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t { , VOLUME LVII, NUMBER 51. NEWBERRY, S. C., TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1921. TWICE A WEEK, $2.00 A YEAR HARDING SOUNDS CALL FOR SPEEE PRESIDENT TAKES HAND If LEGISLATION Chairman of House Ways and Mean Committee Summoned to White House - Washington, June 23.?Presiden Harding took ^hand in the l~gislativ< program today in an eU ^rt to speec lip enactment of tariff and tax legis lation by calling tjftairman roranej of the house ways and means com mittee to the White House to discusi the. possibilities of early passage oi such laws. Meanwhile the suggestion was re newed in the senate by Senator Watson of Indiana, a republican mem UC1 Vi IMC Uiiaiiv.^ vuiiuiiivbvvy ? ? < tax revision'should be placed ahead of tariff legislation. The questior gave leaders some trouble early ir the extra session and its revival todaj niade it appear that another effort TOiild be attempted to subordinate tariff to taxation in the legislative program. Mr. Jordney miormea tne president that the republican committet draft of the permanent tariff bill wil be ready by Monday or Tuesda** foi consideration of the full comi ,^ttee eH did not indicate how much tim? would be required for consideratior Mr. Fordney did not indicate whal length of time would be re quired for consideration of the b"'l by the whole committee membership, although he explained that a caucus of house republicans would <be helc before the bill is submitted forn^lly to the hocie. %. Senator Watson's suggestion brought statements by a half dozen republican. and democratic Aiators that the; Would support his proposal. 4 " " 1 11 ctadtcc ac one COI ITHI.AND 7 1 VCVlbtf VA WV*? ww m ?. . ? i A Rom*nee in the Life of Joha Howard Payne, Author of "Home, Sweet Home." r t Larry &antt's Weekly Letter It has been universally conceded that the sweetest words in the English tongue are "Home, Love, Mother;" and the unanimous verdict of the ? !?..!?? ic +Iiof +*Vl CX nirPML ZJlUSiV-iUVWIg nvtiu 10 Miav ?><V V..... est and most heart-appealing song ever composed is "Home, Sweet Home." The music and words of this old song chime and blend so harmoniously and the song is so patheticallj true that it appeals to and penetrates the nobler and higher instincts in ev ery human heart. Wlnie otner songs, some wnnci toy world-famous poets, have beer cask aside for newer creations "Home Sweet Home" is today as popular z melody as when first given by its .author to an enraptured world Noth has ever been or ever will toe pro dnced to take its place. It is th< Alpha and Omega of melodies on tha^ one subject, and will endure so lon$ as the human race has a habitatioi and place of abode. "Home, Sweet Home," has beer translated into every tongue, and ha: even invaded the desert and the dark est wilderness. Travelers have hearc it sung by Arabs in the Sahara desert those migratory people whose home; and horee-hair tents are shifted fron oasis to oasis as their needs demand And yet these descendants of Ishmae love even their tents as a home. Stan # 1 * 4A 4-\J on ley, in one 01 nis letters tv wis York Herald, wrote that he heard ir darkest Africa, a band of naked sav ages, in their gutteral voices, chant ing "Home, Sweet Home," that wa: introduced by a burthen bearer o1 their tribe for a party of home-sicl American explorers. These black sav ages live in huts constructed of brusl or gra^, and yet those hovels wer< to them a home. The Esquimaux, it i: * * * - ?A J f/\?r said, nas long iniroaueeu tm? svnf in his winter ice-burrow, for that fou cave is to him a "Home, Swee" Home." It would appear that th< Turk, with his harem, would be on< race that would have a surfeit o:! home, but this American song is on< of the most popular airs in Turkey. Josh Billings wrote that the mos" * J A fft rvrAfo^" &rrsnx co^3ru wumu w y &vww his home, but he never heard of a fel low shouldering a musket in defens< of a boarding house. This witticisn carries with it a mine of wisdom ant truth. To abide in a palace belonging to another and