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NEWSPAPER PUBLICITY r LAW VALID So Declared in Decision by Land's Highest Court?Unanimous Opinion Announced by Chief , Justice White. I Washington, Junp 10.?The validity of the "newspaper publicity" law, enacted in 1912 as a provision of the Postal Appropriatior act, was upheld today by unanimous decision of the supreme court of the United States. Chief Justice Whitn announced the court's conclusions. | The law requires every newspdjjci, , magazine or other publication to file p semi-annually, with the postmaster. general and the local .postmaster, a sworn statement of the names of the j < editors, managers, owners, stockholders and bondholders, and in the case \ of daily newspapers of the average daily circulation. Publication of these _ i statements is required, and for affil-; ure to comply with <\ny of the provi- j sians the publication shall be denied j the "privilege of the mail." A second paragraph provides that paid for editorial or reading matter of any "such" publication shall be marked "advertisement" under penalty of a * fine or imprisonment. Contention of Protestants. Ahnnt 88 ner cent of the newspa pers already have complied with the law, many under protest. The Lewis Publishing company and the Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin, of New York, lcd the attack upon the statute, bringing suits for injunction in the Federal District Court of Southern New York. When the law was upheld there they appeal'd :o the highest court, they claimed that the law sought to "regulate journalism" t and ito enforce a censorship o? the press. -In reply former Solicitor General Bullitt contended that, notwithstanding a division of the provision into two typographical paragraphs by the senate, after the measure was passed by the house, the law was only one paragraph, imposing conditions upon the use of the low second class mail rates accorded newspapers and magazines. Conrt Sustains Bullitt. The supreme court today adopted Mr. Bullitt's interpretation. The use in the act of the word "entered," a technical word employed only as to second class mail matter, showed, Chief Justice Whit* held, that congress in passing the law had in mind only -the second class mail and not the right to use the mail as a whole. The use of the words "privileges of the mail," the chief justice took to be a positive reference to the second class of mail because of the great a.-ivpntnornewsnai>ers were granted under the second class over other classes of mail, in order to promote the "dissemination r.f current intelligence." He said congress did not intend to exclude papers not complying with the provisions from the use of the mail, other than the second class. The second paragraph, it was explained, wras but a part of the firs>t, as shown by the use of the word "such," an additional penalty being prescribed for administrative reasons only. Discusses Sight of Congress. 4 The legislative hiptory of the provision, the ciief justice declared, upheld the interpretation of the "words given by the court. After interpreting the decision as imposing conditions upon the use of the second class ; mail, the chief justice proceeded to ' discuss why congress Had tne ngm to impose such conditions. \ A study of postal laws from colonial days to the present, he said, showed a persistent adhesion to a policy * of discrimination in favor of newspapers in the mails. He qv'ofced Mr. Bullitt as stating letter mail was subjected to a charge of 80 times higher :han newspapers, and that letter mail produced an ann.ua! profit of seventy millions, while the newspaper class entailed a seventy mimon aonar ioss on the gov-emment. As a further discrimination, he said, individuals must pay a higher rate ' for mailing newsparsrs than the publishers or news agenci s. Says Conditions >'ot Arbitrary. In return for this discrimination, the chief justice declared congress had the right to fix the standard to i be met by those who wished to enjoy the privileges. As lar back as 1887 rules were promulgated for those who desired to enjoy the privilege of ttve cheap rates. He suggested that the court could not bring its mind *? the