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1 0 C VOLUME LVIII, NUMBER 22. NEWBERRY, S. C., Friday, March 17, 1922. ^ TWICE A WEEK, $2.00 A YEAR SESSION BROUGHT MANY NEW LAWS REVENUE PRINCIPAL TOPIC OF LEGISLATION "T" ? ? nf Rills Killed t?v 1 WU V* WV??V0 W Senate?Other Important Acts Passed The State, 13. The session of the general assembly brought to an end yesterday afternoon was at once one of the long ? * est and busiest 01 any meetings ui the state legislature in recent years. The session was extended 20 days beyond the regular 40 day limit, both houses being occupicd with business of importance up to the closing hours. The recasting of the tax program of the state was the chief problem facing the legislature, as the members of the two houses saw it, and it was to the acco?nplishhment of this end that the greater portion of the time and thought of the members of the two houses was directed. The session of 1921, the 74th general assembly's first session, was conspicuously barren as compared with the session of 1922, just enaea, dul h saw the launching in the house of the tax reform program. The session of 1922 opened with practically the entire tax burden of the state borne by visible, tangible property. The session closed yesterday with 40 per cent of the this burden shifted to other sources as a result of the action of the two houses in passing five of now rovannp measures sriv- | uiic seven iibn en consideration during the 60 days j of the session. These new measures are the domestic corporation license I tax, the income tax, the inheritance j tax ana the gasoline tax. ! Two Tax Bills Killed Two other tax measures, the hvdro-! electric tax bill and the luxury tax bill, were killed by the senate after ? 1- "I _ j-U - passage by the lower nouse, wane uie Sapp resolution, providing for the amendment of the state constitution to empower tfie general assembly to fix a just and equitable system of raising the state revenues, was lost on the senate calendar, 'being continued along with the other bills which the upper house was unable to reach and pass in tM closing hours of the j session. The companion resolution to this, also introduced by Rspresenta- j tive Sapp, was lost on the house cal- j endar, the absence of so many mem- J bers (luring the last two weeks of the ] session making it practically impossible to secure the needed constitution- j al two-thirds majority in favor of the j measure. The estimated revenues expected to j be derived by the various new revenue measures this year are: Income tax, $1,000,000; gasoline tax, $350,000, and the two corporation t?.x measures, $125,000. The inheritance tax will produce but little return ihis j year, but is expected to be felt to a j considerably larger extent in the i years to follow. The luxuries tax, killed in the sen-; ate, was expected to give an annual j return of between $1,500,000 and S2,000,000, while revenues to be derived i from the hydro-electric tax, twice killed by the upper house, were variously estimated at $150,000 and $300,000 annually. Many Other New Laws Othpr mensurps of more than usual importance enacted during the session include the 55 hour textile law, / the railroad and public service commission consolidation law, the bill enlarging the powers of the consolidated railroad commission with reference to public utilities, the telephone rate reducing bill, the bill preventing the use of cutouts on motor vehicles on the roads of the state, the bank slander law, the 1922 code bill, the Gerald street car arbitration bill, the bill to reapportion the representatives in the general assembly, the \\ ells lax extension resolution, the cotton standards act. the Mclnnes act to repeal to the anti-tipping law. A series of bills to provide for bien nial sessions of the general assembly j and for four year terms of office for state officers was killed overwhelming-1 ly in the house, while the Sellers bill j to abolish free scholarships in state in-1 stitutions of nig'ner learning and the1 Leopard bill to create a board of state 1 chiropractic examiners also met their death at the hands of the lower bo.lv. I CHILDREN OF NEAR EAST CRYING FOR HELP I Columbia, March 15.?There is ! many a South Carolina boy back in jhis home now who would be sleeping | under a wooden cross in France bji i for the heroism of the 300,000 Ar.ne ! nian troops who gave up their lives in defense of the vast Baku oil JieIJ>, Cangressman Will D. Upshaw, thvi '"Billy Sunday" of Congress, r^emly stated. ''Experts agree that Germany's fail ure