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Q jS J aMmam I, IB |W|,?, , , rm??'?"??????r?? ???? ? ?? ?? ?????^????! VOLUME LVIII, NUMBER 34. NEWBERRY, S. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1922. TWICE A WEEK, $2.00 A YEAR > ft _ ^ DILATORY ACTION ON TARIFF BILL REPUBLICANS APPROACH CONSIDERATION CAUTIOUSLY Big Business Pressing Republicans for Passage Only Pressure Now Hugh W. Roberts in The State. Washington, April 25.?The Republicans approach the enactment of the Fordney-McCumber tariff as gal ley slaves scourged to mexr wuui. But for the insistence of "big business,'' it is .generally believed that . they would forego all tariff legislation. * For it is recognized by Republican leaders that for the passage of permanent tariff statutes the times are peculiarly out of joint. Whereas in other days the United States was a borrowing nation, it is now the creditor nation of the world and possesses more than half the gold supply of the world. And Europe can not pay its enor ^ rnous obligation amounting to more than $11,000,000,000?and thus restore American prosperity?unless 1 ^Europe is permitted to scale the tariff wall with its merchandise. While Republican leaders recognize the foregoing facts, they are forced nevertheless to proceed. "Big business" is most insistent. "Big busihess" has chafed under inordinate delay whcih has already attended Republican efforts. The whips are cracking and the Republicans are proceeding but slowly and totally without enthusiasm. The consuming public is already registering its protests. The Republican press is already scoring the meacure which pends before the sen ate. The New York Herald, the New York Globe, the New York Tribune, the Brooklyn Eagle, the Philadelphia Public Ledger, the Chicago News and other notable publications which generally subscribe to the Republican paternoster have displayed bitterness. Both Parties Oppose But the chief contributing factor to Republican trepidation is the fact that the public, not only Democratic ^ but Republican public, indicates unmistakably that it will not stand for tfco froniihlirans increasing: the cost of living in response to the dictates of "big business." This public has already secured one victim. Ira C. Copley, representing the Eleventh Illinois district and a member of the ways and means committe of the house, out of which came the Fordney-McCumber tariff, has been beaten in the primary election by Frank R. Reid, Republican. Reid was a bitter critic of the administration, cf the Republican congress and of Copley himself. argued that the consuming public had absolutelyno chance at a fair play ? * 1 'ii _ J as long as the Republicans pernmteu millionaires to organize the ways and means committee and write tariff laws which affect the dinner pail of everybody in the United States. Had Copley, who is an experienced legislator and wealthy enough to conduct any kind of a campaign, been returned to congress despite the criticism of Reid. no fear at present would grip the heart of the Republican congress. But the people in this vro-rp Rermblieans. listened to Reid and surprised the nation by . defeating Copley. The issue was the tariff which the millionaire ways and means committee reported. The issue was well de' fined. From Reid's campaign literature the following: is reproduced: "Who are the men who frame the revenue and impose laws on the nation which vitally affects the business interests of every man who has something to produce or sell, every farmer who grows a jushel of grain or a pound of beef and every wage earner in the Eleventh district? "The committee is composed of 17 Republicans and eight Democrats. The Republicans, of' course, control the committee. Eleven of them are millionaires or multi-millionaires. It would be impossible for them to legis late from the viewpoint of the consuming public." Wealth Do mineers Following: his election. Mr. Reid in ^ a signed statement, said: ''The cam> paign was waged against a system ' under which a dozen men of great L 'new bank ready j now for business j Former Congressman Lever Head: Institution?Bank is in Palmetto Building ' The State, 26. I a i? T.ovpr former congressman who recently resigned from the fed eral farm board to accept the officc i of president of the First Caroline ' Joint Stock Land bank, arrived in Columbia yesterday and at once begar making preparations for the openinp of the bank. The new institution wif have offices on the fifth floor of the Palmetto Bank building