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.IIIYVTT MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1916. REPORT. SUBMARINE OFF NEW ENGLAND ENTIRE DESTROYER FLOTIlLA OF ATLANTIC FLEET ON NEU TRALITY DUTY. BRITISH CRUISERS ARE NEAR English War Vessels Lurk Near Am erican 'Waters-Neutrality Patrol Searching For Possible Hidden Sup ply Base or Wireless Station. Boston.-An unidentified submar ine off the New England Coast was reported by the steamship Bovic at a time when the steamship lane to Europe was dotted with munition laden ships just released from the embargo placed on their movements after the German submarine raid off Nantucket. The reports of the strange sub marine were coincident with an nouncements that a fleet of British cruisers and destroyers was off the coast and that virtually the entire available destroyed flotilla of the Atlantic fleet. of the United States Navy was on neutrality duty. That the American destroyers were con ducting an active investigation of sto ries of secret submarine bases on this coast was indicated in a dispatch from Bar Harbor. Maine, which said the de stroyer Paulding, sent out from the Newport naval bsse, made an ex haustive search of the coast between Bar Harbor and Rockland. There was not a cove or rock inlet that escap ed the sharp scrutiny of the destroy er's crew. At dusk the Paulding put back to Rockland and it was under stood that she had discovered noth ing suspicious. Other destroyers known to be off the coast and believed to be engaged in much the same work as the Pauld ing are the McDougal, Fanning and Warrington.' The McDougal, during the evening anchored at Eastport, in proximity to the Canadian border. The presence of these destroyers in Eastern Maine waters recalled rumors that have -nersisted for months that - Teutonic sympathizers had a hidden wireless station somewhere in the vicinity of Bar Harbor and that there was a suspicion also that they were establishing a secret submarine base on the Baine coast. Few places on the Atlantic shore line of the United States, shipping men say, offer better advantages for submarines having de signs' on allied supply ships. Submer sibles operating from one of the in numerable isolated coves on the Maine coast, it is pointed out, could threaten both the steamship lane to Europe and the transport ships. KING CONSTATINE FAVORS GREECE JOINING ALLIES Guarantee of Country's IntegrIty Neo essary, However, Before Entry ,Into Hostilities. Athens, via London-King Constan tine motored 'in from Tatio, his sum mer residence and presided at a meet tig of the crown council to which he presented the report of Prince An drew, his brother, wh~o has just re turned -from a visit to the Entente * capitals. The king discussed the form wwhich Greece's proposals to the Entente with a view of abandoning neutrality should take and declared his convie tion that Greece's future depended up o nher joining the Entente. He ex pressed a readiness to do so, not de. manding more than a guarantee of the integrity of Greece and such ma terial assistance in equipping the army as would be essential to render Greece's participation In the war of real value to the Allies. Discussing a telegram from M. Romanos, the Greek Minister to France on September 30, reporting a conversation with Premier Briand, the sovereign pointed out that the three compensations which the French Premier offered informally did not include a guarantee of integ rity, and he expressed the opinior: that Greece's entry into the hostlili ties was Impossible without an offi cial pledge. FEELING TOWARD U. S. TROOPS IN MEXICO CHANGES, El Paso, Texas.-Cordial relations between American punitive expedi tion and neighboring Carranza auth orities is the subject of an article Ira El Democrata, Carranza organ, pub lished in Chihuahua City, which is significant of a changed poliey toward the United States, looking to a more extended co.operation against Villa It was this paper that brought firsi news of the agitation last June for the tretirement of the punitive force. LexIngton Boys Fare Well. -Lexington. - That the LexingtOr .county soldier boys now doing patro: 'duty on the Mexican border near E .Paso are having the greatest experi ence of their lives, is clearly set out ir a letter from Rolla P. Mack, membei of the Second South Carolina infan try, whose home is in this town. In a leter to a friend in Lexington, writ *ten from Anthony, N. M., under date of October 4, Sergeant Mack says ir part: "I! will write you these few linee to let you hear from me. I am well and hope you are the same." - verybo ALLIES INSIST ON SEARCHING MAILS LATEST REPLY TO AMERICAN PROTESTS REITERATES CLAIM TO RIGHT. U. S. DOES NOT ADMIT THIS Promise to Remedy Any Faults, Abuses of Serious Mistakes in Cen sorship That May Be Brought to Attention of Allied Governments. Washington.