conclusion | that the newspaper attorneys were assailing a classification of mails, 1 with certain conditions attached to some classes, as an interference with i the freedom of the press, when for a long series of years, legislation had j especially favored the press to its pecuniary benefit t?y classification. The conclusion reached was that the conditions exacted v-ere incidental to the privileges conferred upon the newspapers and were not arbitrary. PRESIDENT NOT YET ELECTED ~ - ? - A Vr An /I A f C ATI ill J Jean Jioure .lrunt; Iiruu vi o" u in Carolina University. Columbia, June 10.?'Election of a president to succeed Dr. S. C. Mitchell resigned, vras deferred by the board of trustees of the University of South Carolina, when it met here .today. Prof. A. C. Moore, dean, was made acting president, pending the choice of a successor to Dr. Mitchell, at the president's salary of $3,500. Every member of the board was present. Ex officio members are Governor C. L. Biease, senator Jtiuger smKier ana Dr. C. T. Wyche, of >the house of rep- , resentativ-?s, and John E. SwearingDn, State superintendent of education. Elective members are C. E. Spencer, of Yorkville; "\V. T. C. Batcs, of St. i IMatthews; J. Q. Davis, of Winnsboro; D. R. Cok-er, of Harrsville; August ;Kohn, of Columbia; P. A. Wilcox, of j Florence, and W. M. Hamer, of Dillon, i PRESIDENT APPOINTS GALLOWAY South Carolina Man Xamed as CItII j Service Commissioner. Washington, D. C., June 10.? 'Charles M. Galloway, of South Carolina, who is private secretary to Senator E. D. Smith, and who stands high in the favor of Democratic senators generally, was today nominated by President Wilson as a member of the civil service commission. President Wilson also nominated H. iW. Craven, of Washington State, retaining only John 4.. Mcllhennv, of llie prestui cuxiiuiisanjix. it is hvl ! , known who will be chairman of the new commission. The only South Carolinians that have ever served on the commission hertofore were Ex-<"k>vernor Hugh S. Thompson and Wm. L. Trenholm, of Charleston. Mr. Galloway is a native of North Carolina, and a newspaper man, having been connected with the Columbia I State for thirteen years. He is a : Democrat and became secretary to ' Senator Smith, of South Carolina, in j 1909, and has since held that posiI tiVn ond + Vl n of f Tl D CPnflfd ? committee on immigration. j Herman W. Craven, the other civil 1 service commissioner appointed to!day, is a republican. He is a lawyer ' of Seattle, Wash., %nd has held no 'public offices in the past. Mr. Craven's selection is said to have been a pesronal cjioice of Mr. Wilson. I ? [MOORE DEFIES MILITARY BOARD | Adjutant General Says He'll Seek Injunction.?Places For Encamp ments* Columbia, June 10.?A fight between Adjt. Gen. Moore and the majority of i j the members of the military board, I ; composed of Governor Blease, Gen. jWilie Jones and Col. Julius E. Cogswell, was staged tonight, when the adjutant general declared that he would seek to prevent by an injunction from the courts the carrying out of the order of the board to pay the allotment of $225 of the military funds to Company B, 1st infantry, of Liberty Hill. This amount, due the com pany for 1912, had been held up by the adjutant general because of the failure of the Liberty Hill company to come up to tbe requirements of the law, and over his protest the military board ordered tt paid. N. S. Richards is the captain ol: the ! Liberty Hill company, he having sue- j ceeded his brother, Railroad Commis- I sioner John G. Richards, Jr., a few! : years ago. Over the protest of Adjt. 1 Gen. Moore the military board late ; this afternoon orde-ed the allotment j of the military fuinds belonging to Company B, 1st infantry, of Liberty | Hill, paid, this amounting to $223. Adjutant General's Attitude. This al3o:ment had been held up ' by the adjutant general because, as he stated, the plan <vf distributing the ! money pro rata among the forty m-emI bers of the company was illegal, the appropriation being for maintenance. Capt. X. S. Richards, of this company, *Viof f 1 O nf tbo iimniint wnnlrl j 1 CpUi LCU ?li C> u y X- Vi v V WV4 go for armory rent, and the balance be paid oat to the members, which , the adjutant general held to be'illegal, and an opinion of the attorney , ! general held that the proposed plan j of distribution was illegal. The company also fail-ed to show the required ! CO per cent of attendance of its raemi bers on all drills, a?. required by the military code, its report for the past year showing only 50 per cent. The military board, by a vote of 3 to 1, ordered the money paid, those voting aye b-eing: Governor Blease, j Gen. Wilie Jones, and Col. Cogswell and Adjt. Gen. Moore, voting nay. Col. . 