and is read} now for business. With Mr. Lever there arrived yes: terday H. E. Way of Washington, sec retary of the new bank, who has heretofore been in the service of the fed eral land bank. i The new bank, Mr. Lever said yesterday, will be under federal charter and will be under the same strict supervision as controls the land bank , and will make loans to the amount oi 50 per cent of the appraised value oi farm lands. The bank begins business with a capital stock of S2r>0,000 which is to be increased as the necessity for a larger capital becomes imperative. "With the financial backing which this institution has, it will with in a few years be one of the outstanding financial institutions of the two Carolinas," Mr. Lever said. The maximum rate of interest tc be charged on loans, :ut. jl.cvCi was 6 per cent. The bank will loar direct to borrowers. "I regard this as a wonderful field for such an institution, not only foi us but for the service wich it will perform in bejjalf of the general good. It is the first organization of its kind in the two Carolinas," Mr. Lever said yesterday. 'I am happy to be back m tne sia/tt again/' Mr. Lever continued, "in connection with this bank, and with ni politics is forever a pleasant recollection. "I have already turned down twc invitations to fill engagements, anc am here for business and not for political speechmaking." Mr. Lever is president of the new bank; H. E. Way, secretary; J. P. Matthews, first vice president; Thomas & Lumpkin, general counsellors the second vice president has not ye1 Hppti rhosen. The board of director? is composed of Mr. Lever, Mr. Way Mr. Matthews, A. M. Lumpkin," W. B. Drake, Jr., of Raleigh; A. W. MacLean of Lumberton, N. C.; R. E, Webber of New York and F. L. Put nam of New York. THE REPORTER SEES NO HARM IN ORDER OF SHIFTERS I | All at once there is a great hue anc -x " TV.O nit. cry against trie oun^. ? ? cry, we suspect, comes from persons who do not belong to the "order," just as most of the people who "kick' against moving pictures rarely evei see a picture?not that 'some of 4.h< pictures are not good. This new "order," as we see it, is nothing but < little fun and innocent amusement Some of the very best people of New berry, men and women, young anc old. belong to it. Some people car make harm out of any and every thing. Way back yonder Satan trier to make harm in heaven, but wa: banished from the company of th( good angels. We are not taking u] ; for the Shifters. If certain good am uneasy peopie think it is wrong w< , will not dispute with them. We wil . only say if this order is not right then bridge playing, where the lose: ; is "caught," is no more right. Le these reformers go a step farther while at it, and turn their batterie on things that need looking afte: rip-ht under their noses. These sam< persons, or some of them, have beer "frolicking" rather than attending the sDiendid services at the First Bap tist church. j The early bird used to get th< worm, and now he gets a place t park his car. ; wealth dominate the action of con gress on matters of tariff and taxa \ tion and use their great power to se 1 cure legislative protection for them . selves." Mr. Reid. in other words, resorte* ! to good Democratic doctrine to un f seat his opponent. 4 SMITH HEARS PLEA j FOR INJUNCTION! > TELEPHONE COMPANY SEEKS 1 PERMANENT ORDER I O^? v A/.f of rir?r?(?ral Assembly , Rc.ducing Rates Point in i Issue I _ j 1 The State. \ Charleston, April 2-1.?A hearing: ' was held in the telephone injunction ; case today by Judge H. A. M. Smith of the United States Eastern district court, and after hearing arguments of attorneys representing the plaintiff, the Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph company, and the various state authorities. Judge Smith took the case under consideration. The plaintiff had petitioned for an interlocutory injunction restraining state nffifials from enforcing: the recent act ; of the general assembly regulating ; the maximum price which may be charged by telephone companies in ! the state, and in the meantime Judge ' Smith had granted a temporary restraining order, and the defendants then petitioned that the plaintiffs complaint be dismissed. ' The following attorneys were on hand to represent the telephone company: Grier & Park of Grenwood, W. S. Nelson of Columbia, Hagood, Riv' er?: <fc Younc of Charleston, Henry E. ' Davis of Florence and Willcox & 1 Willcox of Florence. The defendants were represented by Attorney Gener1 al