Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, April 29, 1920, Image 1

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*11 5 . jr ^ ? 1 1 JitablUhed 1891. SUB-COM MITTEE AGREES i ON SOLDIER BONU - BILL it is estimated that more than three million World war veterans will participate in the bonus of $1.25 per day foe each soldier who served in the nmks 60 days or longer if Congress adoDtR the terms of the bill airreed upon by .the 6Ub-cominitteeof the ways and means committee of the house of representatives having in charge the FPOpoaed legislation. The cost to the coantry of the bonus would be about two billion dollars and the former serwioe men would receive on an average 0**375.' *n addition to the cash bonuB. the committee is considering other forms, such as the payment of *1.T76 a day for aorvice men needing vocational train* ing by reason of injuries or ill health. Besides proposing adjusted compensation at the rate of -*T."25 for service nam and women, the legislation will iadlude alternate offers of land settlenamts, home building aid find extension o* Vocational training. To raise this money, a general Bales tar of one-half of one per cent, will be Mtiposed upon all business men who do an annual business or $2,600 or more a ypmr. The bonus bill will be reported to the Ukmm*.. 1. ? J..... U i. ..U HWDC an n ICTT uajrnt IV ID OUIU, DU UIOV ttttan be debated, passed and sent to t)M senate for action before adjournmnt or recess of Congress for the big political conventions in June. The bonuses proposed in the bill are limited to those who served more than 60days. Regular army enlisted men, cannmissioned officers and others who hhd special financial advantages during their terra of service are eliminated from the provisions of the bill. While approximately 4,800,000 men were in the American service abroad or under the colors when the armistice was signed, about 1,800,000 will not obtain bonus payments because of the limitations imposed by the bill. The bonuses will be paid quarterly for a period of one year. Buainess. men subject to the tax willibe required to pay the sales tax quarterly. It is contended that the tax will be easily collected and the taxpayer and the eonsumer will not be subjected to annoyanees. The business man, it is pointed oat; will add the tax to his prices and make returns quarterly. Mtfl Development Aids York Towns. "Population of Rock Hill, Yorkville, Clover and Fort Mill, the four larger towns in York county, is geing to show considerable increase by reason of the fact that much progress has been made in.cot ton mill development in the paat ten years," said an observant York county citisen to the Yorkville Enquirer. "Fbr instance," he said, y'the Hawthorn Spinning mill has been built in ' Clever since the last census report ten years ago and the population of the town is increased several hundred thereby. The Clover Cotton Manufacturing company's plant at Clover has been enlarged in the past ten years sad many new families have come to that town on account of the enlargement. The old York Cotton mills, now the Cannon Manufacturing company, has been taken over by the Cannon interests in the last ten year* and maay new families have come to town. The Carhartt mill at Oerhartt station, oa i the Southern between liock Hill and Fort Mill, has been built since the last census report. The two cotton mills in Fort* Mill have been enlarged and iihpreVtd in the paat ten years with.the result that additional families have come into that town. Practically ??v ?> ?wil?o incapacity in the past ten years with ths result that scores and scores of textile workers fitas> without the ceanty have moved hi.. Tie Reynolds (Jotton mill at Bowling Oftee, formerly old knitting mM, haa bees en-; 1urged end improved since the last cenaos and new families have moved into ?~*rk county to w^ork there. I am ceaAdent that the white population of ta* county is going.ta sfcwvr a hig kvcvaaae for the ten year period and that est ton mill development is raapaaaible fo* much of that increased population." "TW Tunes" Bays Lfcetyp*. Carrying out their plans to Improve U# news service of The Times as fast aaconditiona warrant, the publishers have purchased a linotype which it is haped to have installed arid running wfchin the next fortnight.* Recently TV Times has been beset "by unusual j difficulties. The aee *hante of the ptfier has proved tonsoitfed for a prtnta office and unless the walls of the Iding and the concrete flotr soon dry out the paper will have to And other t ,4j wrtww. fhe e CARHARTT EMPLOYEES QUIT MILLS ON STRIKE The entire force of operatives, numbering: several hundred, at Carhartt mills No8. 1, in Rock Hill, and 2 at Carhartt station, three miles south of Port Mill, walked out Monday morning: at 10 o'clock on strike. The plants are idle and there is no means of knowing: when work will be resumed. Conversations with textile workers and the management of the mills brought out the facts substantially as follows: The strike was called because of the refusal of the management of the mills to reinstate a discharged employee. The employee in question was discharged because of what was considered pernicious activity daring hours the mill was in operation, thereby interfering with the work of other operatives. The strike was first set for Inst Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock, but was postponed pending efforts of a government mediator to adjust the differences. He gave up hope Saturday, as each side was unwilling to recede from the position already