from which you can be j ejected at the whim of the owner is | not like having a home of your own. It matters not how humble that habitation may be 'there is no place like * home." From the smallest insect to the wild beast, instinct teaches it to first construct a home to which it can j 1 retire for rest and safety. It is the J one small part on earth over which the occupant has sole ownership. The > ant burrows a home in the earth and j t the tiger, lion and all other wild; i ? ' beasts have their lair or cave. But that den is home. r The first written laws framed: were by English Barons beneath the j j wide-spreading shade of a giant oak; f and the first declaration was made that a man's home was his castle, and ' that it was ever sacred from invasion! except by consent of the owner. And with the first settlemen of America t . this declaration was imported with' | the colonists, and no law-is more! ( firmly implanted in the minds of our t people today. A plutocrat, with gildr ed chambers in a palace hotel is an ! . object of commiseration when com-' pared with an humble working man, living in a cottage of his own, and i where love and contentment abide. John Howard Paine, whose brain' ' I > and gifted and almost inspired pen 1 gave "Home, Sweet Home" to the1 world, never had a home, and his song' . was a dirge for that which he him-1 self lacked and so ardently longed i for. That song was a piteous wail ; of a home-hungering heart?a wish ! . that was destined never to be realized, | I for he died in Tunis, in Algiers, in an 1 , alien land and among strangers, ut- J i terly penniless. He had only his pit- j [ rful and uhcertain salary as American consul to subsist upon. Years after! his ren^ins were brought home and a ' ;j handsome monument erected w> per-i petuate his memory. r Like Robert Burns, who died in. | poverty and want, John Howard Paine 1 "asked for bread and they gave him i a stone.'* But this homeless wanderer,' and whose song has touched and! i softened so many hundreds of mil-| lions of hearts and touching and in-J spiring the noblest and holiest in-1 stincts In the human mind, has found at last a "Home, Sweet Home," but 1 it is not on this earth. There is a little romance connected! with Joihn Howard Paine seldom i /\,r+ nf fir<+inn T Vmvp talked ' I 1V/U11U VUV V/JL livviviii - w with those who knew and loved him,1 : as will be seen before this sketch1 ; ends. 1 The author of "Home, Sweet j " Home" was of medium stature and re markably handsome. He possessed j 5 a most captivating manner, but al-1 ' ways had a dreamy expression, char-! acteristic of a certain line of genius, j i with thoughts above the average j ? TTo <4otm+orliT7 lovpfi a heauti 1 | 1UI11U. JI1.V UVT VVVUAJ - ? , i ful and accomplished young girl of i Athens, Georgia, who belonged to an ? aristocratic and distinguished family, - named Miss Mary Harden, and who ' - ardently returned the young poet's' s love and remained true to him to the t hour of her death. But young Paine | f had the reputation of a ne'er-do-weli, i he was utterly penniless, and the Harden family firmly vetoed such a i mesalliance for their only daughter ? I 1 1?;?^ .-ilrlon timec ' 5 anu x 11 j c viuv^ii w?u?vw v.? - dren were more submissive to pareni tal authority than in these days. , And just here let me state that J 5 many years ago, when I published a j i paper in Athens, Georgia, I lived next . door to this same Miss Mary Harden, I and my partner, Horace Cranford, - rented and lived in part of her home, f j She retained in her service an old muII latto named Rob Roy, a body servant' -I of her father. General Harden. This! - old negro waited on John Howard > Paine when he visited his young misF tress, and always being of an investit gating turn of mind, and never for getting what I had once heard, I had i a rare opportunity of learning and I i preserving in memory unpublished in- J 5 cidents in the life of this world-fam-j : ous character. 