Samuel M. Wolfe, F. A. Miller of Hartsville and Stephen Nettles of Greenvjlle. i The arguments before Judge Smith , today were mostly of a technical nature. The plaintiff alleged, in its complaint; that the new law regulating telephone rates is of a confiscatory nature and therefore unconstitutional. and in the hearing today this point was stressed, as was the point that unless the injunction were granted, ^ the plaintiff would be faced with a multiplicity of suits in the state courts, resulting in immense penal- j ties and fines. Supporting its motion to dismiss, the complaint, the respondents claim-! ed that the plaintiff had adequate re- J lief through appeal to state courts. ' The question as to whether or not the motion for an interlocutory in junciton should be heard before a tribunal of three federal judges was also taken up in the hearing. The hearing commenced shortly after 11 o'clock and lasted more than an hour. The railroad commission of South Carolina and Samuel Wolfe, ; attorney general, are among the respondents. , L DR SK!NNER HAS DONE GOOD : SERVIUt hUK lNt.Wi3t.KK.i * I ' Dr. Skinner has preached power ful, most appealing and far-reaching i sermons all the way through the se ries of meetings in the First Baptist i church. He is a convincing preach. er, a deep and clear thinker with his - reasoning faculty developed to the [ highest order. We have no fault ro i find with this man. Like all truly J - great men Dr. Skinner is modest. 1 Just as "the bravest are the tenderest, 1 - lnvinjr the most daring/' Dr. ! ; | Skinner, "eloquent in h"'s simplicity," ! 3 with his wonderful grasp an 1 remark1 able range, yet exhibits the beautiful 3 and rare trait of mode-it;;. Hv draws 1 men to him with the maga^t of love. People love him because M.cy know r he loves them. The ;reafc !o/e in hit heart shines in his countenance and .|is felt by his hearer;. We can not s sirJi wc would wish t * ?ay ;>f P:. r Skinner. We know he would rather ? we say that he has done good in Xewi berry. This is true, and his btne> fic-ial influence will long be felt here. mn u Death of Mrs. Gruber Mrs. Carrie C. Gruber. wife of Mr. e Geo. C. Gruber, died at her home in 0 the Beth Eden section on Tuesday night at 11 o'clock, from the effects - of a paralytic stroke received only on - the previous Friday evening at 6 - o'clock, at the a.e:e of 64 years, and - was buried Wednesday afternoon at - o o'clock, at Beth Eden church, service by Rev. L. P. Boland. Besides 1 {her husband, she is survived by one - sister, Mrs. Gilliam Fulmer of Newberry. I > MEMBER DEFENDS SHIFTERS' ORDER Clajms Organization is for Promotion of Good Fellowship and Harmless Fun To the Editor of The State: In behalf of the Royal Order of Shifters, of which I am a member, and in order to correct some of the unjust statements which have been circulated about this organization, I wish to set forth some facts regarding it. 1. The Shifters is only a harmless organization for the promotion of harmless fun and good fellowship. The fact that it has grown so fast, to be so strong, and the fact that many of the most influential and enlightened of our citizens are members should convince anyone of the truth of this statement. 2. It is very inexpensive to become a member. In fact, the only expense is a small initiation fee, which will be refunded to the initiated if he lives up to the requirements or the oath. 3. There is nothing in the organist; tn rnmncl anv erirl to associate with any boy or anyone else with whom she does not desire to associate. If there were any such provision does it seem possible that members who have wives, sweethearts and daughters would advise them to join? And would any self respecting girl tolerate this practice? Yet every member will advise their best friends to become members. Ask any memKa,. ;f Vio ic cnrrv hp hecame a mem ber. The vast majority will tell you that the Shifters is the greatest organization of its kind ever begun, and that his only regret is his failure to join sooner. Finally, I wish to emphasize the fact that the Shifters is an organization for the; promotion of good fellowship and harmless fun. Any attack made upon this organization must come from someone.who does i not understand the high ideals and aims of the order. It must be remembered that "idle tongues will wag." and that "he who knows Jeast talks most." NEWBERRY COUNTY ROAD BONDS SOLD Newberry county sold on Tuesday afternoon $200,000 worth of road construction bonds running 40 years a a