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; HOPE OF SETTLEMENT IN INDUSTRIAL CRISIS Lloyd George Moves to Bring Results in Serious Coal Strike Situation in Great Britain k V London, April 7.?Another day of tense alternations of hope and fear ended with one of the prime minister's characteristic eleventh hour in. terventions, bringing renewed prost pects that the grave industrial crisis W will be averted. He announced in the I house of commons tonight the willI ingness of the government to partici1 pate in a conference to discuss the question of pumping before other ft matters were considered. formal conferences were continH throughout the evening, moder]'L-p \iv. Asauith, Lord Robert ell, Arthir Henderson and John lert Clynes working hard in an ftavor to induce the miners to H Hk on Che question of pumping, was supposed that the whole was tuvnirsr on this slender M ie Lloyd George been ^H^^osent during the latter hours of the debate on the situation but returned to the house unexpectedly at 11 o'clock and informed the members that the government ha-d agreed to a course which it is believed practically certain the miners will accept?the calling of a conference of owners ami miners to discuss with the government t the difficulty relative to pumping be' 1 > nnocti'nn f?f lore toucmng upun tllC VjUWWVAV** vwages and others involved in the demands of the ftien. What steps exactly had led up to this change of front are unknown as yet. Arthur Henderson, who rose to reply to the premier was clearly nonplussed. He had, he said, to express regret that the premier had not given r notice of such an important statement as Mr. Thomas, secretary of the lmjnn/1 nf railwav men, to 11& L/lKJllCLX Ullivi* ? ^ whose suggestion it was apperently due, and other leaders had gone home. / As he had explained earlier the mi/ ners' federation would have preferred to open the conference without conditions on either side but he had not had an opportunty to consult the federation since the afternoon, therer u- ?--U "ccnmo rpsnonsihil lore ne iuum nvo mmiuuv ~?c ity in the matter. He thought thf only safe line would be for the prime minister to place his statement in a letter to the officials for consideration. 1 The organizations composing the triple alliance held no further meetings tonight; they are apparenrly holding hands until tomorrow. The ^ ^ board of trade issued an ofncial report of today's negotiations for the enlio-htfvnmerit of the public. The re port sets forth the arguments of both sides and, concluding with a strong repudiation of the accusation that the government is engaged in a general attack on wages, savs: \ "Such a charge js as monstrous as it is unfounded. v The government J '*? - 1 -~ /Iamvahc rViof ana community cuikc cue u?iiuw .u.*** the best wages should be paid in every industry that such industry can aft forU." The council of the independent 1?.bor p^.rty called upon its members to support the mine*"5 by every means v in thei1* power, ieclaring the crisis was due to "a.: a,.:enipt on the part of organized capitalism to establish the rights of unlimited plunder and degrade the standard of living, which must be resisted at all costs. THE TAX CORNER. . The Blind Man and the Elephant. Mr. Editor: In the University Weekly News of March 31, in an article, "The Tax Corner," in speaking of the greatest need of South Carolina savs: "South Carbiina ranks amon^ rne lowest, ux the whole sisterhood of states. The Palmetto nag flies over more mental darkness and ignorance to the square inch thsn exists in any other state of the Union, save possibly one." It will continue to float ever such a state so long as over six bundled dollars is appropriated for each bey and girl in the state institutions and oniy six dollars and seventy-two ce^ts is appropriated to teach the more than 200,000 