0. W. Babb, the other member, was excused from voting, he being the assistant adjutant g^n-eral. Gen. Moore stated tonight that he would refuse to sign any warrant for the money for this company because it was illegal, and that he would take out an injunction to nr-event the comp troli-er general paying it out. Encampment Places and Dates. The 3d regiment of the National guard will encamp at Aiken from July 17 to 26, instead of at And-erson, the 1st regiment will encamp at Anderson from July 27 to 30, instead of at Aiken, and the 2nd regiment will encamp on th? Stata rifle range, near Columbia, July 2S to August 7, these dates being agreed on at a conference between Cols. J. E. Cogewell, W. W. Lewis and Capt. A. E. Legare, representing Col. Lipscomb, of the 2nd regiment, subj-ect to the approval of Governor Blease. Col. Julius E. Copwell, of the 3rd regiment, on being asked about the change of the place of encampment from Anderson no Aiken, said that both places were perfectly satisfac-: tory to him. The changes were made because it means a saving in expenditure. DR. WHITFORD 31 DU>CA> DEAD Was Presiding Elder of Colnmbia District of Methodist Church. / i O "D a\r Whifo. U1 UlilUICt, ?J UUtS ?7 ? 1 Lie lit. . M iitiv | ford M. Dnncan, D. D., presiding *lder of +he Columbia district of the Methodist church, passed away at his home in this city this omorning, after a lingering illness. Th-3 funeral services will take place tomorrow afternoon at 4.30 o'clcok, in Washington Street Methodist church, and the remains will be interred in the church yard cemetery. Dr. Duncan was widely known over South Carolina, having served varicas parts of the State, and was loved and esteemed by the people wherever ! he lived. His death will cause grief itn thousands in the State. He was a I native of North Carolina. A wife and several children survive. BOHPER WHEAT CROP IN SIGHT Government Estimte Points to Record Yield of Grain. Wasoington, June 9.?A bump-er wheat crop, suffici?Tit to mill more than 16,500,000 barrels of flour, and which may reach the proportions of 1+V.a rflnnr^ 'vlioat h^rVPSt of 1901. if I L li. ^ U tt mvm v ?? - ^ I conditions from now on are exceptionally favorable, n-as forecast today by the department of agriculture in ; its June crop report. | Government experts es-timated this year's harvest would be 744,000,000 bushels, of which 492,000,000 bushels will be winter wh^at?a record for this crop, and 252,000,000 bushels wheat. An increase of more than 1 per cent of last year's acreage was planted to oats this year, but the condition | of this crop on June 1 was below the | ten-year average, and omciais estimate the production will be 1,104,000,000 bushels, or more than 300,000,000 bushels below last ^e^r's harvest. The- department c?f agriculture today announced its June reports as follows: Spring wheat: Area, 18,663,000 acres; condition, 93.5 per cent of a normal; indicated yield, 13.5 bushels per acre; estimated total production, 252,000,000 bushels. Winter wheat: Condition, 83 per cent; indicated yield, 15.y Dusneis per acre; production, 492,000,000 bushels. All wheat: Area, 49,601,000; condition, 87.2 per cent; yield, 15 bushels per acre; production 744,000,000 bushels. Oats: Area, 38,341,000 acres; condition, 87 per cent; yield, 28.2 bush- j els per acre; production, 1,104,000,000 ' hnshelfl. Barley: Area, 2,555,000 acres; con-' dition, S7.1 per cent; yield, 24.4 bushels per acre; production, 177,000.000 bushels. Rye: Condition, 90.9 per cent; yield 16.5 bushels per acre. Hay: Condition, 87.5 per cent; pas- ! ' tures' condition, 89.2 per cent. TO RAISE MOKE"FOR THE