r* r* r\ ryii 1 ^ at 5 per ccnt tor $zu4,oou. ine saie is regarded here as a decidedly good one. The buyers of the bnods are Stacy & Braun of Toledo, Ohio. The county also let the contract for constructing 37.6 miles of top soil roads in the county to the Newell Contracting company for $102,941.25. This * i i r mileage includes eight ana a nan miles between Pomaria and the Richland county line; Bush river church road from city limits out five miles; the Calks' Ferry road from Prosperity to the Lexington county line, seven and half miles; Ninety-Six road between Whitmire and the Brick house, five miles; Belfast road from near Longshore to the eleven mile post near Dominicks, five miles; Kcmpson Ferry road, six and sixtenths miles from Rocky branch to Saluda line at Alligator Rock bridge. WHAT SOME ONE ELSE TOLD SOMEBODY ELSE The State on Wednesday made pleasant mention of two young ladies stopping over in Columbia on a hike from Miami, Fla. We allude to this to say that after we had spoken respectfully of two young women "hikers'' in Newberry last week, some? one told us that someone eise told him that he had been told that it had been said that if people had seen them talking1 to a certain man it would not have been good for their reputation. This reporter is not the sort of man to think that because a girl is lively and friendly she is not all right in every other particular, although ''birds of a feather flock together.*' Those young traveling girls do not know the character of a stranger they happen to meet. But that is where girls make a mistake. There are men in this community, married as well as single, with whom to be seen in company with a decent girl would be dangerous to that girl's reputation. This little incident shows how ugly reports get started, and then they spread like the blaze from :i match in the prairie grass. SEVENTEEN LIVES | LOST IN FLOOD i SCORES OF RESIDENCES SWEPT AWAY IN FORT WORTH I J Flood Most Severe in History of Texas City With Trinity River at Thirty-six Feet i Fort Worth, Texas, Api'ii 25?Seventeen probably dead and property damage estimated at approximately $1,000,000 is the toll of a flood wmcn j swept Fort Worth early today, carry- j ing before it scores of residences and j small buildings, overflowing hundreds j of acres of land and inundating sevcral city streets. The estimate of possibly 17 dead I was made by L. G. Whit?, ir. charge of Red Cross relief. The flood was confined chiefly to the lowlands adjoining the tributaries of the Trinity river. Marine, Sycamore, Clearforks and the Trinity river were swollen, | overflowing the bottoms nearby. The flood is the most severe in the history of the city according to old time residents. Trinity river stood at 3G.7 feet at noon and was still rising. The gauge measured only seven feet yesterday. With the break of the East First street levee late today j it was believed the water on being released would spread out, losing some of its force. Coming on the heels of.rains, the heaviest in the history of Fort Worth, and a wind and electrical storm, the flood took scores of people by surprise. The lowlands adjoining Sycamore creek were the first to suffer and at one time water was standing level with the roofs of residences. Word reaching here tonignt irom i points north of Fort Worth indicates! that a further rise of the water is ex-j pectod. Rescue workers are laboring: tirelessly in bringing relief to flood sufferers. With boiler rooms of the city power and light plant flooded, residential Fort Worth is spending a ni^ht in darkness. No drinking water has been available since early morning. j With the city facing a night of j darkness 500 members of the Ameri-' t ^ ?,./-> no tvrtllin<r +Vip sfrppfs. j L'cill JLjC^ i lmi a j |/auiviiuih wi.n, ~ ~ ^ 7 ^ augmenting the police force. Many highways were covered with water, cutting off traffic. I Fort Worth, April 25?John J. McCain, Fort Worth city engineer, is-i sued a statement tonight, in which he declared that the levees around the] rivers which broke here early today j and flooded lowlands of this city were "dynamited by unknown parties" and that an investigation by a srand jury would be demanded immediately. "It is our opinion that the levee did not break of its own accord but was dynamited and as soon as the situation is relieved we are going: to place the facts before the ?rand jury and demand an investigation" McCain de clared. "This decision is based upon a report made to me by John J. Lyden, field supervisor