boys and girls in the common schools of the state. Comment is unnecessary. The facts and fiugres speak fo^ themselves. R. R. R. Or.ce four blind men went to see an elephant. The first one caught hold of its trunk and said, "The elephant is like a snake." The second one seized its tail and cried, "No. The elephant is more like a rope." The third man felt its side and declared, "By no means. The elephant is like a wall.'' The fourth man grasped its leg and laughed, "You are all wrong. The elephant is exactly like a tree." The funny part of it is not that all of them were wrong, but that each was right.?as far as he went. If you asked a dozen thoughtful men, "What does South Carolina need I most?" you would get twelve differ- ! ent answers,?and all would be cor- < . rect. ? ! "Good roads," one would say. "Our j j roads are a disgrace. We need a hundred million dollars'worth of well- . graded, hard-surfaced roads. Why, . when I was in Florida last year" (or . : maybe Massachusetts or California), i ^ ? 11 i ' anu tnen you wouiu ui d ! roads paradise, with no holes, no rut?, ' no bumps, no mml. no broken springs, , ! no blow-outs. i 1 ''Vvhr.t South Carolina needs most," i .,.;other would say, *'is not material | .i?i?s like srccd roads, but a wider i field of social vice, a more sympathetic and scientific way of dealing I with our dependent and defective I classes. The State is not doin.cr its I duty in :;rsri'n:?ed charily and social I * * * 1 ? o o -. s-.-ivL- T.ir ivmf*h is h'i't to j chance or to individual effort. T he strong arm of the State must be j stroiched out mightily and intelligent! ly protect the weak and the helpj less, to give the underprivileged a j fair chance and a square deal." i "The greatest need of South Caro! lina." a third would insist, "is ir.creasied court facilities and prison reform, j For lack of judges and court machinI ery justice is delayed for months and even for years. And our penal system, is mediaeval and cruel. We look not at the criminal, but at the crime. ; We punish by hard and fast rules, fitting the criminal to the punishment,: not the punishment to the criminal. The criminal is usually a man who is socially sick. We should try to cure him and restore him to society, in- J stead of hounding him down as we would a mad dog or a wolf." "Why ask?'' another would say. Every one knows that the State's chief need is education. There are six fundamentals for judging an educational system; namely, public school expenses per inhabitant, expenses per. pupil, salaries of teachers, length of school term, school attendance, and| illiteracy. In each of these six points South Carolina ranks among the low-1 est of the whole sisterhood of States.1, The Palmetto Flag flies over more: mental darkness and ignorance to the square inch than exists in any other State in the Union, save possibly nnp " Which of these needs could you de-.' clare to be unnecessary? Put it to a! vote all over South Carolina and you1 would get a unanimpus verdict ip favor of all of them. What is, the trouble, then? Why don't we get them? TU~ 4. ~. U1 ? .,11 11le uuuuie ;a uiai liic^ cui cust, money, and much money. That is all, but it is enough. Find a way to dou-' ble or treble the State's income, and all our troubles would vanish. But the only source of income the State has is taxation. And taxation is a sore subject. Nobody wants to think about it. or hear about it.' "I'll dis-! cuss education with you, cr good roads, or prison reform or the League; of Nations, but don't bring up the subject of taxes. The only thing I know about taxes is that they are t.*)o high and I want them reduced." All n-f <wrifr~ i: H'")l '..7 I 0? ? ? where we strated from. Ti? lour, blind men are still arguing r.br.uc the . elephant, ar.d us he' Woc\i:s his trunk and switches his tail, he is running up a "-ather sizable hay oi'l and stable1 r .] that will have to pal i -cmo day .i:ebody< ?