to capture this huge oil field shortened the war by many mnoths," Mr. Upshaw declared. "Who knows how many of our boys would have been left had that vast- maelstrom of killing continued even a day longer, when 10,000 men were giving up their lives every 24 hours? "The children of these heroes who made it possible for South Carolina boys to return are askinr crumbs from your tables?just enough food to take away the stinging pangs of hunger. Are we going to let them starve? We would not be true Americans if we did. "Hardly much bigger than South Carolina, Armenia sent into the war 400,000 troops, and most of them never came back. Their women and children were left?at least such women as the Turks did not outrage and butcher." Congressman Upshaw is making oppeals in behalf of the Near East Relief in many of the large cities of the South. All contributions should be sent to Mr. Wm. M. Gibbes, Jr., treasurer. Near East relief, 211 Liberty Bank building, Columbia, S. C. ? <c*w ' Death of Thomas B. Morris Prosperity, S. C., March 1G?Thomas B. Morris, Confederate veteran, died Wednesday at the age of 83. Several years ago Mr. Morris was stricken with paralysis and since that time has jeen in feeble health. After the war he returned home and settled at the old home place, where he engaged in farming. The funeral was held Thursday morning at 11 o'clock at Zion M<Hh odist church, of which church he was a member, the funeral services being conducted by the Rev. J. D. Griffin Surviving are his wife, four daughters, Mrs. J. 0. Hendrix, Mrs. R. S. Hawkins, Mrs. R. B. Hunter, and Mrs. C. H. Minick; three sons. C. L. Morris, D. M. Morris and Frank Morris all of this community. DESERVEDLY HIGH HONOR COMES TO DR. G. B. SETZLER Dr. G. B. Setzler of the class of '13, Newberry college, who has been on the University of Virginia hospital staff since his graduation from that institute in 19IS, was recently elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha honorary medical fraternity. From a medical standpoint this is the highest honor conferred upon one along this line. It was established at the university in 1019 and is one of the very few schools of the South which has this chapter. Well, Why? An eager looking youngster approached a man hurrying in the direction of the railway station. "Car ry your bag, sir?" he asked. "No," snapped the man. 'Til carry it all the way for a nickel." "I tell you I don't want it carried!" snarled the man. Whereupon the lad broke into a quick trot to keep up with his victim's hasty strides, as he asked, in innocent curiosity: "Then why are you carrying it?" Unlike the 1921 session there was little evidence of possible retrogression, the greater number of measures introduced being to enlarge and perfect existing departments of the state, a move to abolish the state highhway commission reared its head in the house for a short time, but the bill to carry out this plan was pigeonholed in the committee room and was never debated on the floor of either house. A series of similar measures, aimed at the highway department, was thoroughly considered by the senate, however, and overwhelmingly defeated by that body. Senator Wightman's bills to abolish the tax commission and the board of public welfare wore also killed. (CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO HOLD ANNUAL M?F.riN( I ' Meeting Scheduled for April -111 Six Nc.v Directors fo Elected Other Important Matter; , i According to an 'innonnccmen made public- bv Seeeratry .McLjanif ' of the Newberry chamber of com merce the annual member?hio r-xet ir.g of the chamber will be h.:id Fue? day, April 4th. The date for th meeting was decided upon at a regj , lar meeting of the officers and direc tors held on last Tuesday afternoon The constitution and by-laws provid , that the meeting shall be held som time during the first seven days o April of each year. ; The main features of the. annua meeting will be a report xy th-2 pres ent officers of the activities and ae complishments of the organizatio: during the past twelve months, .-?nd ; discussion of policies to be pursue* by the organization during the com ing year. In addition to this, th constitution and by-laws provide fo the electing of six new directors ti fill the vacancies caused by those wb were elected for only one year. Whe] the organization was organized twelv directors were elected, six for tw years and six for one year. Those t< nn Anril 4th will be elect UC C1CV> i" t w v/11 ? A?