taken. The direct cause, it is learned, waa established several weeks ago when a committee member of the union approached an operative with regard to dues, instructing him, it is alleged, to stop work and pay up. He started to comply, but was instructed by a higher official to return to work, while the committee member was asked to call at the office and get His time. The members of the utiion objected to the nummary uiscnarge of the employee tor this offense and it was voted to stop work unless he was reinstated. The management of the mill stated that the discharge was not for the offense mentioned alone, but that this was a culmination of offensos which tended to destroy the discipline of the plant. So far as ean be learned there are no other questions involved. The management of the mill states that it has nothing against the union, as it is of the opinion that a union, properly directed, can be beneficial to the management and Operatives alike. The plant, it is stated, will be ready to operate .whenever the operatives decide to return, but the discharged emI ployee will not be reinstated. Brick Plant at Grattan. Hamilton Carhartt is planning to install a brickmaking plant on his plantation at Grattan, two miles south of Fort Mill, near the site of the old McNinch brick works, according to li. F. Patterson, superintendent of the Carhartt interests on the Fort Mill side of the Catawba river. Mr. Patterson went to Statesville, N. C., last Tuesday to purchase the outfit, but found the concern that manufactures urickmaking machinery at that place in the midst of a strike, the settlement of which was uncertain. He could not therefore receive any assurance as to when his order will be filled, but it nopeful that he will be able to get the plant into operation in a month or Bix weeks. It is Mr. Carhartt's purpose, Mr. Patterson says, to put in machinery that will turn out about 12.000 bricks daily, all of which will be used in developing the pianH Mr. Carhartt has in mind for the enlargement of his cotton mills at Rock Hill and Carhartt station. Given Small Verdict. Yorkville Enquirer. The court was engaged Wednesday morning in the case of J. K. Hope against the Southern railway. A verdict for fhe plaintiff in the sum of $1.72 was returned Wednesday afternoon. Hope sought "mental anguish" damages in the sum of $3,000 through Ma attorneys, Dim lap & Dunlap. It Mem* that he was engaged in placing Mb wife and children on a train in Rock Hill to go to Fort Mill. He didn't want to go himself. The train started off while he was engaged in seating the family, however, and he had to go on to Fort Mill. He claimed the forced trip interfered with his business and put him to some $3,000 worth of iworry. The jury thought the raib road should pay bis hotel bill and . railroad fare DAVIDSON WON TRACK MEET FROM CLEMSON j Davidson, April 25.?With Clemson in j the lead in the track meet Sat unlay af- | ternoon on Sprunt Athletic field up to ' the second to last event, Davidson came , across for S WW hy scoring two first ' places, three second places and one third place. The final score was 52 to 47. Two features of the afternoon were Ffiekrr of Charlotte, winning the mile j nice and Rtreibich wiimring the shot I put. The Litter broke the college ree ord, throwing a 10 pound shot 30.45 feetr Ilis first practice on the Held was j just an hour previous to the meet. *<3~ ' ' -3PT* * ? t ?"' --- U' ORT I BOSS MILL, 8. C., THOT CONGRESS INCOMPETENT IN OPINION OF GOMPERS \Ve?hington. April 25.?Sweeping > charge* thnt the present Congress Hhs furled the nation "with completeness and nlmndon" nte made In- Samuel C.onipers, president of tlio American Federation of I<nbor in the current issue of The Amwknn Fcdnrntionist. "Amotion must gat rid of its veto CongreK* and elect uft action Congress," he says. "TJw *? ' Congress must give (dace to tlio 'yon' Cofcgress." The labor leader asserts that Congress has failed on the peace treaty, in reconstruction, and the high coHt of living and that it also has "failed us in intelligent comprehension of every question affecting the lives and welfare of our people." The "k'hjs of the pntscnt Cdngress," ha adds, "were o? commission as wall us omission, as there diid boon almost ani eagerness to do the wrong.'things.'' the; enactment of the raffmirtt Kill bfihtg ited us a "shining example." "There must be u Congress which will turn its face to the task confronting the InterScan citizenship in the true spirit of American institutions," 54r. Gompers says, "a constant genius for accomplishment must replace an ifWonsidcred mania for restriction and coercion. "America cannot play forever the part of a peevish child in international rela tarns. The affairs of tlw world are the ,-oncern of the United States. There may Itejppoper limits to wkirh this conem may* go, hut tliere la no longer any ueh thing as absolute divorcement from wliut truuspires elsewhere. "Thl1 lllillfl Jltlfl hlanl o/l tntinn r> -> " v "i? .wess in refusing to deal intelligently with the pence treaty has made it impossible for the United States to manifest the proper concern iu these iitfiiiit. "On our own continent there is'the amo need, lor weeks a aeiiutoriarl ?ub oininittec lias been going up and down I lie country gathering testimony, the evident purjtose of which can la* bat to allaine the mhula of those who -think ittlc and who take much on faith. At Iieriods all too frequent the United States is brought to tho verge of war with Mexico. It ia not dillicult to boo the evidences of satisfaction <m the part if