- S , i Deferred Items. i We didn't get the Clinton Chronicle: ' of the 7th instant in time to copy the (following delayed paragraphs for iF'-'dfvv's Herald and News: I . Mr. and Mrs. .John H. Hipp spent Wednesday in Newberry. Miss Mary Cannon returned last week to her home in Newberry after spending several weeks here with relatives. Miss Veleria Blair of Blairs spent several days the past week with Mi?s Jimmie Nola Sparks. * Miss Kate Porter spent Sunday with her home folks in Newberry. Mrs. Sallie Johnson, Misses i,ois Johnson and I^ez Dobbins were visitors in Newberry Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jacobs, Misses Helena Bultman, Mellennee Thornley and Messrs. George Mason and James Browning spent Friday in Newberry. Miss Susie Davenport of Newberry visited her mother, who is a patient at the Clinton hospital here, a few days the past week. , Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Baldwin and children spent Sunday in Newberry with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Mertz of Spartanburg stopped over a few hours Monday on their way to Newberry. Mr. and Mrs. John Miller of Whitmire were in town on Monday. Concerning "Honest Hutch" Will Rogers plays Old Hutcft^ the laziest man in the latest village in the world. The most strenuous thing Hutch ever did was to extract tobacco mo.ley from his worx-ridden w'fe. A mysterious ailment of the neck prevented his en<*ag:ng in anything remotely resembling labor, bur. he ivas able, by an almost super-human effort, to drag1 himself to the river oank on sunny 'lays to fish for mythical t! UUt. 1; was on om- of these excursions ' " ' n: i . i ...M, .1,,. ;nai ilUlCil romucu ?IUI mi- i:uiuwi that changed his life. He needed worms, and dujr up instead a tin box containing: fifty one-thousand dollar notes?the fruits of a bank robbery in Vicksburjr. The bank robber made i\ tactical error in buryinjf his loot upon the exact snot where Hutch was WO!! I IS) ICVIiliV JUS v... i ? n HS.,I sultry afternoons. iiuich, elccrtrilieti by }2iiind, loes seme intensive thinking. He knows if he ever flashed a thousand dollar r.o'e in th>- village, the' natives wonld chip him berTind iron bars just as /l/.iWirt fit* SGO:] ' t'S LUfV I'HUIU KCtCliM,) i i i ui from the shjsck. So he dec-ides 10 become . respectable, work, save, and thus prepare them for hi* wealth. The astonishment ot his wife and children "at siirht of Hutch plowing a field and otherwise comporting himself like a dilicent farmer will only l)f equalled by the astonishment of the audience. And the story of how he becomes respectable, industrious ? J* 11 mm wmm . i i 1tm ??? I , I . Shakespef I ' ' ^0I | "As You H 'SvmnafHetir ill ^ I 'Accurate CI I P p . m . !i? 1??>; j$j] |fj FOtJRTi 0Z . IS! %edtaih ( Ni 1 just One of 17 j? SEASON TICKETS ONL bsgS^jjREDPATH CI Chauiauaua ki April * ^ flWl.VU'gUCJI.I.HIMm.'JUl WJ> ^ \Jhere'sMc any ?o ing' to t but littl* fZron V/iU|> combines i flavor the of wheat a which mak It has b? ready-to a Quarte i pos? &-?^2?? c:^L? ^p^?| ^ V--,tONOMY ^s-aassss:. iggfe and honest?is a story that for -ur f prise, for pathos and for irenuin; o - terlainnien: has never before\u>*;" . equalled upon the si-wen. Ai th?- <:p- ; era house .Monday. ; COTTON MILL MEN PLAN A SILVER JUBILEE MEET ; -i !? ? r ; Atlanta ijjt., ??.?imcic-.-n i.i t Allan;:- and hrouirhout the South ; Vkee:; ?>ve?- ?he Silv. - Jubilee convention of the Anii i ican Cotton .Mann-' , faeturers association t;> be held in Philadelphia .May 27 and 2S. The fact that the annual meet:r..u- of tiie Cotton Manufacturers yssociaiio an.i t-lace ad(i.-?t:> the interest a :v.o , T, . manufacturers. Aden v. J }": formerly president of the Expo:; ii:i? ?".?t: ". M il:;, ot Atlanta. p:\ : ider*. "f the American Cycton Manufactassociation, while F. {'3. Cilenn, of Arlanta. s fe* rct;.:y urer of the (jeorii'ia a.