-? A * ? - _ _ cd for two years. By this metho< there are always six old directors am six new directors on the board al the time. In order to save time at the meet ing, the secretary has been authorizei to mail nomination blanks to ever member of the organization. Th members are requested to nominal twelve members. When the nomina tions are received tellers will checl the twelve highest and another ballo will be mailed to the members re questing them to vote for six of th twelve. The nominations, togethe with the resunlt. will .be presentei at the meeting for final election o the six. The first nomination b!an! will 'oe mailed out early next weei and the members are requested t rend in their nomination immediatel as all nominations for the first coun must be in the office of the chambe not later than the 24th of this month and all nominations for the secom count will have to be in the offic nof later than April 3rd. Every member of the organization should take a hand in the electio) of the new directors as the organiza | tion is working: whole-heartedly fo the upbuilding 01 iNewoerry cioy <xn county, and if a member fails t-> * ot it may tend to signfiy a lack of in terest in the work the organization i trying to do. The annual meeting will be open t every member and to every interest ed citizen and every one should plai now to attend the meeting. It wil be held in the court house and wil be called to order promptly at 8:0 p. m. Let us all be there and discus means and ways to build up a greate Newberry city and county. WILLIAM COLEMAN j . WILL MAKE RAC* ?? /my ? r Union bounty cmzen uners ro Governor | The State. ; Union, March 13.?William Cole man, highly respected citizen of Un ion, announced tonight that he wil : enter the race for governor this sum ' mer. Mr. Coleman is a .business mai of exceptional talent and will hav strong back in his candidacy. He i in intimate touch with public affair ;and a close student of governmenta : problems. i After attending the graded schools Mr. Coleman entered Wofford college from which institution he was grad uated in 1895. He then entered th (Harvard university law school, fron - which he was graduated in 1S98. H then entered the law firm of Jones <! Pillert of Charlotte. Upon the deat of K. L. Coleman, his father, an< Alex Rice, another kinsman, he wa given control of the large propert, | interests of these two estates, am uunder the inspiration and manage ' ment of Mr. Coleman the Glenn . Lowry cotton mills were built a Whitmire. Xewbcrry county, whithave been expanded into their presen large properties. He is now 4<> year old I t 'the orphans need ^ your assistance i i. ^ "While we have not been writing very much for the papers this winter, we have been -busy about the Economy home these snowy, rainy and sleety I days. The children are in school, ;] and they have to eat three times ev. ery day, and have some clothes to . keep them from suffering with cold. As many cf our friends know, th.2 e people in the boll weevil section are i- not able to contribute very much now. - More than 8,000 people have c'or.trii. buted to the Economy home within e the first three years. Today thouse ands of these are not in a position to f help us. This works a hardship on the home. l1 In order to take care of this de ficiency, the trustees have selected a number of good people whom they n believe will help the home, and the a superintendent has been busy this d bad weather getting out letters. One day we received eight applicai v X _ + + 4-Vn'c 0 tions wmcn proves iu mau tiuo r home is a necessity. While times are o h2rd we must have necessities, so we o set to work with renewed energy. The n next day we received a check for $50 e from an old friend of the superintend0 ent wo lives in. Virginia. The next a day we received a $100 check from - Texas. , i 3 j A pastor writes: "The little girl 3 "has no one but a crippled'grandfath1, ed to care for her, and he is willing ! for you to place her in a good home - if it becomes necessary." We were 1 -e~y.r.nA a lift.lp p-irl the other -LUIVCVi WV ^lUVV M 0 y ( day, and will have to place others in e private homes, unless we get more 9 help soon. l*j Franklin, Ya., Feb. 24, 1922 ^ Mr. J. H. Spaulding, Supt., ^ j The Economy Home, i Kings Creek, S. C. e Dear Sir. ? J-< r 1 ^ I am in receippt of your letter of ^ the 18th enclosing picture of your k houses, etc. This looks very nice and j. I am sure is very commendable in ; you and the others. We herewith 0 " ' 1- *? er.n -.T-O hand vou our cnecK jlui v>h^h ???