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*v;«-:rn;n •* THE FLORfeNCE DAILY TIMES TlfESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 29, 1921, THE FLORENCE DAILY TIMES Published Dally Except Sunday at Florence, S. C., by BRUNSON A GARDINER Maaon C. Brunson, Editor. Chat. 8. Gardiner, Business Manager. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Payable In Advance. One Week .15 One Month __t_ —. .60 Three Months 1.75 Bkc Months . 8.60 One Year 6.00 To receive attention the same day complaints from subscribers in the city must be made before seven o’clock. Entered as second class matter December 8, 1900, at Florence, S. C. Member of The Associated Press. The Associated Press Is exclusive ly entitled to the use for republica tion of all news dispatches credited to It or nrt otherwise credited in this paper and also to the local news puth lished herein. .1L TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1921. THli ANTI DUMPING ACT. Republican leaders in the senate and house are said tc have agreed upon what is called an anti-dumping act for the protection of American markets from a flood of foreign-made goods, and if tne measure is approved by President Harding it will likely be passed by congress soon after it con venes on April 11. Two measures, in fact, will prob ably be necessary to give the desired protection until a new tariff bill can be adopted by congress. One will provide that no foreign goods shall be sold in this country at a price less than that in the place of origin, and the other will stipulate that customs duties shall be calculated in terms of American dollars, instead of on the value in foreign exchange. Republican leaders indicate by tin decision to defer tariff legislation that problems involved are different from those of other years, and considerable time will be required to work out schedules that will provide the max imum of revenue without interfering adversely with the export trade of the United States. Agitation for a temporary tarifi measure to be effective until the whole subject can be given considera tion is perhaps not as strong as it was a few weeks ago, and the gen eral impression seems to be that the purposes sought can be obtained by protecting American markets against the dumping of foreign goods and tak ing more time tj; readjustment o tariff schedules. SEEKING OPPORTUNITY. One-half of the immigrants arriving at U. S. ports are women, and a large proportion of them are under 30 years of age. Before the war less than 30 of each 100 Immigrants were of the female sex. These unmarried women are in search of the opportunities offered in this great republic, and it is suspect ed that one of the opportunities not overlooked is the possibility of mar riage. Even before tr-.e war Europe had an excess of female population. The war aggravated the situation greatly. In France alone it is esti mated there are a million women for whom there are no possible mates. What is true of France is true of all the countries decimated by the war. It is natural that many of these wo men who experienced tfc\S depriva tions and sorrows inflicted by the war should desire to get away to a land which offers more than is possible in the place of their nativity. Taking the United States as a whole the census figures show that there are 106 males to loo remaps. In the east the numbers are reversed, but in the west the disparity is much great er. Since the armistice 500,000 women hgve come from Europe; at present they are arriving at the rate of 1,300. a day. If half of these are unmarried it will be seen that the supply of pos sible wives for unmarried men is ac cumulating japidly. But if these young unmarried women Co not marry they moy supply a want that is definite, the relief of the scarcity of domestic help, and in that they might do fully as well as though they married. REVISING TAX SCHEDULE. The Call erf the Soil. GARTAH GARtttt Ladder of Aug tstine BY WILLIAM E. BARTON. Much of the writing of St. Augus tine Is buried deep beyond the depth of the ordinary read er’s interest. To be jure, Augustine's ‘Confessions” consti tute a document of j extraordinary hu man interest, and 1 his vision of “The i City of Uod” is still j an alluring one for j all thoughtful men | who hope for the | world’s betterment. But most of his! UNCLE SAM’S -Vvr* EALTH IN T S.... Inhalation of this gas, especially when