more than 800 pages of typewritten copy. It was further mentioned that the books and records of the LancasI ter Mercantile Company wore sufficient to load a two-horse wagon. Plenty of Human Interest. Arguments in the case here Saturday by a brilliant array of legal counsel were not without their "human interest" features. On one side j sat Charles D. Jones, president of a I bank in I-a ncaster, surrounded by bis j counsel. Mr. Jones who is one of the j most prominent and highly esteemed reached over and got the little man by i the collar and dragged him into the back room of the store and bolted the i door. Then there was so much racket I in the room that finally other men present burst open the d<>or and j found that the little fellow was about I to beat Pagan to death. The stranger ! when he got into the room with the bjg bully, realized that he had to fight for his life and went at it with such vim that the bully was glad when he was rescued. Pagan married a- Miss tiill and finally moved to Mississippi," coneludcd Mr. (iuy. citizens of Lancaster, Is a son of Judge Ira B. Jones, former chief justice of the supreme court of South Carolina. , His father was defeated for the gubernatorial nomination in 1912 by former governor Cole Blease. The campaign was probably the most bitter waged in the state slncajl890. On the other, side of the court room were Col. Ler<ir Springs and John T. Stevens, the majority members of the firm of the Lenmstcr Mercantile Company. SpringsJis several times a millionaire. He isja native of York counT ty. Near him^at John T. Stevens of Kershaw. H? 'Is a brother of Dr. W. G. Stevens of Rock Hill, one of the most prominent citizens of that town. Near his father during the Afty feat Capt. Elliott Springs of Fort Mill, a son of Leroy Springs, and a distinguished "ace" of the American aviation* corps in France. Occasionally, during the long, and at times rather dull and uninteresting argument the principals glared at each other. Every. once in a while Jones would gaze across the court room at Springs and Stcvons. and Roddey and a gaze just as malicious and venemous and antagonistic was returned each time. Attorneys for both sides during arguments of the day did not hesitate to say that feeling between Jones and his friends on the one side and Springs and his friends and Stevens and his friends on the other was very, very bitter. At one time during the argument, H. M. Dunlap of Rock Hill, attorney for John T. Roddey, receiver, alleged that Jones had sent newspaper clippings from the Lancaster News to be reproduced in the two publications of Rock Hill. He further intimated that Jones's purpose in sending the clippings was to try to further build up public sentiment in the interest of the Jones side." "I deny that," said Jones, interrupt> irig Dunlap. "Deny anything you want, Wait until I get through," replied Dunlap In no spirit of friendliness or courtesy. Charles D. J<pes sat down and his face seemed/ to register exactly what he felt when hd sat down. Brilliant Array of Counsel. Appearing in the arguments before Judge Feurifoy on the motions made last Saturday were a brilliant array of counsel. For Charles D. Jones were: Horry Hin?s. Esq., Chas. D. Jones, Esq., Lancaster; John M. Hemphill, Chester; Claud N. Sapp, Columbia; Thou. F. McDow, Esq.y Yorkville. For 1 the receiver,. J6hn T< Roddey, Dunlap *& Dunlap of Rock Hill, and for Leroy Springs arid John T. Stevens, Stewart & Williams, R. E. Wylie, Lo '.caster; D. W. Robinson, Esq., Columbia. Although other counsel are retained In the controversy, they were not present Saturday. Some of the Claims. Following are come of the claims of the contesting parties in the case upon which argument of counsel was based last Saturday: Charles D. Jones making affidavit says that shortly after January 10, 1922 at which time John T. Roddey was appointed receiver for the Lancaster Mercantile company he (Charles D. Jones) stood ready and willing at all times, to assist rioaaey in tne collection of tho assets of the Mercantile Company. At that time, according: to deponent, John T. Roddey was on speaking: terms with hin. Later, however, according to the deponent Jones, John T. Roddey refused further to speak to him and continuously kept company with Leroy Springs, John T. Stevens and H, R. Rice, the latter the private secretary of Springs. The deponent claimed further that finally the receiver John T. Roddey put H. R. Rice in full charge of the affairs of the Lancaster Mercantile Company and confined himself to coming over between trains from Rock Hill, leaving the affairs of the Lancaster Mercantile Company in charge of Rice. Springs and Stevens, he alleged, could go into the store of the Mercantile Company at any time to examine the records, whereas the deponent, Charles I). Jones, was debarred them. It was further alleged by the deponent, Charles D. Jones that the receiver John T. Roddey not only permitted Springs and Stevens and their various attorneys free and unrestricted access to all of the books and records * - - T frimrninv UL lilt; ljiuiuisici lucitauutc , but in fact turned over continually to H. It. Rice all of the books, records and papers of the Mercantile company. Denial of Stevens