1At that time Miss Mary Harden was t a very old maiden lady, almost de-; J [ crepid, who lived almost the life of; i j a recluse. She had outlived all of j f I her kindred and friends, was looked. J | upon somewhat as a miser, and seem- ; I - J minolino' with tVlP eu latuci i?v ...... t outside world. Among: her few as- j t sociates was a charitable young lady -! named Miss Effie Jackson, a id to 2 whom Miss Harden bequeathed her en 1 tire property, but on her death-bed 1 exacted from Miss Jackson a promise ? that she would bury with her a trunk j full of old love letters written her by John Howard Paine, together with that priceless relic, the origin:: 1 manuscript of "Home, Sweet Home," with erasures and changing o^ words by the author which he gave t) the lady of his love. When the remains of Joivi H nvard 1 Paine were brought bajk from Algiers au.1 the whole country was preparing ( to do honor to his memory th*.? pub- j< lishers of Frank ?Leslie's Magazine J < WTOte me offering $500 for the orig- ji inal. But when I called on Miss Mary iHarden and handed her t; e Leslie '1 letter, she became indigna.it and de- j * " ' --1J - it.. I dared tnat an tne :^oiq r.i mo wnuic t world would not buy \t und woul.l not |j even consent to have .1 copy made. \ She told me that the 1:1 a.iuscript was < the most hallowed and treasured pos- ( session she owned and wiien she died ] it would be placed next to h?;r heart , and buried in the casket with her, ( and which was done. 1 j Mjss Harden, while possess? "?;? a 1 nirp Dro'Dertv. always wore an old, } faded black dress, which she never changed winter or summer, and she t was said to be very slovenly :md un- j cleanly in her habits. I cannot con- j ceive a more dreary and desolate ex- ( istence than that led by this 3ne-time j belle, beauty and heiress, who pos- } sessed all the advantages and good ] things that this world can bestow. < She was one of the highest educated j and most accomplished young women in the South. It is said she spoke half i a dozen languages fluently and when ( her father was. the American Minister 3 to France she accompanied him and ? acted as his secretary and interpreter. < It was there that she first met John ] Howard Paine, who was aimlessly' ? wandering around the French capital, j On both sides it was a case of love at i first sight?a hopeless love that ended in wrecking two lives, making one a ' s homeless wanderer and of the other \ a self-exiled recluse who only lived on ' memories of the past and a hopeless i love. ^ When Generai Harden returned ' 1 home, John Howard Paine followed J ( the object of his ardent and undying . affection. Some of his friends and ad- j ^ mirers secured for him the appoint-13 ment of Indian Agent at Dahlonega, , in Northeast Georgia, and which he 1 solicited because he was near the home of Miss Harden, and it Was ,] while there that he traveled through ] the country on horseback and would j visit the young girl who held his ] heart enchained. I sometimes think if those young J? women who have made up their minds i ] never to wed had seen the forlorn, < and almost friendless existence led by ' < i the old sweetheart of that immortal j author of "Home, Swet Home" it , would be an object lesson to them. <1 The story of the wrecking of two hap- ; py lives should also be a warning to < parents of interfering with the future mating of their children when their affections are once fixed. A i' true man and woman can never love j ardently but once, and that will en- ^ dure as long as life lasts. There is no question but that his . disappointment made of John Howard I Paine a wanderer over the face of j, the earth and also paralyzed a pen! . that would have added" rich treasures ' j to the literature of the world. He . wrote his "Home, Sweet Home" while , in the zenith of his young love, and ) ?v,/%.rvo woe abandoned of ever wncii an winning the hand of Mary Harden he } sought relief by becoming a self-exile ! from his native land. John Howard Paine in a letter to a I friend told of how he had walked the j streets at night of some great Euro- j pean capital?London, Paris or Vienna?utterly penniless, hungry, with- ' out place to lay his head, he would pass some brilliantly illuminated pal-;1 ace at the close of a night of revelry ' and hear the musicians ending with ? ? . . * i f his "Home, Sweet Home." Little aia . those joyous pleasurer-seekers knowi1 that the author of that song was a homeless wanderer at their door. ' ANNUAL MEETING STOCKHOLDERS. I? . The annual meting of stockholders! of the Sanitary Cleaning company j will be held in the office of the com-1 ' . . . 