NATION ! rnderwood Bill, With Income Tax, is iioi- Ann AAn ii\ Y.ilnrom n,>. $OH)WV)VVVI .IU | tuv. .. ereas-. i Washington, June 9.?A tabl-e prepared by the senate finance committee showing comparative figures based on the Underwood tariff bill and the pres nt tariff law, shows the average ad valorem rate in 'the proposed law to be 32.99 per ceDt. as against 43.64 As It tells you h< phone line wi same high-clas now enjoyed 1 ? If vou ha1 4/ tell you how 1 You do not ol Address ne Fi SOUTHERN AKn TP.i r. Mt* A 163|Soi per cent, under the Payne-Aldrich bill. The estimated ^oss of revenue through the augmented free list in the Underwood bill "would be $24,718.329 on an import valuation of __ 11. ^ $102,534,566. Revenue unaer iue pi imposed bill, exclusive of the income tax, is estimated at $266,701,130, as compared with $304,216,694, under the present rates. With the income t*x revenue estimated at approximately $80,000,000 the total revenue under the proposed bill would aggregate about $347,000,000. 4 In >the sundries schedule, wherein the Democrats hav added many articles not heretofore taxed or have increased rates on luxuries, the ad valorem equivalent shows an increase over the Payne-Aldrich rates from 24.72 per cent., to 33.26 and the estimated revenue fro^a this schedule is raised from $27,000,000 to approximately $60,000,000. Will Cut Wool Revenue. Wool revenue, it is estimated, will decrease from $27,000,000 to $13,000,000. The sugar revenue will decrease at the rate of $20,000,000 a year until sugar go?^ on the free list in three years. Mainritv members of the senate VJ" - 'J finance committee will meet tomorrow to prepare the measure for the Democratic caucus next week. Senaitor Simmons, chairman of the committee, said two of the subcommittees would not be able to report fully for several days, as each has several propositions to submit to the majority members for advice. These ; include questions relating to the in- I A J faofiiMo on come 13.x, aQmimtfuauic ivu.m: whether certain duties on the Bilk 1 schedule should be specific instead of ad valorem. Duty on Cattle. The proposal of the subcommittee in charge of the agricultural chedule to put a countervailing duty on live stock, grains, meats and flour also will be discussed by the majority members. With these products on the free list, subject tn countervailing duties, cattle from Canada would be dutiable at from 22 1-2 to 25 per cent, ad valorem, a sum equal to the Canadian tax on cattle; meats would be dutiable at 2 1-2 to 3 cents a pound; wheat 10 to 12 cents a bushel; oats and rye, 9 to 10 cents a bushel; flour, 50 to GO cents a barrel; rye flour, 45 to 50 cents a barrel; oatmeal, 50 to 60 cents a barrel. Senator Simmons estimates that the majority members will be at least a week considering the bill. To protect the city of Xew York against the operation of a proposed income tax, where it might fall upon the city's interest ir thv earnings of the Interborough Rapid Transit company, Camptroller Matthewson and Acting Corporation Counsel Fohle of New York have suggested important amendments to the income tax provision. One amendment would make it Famer It Is ik for It Today-A I >w vou mav conne 1/ ?/ th the Bell system ;s local and long d ?y more than 5,00( yen't a Telephone :o get service at v< )ligate yourself by aresi Bell Telephone M irmers' Line Deparimen' BELL TELEPH GRAPH COMP ith PryorSt, Atlanta, Ga.^ NOTICE OF ELECTION. Pursuant to the authority of an Act entitled "an Act relating to Newberry School District" approved the 27th j day of February, 1913, and resolutions of the Trustees of Newberry School District passed in pursuance of said Act, an election will be held at the Council Chambers in the Town of Newberry on the 24th day of June, 1913, between the hours of Eight o'clock in the forenoon and four o'clock in the afternoon, on the question of levying an additional tax of one mill on the taxable property in said School District, to be used for improvement and repairs. Those voting for said additional levy shall cast a ballot whereon shall be written or printed the words" For special levy", and those opposed a ballot whereon shall be written or Drinted "Against special levy". The qualified electors of said School District alone nre entitled to vote at said election. Said election will be conducted by Jas. M. Bowers, Alex Welch and J. A. T indsey, who have been appoints managers to conduct the same. J. M. Davis, Chairman, W. G. Mayes, L. W. Floyd, "W. A. McSwain, W. S. Langford. Trustees Newberry School District 5-23-8t Guaranteed Eczema Remedy, The constant itching, burning, red- , ness, rash and disagreeable effects of eczema, tetter, salt rheum, itch, piles and Irritating skin eruptions can be readily cured and the skin m?.de clear and smooth with Dr. Kobson's Eczema Ointment. Mr. J C. Evelad, of Bath, 111., says: "I had eczema twenty-five years and had tried everything. All failed. When I found Dr. Hobson's Eczema Ointment I rouna a cure." This ointment is the formula of a physician and has been in use for years?not an experiment That is why we can guarantee it. All druggists, or Lv mail. Price 50c. Pfeiffer Chemical Co., Philadelphia and St. Louis. clear that incomes of States or municipalities can net be taxed. The other would exempt earning of any private corporation -vhen the operation of the income tax would result in a loss to a Sta'e, county or city. Teachers in Phillipplnes. New Orleans Picayune. Eighty-five American teachers left San Francisco recently to enter the Philippine teaching service. They were elected from a large eligible list, and nearly every state in the Union was represented. They are under a two-year contract, or on probation to determine their qualifications, although the average term of service of Ampriean teachers in the Phillippines is six years. There are 700 positions occupied by American teachers and nearly $3,500,000 is expended annually on the schools in the Philippines. Needs BOOK Free >ostal\VUlDo ct your Telei, and get the . istance service ),000 people. this book will iry small cost, sending for it. anager, or t ONE ANY ILgyi II II Barbecue Notice. We "will give a first class barbecue at Kcitts Grov-? on July 24. A gocd Cinder is guaranteed. B. M. Suber, 0. A. Felker. We, the undersigned, will give a barbecue In front of J. P. Wicker's, No. 2 township, on the second Saturday in July. H. M. Wicker. J. P. Wicker. I will give a first class barbecue at my residence at the late J. A. Cromer's home place, on Saturday, August 9. Dinner 35 and 45 cents. Enjoyment for young people guaranteed. J. A. Felker. Barbecue 3feat and Hash. I will have at my store Saturday, May 31, barbecue meat and hash for sale at 11 o'clock. No dinner will be served. All for sale. G. W. Kinard, Prosperity, S. C. Barbecue at Pomaria. There will be a barbecue at Pomaria July 4th for the benefit of the Lutheran church. Refreshments will be i served on the grounds. There will enflflnVioc >\OCO>\al1 QTIfl fttltPT* at tractions. Dinner 40 and 50 cents. BABBECUE. I will give a first class barbecue at my residence on July 4. Will Bell meat and hash. 11.30. J. M. Counts. No. 666 Thii ia a prescription prepared etpedaBf for MALARIA or CHILLS &, FEVER. Five or aix dotes will break ?ny cate, and if taken then at a tonic the Fever will not return. It actt on the liver better than Calomel and does not gripe or ticken. 25c STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Newberry. By C. C. Schumpert, Esquire, Probate Judge. Whereas, T. W. Folk and C. M. Folk hath made suit to me, to grant them Letters of Administration of the Estate and effects of H. H. Folk These are therefore to cite and admonish all and singuar the kindred and creditors of the said H. H. Folk, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Newberry, S. C., on the 18th day of June next after publication thereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any tney nave, wny the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand, this 31st day of May, Anno Domini, 1913. C. C. Schumpert, J. P. N. C. Cures Old Sores, Other Remedies Won't Cure. The worst cases, no matter of how long standing, ~A v.. ^1^ roti'oMo Dr. rtl C V.UICU uy luw nuju\.uui, vnt Porter's Antiseptic Healing Oil. It relieves Pr;in r.nJ ttt'~ - '* '' fSc. 50c, $1.0) "Is she a member of the divorce colony?" "Yes; undergraduate."