--In their last reply to American protests against interfer ences with neutral mails just made public, by the State Department, the Allied governments reiterate their right to intercept and search all gen uine mail found on neutral vessels on the high seas or in allied ports but they promise to remedy "any faults. abuses or serious mistakes" in cen sorship that may be brought to their attention. They declare unjustified by facts the American charge that illegal juridustion has been gained by diver sion of neutral ships from the high seas into the territorial waters of the Allies. The next move of the Ameri can Government has not been deter mined. The note, transmitted jointly by the British and French governments was delivered to the State Depart ment by the embassies several days ago has just been made public by agreement of the governments con cerned. It makes reply to Secretary Lansing's memorandum of May 24 in which the United States declared the Allies had been guilty of "lawless practices" in their mail censorship methods and that "only a radical change, restoring to the - United States its full rights as a neutral pow er will satisfy this government." The Allies maintain they are "sin cerely endeavoring to avoid any en croachment on the legitimate exer cise of the rights of inoffensive neu tral commerce" and suggest that the Hague convention uoted in the American memorandum is not bind ing because it has not been ratified by several belligerent powers, though the allied policy has been guided by the intention it expresses. The note is nearly 5,000 words in length. It argues that the United States and the Allies agree that the postal union convention does not ap ply and that postal packages may be examined to see if they contain con traband. AMERICA ALWAYS READY TO FIGIT FOR THINGS AMERICAN Pennsylvania Democrats Hear Presi dent Wilson at Shadow Lawn. Long Branch, N. J.-In a speech before a large delegation of Penn sylvania Democrats who came here with bands playing and banners fly ing, President Wilson declared that while he is for peace, "America is al ways ready to fight for things that are American." He summed up his idea of the issues of the present cam paign in these words: "America knows that it Is faced with this choice: Peace, the continu ance of the development of business along the lines which it has now es tablished and developed and the maintenance of well known progres sive lines of action, on the one hand; or, on the other ,a disturbance of policy all along the line, new condi tions, new adjustments, undefined al terations of policy and back of it all invisible government." VOTE FOR HUGHES DOES NOT MEAN A VOTE FOR WAR: Lincoln, Neb. - Charles Evans Hughes characterized as "preposter ous" the declaration that a vote for him meant a vote for war. "I am a man of peace." Mvr. Hughes said in a Nebraska speech. "Who wants war? I don't want war." Ccrrect policies, Mr. Hughes said. would keep America out of war. "That sort of thing we have been having will not keep us out of war," he said. "It will embroil us in diffi culty." In the six addresses which marked the opening day of his presidential campaign in Nebraska the Republi can nominee discussed nearly all the Issues of the campaign. He charac terized as '"temporary nnd abnormal" the present prosperity of the country and urged support of the Republican party so that a protective tariff might be enacted to fortify American enter prise in post bellum days against un equal competition. "The country was living," he said, "on the stimulant" of the European war and wL ' ' t long have the stim ulant. Survey Comple,. in Four Months. F. M. Routh, M. D., director of pub lic health campaign for the state board of health, spent a day in Col umbia. Dr. Routh has just completed surveys extending over a period of more than four months In Laurens county. In consequence of this rural sanitation effort, it is probable that Laurens county will retain per.ma Dr. Rcuth will next go into some neatly a county public nealth officer. count' frto which he has been invited by the delegation to the legislature Ifrom that counifty. - Civ: rly come out a STATE READY FOR COMING OF WEEVIL SOUTH CAROLINA WILL BE PRE PARED WHEN BOLL WEEVIL APPEARS. COMMITTEE TO MAKE PLANS Great Live Stock Conference at Orangeburg First of Many to be Held in State Next Year. Orangeburg.