_ y ' feel is the best that we can do at ? this time. Want to thank vou for callr ( ;ing this matter to our attention, and j maybe a little later we will be able to help you again. j Yours very truly, P. D. Camp. 11 ii: Dear Sir: r I was not at home when Mr. String^ field was here last week, and as I e have been wanting to give something l- ... ,v,Afl,flvlocc J-inrvip will pnclose lO J'UUl iliuuiciiwa s $o. Only wish I had five hundred to j give you. I did not have any money, 1 only some I felt obliged to use. I went into the closet and ask#d God n to open a way so I could give some, j and in about two hours five came into j my hands that I did not expect, and q I was so glad. cj Sincerely, | Mrs. J. M. Deaton. j Such letters as these help us to j walk ;by faith. And then when we J steap in the school rooms or cottages, - look in the faces of the children, and j hear their simple prayers, so much ' ' - J-l--.-- i-UU. I like a cmia asKing ineir eai uu) ??r! ther, expecting to receive what they | ask, we feel the rebuke of our Lord as He said to His disciples, "Oh ye I of little faith." " J Now, friends, what would you do "; or say if you were in the superintend; ent's place with 521 applications, ~ some of whom are very sad cases, and n some of our best friends and not able e . to help us as they have been doing? s, Will you step in their places and help s us to help some of these needy cases? * j We are trying to do our best for | every child in our care, and we would >> like to help others whom we know to !? be in need. One pastor writes that ~ one of his members has two little e girls he has to leave with a negro 11 while he works to feed them as they e hav^ no mother. Is it any wonder that P t* c so many of our motherless girls go h astray, when they are left for vulgar negroes to train? s! Your contribution is vour com f V mand. d j Yours trulj. -' J. H. Spaulcihg, Supt., . i- [ Economy Home, Kings Creek, S. C. h : When you get mad. count one hunt dred. and by the time you get through s you may be mad enough to do something about it. ^REPORTERS GRIEVE TO LOSE LAND IS Group Covering Federal Building in Chicago Ser.d Note Wishing "Good Luck" Chicago, March 12.?Newspaper men are supposed to stand by and smile at happenings and people in a cynical manner, according to the popular belief. The men assigned by the Chicago newspapeprs to cover the federal building ''beat," however, were a little bit different in the case of the retirement of Kenesaw M. Landis from the federal Pencil. On the famous jurist's: last day in court the federal building reporters presented him with the following testimonial hand lettered around his photograph on a large plaque: "Judge Landis: "For newspaper men the federal building will not be the same after you have gone. You will take the life of the joint away with you. "The srood ooinion of newspaper reporters is seldom sought, perhaps, but few men can say, as you can, that their departure made the press room blue. "We've known you for a long time, Not? just because there is 'copy' in your forthright way of doi ing things, but because we think you are an honest-to-God man and a judge with tlje right kind of backbone. "Good luck." It was signed by each of the reporters. CONTEST ON IN EVERY COUNTY FOR QUEEN OF PALMAFESTA Popular and Attractive Young Womj en in Every Section Interested in Big Festival Throughout South Carolina inter est is running- high in the statewide contest to secure, a queen for 1922 Palmafesta to be held in Columbia the week of April 17th to 22nd. Newspapers in the state are running voting coupons in each issue and many papers have published long lists of attractive contestants. Each county is selecting a candidate who will go to Columbia for the big week as the guest of Palmafesta, all expenses of the pleasant trip will 'be paid by the Columbia chamber of commerce. | When the forty-five county candidates assemble in Columbia for Pal mafesta a general election will .be held and the fortunate young woman securing the greatest number of votes will be crowned queen of 1922 Palmafesta, will be awarded the ?500 diamond ring and will be the recipient of many special honors during the 'big gala week. Every county queen will be royally entertained and will have a week filled with pleasure and honor. It will , be a 'week remembered through life ' as a landmark of pleasure?something to outshine all other occasions of merrymaking. The big steel auditorium at the state fair grounds will be the center of Palmafesta activities such as the crowning of the queen, daily band concerts, the big fashion show, automobile show, trades