The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, March 30, 1921, Image 2
EXTRA SESSION OF
CONGRESS APRIL 11
Washington, March 24.?A formal
call for an extra session of congress
to meet April 11 and receive legislative
recommendations from the new
administration was issued today by
President Harding.
None of the specific problems to be
laid before the legislative branch
was named in the proclamation, the
president merely declaring that an
extraordinary occasion required that
congress convene "to receive such
communications as may be made by
the executive."
Mr. Harding already has indicated,
however, that the tariff and taxation
will be foremost in his message to
the special session. He is expecting
to make a special plea for prompt relief
to the nation's agricultural interests
and the list of recommendations
may touch many other subjects such
as the railway situation, the merchant
manne, and immigration.
" One recommendation relative to reconstruction
measures within the government
machine itself is expected to
suggest the creation of a general commission
to dispose of many kinds of
property acquired by government
agencies during the war. Whether
the message will touch on foreign re/
lations is a matter of speculation, but
the president has indicated that his
primary desire^for the session is that
it work out a plan of governmental
and industrial rehabilitation at home.
A program for the session has been
discussed a.i a series of conferences
between the president and leaders in
the senate and house and although definite
decisions still are to be made a
feeling of confidence is manifest that
there will be working agreement that
will expedite legis'ative business from
the start.
Some of the president's friends believe
that he will follow the custom
of President Wilson in delivering his
message to congress in person. It was
said tonight at the White House, however,
that no definite decision on that
detail had been reached.
Tariff and tax revision generally
will hold the center of the stage, so
far as the Republican program is con
cerned. Particular attention, it is believed,
will be given to the plight of
farmers as a result of the general defation
in the price of farm products.
Among other measures to be pushed
it is believed that the Republicans
will attempt to reenact the Fordney
emergency traiff on farm products
passed by the last congress but vetoed
by President Wilson. The measure
contained among other things a
tariff on cotton and on foreign oils
which have largely come into competition
with cotton seed oil.
ALBERT W. HARMAX
BTJRIED AT HEBROX
Mr. Albert Whitfield Harman, a well
known and highly respected farmer of
the Hebron section, died at his home
March 27, after a lingering illness of
about a year.
Mr. Harman was about 49 years of
age and leaves a wife and two children?Thelma
and Marchant, besides
his mother, Mrs. F. J. Harman, and
the following brothers and sisters: H.
E. Harman, Atlanta; F. B. Harman,
Columbia; Van B. Harman, Van D.
Harman and Mrs. T. L. Harman. Lexington.
He was a life long and faithful
and honored member of Providence E.
L. church. His remains were interred
in the cemetery at Hebron church,
near his home. His pastor, Rev. O.
B. Shearouse. was assisted in the
funeral and burial services by Rev.
Mr. Whitten of the M. E. Church.
Mr. Harman was a native of Lexington
county and was held in high
esteem by all who knew him. He was
a successful farmer.
NEWT KELLY GOES
TO PENITENTIARY
UUVCII1VJ .vcoiciuaj im/iiiing
signed an order directing the
state penitentiary authorities to accept
Newt Kelly from Lexington officials
and hold Kelly until further directed.
Attorneys for Kelly, who is
being held on the charge of murdering
David Shull at Brooklahd. represented
to the governor that the conditions
at the Lexington county jail,
where the prisoner has been for a
number of weeks, were not conducive
to the health of Kelly.
The prisoner, attorneys say, is not
in good health and it was thought his
condition might improve if he was
placed in the penitentiary.?The State.
The Lincoln Memorial Cemetery is
one of the most beautiful burial sites
in the State. Nature has made it
an ideal spot for a lovely city for our
dead. Call on Lawyer Nance and
purchase a lot now. He will g've
ample terms.
THE TAX CORNER
THE LOWXESS OF LOW. TAXES.
"Taaxtion is nothing more than a
method of securing to all the people
at the lowest cost by responsible
agencies the benefits of common action
and common institutions."
That is the best definition of taxation
ever phrased. It goes to the
heart of the matter: Common benefits
and common services of the people,
by the people, for the people.
What are the benefits and services
made possible by taxation and possible
by taxation alone? They are these,
the greatest public welfare movements
?->C i\~fro niro/l anfiptv
1. Good government.
2. Protection of person and propererty.
3. Conservation of health and sanitation.
4. Highways, roads and bridges.
5. Caring for the dependent and defective.
t
6. Restraining and punishing the
delinquent.