-The coming of the boll weevil will not find South Carolina un prepared. A definite --ogram of pre paredness by diversification is being planned and before the conclusion of the live stock conference here a com mittee of five South Caroiinaians was appointed to serve for one year, to amke plans for the holding of other similar conferences in the state, pro mote the live stock industry, diversi fication of farm crops and kindred sub jects. This committee consists of: M. 0. Dantzler. Orangeburg: D. C. Hey ward, Columbia; R. L. Montague. Char leston; L. I. Guion. Lugoff; N. B. Dial, Laurens. The Orangeburg packing house and the Orangeburg Farmers' Co-operative creamery were indorsed and the farm ers were urged at once to begin the growing of hogs and cattle and the establishing of dairies. The confer ence also adopted a resolution in favor of the complete eradication of the cat tle tick from the 13 remaining counties under quarantine in this state at the earliest possible day and urge' :pon the people the necessity for full and active co-operation with the state and federal authorities having this work in charge. The high points of enthusiasm for the entire conference were aroused by two addresses. one by Mrs. G. H. Ma this. representative of the Alabama State.Bankers' Association, and H. B. Mobley, president of the Arkansas Farmers' Union, the largest attend ance of the entire conference being the last session. And, while these two speakers were carrying the conference by storm, the time between their ad dresses was taken by experts from the United States department of agricul ture. Clemson College, and farmers of South Carolina in giving the large audience of representative farmers beneficial and practical information upon the ordinary problems affecting the breeding, feeding and marketing of their stock This conference demonstrated that the farmers o: South Carolina are earnestly and seriously studying the live stock situation with a view to ward ctinging their methods of farm ing from the crop system to diversi fied farming. Mad Dog Bites 12 at Anderson. Anderson.-Ten of the 12 people bitten by a mad dog here went to Co lumbia, where the Pasteur treatmjent was administered. All of those bit ten are white people, and range in age from 20 months to 33 years. The dog was a French poodle, belonging to the family of J. B. Quarles, and was but a few months old. The dog was killed and the head sent to Co lumbia for examination. A telegr-aph c communication was received, indi cating that the animal was afflicted with rabies. Those bitten were: Claudine Bar ton 5 years old, Melba Mayfield 6, Lucius Mayfield 12, F. 0. Mayfield 8, E. V. Thomas 33, Ethel Quarles 4. Elizabeth Quarles 3, J. Brookes) Quarles, Jr., 20 months, and Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Quarles, Hubert Lee Croy and a child of S. E. Kay. The peo ple are all prominent in Anderson. Florence Schools Growing. Florence.-The growth of the Flor nce schooLs is something appalling to those who have them to take care of. [t was thought that when the new Park school was built there would be plenty of room and the new teachers1 who had been emp-loyed for this ses sion were thought to have been a suf ficient number to take care of the schools, but the board found that it would be necessary to employ two more, one for each school. Plan For Bigj 'ri Spartanburg.-Preparations for the county fair, which will be' held Octo ber 3. - nd November 1, 2. and 3 are going .steadily forward. This will be the biggest fair the county has yet had offials of the fair association say. and many new features are to be add ed. Thursday, November 2. will be designated Governor's day, because on that day Govern,.r Richard I. Man address to those present. The mer chants of the city have decided to make that a holitlay, when the mer chants will observe Sunday hours. SAKED AND SHIVER1NG S. C. TROOPS ERD HIKE. El Paso, Texas.