and Springs. A lengthy denial of the affidavit of Charles D. Jones was made by John T. Stevens and Leroy Springs, majority stockholders of the Lancaster Mercantile Company. A statement from John T. Roddey, receiver in which he alleged that he had repeatedly offered Jones access to the records was read before the court. The deponents John T. Stevens and Leroy Springs in their deposition covering more than twenty-type written pages alleged among other things that from the time Charles D. Jones- became connected with the Lancaster Mercantile Company on February 1, 1916, first as minaging director, he took a large pari in the management of its affairs and drew a good salary therefrom, his salary being for the year 1916. $1.S00; for the year 1917, $2"oy; and thereafter until he retired as director and as manager thereof in (Continued on Tage Two.) TO IMPROVE COTTON New York Man Has Remarkable Invention. WOULD TAKE CARE OF LOW GRADE Claim is Made That It Works Successfully and May Revolutionize Mill Industry. E. Walter .Mockler, cotton editor of the New York ComrWerciaV has the following" interesting story _ of much interest to the south: Phillip C. Wadsworth, "inventor of a process bearing his name, and designed to raise the grades of low grade cotton to a point where superior cloth can be turned out from staple which is almost worthless, yesterday demonstrated his process and its results to a picked group- of cotton men and newspaper representatives at the experimental plant, 50th street and Kirst avenue, Brooklyn. The development of the apparatus was a revejauon 10 experienced men who witnessed for the first time the spectacle of low grade, dirty gritty staple cotton being cleaned and raised to a point where it graded several notches above the original grading and even exceeded ordinary, cotton of the higher grade in spinning qualities. Following the demonstration the inventor explained his process. Broadly speaking, the textile advantages of cotton treated in this manner ore embraced in the three following claims: Elimination of Traih. First: The grade is raised from low to high, insofar as trash, said, etc., are concerned, without damage to the fibre. Second: Cotton of any color, put through this process, bleaches white in the cloih or skein without tenering, and without the use of. any chemicals in the process. Third: Trash, motes, immature and short fibres contained in the raw cotton are eliminated by this process, which makes the character of the treated cotton very puch superior to that in the original bale. Thi9 means a larger percentage of yarn than is even made with raw cotton of the same grade to which this cotton has been raised by the process. "In support of these claims, It might be stated that corroboration has been received in the case of hundreds of bales thus bandied," said Mr. Wadsworth. "Numerous mill runs and scientific tests afford additional proofs. "Cotton mill machinery is designed for the use of and operates on, raw cotton of high grades to the best advantage in the production of character and tensile strength of the manufactured yarn "In using American raw cotton good middling and grades above give the best possible results. In the use of grades below good middling there must be eliminated from the raw cotton quantities of motes short and immature fibres, sand, leaf-trash and other extraneous matter. Cleaning Methods Criticised. "Under the most advantageous atmospheric conditions for spinning at a cotton mill, the elimination of foreign matter from the raw cotton cannot be accomplished to the best advantage, and every practical cotton spinner knows that the methods generally in use for cleaning cotton have an exceedingly detrimental effect upon the spinning quality of the fibre, i. e., twist, and that the yarn produced by the use of grades of cotton below middling is not as strong as that produced by the use of the higher grades. "Many practical cotton mill men will admit that the methods used in olnarlnir rnttnn In rntton mills, and preparing it for economic spinning, are 'murderous.' In recent years a number of machines have been introduced in the cotton mills for cleaning cotton by less harsh methods, but as previously stated", cotton cannot be properly cleaned under atmospheric conditions required at mills to maintain the best conditions for spinning. "The use of grades of cotton below good middling is producing yarn of inferior tensile strength and much complaint is heard at the laundries all over the country. This has reached the point where the Laundry Owners' as' sociation has taken active steps to show where the fault lies in the fact that laundered fabrics are so quickly ruined in the wash. "When cotton fibre is in its best condition for spinning it adheres closely, fibre to fibre, twist to twist, and any extraneous matter, such ao fine particles of dust, sand or leaf, etc., intnffnfo wit n the natural sninning ten dency of the fibre, for in this condition the tendency to adhere is just as marked as to extraneous matter as to the fibre itself. So that any operation in use at any cotton mill which is successful in eliminating this trash "from the fibre in this condition, must of a necessity, and does, eliminate