7. Education.
Whether these great fundamental
necessities are good, bad or indifferent
depends wholly on how we support
them. There is no mystery or magic
about it.
It's as simple as twice two is four.
No taxes, no State services.
Low taxes, low grade State services.
High taxes, high grade State services.
That is the whole story. A thousand
years of argument by the thousand
greatest orators and the thousand
greatest newspapers in this or any
other world cannot changd it.
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i\U cctA.CS, IIU OUllC SCI vices.
Low taxes, low-grade State services.
High taxes, high-grade State services.
Look the facts squarely in the eye,
then, and call for lower taxes if you
wish. But realize what you are doing
when you call.
Every time you demand lower taxes
you are in reality demanding a less
efficient government. (Do you think
ours in South Carolina is too good
for us?)
Every time you demand lower
taxes you are in reality demanding a
lower health rate and a higher death
rate. (Do you think South Carolina
has too few epidemics and too few
dead babies?)
Every time you demand lower taxes
.vou '&re in reality demanding rougher,
rhttier, muddier and sandier roads.
(Do you think we have too good roads
and too many of them?
| Every time you demand lower taxes !
1 you are in reality demanding that
less care and attention be taken of
the deaf and the blind, of the feeble- j
minded, and of the insane. (Do you j
think South Carolina is doing too
much for those upon whom the hand
of affliction has been heavily and
permanently laid?)
Every time you demand lower taxes
you are in reality demanding that the
door of the school house be shut in
the face of some child or adult illiterate
who has not had your chance at j
life's opportunities. (Have you not ]
heard where South Carolina, your own ;
home state, stands in illiteracy
among her sister states of this re-1
public?)
Yes, "lower taxes" means all that
and more. It has an alluring sound,
but it is the most plausible of all
forms of self deception. Like the apples
of Sodom, it is outwardly fair, but
within it is full of ashes and bitterness.
Lower taxes means a lower South
Carolina.?"R. S." in University
Weekly Xews.
SITUATION BETTER
MR. CRAIG THINKS
Toleration and Cooperation Necessary
Among Business Men.
Columbia.?"There never was a
time in the history of South Carolina
when there was a greater need for the
solid business men of the State to
keep their heads, look ahead with optimism
and help each other than at
present,' said State Bank Examiner
James H. Craig. If folks will only
keep their heads level and work together
the financial situation will readjust
itself, is his firm conviction.
Other and neighboring States have
within the past few months had scores
of bank failures, and perhaps no State
has had fewer failures than South
Carolina. Conditions in this State
have been largely the same as in
other cotton-growing States.
Mr. Craig thinks the worst is now
over, as the banks and people have
an appreciation of real conditions and
that prospective borrowers appreciate
that when some banks advise that
they are not making new loans that
does not mean trouble. Mr. Craig
thinks the readjustment is in sight
and has great hopes of the understanding
that Governor Cooper and
former Governor Manning have in
| mind with Mr. Karuch to bring new
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money into the State on a strictly
business basis.
Mr. Craig has been in the bank examiner's
department for seven years,
first as assistant and now for three
years in actual charge. Deflation, as
it is called, came all of a sudden and
folks got panicky, and his chief undertaking
has been to keep things in
good shape. The record of only three
failures in a year's time in these
times, is the highest test of results.
The most effective work of Mr. Craig
has been in nursing back to real life
and usefulness sick chickens. Sometimes
this sickness has been imaginary?stage
fright so to speak?but
after it has been by persuasion or
even coercion that he has made some
officials realize their obligations and
rehabilitate the banks. In some fewinstances
consolidations or community
bank help has been used, but always
the central idea has been to
keep the banks going, serve the communities
and work things out. In only
one bank in the State during the past
year does Mr. Craig think the depositors
will actually lose deposits and
with three hundred active and going
State banks, in these days of "de!
flation," that means much. "What it
1f means more than anything else, perhaps,
is careful nursing and the ex- i
tension of optimism, because unless
there be crookedness the banks of
South Carolina, national as well as
State, are in god shape. The State
banks have $200,000,000.00. This does
not include the large national banking
institutions.
