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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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