displays, vaudeville and amusement, acts both afternoons and evenings, and one or two nights featuring grand opera stars of international reputation. Pr, I mafesta will open Monday even- j ing, April 17th, with a mammoth dis-l play of fireworks. Columbia's streets will 'be specially decorated for the week and there will be gorgeous float parades, baby parades, and other features now being worked out by com-' mittees from the chamber of com- j merce. Several state conventions have arranged to meet in Columbia! during the week of Palmafesta. The county queen contests will close throughout the state on Saturday,1 April eighth, at six o'clock. As soon as the votes can be counted the winner's name and photograph will be sent to Columbia for insertion in : the beauty supplelment to be circulated throughout the state the week before Palmafesta. The most popular young woman in Newberry county will be elected by j sending voting coupons clipped from our columns to the Palmafesta con-! test manager of this paper. You can't expect people to trust .von if von distrust them. r 4 MEETING OF JASPER CHAPTER D. A. R. Mrs. James Mcintosh* was hostess to the Jasper chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution on Saturday the tenth, at which time South Carolina day was celebrated. At roll call the members present responded with cur rent events of interest to South Carolinians. The meeting was presided over hy the vice regent, Mrs. W. G. Houseal, in the absence of the regent, Mrs. W. H. Hunt. After a short business session, a very instructive and intertaining paper on South Carolina ! was read by Mrs. J. M. Kinard. This ; paper showed that Mrs. Kinard had taken infinite pains in its preparation, which began with the first colony from France under Jean Ribeau, coming on down to the present day. and dwelling on each particular political era, giving a resume of each war in which our slate participated, with the credits when due. Miss Mary Burton read an interest in? letter from our state superintendent of education in regard to the observance of South Carolina day, i March 18th, and giving the wo"ds of the legislative act whidh made its observance a law. This day is supposed , to be celebrated on next Friday by all of the teachers in the state. j Mrs. Burns read a fine paper on I Sumter county, after which .1 social I Tvjlf Vinnr \vn<? pninv.'-H hv t.hf? mem >ers present. Mrs. Mcintosh p/oved herse'f a delightful hostess and the b-eauliful home was fragrant with the breath of , blooming flowers in jars and vases. Mcst beautiful was a pot of yellow < tulips on the center table, while op- j enirg from the parlor was the conservatory filled with lovely plants. It was a beautiful party and the delicious sweet course was a most enjoyable part of the social hour. A. A. W. _ _ t Wliat a Contrast I Among the citizens of Newberry I ! as well as elsewhere in the state and i , nation there is, from time to time, j . feasting at banquets and big" dinners J i after lavish expenditure of money, I - notwithstanding; the cry of hard j times. Those who partake of the food are no more in need of it than was . Balsharzar and his friends at the ban| (prt whVh foretold destruction. Still with t'l j cry of h3rd times upon their l'ps the people of favored America! spend money freely upon other indulgences which gratify for the mo, ment. You who have all you want and ' to spare read the following from a fa-. mine strickcn land: | I "So many are already dying that j , they are burying them in v/3gon j loads. They take off the clothes of ! the dead, throw them into boxes, put snow on the bodies to freeze them, I then transport them in piles to the j cemetery. There, twice a week, they are thrown into great holes, cross. -wico naflrorl flnsplv hflVP bft I* ~ come a menace and attack piles of ( bodies in droves and dig into graves., Dead children, starved to death, are < left outside in open ways in piles,) covered with rags until they can be j ( hauled away." ' ( Look at the two pictures. "Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?", \ Even the crumbs which fall from the! j banquet tables would be a God-sen ' ( I to the starving ones. Those who are , already dead from starvation and ex- , posure, and "left outside in open ways ] in piles, covered with rags until they ( can be hauled away," are beyond the < reach of the money wasted in riotous 3 living. They can not feel the at- , tacks of the dogs gnawing their ema- : ciated bodies; but what of those who are at this very moment dying of hunger and