in a confined place, is dangerous and may be fatal. The constant inhalation of carbon monoxide gives rise to head ache. anemia and other symptoms of chronic poisoning. (Questions Concerning Your Health Will Be Answered by Experts if Sent to Information Editor, U. S. Public Health Service, Washington, D. C.) BY UNCLE SAM, M. D. Today’s Events. CATARRH. How does catarrh of the throat or head affect a person? The term ‘’catarrh" is so loosely theological material „ se( i that it is not possible to give any is for the patient j satisfactory answer to this question, scholar and not for! jt a i[ depends on the form of catarrh the casual reader, present. However, everyone TUBERCULOSIS. Can tuberculosis be cured, and, if Centenary of the birth of Frank Leslie, famous New York publisher. The Rev. Edward S. Lord, oldest living alumnus of Williams College, celebrates ms lOJtb birthday anniver sary today. mrEzsrm ought to know Augustine’s “Ladder.” It had five rungs, and you may road them downward, but you must j 8 °. w,, y a,e there so many deaths from it? dumb them upward: I Am, I Know. I Can. I Ought. I Will. On that short ladder a man may mount high. “I Am.” That means that I am con scious of my own existence. I am an individual, with power of self-con sciousness. Cardinal Dougherty, the new Amer ican member of the Sacred ( ollege, is to depuit from Rome today cn route to bis home in Philadelphia. An important conference of tobacco growers is to be held in Louisville to day to consider plans for a co-opera tive organization to market the pro duct. CARBON MONOXIDE. ingmen, “average men,” may lose I When a man has actually decided I more days’ work in the course of a to make a choice of two evils, there year than their income tax payments | is no certainty that he will take the represent. Since taxation revision will be one of the important subjects before con gress for several months ’to come, it least. The filling stations that sell gas-i oline are the only ones any more that were well for all the people to ponder i may legally supply anything with a what is best to be done to lessen the j kick, burdens which the war has imposed, A certain amount of revenue must be obtained by the government. It should be gotten in a manner that will bear with the least weight on the greatest number. These were sold to John L. Bos well, but in 1851 a receipt to Mr. Peck for the paper, from No. 4520 to 4571, was from Boswell & Faxon, and these last two were signed by A. N. Clark. The office was No. 214 Main street. Appar ently one week's Issue was occa- fvonally saved to the publishers by selling 52 copies instead of a year’s publications. The inference tha t The Courant MAKING LIFE MORE LIVABLE. It will not be easy for Dr. Hirshbergl of Johns Hopkins hospital to convince a man that a cake of yeast will do bike crazy co we have now j,j m as good as a case of beer. how to handle their husbands. They know already. The assertion that we Americans are motor mad, that we are sorely af- Brewers claim that beer is a food. v, , „ „„„ . but who wants to drink beer for any flicted with acute motoritls, may be , . „ . .. „ , food value when Palmer says it may a clever one, but aside from mere be usei j as raPt iicine? cleverness in phrasing it does not add anything to the discussion. It may be held that just as we were once gone wild over the automobile; but this would not be true. At the close of last year there were registered in this country 9,211.295 motor vehicles; but it is tutile to con clude from this, as is being done in some quarters, that like the bicycle the motor ear is presently to go into the discara. While it is true that the, riding of bicycles as it was once prac ticed is no longer being indulged in. it is also true that the number of hi cycles in existence today is hardly less than it was a year ago, cr 10 years ago. In a great measure the bicycle was There is new evidence daily that I the Russians are tiring of bolshevism, j An appeal has been sent out for soap.; draws is justified by every rule of I syllogistic deduction. The clock mak- Overseer Voliva is wasting effort ers and the nutmeg makers of Con- when he gives women instructions, necticut would have been thrifty “I Know.” That means that I pos-j von a dvir,e drinking it raw? I have sess intellect; I can think. j three children and the nurse said J “I Can.” That means that I have, should pasteurize