-Soaked from hard rains of the last 24 hours and shiver ing from the cold wind which pie 'd th~ir' summer uniforms. 15,000 Nation al Gua'rd troops of the tenth provis ional division reached this city after a' hike of SG miles which required 13 days to complete. General Morton. commanding the Tenth Division, re viewed the troops as they marc-hed into the city in a drizzling rain. Ic Leagi ned see the di, "GO-TO-SU NDAY-SCHOOL"D South Carolina Ascta.:.ation Designate February 11, 1917, Date For Great Attendance. Spartanburg.-At a special meetir of the central committee of the Soul Carolina Sunday School Associatio held in the office in the Chapm building recently, February 11, 191 was adopted as the state-wide "Go-t Sunday School Day," for South Car lina. "Go-to-Sunday School Day" was c igniated by the Kentucky. Sunda School Association a- few years at as at state-wide interdenomination movement. Since that time, it h, been adopted by other state Sund School associations and some of ti denominations. The purpose of tl "Come-to-Sunday School Day" South Carolina is to get as many pe ple as posible, not ordinarily in ti habit of going to Sunday school, come at least one Sunday; then mal them welcome on this Sunday, infor them of the work, provide them wi1 suitable classes and competent teac ers, and use every effort to enrc them as 'permanent members of tl school. There are now enrolled in t white Sunday schools of South Car lina about 209,000 people. If all tl Sunday schools will join in this e operative campaign, it is believe that one-third of a million people w be in attendance on February 11. A extensive plan of publicity will beg in December, 'and all needed supplii will be in the state Sunday scho office ready for distribution early January. The central committee also tot steps toward preparing for the ne: state convention, which is to be he in Spartanburg May 1, 2, 3, 1917. is the desire of the Spartanburg pe ple to come up to the standard s by Charleston in May of this yea when 1,120 registered delegates we: entertained by the Charleston peop at the thirty-ninth annual cnu' tion. Wedding Bells Ring Loud. Benettsville.-Business semes to 1 picking up in Marlboro county. 01 ay recently Probate Judge Milt< McLaurin issued eight marriage enses and performed eight ceremo nies. Nearly all of these were perforl d in the afternoon. Five were whi couples and three were negroes. 03 eeremonly was performed on the pub] square beneath the big oak. At t same time another couple was wa ing in Judge McLaurin's office nearb and some said that they were practi [ng the weding march which was bei whistled by Clerk of Court Col. To C. Hamer. This is doubted thoug as the colonel is a very poor whist1 Morris Plan Bank for Greenville. Greenville-A Morris plan bank, ca italized at $25,000, will be in operatic in Greenville by the first of Decembc stated A. G. Furman. 'The new ins tution will in all likelihod be locate In south Main street, though no po tive deal has yet been - made. T] stock is practically all subscribed, a without any campaign for sto'ck; the who are working on the plans are stared that they can get the necessa mount of capital. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS ITEM E. 3. Watson, commissioner of ag culture and president of the nation association of commissioners of ag3 ulture will address the 'Southe3 Commercial Copgress at its meeti: in Norfolk, December 12, with ref4 nce to the adjustments necesary f< outhern agriculture at the close te European war. The jury in the second trial at Cha teston of Henry 3. Brown charged wi assault and battery u'pon W. E. Wi rate with intent to kill and ,carrying oncealed weapon, agreed upon a ve fict after being out about an hour at a half. The defendant was found n' guilty as to the first count and gril as to carrying a concealed weapon. Through efforts of James W. Sheal emonstration agent of the feder ~overnment, has been organized a Le ngton county boys' pig club, with nembership of 25 boys, ranging in a, rrom 10 to 18 years. The management of the Judson N at Greenvile has worked out a p1: or insuring its operatives, and with ashort time this plan will be put in The annual session of the Synod he Pesbyterian church met in Gree wood last week. The Southern Cotton Congress hi been called to meet in extraordinal session in Norfolk December 12, du ng the Southern Commercial Congrel onvention. The call was