and a member of the levee board for the last 12 years, in . which he declared he had men paj trolling the levee all Monday night and all day Tuesday and that it was . his opinion that the levee was dynamited. "We are not placing the blame upon any one but we are going to place the facts before the grand jury." I ? St. Louis, April 25.?More than 3,500 persons are homeless and at least 1,500 homes in the Trinity valley between Arlington Heights and Fort Forth, Texas, are inundated, according to advices received by the Southwestern division of the American Red Cross here tonight, i 4 New Orleans, April 25.?The Mississippi river rose one-tenth of a foot here today, the guage standing at 22.6 feet. The previous high record | here was 22 feet in 1912. A maxi- j mum of 23.4 has been predicted by May 15 to 20. Official reports Of satisfactory levee conditions continue to come into federal, state and parish levee engineers today. Topping and blanketing of low embankments'was in progress throughout the day all along the lines but flood control agencies declared; j no serious jHfljculties had been en-i 1 FINANCIAL DEPRESSION 7 CAUSES MUCH CONCERN * J Harvie Jordan Writes From New York of Observations Among | P Banking Interests The State, 26. j Investigations among: leading banking and business interests of the metropolis of the nation convince me that the present financial condition of rp the country and the enormous losses rnenltincr tn ppTirnlfiirp and business T il^u,v,"b j as a result of the drastic deflation ^ policy inaugurated in 1920, is being i viewed with deep concern in this sectic of the nation's concentrated u wealth. j With twelve billion dollar losses by ^ the Arherican farmers, most of which p is still unpaid, the depreciation and jj sacrificeof Liberty bonds by the mass- s es, and the wreck and ruin of a multitude of bankruptcies, this condition s has generated a nightmare of serious p alarm in the minds of many leading Q financiers in the East. These multiplied billions of losses, now being ^ held in check in many local depart- j. mnn+c <->f fraHp anH small hanks. must J inevitably find their way into and be g. unloaded on the strong boxes of the <( great centers of finance. There can be ( no escape from this ultimate result, p The farmers are unable to pay off p debts contracted in an era of unparal- ^ leled inflation with deflated dollars and a continuing period of low mar- p ket values for staple farm products, j The truth is gradually finding lodg- ^ j nent in the minds of our big finan- j( ciers that without credits or cash farmers can neither stimulate produc- 9 tion nor liquidate past due obliga- c I tions. It is now generally conceded, even fc in Wall street, that the debacle of r artificial deflation went too far and j that the distribution of the enormous j losses in the agricultural sections can t not be held in suspense much longer, j When the day of final settlement and j liquidation comes, the overflow of losses upon the small streams of the q country must automatically be a'b-:orbed in large measure by the great j financial centers of the nation, be- ^ cause ultimately the decks now loaded with debts must be cleared and the final toll of deflation accounted for. j. There is strong outspoken senti- g ment in Wall street against the inau- j guration of an agricultural bloc in congress. This is neither surprising . nor unexpected. The policies of the c government have so long been con- p trolled by big business concentrated v finance in the East that any attempt fc by congress to enact measures of real s benefit for the South and West is t looked upon with suspicion and undis- t guised objection. Farm legislation c of any kind in congress, particularly t If related to finance, arouses both in- e dignation and resistance among tho?e 1 who breathe the atmosphere flowing s through the skyscrapers of lower u Manhattan. This is not due to any sentiment antagonistic to the welfare e l of the farmers as individuals or to t' ' the agricultural industry as a whole, ti It bespeaks a jealous fear that the b j enactment of federal legislation re- p Iating directly to agricultural finance t | may encroach upon the rights and s emoluments of centralized backing d and curtail the powers of Wall street b i in its supreme control of the banking , t< i interests of the nation. Some of the j tl i big trade papers of Wall street, re-; E fleeting the sentiment of big banking |n interests in that section, bitterly as- j t< sail the