1 -i rr.on _ I panv Monday, July i ltn at i :ov p. m. A board of directors and other offic- j ers will be elected and other business i attended to at this meeting. ] M. G. Sheppard, Treas. Ears are coming ,back into style.,] Hear, hear! j 3> <t> | 3> AMERICAN LEGION NOTES. <$> t> < > Q> ? ? <&<$><$ <$> In compliment to the participants in "The Microbe of Love" our Post ixrill ho Vincf af n informal nnrt.v t.o be given in the Legion hall this evening (Monday) from 8:30 to 11:30. All members of the post are expected to be present and lend a hand in giving our guests a pleasant evening. Members of the Women's auxiliary of the post will chaperone the party. I : The following paragraph is taken from Bulletin No. 19 from headquarters department of South Carolina: ' 'Plans for the entertaining of the )ne thousand patients at the U. S. 1 P. H. S. hospital No. 26 at Camp Se- 1 rier have been made by Fost No. '6 oi Greenville. This post has spent ;wenty-five hundred dollars for the benefit of disabled veterans. This; lospital is not a local proposition at 1 ill, men from all over the state being : ;here. To make the Fourth a day of < Measure for these fellows all posts n the department should help. If < nost -will erive two cents per nember to this fund, it will give these , joys a day they will never forget.!, Make your check payable to Fred jraham, Service Officer, and shoot it 1 n quick." Do you suppose that our "Buddies" j n the hospitals think that the Ameri- 1 :an Legion is worth while? It is needless to say that Post No. 24 has ?ent its check. But remember, ex-1 * VI n *V1 A*V? service man, 11 yuu aic xitn> a member in good standing in our post you ire not represented in that check. In the death of our National Coin-1 nander, F. W.Galbraith, the legion J sustained an inestimable loss. Especially is this true with regard to the lisabled. I dare say that during his term of office he did more to awaken the nation to its sense of obligation' to the disabled veterans than any dozjn other men. He obtained results and it was through the American legion that he did it. Realizing that in numbers there is strength he had planned to launch a membership cam-' psign. His last official call to the American legion was the call to dou- ( 3le the membership by October 1st.! He said, "I propose that the American Region shall exactly double its membershiD. A tremendous undertaking, you say. Yes, tremendously simple, lust an intensive effort when every [egion member in the world shall go jut, lay a firm but friendly hand up>n a buddy and sign him up. Every member get a member and the job is done. And the day I've set for the beginning of this intensive effort is a date most fitting. It is the fourth >f July." Fellows, can we double the membership of Post No. 24 by Oct. 31st? [ say we can. Our post now has 116 paid up members. Beginning on the, fourth let 6very member keep at it until he signs up a member. The names of the delinquent members will be posted in the Legion hall. If you succeed in getting a delinquent | member to come across with his dues for 1921 he will count the same as a mew member. Membership blanks j may be obtained from any officer of the post. Let the legion's slogan for the fourth be: "Every member get a member." Are you v.ith me? j John B. Setzler, Commander, j - - - - . . 