the | twist, tear and break the fibre. Little Low Grade Used in War. "During the war cotton mills were ' required by government regulation, in doing government work, to use, exclusively, high grade cotton and most of the mills r 11 over the world were active in government work, so that very little low grade cotton was used during the period of the war and a great quantity of it was held for years in the 'surplus reserve.' The government took this action on the advice of cotton mill men, because they thoroughly understood that cloth with - good tensil strength could not be made with low grade cotton. When the war was over the bars were let down and the demand for manufactured fabrics was very light. Raw cotton went down In price way below the cost of production, but cotton mill labor was slow to accept a lower wage scale. As a consequence, the spinners were obliged to resort to every expediency in the pui*cha?e of raw cotton and they went very extensively Into the purchase of low grade cotton, because it could be purchased cheaper, with the result: a deterioration of the manufactured product. "Comparatively few of the cotton mills stuck to the use of high grade cotton, and the goods manufactured by these mills are having and will iruuiinue iw nave, a greater ana greater demand on the part of the public, as the inferiority of the product of the average mill becomes more and more known. "Low grade cotton is cotton th?t bas matured in the boll and been picked after the early frosts, and obtains a great deal of dried leaf, dust from the fields and other extraneous matter, which cannot be eliminated by the process of ginning. It is, h wever, more mature and stronger tnan early pickings of high grade cotton, and it has been realized for many years that if it could he cleaned arid prepared for spinning by some process that did not have a detrimental eff<n:t, that its value for spinning purposes would be as great, or greater, than e /en the high grades themselves." FLIM FLAMMERS BUSY People are Warned to Watch Out for Slick Ones. The "flim-flammers" are abroad. Their prey are the innocent, the artless, the unlettered, relates the Greenville, Piedmont. Their territory covers states and includes Greenville. In the city this week the activities Of a trio of persons?one woman and two men?was brought to the notice of the police. A stern warning from Chief of Police Smith and a vigorous upbraiding from Mayor Harvley brought results. The trio left Greenville, but In their. wake will come more "flimflammers" and with them when they depart they will take the hard-earned money of many a poor negro. Most any Saturday one can see these people at work. Innocent darkies are usually the victims. Watch them work sometime. Usually they carry pads and pencils. Yoa wfll see one of these persons approach and comer an old darky farmer. Olibly he makes his "speel" and as he talks he is industriously writing something on the pad. The old darky says little? he cannot argue with a white roan. First thing he knows he has slipped his hand in his pocket. The sum may be a dollar?it may be less?whatever it is, it is hard-earned and more needed to buy bread and meat for him and his family than to pay for something that can hardly be of any use to him. The money that might have bought several pairs of stockings for 'Liza or "Santa Claus" for Alonzo and Kate is pocketed by the white stranger and the old darky scribbles his name on a "receipt." lie hsa subscribed to something, he doesn't exactly know what it is. The next few hours he will probably spend in remorseful retrospection over the money the stranger "talked him out of." The lady member of the trio that visited Greenville this week was observed by a number of citizens, several of whom "put the police wise." Her method was described today to a reporter for The Piedmont by one who saw her in "action." She would approach a negro man, handing to him a crude sort of metal pencil and tell him she was "giving it to him." Then she would take out her pad, begin writing and inform her 'victim' she was "throwing in" the pencil with a subscription to a magazine. Just give me 49 cents for a year's subscription n n ,1 t ?V>a nnnnil " pVl A n'AVlM ci.hu >uu iuc |sciicy mcc, oiic n venu say. The negro would hardly know how to refuse. One old negro was sent by several white people, watching the womah to find out her "game." The old dnfky reported that he handed the woman a dollar as that was the smallest change he had and that she informed him she would make his "subscription" for two years and walked off with the dollar. The woman and her two men companions obtained permits to "canvas the city" from Mayor Harvley, who judged that their business was legitimate and proper.. When the nature of their activities was brought to his attention he delivered to them a heated and stern rebuke. Chief of Police Smith warned them to "clear out of the city." Cases were not docketed against them, Chief smith said, because of the difficulty that would have been encountered in getting testimonyagainst them. ? Farmers of South Carolina have used aunroximately 13 per cent, less fertilizer this year than they did last i year, It is indicated by fertilizer tax : figures, made public Friday at the office of State Treasurer Carter. The receipts thus far this year from fertilizer tax have been $128,643.55, as compared with $149,570.42 for the same period of last year, indicating that 84.000 tons more fertilizer were used last year than in this. It is now expected that the figures for the remainder of this month will make a great deal of difference in the receipts for the year. THE STATE OF THE NAflON President Delivers Annual AJdress to Congress. DRY LAW ENFORCEMENT ESSENTIAL * w ! Would Co-ordinate Transportation Facilities?United States is Mindful of World Obligation*?Would Abolish Railroad Labor Board. President Harding, addrespij)jr congress in person Friday on tbe-alate of the union, placed the tr|nf?Dprtatio? situation, prohibition enfogp^mppt and farm credits in the forefront of the national problems pressing for ^ration. Also he took occasion to reply directly to those whom he said had ^spumed "aloof, and apart, unmindful of world obligations." He declared these gave "scant credit" for the "helpful pefrt" America had assumed in international relations, referring particularly to7 the arms conference. . * Of the prohibition situation, the executive asserted there were conditions of enforcement "which savor of na* ' tlon-wide scandal." He made no reeommendations on this score, but announced his purpose to , call an early conference of the governors oj the I states and territories with the<federal authorities to formulate definite policies of national and state co-operation in the administering of the laws. Transportation. via Declaring there was no problem ex* r ceeding in Importance the one of transportation, Mr. Harding told congress there was need to begin on plana to co-ordinate all the transportation facilities?rail, water and motor, As to ' the relief of the railroad problem, he J suggested merger of lines into system*, a facilitated interchange of freight cars and a con|olidation of facilities gonorally. , '$ Turning to the recent railroad atriloe,, the president proposed that .the fader*}' , tribunal dealing with disputes between, the carriers and their workers be give* ample authority to enforce lts'de?is? ions. He voiced a preference for abolition of the railroad labor board and the placing of its functions.und*r an enlarged interstate commerce commission. , t Should the decision be to continue this board In existence, however, he. suggested that the partisan Ship be abolished to tfie end that Vfc'e tribunal be impartial and fth<; head- I quarters moved from Chicago ifhwash- . ington, so there might be direct efdntact with the commission. V ij The only specific recommendation ot: the executive for enactmen$of legis-. J lotion at this, the short session of congress, related to the pernjsnent es? Liblishment of widened fariifi,ci^tg. He urged both' ample farm prodtfctlon credit^ and enlarged lah? oredfts through enlargement of the tK>W?r8'Of. the farm loan board and remle&^i ctm- . gre&s that special provision "fnust W made for livestock productloi? credits. Other Recommendations. Other recommendations lnclu6WdT**Registration of aliens. More rigid examinations of " emigrants at embarkation ports. Federal assistance in the education of aliens. A constitutional amendment*^vine congress authority over child labor. A constitutional amendment restrict- . .< ing the issue of tax-exempt securities by the federal government, the states, I municipalities and counties. . A study by congress of the wide spread differences between production costs and prices to consumers. The survey of a plan to draft all the resources of the nation, human and material, for national defense. A fostering interest by the national ] government in constructive measures calculated to promote the untfteutkm of steam, water and electric powei* In the eastern industrial region. Favorable consideration of reclamation and irrigation projects where waste iand may be made available for , settlement and productivity. Co-operation between the federal government, the various states and the owners of forest lands to the eiid that protection from fire should be made more effective and replanting1 encouraged. With this session limited to less than three months, there was a general realization that congress could d?al between now and March 4 with only one or two of oven the most Important of the problems presented by the president. To what extent this situation would bear on the ultimate decisi^ of Mr. Harding as to an extra sessidn of the new congress was a matter 4f some s\r\r\ Innfin'A of thfi nifnl Leaders of the agricultural ^fcroups in the house and senate are determihed that one recommendation of the executive?that dealing with farm creditsshall be translated into law at this session. They also are particularly anxious that there should be some solu- . tion of the railroad problem that would bring about lowered freight rates, but Chairman Cummins, of the senate Interstate commerce committee, said comprehensive legislation along the lines recommended by Mr. Harding could not be had at this session. Senator Cummins declared he was "perfectly willing" to adopt fhe president's plan of transferring the func ! (Continued on Page Two.) ? - - -