senatorial agricultural bloc j tl and every agricultural measure in-: a troduced in congress which in any, ir wise tends to bring financial relief to j a farmers, even in this crucial hour of , T their fianancial distress. ! G The new system of agricultural j tl ? a countered at any point. J p I ai Natchez, Miss., April 25.?A seri- j ous slough appealed in the Mississippi; g between Byrne and Buekridge, about, i 11 miles above Newellton, La., today, j ti A crack about 40 feet long with clea*- tl water showing developed. The threat- iT ening condition caused great app|e- rv hension for a time and men were; rushed from adjacent points to com- j t< "jat the new trouble. Late reports p from Newellton stated that the levee h is now in a satisfactory condition. f< Kngineers stated that aii ievees in f< the Fifth Louisiana levee district are d holding. c; iRSKINE STUDENT WINS FIRST PLACE' RESBYTERIAN AND NEWBERRY SECOND AND THIRD . C. Reid, Jr., Takes Initial Honor With "A Nation's Temptation." 'he State. Greenwood, April 21.?J. C. Reid, r., of Charlotte, representing Ersine, won first place tonight in the nnual South Carolina intercollegiate ratorical contest. His subject was A Nation's Temptation." SprnnH nlaro was won bv Louis C. .aMotte of Clinton, representing the 'resbyterian College of South CaroIna. His subject was "Wasted Reources, Blighted Lives." Karl Kinard of Johnston, repreenting Newberry college, won third lace. His subject was "The Price f Permanent Peace." Nine colleges were represented in he contest this year, which was held n Ladder college auditorium. In adition to the winners, the follownig poke: R. I. Herbert, Wcfford college, The Rights of All and the Desire of )ne;" A: C Phelph, the Citadel, "The ^ace in the Sun;" C. J. Campbell, 'urman university, "Crowning the Jncrowned;" Isadore Givner, College f Charleston, "America's iNeed;" 'ant Kelly, University of South 6aroina, "The Sovereignty of Good Vill;" R. W. Coursey, Clemson colege, "An Ideal National Character." Mr. Reid, winner of first place, is !1 years of age. In 1920, he won econd place in the. state oratorical ontest. He ^ a membj3?.pf the bn*e>all squad o$ Erskine "cbllege and a riember of The Erskinian st?.ff. udges in the contest wer^Dr. Wiliam Way, Chtistef; Judge q C. Feaherstone, Greenwood; A. C. Todd, -aurens; J. a. Fark, lireeirwoa; ur. Sheppardson, Chester. The annual oratorical contest i* >ne of the most important events in he college year among South Caroina colleges and annually attracts arge numbers of visitors. Bled?oe-Davenport Miss Thelma Bledsoe . nd Mr. Jack )avenport were married on Sunday fternoon at 4 o'clock by Re/. J. E. Teng. redits f^r short term farm loans now lending in congress will doubtless be igorously opposed by these large lanking interests, their satellites and upporters. Wall street banking inerests appear to be obsessed with he idea that the destinies of Amerian finance is a divine heritage which hey alone must exercise for the benfit of every department of American ife; and that any encroachment upon uch rights by government even is an unpardonable sacrilege. Wall street bankers have undcubtdly rendered a great service to i KnnVs throughout IIU Uia II US KJJL ^ ^ _ he agricultural sections of America, iut there has never at any time inihe ast been displayed any spirit of alruism toward the sections to which uoh banking services have been renerea. The nation's demands for a roader and more comprehensive sys3m of finance have grown beyond ' ?1 - - ? J ne nxea set ruies anu ic^uiauvuc Vi lastern finance. The farmers of the ation can no longer look with safety d the bank vaults of the East nor to he federal reserve banking system s now dominated by Eastern banking iterests for satisfactory short term gricultural credits in the future, hey have their eyes turned upon the oddess of Liberty towering above ie capitol at Washington where the uthorized representatives of the peole sit in judgment upon the nation's (fairs. It has been a long drawn out strugIe, and the great masses of the peoie have borne the sufferings and ials of financial oppression until ley are well night exhausted and allost mendicants upon their own dotain. But a brighter day is dawn ig\ the country will rebuild its shatered fortunes and enter upon the athway of the future with renewed ope and safeguarded by a system of ?deral agricultural credits that will jrever protect the agricultural inustry of the nation from the fearful itastrophe of the past two years. ,A '