issued by I. Watson, president. The cornerstone of Greenville cou t's beautiful new court house we [aid by the g'rand lodge of Masonsi suth Carolina. Robert A. Coope grandmaster, delivered the address< te occasion and officiated in ti 2eremonies. Greenville will spend at once 565,01 on street paving and $25,000 on sew' extensns. Work has begun on the $20,000 pu lie school building which will be ere< ed in Olympia. The contractors a: the Columbia Construction Compan he building is to be finished by Mar< Eery coll ege in South Carolina ha begun the year with an increased e rolient. Im ~pro.eents on the Columnb uion s:ition are nearing completi< ad it is thought that by fair week tl ctire job will be finished. 1e Fash spays mad e Largest Bank Deposits on Record. Deposits in the state, private and "s branch banks in South Carolina are ; greater than they ever were before at this season of the year, according to a summary furnished by Ivy M. Mauldin ! of Pickens, the state bank examiner. h Mr. Mauldin sends a consolidated n, statement with the following deduc n tions therefrom: BI 7 "The condition of the 317 state o banks and branches in South Carolina p. at close of business September 12 in dicates a decided increase in business r- over that of one year ago. Loans show y an increase of over $4,000,000, while 5 the banks have borrowed *$2,500,000' P al less than in 1915. Cash reserve also s shows an increase of over $4,000,000. Ly The biggest increase, however, Is Gi le in deposits, which show a total in ie crease of $11,000,000 over last year, or in a gain of over 30 per cent. Despite o. the fact that the total capital of state 1e banks in South Carolina has decreas to ed in the past few years, due to some Ce banks nationalizing, total deposits are m higher than they have ever been at de th this season of the year. re h- of il Ready for Farm Loan Board. al< 1e Information received at the office sc of the state commissioner of agricul- m 1e ture Is that the national board of farm ed .- loans will make a tour through the va ie South soon, visiting Richmond, At- w, . lanta, Columbia and Jacksonville, with za d a view of looking over the proposed in il locations for one of the 12 regional mr n banks which are to be erected in the -i1 n United States. be s When this board arrives Mr. Wat- la: o1 son's office will be in position to give an in It definite Information as to the organ- Co zation of farm loan associations in >k this state. A large number have al- le zt ready been organized in South Caro- be ld line and reported to Washington, It with more organizing daily. Very d. recently 30 localities have been fur et nished information as to how to pro r ceed with the organization of these re associations and Commissioner Wat le son thinks that by the time this T! board arrives 50 to 75 associations -will have been organized-and report ed to Washington; therefore, he says, there will be sufficient business .in the state to take care of the bank from i the start. li Delegates to Farmers' Congress. ^ At the request of H. E. Stockbridge n of Georgia, president of the Farmers' 'a te National Congress, E. J. Watson, com 2e missioner of agriculture of South Caro ic line, has appointed four delegates from the state at large and two from each ' t congressional district, to attend the 's thirty-sixth annual meeting of the 'e c- congress to be held at Indianapolis, sc October 17 to 20 inclusive. te m h, AROUND THE STATE HOUSE. Ia ir. __ _ _r.c rc J. L. Jordan has been appointed. game warden for Darlington county.. p- . s * th r' M. C. Butler has been appointed ., sr, magistrate at Loris, vice J. E. Prince, e ti- deceased. 3d s* * - si- T. C. Montgomery of Spartanburg ie was appointed commissioner for state id and county elections in Spartanburg' s county, vice 3. H. Carlisle, declined.g s- * * * SM. Rutledge Rivers of Charleston was apointed by Gov. Manning to mem bership on .the state board of educe. S. tion vice Arthur Young of Charleston, resigned. *.I alJohn D. Wood of Greer has been: d-made a member of the highway comn m mission of Greenville county, vice 3. g Thomas Arnold. resigned. j o'The state board of education met I.iast Friday. *i .