the milk, will. I am capable of volition. j y 0ll ought, not to give the children “I Ought.” That means that I pos-: ra . (V m jn { . instead or pasieurizing it. seas in my knowledge a conviction of r()ll 4 . an e j ls jiv put it on the fire, and right and an ability to do right, and a I i, r j nS r j t i G a boil. Do not let it boil knowledge of obligation. j for more than a few seconds, and than “I Will.” Character is fhe product pi ace once in a cool place, of will. Woodrow Wilson has said that the chief requisite for a presi dent is the power of decision. That power of decision is not for presidents alone. When it has under it person ality and knowledge and convictran and a sense of right it is the chief requisite for success everywhere. You will read many treatises, per haps, on business psychology, and on success in life; but you will find no easier lesson to commit to memory nor one more usctul, as a basis for your study and thought, than the Ladder of good old Saint Augustine. There is no specific medicine which will cure tuberculosis, hut if the pa- tients take treatment early, and es-, Colonel Newton D. Baker, late Sec- pecially if they can atford lo do the.retnry o f War, is to be the guest at a things necessary a large proportion ol j banquet to he given in his honor to- them recover. The essentials of treat-1 n W l t by the Cleveland Bar Assoc la ment are rest, fresh air and goad J tlon. food. i , seconf ] annual festival of music MILK FOR CHILDREN. I under the auspices of the Oratoria So- I live in a small town and the milk! c ( e ty of New York, of which Charles sold here is not pasteurized. Would; M . Schwab is president and Walter Damrosch conductor, is to he onened tonight House. in the Manhattan Opera Balloon Starts Out On Search For The Missing Balloonists Pensacola, March 26.—A naval dirig- Please tell me if living continually | able with two days’ food supply left where (he gas and smoke of automo-j today to search west Florida forests bile exhaust is i n the air has any ef- for the missing balloonists reported feci on a person’s health. ! last adrift over the gulf. The theory The exhaust from an internal com- is advanced that they cut away the bustion fcngine, the type of engine! basket to lighten the craft and drifted used i n automobiles, contains; consid-! into the forest while clinging to the erable amounts of carbon monoxide, j rigging. enough to save a dollar in a life time in the manner described. The jour nalists of Connecticut have always known their business and they know it now.—The State Pointed Paragraphs In the Pee Dee Section Will Henry Ford's mechanical cow have automobile horns?—Boston Her- A French scientist predicts an era of 14 dry years. Thank the Lord we are two to the good.—El Paso Herald. In war time it was “work or fight.” given up by' people who took >.o (he(Now it is fight for w^rk.—Des Moines motor car as a more effective means j Register, of getting about; at least those that Sir Philip Gibbs may conclude that freedom cf speech in America in volves a competition as to who can yell loudest.—Chattanooga News. could afford it did so. And just as they used the two wheeled vehicle to expedite the business of the day, so these persons are this day using the motor car for mnay things besides pleasure rides. For many people the England is a good sport. If Amer ownership of an automobile merely j ica will forgive her, she will forgive means that they can carry on with j ttyese to whom she loaned American more dispatch the business of the day. j money.—Baltimore Sun. i If it is analyzed correctly what this | increase ip motor cars means is that The West Virginia court that gave we have raised fa-rly generally our I a man one day off a five years’ sen- standard of living. No doubt the phe | tence for good behaviour evidently nomenon would surprise anyone who j believes in encouraging convicts to had left the civilized world 40 years be good.