want? "On with the ban- < quet, let waste be unconfined," if you ; will, but let's stop crying hard times, 11 and while we are feasting in pleasure i ^ ana luxury, let us also not refuse help ? for those unfortunate ones who, un- j ^ less aid reaches them, will soon have ; j their dead bodies stripped of their j, scant clothing-, thrown into piles and , transported to the cemetery, there to i be "thrown into great holes, cross- 2 wise, packed closely." You know nothing at all of hard times. i Judge Landis is probably wonder- j ing why Will H. Hays didn't hold on j. to his cabinet position and take the i , movit- job, too GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADJOURNS AT LAST FIGHT IN HOUSE ON APPROPRIATION BILL Both Houses Wait Through Night and Sunday Morning on Con* ference Committee The State, March 13. After being in session, with various recesses, since 10:30 o'clock Saturday morning, the general assembly adjourned sine die at 3:38 o'clock yesterday afternoon, having finally passed and ratified the annual appropriation bill, providing for the expenditure by the state during 1922 of $5.839,106.04 and carrying a state-wide levy on real property of seven mills, a reduction of five mills as compared with the levy of 1921. The session i i nn j 1 1 A (\ naa run zu uays ue^uuu mc -xv limit. Adjournment yesterday afternoon was reached only after a long vigil by both houses, lasting through Saturday night an^ Sunday morning, while the conference committee worked on the annual appropriation bill. The senate completed its consideration of this measure Friday night and the conference committee began work on the bill Saturday morning. All through the day and night the three senators and three representatives debated the bill and rewrote it while the two houses sat and waited for their report It was not until 1:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon that the committee completed its task and sent its report and the rewritten foill to the two houses, to be adopted later by both, ratified and sent to the governor for his signature. The senate agreed to the conference report almost without debate. The house, however, gave its acquiscence only grafter lengthy argument. Eleventh Hour Attack This eleventh hour attack upon the appropriation bill, which if successful would have held the general assembly in session at least two weeks longer, furnished a dramatic finale to the session. All through Saturday night various members of the house of representatives had attempted to secure adjournment over until Monday to prevent a meeting of the general assembly on Sunday, so yesterday afternoon, when the report of the ccnfercnce committee was received at 1:30 J. E. Anderson of Florence moved to adjourn debate on the report until Monday. Mr. Anderson stated that he was not oppos2d -LI- T- MI ? it. - J ? J.:? co xne o:ii or uie auupuuu tnc report but since it was apparent that it would be contested he was opposed to any discussion of it on Sunday. Debate on Mr. Anderson's motion revealed considerable opposition to the adoption of the conference report, the charge be'ng made by E. R. Buckingham of Aiken that the. bill had 'jeen twisted from one side to the other. Mr. Buckingham's statement brought T. E. Hughes of Marion to ieny the implication of twisting or juggling of the figures in any way by either the ways and means committee )r the conference committee. T* \ T) . ? r> 11 J s\. Diu.vn 01 oarnweii oppoaeu the motion of Mr. Anderson and thought, he said, that the time had :ome "for the honest manhood of the state to manifest itself." The one iim of the session, he pointed out, had seen the relieving of the tax burdenid farmers of the state and, he claimid, the conference committee was not representative of the house since none :>f the 54 farmers in the house were lamed as members of the committee. Not Afraid of Fight Eugene S. Blease of Newberry spoke in favor of the motion to ad- 5 iourn until Monday, but at the same ;ime disclaimed any fear at any time 0 meet the issues of the bill. Claud Sapp of Columbia had no objec;ion to postponement of the debate j )ut the question, he contended, was 1 simple one?either the house must idopt the conference report and the Jill or refuse the report and kill the neasure. W. D. Barnett of Columbia ilso opposed the motion to postpone le'oate, believing, he said, that the louse had the fullest confidence in It conferees. "What is there in the )ill," ho asked, "that any class should >e favored or protected? And those (Continued on Page 2) ft