|The crowning of the queen of the th second annual South Carolina Harvest ' n- Jubilee will take place at 8:30 p. in., a on -the north porch of the capitol Mon r- day nIght. October 23. Governor id Manning will proclaim the young lady Dt who is elected as queen of the Harvest t Jubilee for 1916 and bid her reign be-. gin. at y, * * * al Cotton ginning for South Carolina as reported by the bureau of the cen-. a sus, amounts to 259,522 bales to Sep. e tember 25 of this year. The figures compare with 258,947 for the same pe [11 rnod last year. In Application was made for a charter to by the Jones Furniture Company of Fountain Inn The capital stock isa of $3,000. The incorporators are T. E. n- Jones and Paul Jones. Declarations for a charter was made ' i by the Pendleton Building and Loan 0 * Association, the ultimate capital .to be .r- $500,000. The incorporators are B. H. a Sadler, 0. C. Foster, F. G. Herron, 3. . M. Burgess, J. A. Raitt, W. L. Green and T. M. Cathcart.0 n- The Jennings-Bowmal3n Company. of n L Orangeburg, which will engage in a of general grocery business, made appli r, cation for a charter. This Is to be f capitalized at $2,000. The incorpora-a e tors are 0. N. Bowman and H. E. Jen n ings. 3 etition for a charter for the Clem- gi rent Veneer and Lumber company of Famlico was received at the secre b-tary of state's office, 'the new corpora t- tion to be capitalized at $100,000. The st re icorporators are W. L. Clement of y. Greensboro. N. C., and H. F. Bargan c h of Florence. The new company will h engage in the business of selling and po s dealing in veneer and lumber. St n A petition was filed by the Caro- de line Tire company of Columbia to t ia have Its name changed to the Caro- i.o n line Tire and Acessory company. st: seA charter was issued- to the C. R. D4 Wise company of Newberry, iOnlShox by the busine ULL SCHOOLlO AGAIN UNDER W 1OWN TAKES UP WORK Al FINDS THAT MUCH PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE. ALMET TO CAPITOL NEY moral News of South Carolina C lected and Condensed From T State Capital That Will Prove Interest to All Our Readers. Columbia George D. Browne, state superint nt of mill schools, was in Colum Gently. His work in this departm education is already under a ng with the other branches of I bool system of the state, in t] y of the mill village schools op simultaneously with those in I rious cities. Remarkable progr is made last session in the reorga tion of the mill schools. In so stances the schols i'n the mill cc inities were consolidated with I :y schools. Several of the best n ildings in the state to be erect ;t year were in mill communiti d scores of others voted extra lev r maintenance and development. The schools in Spartahburg, Pa : and other mill communities h2 en canvassed. Excellent results have been obtair Pacolet. There a complete 2 xlern. system of sewerage has be stalled. Drinking fountains hi so been provided, along with a ate fixtures for toothbrush dri ie compulsory attendance feats s introduced last year and the al enrollment raised from 428 of 1 evious year to 493 last session. ' erage attendance for the year v creased 107. The Drayton school in Spartanbi unty has a $4,000 building now ocess of construction. A four n x has been levied, the compuls< endance fe~sture recently introduc d one teacher added to the facult The Arkwright mill school build' w going up, is to cost $12,000. a brick structure. A four mill y has also been voted here hoc maintenance and an additioi acher procured. The Pelham building was burl it session and a :4,500 structure .w being built. Funds for this w ovided by a bond issue. The Oakland mill school in N< rry was recently incorporated city district. Under this arran mt the advanced grades are be' t to the city schools, while the antary grades come under the adiate supervision of the super adent of the city schools, Dr. Jan Kinard, for many years promine ssociated with advanced teaching auth Carolina. A similar plan has been effec1 th all the mill schools in Gre tree grades have been amalgama: th the city schocls. The first tha ades axre now being taught ext rely by two teachers, who were 1 us-ly called upon to direct the w< five gr~ades. A new school but . to conform to Plan E, Clem: 4llege extension bulletin, is. bei cted for the mill chidren. The Monaghan Mill, Greenville, w constructing a new school buj to cc~st approximately $18,000. TI 11 be a thoroughly modern str re in every respect. By an agr ant emong Brandon, Woodside nagan Mills, all sixth and sevel ade pupils will be sent to C Judon, another mill in Greenvi: s