—Pittsburgh Gazette Times, ago and came back to it today. But LAKE CITY AFTER DAY ELECTRIC CURRENT * The attention of the proper authori ties of/ the local electric light com pany is called to another column of this issue in an article signed “House- Keeper.” We understood about the first of January that the town of Lake City would have day current some time within the first sixty days of the New Year—here it is ninety days and we seem to be about as far from day current as we were tne first oi January. Certainly looks as if the ngiiuug company comu gi,e us at least one or two days ot current at preaent . It not only would Oe a great noip to uu nouse-keepers Out me other industries of the town. Any way we are patiently waiting for tue cur rent to oo turneu on coin day and night at an early date—juaKe Guy News. In the Day’s News. Everett True By Condo. <vs Hav<s a SeU/fMa 'M THIS house, s«f Washington Gardner, who is said to be the president’s choice for the posi tion of Commissioner of Pensions, is a Michigan man with a highly civdii- abie record as a soldier and public official. He is a native of Ohio ana wnen 16 years old enlisted in the Sixty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which regiment he serveu throughout the war and was severely nijured in the battle of ueoacu. After the war lie graduated at Ohio Wes leyan University and later attended Boston University. He practiced law for one year in Grand Rapids, Mich., and then entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church. He served throe terms as Secretary ol State of Michigan and represented the Third Michigan district in Congress from 1899 to 1911. Mr. Gardner is a past commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. OTY t Ql-I pi , ToU Hav<s * ' You'll * vil.’rs-rcs/D >v .AroACHMOMT tc H - - - ’ NERVOUS INFLUENZA NOW. The “average man” will be thank ful for any decrease congress may see fit to allow in his Income lax. And if the rich man is to nave the satis faction of witnessing a cut in ihe sur- tajc rates it would api*ear less than just to grant no concession lo ihc '‘avnraae man.” Thai v/ill be. at any rsitc. the common jvdivnent. Ai.d > # et there is another aide of the proposi tion that is worthy of consideration. 1 -■ Not necessarily will the “average man’ proit more through cutting the liormal tax which he pays than he would from reducing the taxings from the rich. It is hard to understand, perhaps, but consider il a mom net. Tha common run u; tne citizenship profits more from general commercial and industrial activity thtfa do the relatively few who take down the big dividends. When no does not have tc hand to Uncle Sam a large share of his income tho r-cb man casts about for investments for his money. Ha alms to put it to work to earn more. Doing so he provides work more continuously for those already employed or he makes employment for a greater number of workers. The "average man” may pay |1C to $50 as his share ot the public- revenues, which does not deprive him it an &P preciable degree. But ii .fyuuse the boas has had to deliver some tens of thousands he is unable to expand the plant or to operate It as fully a* be Ik* ttt 4o, -6 foq4 nanny work- he would be surprised at more than the number of motor vehicles now to be seen on the streets. He would be surprised at the number of so- called luxuries which have become necessities among us. And all these so-callled luxuries have made life more livable; they have extended our reach and raised life from the plane of the primitive. The development of the automobile and Its increasing use is only one more indication that our standard of: living has been raised. We know • what we want and, even at the cost of some little hardship, if that is neees- sdry, wo are going to get it. We may call it “motoritis” if we like, hut the noint is that it is a good thing to have, and that it will endure until something even better than the motor car makes Ps anpearance. And (hen we shall go in for that. BANK EMPLOYEES STUDY BUSINESS IH&ST NATIOimmL INSTALLS IN STITUTE FOR TRAINING OF OFFICERS AND CLERKS. Wouldn’t it save a lot of work ami ^ bother if the pie counter in Washing- cver progressive First National A big step towards greater efficien cy ana expansion has been maae by ton could be run on the cafeteria plan with every fellow helping himself to what he wants?—Raleigu News and Observer. Bank, which- lias just installed an iu- siiiute of banking, under the auspices of tue American Bankers Associaiion, for the education and training of its employes. Already 14 of tne clerks anu ouicers of tne bank have enrolled tor the instituie, ‘1 Ins institute is one of the most il- luminating ana liberal banking cour ses oilemi in this profession touay. , ....... . It was originated ana prepared by the M. Lausanne denies that M. ^ iviana lcasL0 ,. bank and hnnneial minds oi is coming to ask anything from the, L j ie y n ; le( j states, live of the most United States, in wi.ToU case he may important branches of banking are get what the United States got wlien mcjuueu m t ) le j-jstitute. They are as it went to Versailles asking nothing.