-soc.ation. Ore of the most important reports bcj submitted ^v11 ] deal with matters touching southern eotton mills. it is e.\pecteu that there \v'!l W some <SOO of tch lading cotton manunous I X Players 1 n | . .?>_ r? * 1 ire $ vjrecu m nedy 1 i Like It" | FS5 T - itsa interpretation jg W . 1 i haracterizations ? n < I' -I NIGHT - y i I Jhautauqua ? | Bjg Attractions ? i Y $2.75, "PLUS 10% TAX || j 1AUTAUQUA^?P^^d| ! : Week Here j .19=26 - j MPMBa^^?aa?aiBejewBWBCsj?M^ ? wmmtr vr?l I >re than Flavor j ods, while pleas- I , aste, contain I j 2 nourishment. ? j //ithits rich, sweet I j : full nutriment I j mr) -malfprh "harlpv ? :es it an ideal food. ; :en the favorite ! \ -eat cereal for r oPa century j ere's a Reason | Made by Lm Cereal Company,-Inc., ittle Creek, Michigan. ac'urers and business men generally\t >f the south in attendance. \'c An ;literestinfr program has been p irranjred for this Philadelphia meei-l ..j: and the probabilities are that it:L i vili be featured by the greatest gath-i of cottfln men ever assembled J n America. The silver jubilee banquet on the 1 'v.t-ning of May 27 will be of special nterest. Messrs. Fuller E. Callaway : ?f LuCiiar.^e: J. L). Mas?ey of Colum ;us; W. J. Vereen of Moultrie: Geo. 1 tJ. Lanier of West Point, and J. A. j Mandevllle of Cnrrolton are members i the b^u*d of governors. Mr. Ma i'jv-ile is also pre.-ident of the Cotton Manufacturer?' association of CJeorgia. :V::USIC PLAYED IN CALIFORNIA IS HEARD BY WIRE IN EAST Haverhill, M?>= .<.. April G.?Sitting in the parlor of his home on Fem .vood avt'.'.ue, Brandford, Daniel G. Kllis list; :ied t;> the strains of the musical number, "Way Down in Old Virginia." played on a phonograph in Avalor.. on Santa Cata'ina island, off the coast of California. The words i ~ I I Don't Spare in time of siekr: medicine must I > ' | get well ag'-in, f 1 3 i GepenG iifiuu i 5* \ ! ; tne medicine th ! Bring your doc tson here and y< ' what his i;rder I ; op of the pares | drugs, with con I ' and skill, yet eh reasonably. Pre % Mayes Ut Newberry, h Tn AH Drivers t\ JL i. 2L.BM JV > & I WA w v Vebi t Notice is hereby ordinance requir these vehicles be a "muffler" so < the noise made I of the engine, j strictly enforced March 18th, 192! E. L. RODE i md the music of the number relayed tcross the country by radiophone, or vireless telephone, were heard as jlainly as if the instrument were in in adjoining room. VOT1CE TC DEBTORS AND CREDITORS All persons, firms and corporations .-.aiding' claims against the late Mr. Harry H. Blesae wi'l p!e!tse present x statement thereof to Marion H. [5!ea?e, Newberry. S. ana an per-o-is indebted to the late Mr. Blease w'll i.i; be kin?I" enough to make s jaymcnt "f such indebtedness iikevV.'-e, Mis. MARGARET M. BLEASE. MARION* H. BLEASE. Heirs-at-law. >: 4 .? Rufc-Rly-Tism re'ieves Rheumatisrr* Neur?!v;ia, Sprains.?Adv ? NOTICE CF FINAL SETTLEMENT Notice is hereby given that will snake a final settlement of the estate ^ e; Mary Elizabeth Bushardt, deceased, in the office of the Judge of Probate for Newberry county, S. C., at 11 o'clock a. m.. on Wednesday, April 20th. 1921, and immediately thereafter apply for a discharge as FJxecutor of said Estate. OLIN R. CANNON, PX-ecutor. March TSth. 1321. ymm&e sr ?. ir* ;wr. ^^^JBay.T^.wwronrw,{ / Ilk - i tlin Q nnnn U1C UJJUU1I ies.s. Dopes of V-' be taken to but a lot will the quality of r f spoon noj.os. :'-0r's prescripou will get ju?t calls for, made I and freshest V susnmate care V larged for most mo5' service. t ug Store , South Carolina ; ' i V I 4 f Motor Driven cles . ^ \ given that the ing# that all of provided with / as to decrease >y the exhaust is going to he from this date, I. LSPERGER, Chief of Police. v