1 * \T l In behalf ol the memoers 01 i>ew-j berry County Post of the American ! F.egion, I wish to express to all, who in any way contributed to the success I 3f the production of "The Microbe of Love," our heartfelt appreciation. Especially are we grateful to the, members of the cast, the chorus and the pianist for the cheerful spirit with ivhich they grave of their services. No doubt you will be interested to know that the post realized $83.00 above! expenses. .Trthn R. Setzler. Commander. i Oakland vs. Whitmire Oakland and Whitmire went 13 inninps to a scoreless tie. Both teams played fast ball. Batteries: Oakland, P. Bodie, Glenn; Whitmire, Watson, j * AA TTM.?. HoVlanrl WH'rf. fvitarway. nas. v,, mire 6. Walter Bodie, Mgr. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS ' | PROSPEROUS PROSPERITY. Prosperity, June 27.?A lovely af-j fair .in the younger society set was a; garden party which Miss Helen Bea-j enbai^f h gave Thursday evening com- j plimenting Misses Myrtis Cannon of j Augusta and LeRoy Counts of Colum- j bia. Masses of shasta daisies effected j a lovely yellow and white setting for the porch while the lawn was bright- { ened by beds of garden flowers. Punch refreshed the guests and was served by Miss Frances Bedenbaugh. Delicious ices and sweets were served. Miss Bedenbaugh was assisted dur- j inrr +Vio ovpnino* hv hpr mother. Mrs. ! "*fc< w*^ >-""""6 'j 7 J. I. Bedenbaugh. The Young People's society of Grace church was entertained Friday evening by Misses Lazette and Cath- j erine Counts. A pleasant evening! was brought to a close with the serv- [ ing of ice cream and cake. Baptist Sunday school observed Education day Sunday morning with a special service given by the pupils under the supervision of the teachers. J. H. Fellers and Olin Fellers of Gary spent Sunday with Mrs. H. P. Wicker. Miss LeRoy Counts of Columibia is visiting Miss Halen Bedenbaugh. Mrs. R. T. Pugh has returned from the Columbia hospital. Mr. R. K. Wise, a recent graduate of Harvard law school, arrived Sat * i -i. JxT. 1 urday to spend a wnne wan ms patents, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Wise. Rev. J. D. Griffin is attending Wofford Training conference. Wightman chapel and Zion Sunday school gave this trip to their beloved pastor. Miss Lucy Lake leaves June 30 for Lake Junaluska to attend the Epworth League conference. City Filling station will be open for service on July 1st. Miss Elizabeth May spent Saturday in Columbia. I. B. Nates of Columbia is sepnding a few days with his father, A. A. Nates. Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Hunt of Saluda spent Sunday with Mrs. B. B. Schumpert. Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Rawl of Lexington visited Mrs. L. W. Harmon onj Sunday. Mrs. Carrie McWaters and son Hines of Columbia are visiting Mrs. Horace Counts. Little Misses Mosby and Catherine Livingston are spending- the week in Newberry. Mrs. 0. B. Simpson and children have returned from Richmond. Mrs. E. H. Kibler of Newberry I spent Sunday with Mrs. A. A. Singley. Miss Lyna Gulledge of Sumter is spending the week with ivirs. j. a. Price. Miss Moss Fellers leaves today for Neeces to visit Mrs. H. L. Chaplin. Mrs. J. A. Simpson, Dr. 0. B Simpson and Dr. P. D. Simpson spent Friday in Columbia with Mr. and Mrs. 0. M. Simpson Mrs P. C. Sinelev and son Mower motored to Saluda Friday. Mr. W. P. B. Harmon and Mr. W. j C. Dominick motored to Ninety-Six! for the week-end. Mrs. G. Y. Hunter and Miss Mary! DeWalt Hunter returned Sunday | from Baltimore. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Langford of; Columbia and Johnnie Langford and j Miss Marguerite Taylor of Camden j spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. D. ' M. Langford. Mrs. R. T. Pugh and Miss Eula j Joiner spent Wednesday in Colum-j i bia. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Gibson returned Sunday from Andrews, after vis-; iting their daughter, Mrs. John Grant.: Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Luther of Co-! luimbia have been visiting Dr. and I Mrs. R. L. Luther. Mrs. Davis Black is visiting in Or-, angeburg. TU . T-.ll I., n | aVIISS C-ana r I'lieis in ;?pciiuiii8 ?... | month in Spartanburg with Mrs. Jessie Ray. Rev. H. J. Black, president of South' Carolina synod spent Tuesday here.' Ray Gibson of Columbia and J. B. Grant of Andrews accompanied Mr. W. T. Gibson home from Andrews. Mrs. J. A. Sease and Miss Grace; Sease ieave for Columbia Wednesday. ( While there Miss Grace will have her j tonsils removea. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Grant have as their ?uest John Grant of Saluda. ' Miss Josephine May who is attending South Carolina University sum mer school was home for the week-) end. Wise Calmes of New York paid a short visit to relatives here on Tuesday. Mrs. Alma Nance and Misses Doro- J thy Lilian Sease have returned from Columbia. , Randolph Schumpert of Knoxville, Tenn., is visiting his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Schumpert. Miss Olive Counts and little nieces, . Rebe and Dorothy Counts, left Wed-!' nesday for a visit to relatives in At- j lanta. i ?? ?* oi ?4 j U ivirs. lviary ouz nas reiunieu n vm j Columbia. j I Mrs. M. B. Bedenbaugh spent Tues- j ] day with Mrs. Dutton of Newberry, j. Miss Marguerite Wise of Colum-', bia is spending a few days with Mrs. j J. L. Wise. Mr. S. J. Kohn and Miss Gertrude j ^ Bobb left Friday for Asheville, where j they have gone to bring Miss Doris | Kohn home. Miss Kohn has been un- < 1 der treatment in a hospital in Ashe- j ville for nine months, and her many [ friends rojoice in her recovery. ;' ! i Prof. E. J. Brown of Manning vis-, ited Mr. and Mrs. W. P. B. Harmon last week. Mr. Richard Shumaker of Charles- . ton and Prof. L. C. Galloway of Due ' West have been visiting Mr. G. D. Brown. | ^ Miss Lillian Clinkscales of Andrews ] 1 ? ^ 1-. A r\? flio nas Deen nere m wic mi/u^b v/x w??\, j Woman's college at Due West. While j here Miss Clinkscales was the guest ^ of Miss Clara Brown. Misses Ruth Hunter and Ellen j Wheeler left Friday to visit friends ( in Darlington. I ( Mrs. Odalite Wallace of Newberry ] spent Wednesday with Mrs. J. A. ( Simpson. J < Mr. and Mrs. A. G. W;se are 1 spending a week at Glenn Spring. ' i Mrs. Deal Moore of Columbia :s the guest of Mrs. W_ J. Wise. j < Ellis Wheeler of Augusta is visit- j : u:_ ?T T. ing nis muuici, .mo. x. ( , " ! i For Cotton Growers j ; Washington, June 23.?Methods of < affording relief to the cotton growers i of the South were considered at a ( meeting today of senators from the J Southern states with Secretary Wal-J lace and Secretary Hoover. : < The situation confronting the cot-! J ton growers was canvased from all 1 angles and it was agreed that aome i means of relief must be immediately ( attempted. The cabinet members' 1 were said to have agreed to the sug- < gestion to put forwar^ by the Sou-! thern senators that means to be found i to enable banks to make an extension ' 3 x *? ?* Vi ol^ and also ' i on tne cotton papei aun aiuu ? t to place additional credit at the banks ' ] of the growers. |i The general belief of those partici-;-j pating in the conference was describ- j ] ed as favorable to consideration of,', the plight of the cotton growers im-1 \ mediately, the situation facing the j cattle growers of the West having been alleviated. It was not believed J t that additional legislation would be j necessary and it was thought that ac- t tion by congress should be avoided in < the interest of speed. ( - - - _ Senator Smith, Soutn uaroima, wnv was largely responsible for today's jj meeting, announced tonight that another conference would be called soon , j c to work out definite details for afford- j ing the necessary relief. { TWO BIG FOURTH OF JULY : BALL GAMES AT WEST END ? C ?? f The C. & B. Baseball club of Camp 1 f Jackson will cross bats with West! End July 4th for a double-header.:1 Morning game will be called at ten '?: o'clock. Afternoon game will be | ^ called at 4 p. m. Everybody come to ^ both games. These are expected to,s be the best games of the entire sea- ^ j"v son. - . I j Be sure to come and root for West j TTnH Music bv Newberry concert r band. The admission fee will be pub- /1 lished in Friday's paper. Look for i it. i0 Albert Murphy, Mgr. jf m jo Bite From Suspected Mad Dog jt A stray dog, supposed to be mad, t bit J. E. Meng, Jr., the little three- t year-old son of Rev. and Mrs. J. E. 