just completed a new buildi a cost of $14,000. Shower bal d other modern fixtures have be Italled. and courses In manual tra , cooking and sewing have be rodced. Seventh grade puj m Dunean mill in another distri ye been admittedl to the Judson h 2,000 Boys in Corn Clubs. [L. L. Baker of Bishopville, head a boys' born club work in this si here preparing for the exhibit 'corn clubs for the state fa big float for the agricultural para be carried by the boys' corn el mbers will be built and it will p dly be the largest of the seve ich are expected to be in line. r'hore are 2,200 boys enrolled in rn clabs this year and they are a great work. cae of their arces being $Z.J. wcr:h of fi ef eatte. Mr. B3 -.ker wants eve y to come tb tha stat:- fair a y will undcubt ---1y have a v4 minent place ini the picture oft T MAC C ..'7 .IN SAYS SHliP 7::. : w!. HOUT WARNIN W t-fon.--The Brit is stean: po.surk by the German si en. z'-52 off the New Engla as. w-.; i co wiwthout wvarni: y em:: --.- . .iataii Smith, ..dt i' a.1 ::hida-:it rcesived byt oD..aent. Cap..ain Sm 1.:- thre dolidi s'it were us tifrst a which hit tihe stephan w :.j evidence corro.;.:ating tement has5 been received by t partment. V To-n ss houses, aa There is a.R Cream of taitar, de is used in Royal Bak it is the best and most known for the purpose Phosphate and alt Srived from mineral sc some baking powders, tartar, because they a ol he If you have been in of powders made from use Royal Baking Po will be pleased with I n- difference in the quality bna nt ray ROYAL BAKING ,he sat New 3 en :fe iss ni me le UNION F AUTHORS tw e .-et ed es, POSSIBILITY OF ORGANIZATION pc IS DISCUSSED. at dc co- .th ve Philadelphia Writer Affects to Treat m the Matter Seriously and Gives ed Some Reasons Why It Might fo en Be a Good Thing. m e de- Those who hold antiquated Ideas of 1s. the dignity of authorship, who look ire upon it as a profession, will doubtless n- repel with horror the Idea of atiliat- nl the lug the Authors' League of America sl 'he with the American Federation of la- in as bor, a writer in the Philadelphia Ledger observes. That would be a kI confession that authorship is a trade. it But why not? Tempora mutantur et of m nos mutamur in illis. Space rates, -w -from the munificent sums paid to the S, er Kiplings to the earnings of newspa- B e per writers, have made the pushers n of the pen (or typewriter) laborers for a ing hire. Should not they be unionized of It like other craftsmen? Shoul& not It ax they have an effective weapon to four for 'ish over the heads of editors and pub- a sal Ushers? We hear much of the earn ings of the successful novelist or B ed playwright. He no longer has his ci is address in Grub street. He rejoices re in an automobile, a yacht, a country place. But that is no reason why he %w- should evade the debt which Bacon in said every man owed to his ~profes- to e- soin, or if to modify Franklin's phrase, f ng should work together lest they starve 1e- separately. It is gratifying to find im- the great lights of the league willing D *in- to ally themselves together with Mr. ies Gompers for the sake of their lesser nt- brethren. h In There has always been difficulty in tr making brains a marketable commod- m ted Ity. For one thing there has been. er. no fixed standard of payment. The cd public taste Is fickle, as becomes the Ia ee arbiter of the goddess of fortune. The lu- Inventor of a "best seller" may selz.e ire- the skirts of happy chance. But how rk often genius has to be like virtue, Its Lid, own reward! If there had been ana ion authors' union In Milton's day hea Lng would have got more for "Paradise at Lost" than ?5 down and a conditional Is promise of ?15 more. To be sure, L~d. he had various government appoint his m'ents that kept him from penury. c- Other English writers have been sim e ilarly fortunate. But the pensioning a ad of art and literature has never been h rh a favorite expedient with democracy. E e American writers have always had to depend upon themselves. Do they si lnot owe It to themselves and to their efamilies to adjust their lives to a nhbusiness basis? Should not a man hsJ who writes a book be as well protect-e ened as a man who makes a door? Doc n-tor Johnson, writing "Rasselas" to get money to bury his mother, knew hewa et twas: [ill There mark what ils the scholar's life n assail- s Toll, envy, want, the patron and the