— t 0 llows: ' Of course it doesn't follow that if some one knocks at your door and says, “It’s me,” the visitor is from Chicago. It may be your next door neighbor.—Syiacuse Post Standard. Pittsburgh Dispatch. Elementary banking, embracing the luadamenlais, principles, and ooject- Observations. The purse-snatcher is strong for the freedom of the seize. The slaves of fashion do not seem to be. making any demand for a new freedom. Loose spending will dispose of loose change quicker than any otuei method. A lot of doctors should be able to earn a few extra simoleons when they get to prescribing “suds.” The man who boasts that he never had a crick in his back should try spading up the garden this spring. This may bo said of the cartoonists: thev ke^p about three Inches ahead of the shortening of tho skirts. tf there are any “oldest citizens” In 1995, they will probably be talking about the unusual winter of 192Q-21. rest of the world.—Chicago Post. Europe is willilng to give America j f , ank ’ inK from Ag i nc i n iency credit for winning the war, if America j Tme p" “m moSern system * " ! w1 ’ 1 J „ tr v- U , f ? r tJUnf* S ^ inS i Commercial and banking law, cover- . peace. Norfolk \ irginian Pilot. ! ^ ^ .. lrick3 „ of the tradei as ono ~ . . . „ i might say, beside the elements of tho Tho allies are now m charge of Ger-I ^ , ogal paper( tender, etc. man customs and we hope they will , p olitlcal ocononiy , inc , U(1 in g the ^ change a good many of broa(i which affect & them which have been offensive to the C1 . edlt( l &na othor conditions bearlng upon bunking. Standard banking. Accountancy. A certificate is issued the graduate of each course by the American Bank ers Association. Upon completion of the institute, a regular diploma is is sued. Officers of the first national bank expect that this institute and course of study is going to give Us employes that broad view and attitude towards (heir individual positions and work, which will redound to greater efficien cy, more appreciation of co-ordination of the departments, and truer relish generally of the service of banking. London, March 28.—Nervous in fluenza is the latest form of malady that has visited London, says D'r. Bernard Hollander, an eminent Har ley street physician, who says that, al though the new form of ‘'flu” is not prevalent to any alarming extent, ;h?re are undoubtedly many cases of it in London. Dr. Hollander remarked a similar form of influenza thirty years ago, and believes mat the pres ent attack cannot be prevented with drugs, the only chance to escape being by keeping fit. Large stocks of vaccine are being held in readiness for distribution throughout the country m case the necessity arises. I AL(^<SAV>'<’ HAV/e ONO op TMOSC., TOO/ (vll 3T<3f^ A CL CENT J T)0 XOU GC2.T MCr 'S ro DOINGS OF THE DUFFS— By ALLMAH About the State. THE ANCIENT THRIFT. This curiously interesting para graph is taken from the editorial page of the ever esteemed Hartford Cour ant, the most likeable of our unfor givable contemporaries: From receipts sent here by E. J. Peck of 100 Maple street, Bris tol, “The Courant” is able to learn details of its own history. Miles Lewis of Bristol was a subscriber to the “Connecticut Courant.” It seems that the papei in those days was sold by the year through its numbers. Thus in 1845 a re ceipts for $1.25 was given to Mr. Lewis for “The Courant” from No. 4203 to 4254” and in 1849 one for the paper from No. 4417 to 4468. AIM. X yy/eiL, \ expect THE BRIDE IS PRETTY WEPVOUS ABOUT NONNf I’LL NEVER FORGET HOW/ NERVOUS I WAS WHEN I , WAS MARRIED COME ON UPSTAIRS. WE’RE GOING TO HAVE A LITTLE FAREWELL DRINK TO BILL* rr T Bi>' GET VOUR COAT OFF, )/U WE’RE GOING TO HAVE 'M A LITTLE DRINK BEFORE twc minister- COMES? , T For the first time on record there is an ice famine i n Iceland, due to tho mild winter and lack of manufactur ing facilities. Recent experiments of injecting ap pendicitis patients with serim have boon so successful that operatons with the knife may soon be abolished. /Mm j(-\r I '” 1 !'i) m!I §-In ; - 'r* w i . 'if v: i t Ws-U : \ i’m the j minister . £