'j I Meng, on the shoulder Saturday af- t ternoon at 5 o'clock. The child is d undergoing the Pasteur treatment at li home, administered by Dr. P. G. El-'s ' It] les-ui. STATE WILL GET FARM LOAN MONEY FIFTEEN MILLIONS AVAILABLE EACH MONTH Member of Federal Board Writes Representative Byrnes of Plant for Relief Hugh W. Roberts in The State. Washington, June 26.?Beginning August 1, South Carolina will get its aroportior.ate share of about $15,300,000 per month of federal farm oan money, according to A. F. Lever, member of the farm loan aboard, in i letter to Representative J. F. Byrnes >f South Carolina today. Mr. Lever'* optimistic letter fellows : "This letter is in response to your personal call of this morning, at ivhich time you left with me a letter addressed to you by the Honorable F. B. Grier of Greenwood, S. C., in ivhich he discusses the financial situation of the farmers in South Caroliia and the relationship of the farm .oan System thereto. "You will recognize, of course, that :he farm loan system was intended, - - * i ' ^ _?S ind its macmnery nas Deen orgamztju for that purpose, to meet the normal ong-time credit needs of agriculture, tt was not intended ir* any sense to become an organization to meet emergencies in farm credit such as we lave upon us at this time. But the "arm loan board is so fully cognizant )f the agricultural situation throughjut the entire country, and this is ikewise true of the federal land bank officials, that we have all exerted ourselves to speed up the machinery in Jie hope of furnishing at least a neasure of relief. "As you will recall, the loaning >per&tions of the system until very ecently been in suspension due ;o the pendency of a suit in the supreme court testing the constitutionality of the law under which we operate, and thus making it impossible to sell farm loan bonds. The favorable ?n fViic />a?o nn . aCV_IOl W 11 VSJL HIV VVUi V 111 viAAfcjr vmwv V4? February 28 was followed immediatey by a renewed activity upon the part )f the system, and on April 18 an offering of $40,000,000 of farm loan jonds was made and this offering durng this week has finally been absorbed, making available this amount in noney to be divided among 12 feder il land banks of the country. "It must be borne in mind at -all :imes that the farm loan system has no available source of funds for loanng purposes except as farm loan Donds, based on farm mortgages *'hich may be sold to the investing Dublic. There is always, therefore, a imitation upon the amount of funds ivailable for the system, this limitation being the amount of farm loan j_ ?u.... ? Jonas wnicn me puuuc wui uu) m a *iven market. It is estimated that ;he investing public will absorb of 'arm loan bonds an amount from year ;o year not in excess of $200,000,300. The machinery of the system is )rganized, in consequence, to loan "rom $12,000,000 to $15,000,000 per nonth for the entire country. "The entire $40,000,000 made ivailable by the recent bond sale will )e in the hands of the farmer by Auglst 1. The action of the house on esterday, and it was practically unmimous, in amending the farm loan ict, makes certain the continued and ininterrupted loaning operations of he system so that South Carolina nay hope to receive her proportionite share of the $12,000,000 to $15,>00,000 per month from now on. This ve realize, will not entirely meet the ituation, but when consideration is riven to the fact that $1 of money vili liquidate from to $7 of deTyts t will be seen that by the constant elief thus given a very general relief nil be afforded. "Let me emphasize that there is - -T 1 LI inly one source 01 luanauie money or the farm loan system as it is bow rganized, and that comes through he sale of farm loan bonds, but at he same time let me reiterate that he system is now in position, m my udgment, to operate without cessaion and it is my belief that a tremenous relief, though not an entire re ief, will he furnished through the ystem to the agricultural situation hroughout the country."