jail. The distinguished men- of letters ofwho are engineering this union project e show a generous concern for the rank and file. For union wages mean lev-p reling down as well as leveling up. When the scale is fixed the employera bcan neither go over nor go under it. ab-A novel will cost just so much, no >-matter who writes It. Between the -lcarefully polished sonnet and vers t .Ilibre, as between Trojan and Tyrian, ki 'there will be no discriminnan. Ed- t r- Itors and publishers ought to jump In e- at the suggestion. If they can no ai nelonger screw down the hack writer m to the limit of his necessities, on the dother' hand they will not have to bid to against one another for the services si of the idol of the moment. Decidedly ti this unionizing scheme will be a good be thing all around. The pen pusher should push It along. Ja . in Ler Animnals Can Swim. is: b-. The author of a book on animals ca dj once said "sheep cannot swim."' The fo g statement was accepted because na i - contradictory evidence could be found,.-s ue and there seemed to be a prevailing de thu belief in its accuracy. But now Mr. th .jC. H. Hammond, Newton, Kan., pt writes: "Please take this back, Some re syasago a large flock of sheep at e owned by aMr. Berryman did swim SE the North Fork of White river In Ar- ta kansas. Thsheefwer beng tnatep tr and hear gooi rived from grapeS cig Powder healthful ' gy, whyc are ' arces, are usedJ instead of cream 'e cheaper.,. dced tousne: glum or phosp te: ? cyder DStea. You he results at 4 of-the fo0d. r POWDER w. 4 uri. The river' at,--. er a hundred.yad rrent swift.~ - This seems-to sette n nt In natural -hisfor '' ows that sheep 'c a yes not makejlnif4 ey do so vointarily ch persusion.U tVS~ tee them to-enter th .ts and fowls - o iG red'into the water a ake some -lnd of reach the land r ; ; Denies He Was Eien George. H. Bald i ed that he- had' ee ark, despite n g evidence to the' Recently ? a_ B interior was -a a man's coat wete aoun t as -attached a i ciety of Civil aldwin's name. Hs e3s unced in Los id his wife began :to telegrams :and. roe._ ;, Mrs. Baldwin.some way one of BaldWines hiche forgottOBOT: erkley (Cal.) Dstb sco Chronicle: How Londo Britain's great emrb t as the greateit f rou ride on a bus a . the S andyorls2t unr figh de elotcs .oroghfare of . a o ys Samuel P. -Orth i ipulse. "London is onlyi >llection of villages. anned, it could not be is no community o ened ade. It wat never~orl~ unicipality. A "For years eachy p-ihh~1 )vernment; toddy it IS oen~7. county council. It Is an mio~ gregationl of hovels, shopsa4 B ees, with no lliits~ p reading. ~ . - "Like a terrible neba, it pushes its t I a id thither, -prompted ony-b~ef~ inct for food." Wh'ere He Would Be:8U A After many effortathen ger had maned to get give a trial performance a h~c< usic hail. The house was fl;a~, warbled in bIBswets'tie veryting seemed roseaaatuill n my a. hoarse voice meO th de of the stage. "Here, you come of!"odrd~O nge nager.- "Can't youSe-O nptyng the house?' ' "Er-I don't seem to be a uc '~ en?" said the amateur,.timorousty "Success! Huh!t" snorted the er, angrey. "At elrng thent~o * mu're the most successful chap-I tet. Now, for goodness' ssken go g outside and drive 'em ngn Business and fieatue "Do you think a man oughtto'I& easurb interfere with bsner~ "Crtainly not,". replied Mr.Pu4~ tr. "Anybody who 'enjoys much as I do couldn't fid a leasure to equal It." -re munistry or ecucanon is u mplating the enlargement ot4if '~' g library by addingsto it from-.time-$ time all the newly lublished booksa order that the progress of soiet > td of the commonwealth of letters, ay be substantially reicorded.A According to the pbiainlw reign countries, it -Is requiredtai ~ ecimen copy of every~ new ~lpn ~~ ) which Is to be reitierei!dkto_ presented to the nationad1lirr - As this' procedure was seigpted'.b pan after .the establfihme'nt ent perial library'and ~spok~ actory results, the.,rd~t~faa ,tion has decided ia't tshould be flowed In this country, says theKa mal Review of Shanghai, and conz <-. quently has memoriali:E th'e PresIj nt requesting that the inInhtr'6o e Interior be instructed to erd~r'alV - blishers anid authors ~who wis gister their pubication In- aeedr~ tce wtly the publicationidaw to pr rt Peking library with -acomp1l ry copy so as to enrich'the easury of letters. 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