Mr. Craig visits every part of the
State with which to finance cotton and
better understanding of real conditions
and that things will move along
more normally because of this
realization that there has got to be a
spirit of toleration and cooperation.
With fresh money coming into the
State with whic hto finance cotton and
close sailing Mr .Craig sees no reason
why conditions should not actually!
improve.
HARRY BIjEASE DEAD
Brother of Former Governor Dies at I
?_ Xewberry Home.
Harry H. Blcase, well known citizen
of Newberry, died suddenly at his
home in that town last Friday night.
He is survived by one brother, Cole
L. Blease, of Columbia, one' sister,
Mrs. T. G. Wiliams, of Newberry;
two half brothers, Mayor Eugene S.
Blease and Sheriff Cannon G. Blease,
of Newberry, and one Jialf sister, Mrs.
J. It .Eison, of Newberry,
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if HAIR STOPS FALLING j
Immediately after using "Danderine"
you can not find any dandruff or falling
hair, but what pleases you most is that
f your hair seems twice as abundant; so
thick, glossy and just radiant with life
and beauty. Get a 35-cent bottle now.
Have lots of long, heavy, beautiful hair
Stop Those Headaches
WALTER'S
i GLASSES
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i WILL RELIEVE THEM
!
Stop in and let us examine
those eyes and advise you
Eyes Examined
Glasses Fitted
0. L. Walter Optical Co.
1221 Main Street, Columbia, S. C.
Charleston and Florence s. c.
Money back without question
X_\lif HUNT'S GUARANTEED
I SKIN DISEASE REMEDIES
/IqY KW (Hunt's Salve and Soap), fail in
| II Jjf the treatment of Itch, Eczema,
i/\ Ringworm,Tetter or other itch^
ing skin diseases. Try this
treatment at our risk.
HARMON ))Kl<G COMPANY.
BINGHAM CONVICTED
OF MURDER AND SENTENCED
Florence, March 2S.?Edmund D.
Bingham was today convicted of kill- |
ing his brother, L. Smiley Bingham, j
last January and was sentenced by |
Judge Memminger to be electrocuted j
April 8. An appeal will be taken to 1
the supreme court.
While the defendant was only tried j
for the killing of his brother, Mrs. j
Bingham, his mother, Mrs. Black, his |
sister, and two adopted children, were '
killed at the same time.
The defendant is a son of a former j
state senator and the case has excited j
considerable interest throughout the!
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state. The trial consumed practically;
a week. i
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Killing Calomel Sale j
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Don't sicken or salivate yourself or
paralyze your sensitive liver by taking
calomel which is quicksilver. Your
dealer sells each bottle of pleasant,
harmless "Dodson's Liver Tone" under
an ironclad, money-back guarantee
that it regulates the liver, stomach and
bowels better than calomel without making
you aick?15 .million bottles sold.
COTTON
A. H. DeVaughn, Jr. & Co.
C01T0N BROKERS
103 Jackson St. Augusta, Ga.
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For Long Distance call us at the
Cotton Exchange. Cotton handled
in ten bale lots. We solicit
your business. How to trade in
cotton sent on request.
Rose & Son, Correspondents,
81 Broad St. New York
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"California Syrup of Figs" is
Child's Best Laxative
Beware! Say "California" or you
may not get the genuine "California
Syrup of Figs" which d^gtors recommend
for babies and children of all ages.
Nothing else cleans the little bowels and
regulates the child's stomach and liver
fio gently, so thoroughly. Directions
on each bottle. But you must say
"California." Don't be talked into an
imitation fig syrup which hasn't the
delicious, fruity taste or the perfect
"laxative physic" action.
A. W. Morgan
Sheet Metal Worker
SLATE, TILE ANDj
Gravel Roofer
Manufacturer of Skylights & Cornices
1707 Main Street,
PHONE 2742
COLUMBIA, S. C.
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LATE
Death only a matter of short time.
Don't wait until pains and aches
become incurable diseases. Avoid
painful consequences by taking
COLD MEDAL
The world's standard remedy for kidney,
liver, bladder and uric acid troubles?the
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Look for the name Gold Medal cr eveir cor.
and accept no imitation
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in every wayfthat a progre:
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many ways in which this b?
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problems with the view c:
tomer as well as the bank.
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Do not forget that we have a
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suffering vrtnnan. Perhaps you know
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