prediftory interests at oh oil -of- these ;>ori??ds nor ia it dilllenlt to discern the propaganda which fosters tlic development of them. "Falsehood, vilification, studied misrepresentation?these are the weapons on*tantly in una hy tho-o who, to erve their'own'ends, would precipitate war* between these two American republics. It is no longer possible to feel vitli certainty that high government officials have not been made the tools and ..wns of those wlio seek intervention, he latest term for which 4s 'Cnbaniaa: ion.' Check Flasher Amskd. A man believed to be Monsoe Fleming of Anderson, who used as aliases W. L. Wallace and W. T. Williams, was arrested Monday afternoon by< the town policeman, charged with passing a worthless check. After waiving a preliminary hearing before Magistrate E. S. Parka he was committed to York jail to await trial. Suspicion was aroused by Fleming's attempts to cash checks at several stores. lie succeeded at last in getting one' cashed at a local drug store for $6.75, although the check was drawn for $675 in both the figures and body of the check. This check was drawn on a Rook Hilt bank, was made payable to W. L. Wallace and was< signed W. W. Moore. Following his arrest several checks were found on the prisoner, one drawn on a bank in Gastonia, N. C., and several blank checks of a Lancaster bank. At different times the prisoner claimed to be from Rock Hill and Union. His answers to questions were I vague and it is believed that he is not of sound mind. In renlv to a rm??tinr> by Magistrate Parks, he said be was wanted at theinsarramsylum in Colum- < bia. He-appears to b# between 26 and 2u years <of age. Probyttrim Girt for Evocation. Reports received at headquarters in Columbia for the $l,000,0u0 endowment campaign being conducted by the synod of South Carolina for its educa. tionnl institutions are gratifying. While { the largest individual contribution ex- < cept the $10(1.000 offered by C. E. Graham of Greenvtlla has been the : $26,000 given by an upstate Presbyterian, whose name was not announced, , it is not unlikely that other large j donations will be reported soon. While , the work has been under way only a short time, it hha haen in operation long enough for tho committee appointed by the synod to see that it meets with the hearty approval of the Presbyterians of South Carolina. The money will be divided: fit percent, to Presbyterian College of1 South Carolina; 26 per cent, to Chicora college; 121-2 per cent, to Thomwell orphanage, and 12 1-2 per cent, to Columbia TU A^%lAa4f>a 1 n i i mia a ir* r ilvlBwnRnv^y? m Mill SDAY, APRIL 29, 1920. FORT MILL DEMOCRATS STAND BY PRESIDENT "Resolved by the Fort Mill Democratic club: "That we wish to go on record as heartily indorsing the administration of President Wilson, whose conduct of the government merits the well done of every patriotic American citizen. No other president of the republic has had so many questions of worldwide import to meet and no other president 1)BS shown more wisdom and good judgment in overcoming vexed situations. We are proud to have helped elect President Wilson in 1912 and again in 1916. Harassed and misrepresented incessantly for itbstlast tmm years by unscrupulous politle44oppeaent8 both in and out of Congpws, hda administration will nevertheless go down in hiBtory as one of the greatest it has ever been the good fortune of the country to place in oihco. Under no other president has an equal number of laws been passed in the interest of the great mass of the people. His successful prosecution of the war against Germany is above reproach and his name will be honored and revered in future ages when the names of the opportunists in Congress who have sought to question his motives long since have been forgotten. Had the Republican Congress had the patriotism to ratify the treaty of peace he Bubmit ted, America would have retained first place in the esteem of the nations of the earth, the position in which she was placed by the wisdom and love for homanity ho displayed at the peace conference." The foregoing resolution, indorsing the administration of President Wilson, was adopted at the regular biennial meeting of the Fort Mill Democratic club held in the town hall Saturday afternoon in compliance with the instructions. of the county chairman. At the reorganization of the club Frederidk Nims, Jr.; was elected president. D. G. Kimbrell vica, president, and J. R. Haile secretary. The meeting was presided over by J. R. Haile, and the following nominations by a committee composed?of W. H. Jones, J. H.Sutton and W. EL Meacham were confirmed toy acclamation: C. P. Blankenship, county executive committeeman; S. H. Epps. W, H. Crook, W. H. WindeH,: J, H. Sutton, W B. Meacham, S. W. Parks, T. B. Spratt, W. H. Jones endt Dr. T. S. Kirkpatrick, delegates to the county convention, with the followitigi alternates: A. J. Broom, W. H. Pierce^ W. P. Epps, B. F. Bennett, A. C.i Lytle, C. S. Link, A. C. Sutton, R. P.i Harris and D. A. Lee. W. R. Bradford was Indorsed as a delegate to the! M ?? *V WllVVUUUdt Mrs. Mauty Gets $20,000 Verdict. A verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $20,000 was returned by the jury in' York at 11 o'clock Friday night in the case of Mrs. JeBsie H. Massey, widow of Burton H. Massey, against the Seaboard Air Line Railway company for $76,000 on account of injuries suffered when the automobile in which she, her httsbandand two children were riding was struck by a freight train at a crossing near Catawba junction, May 29, 1919, her husband and one child being kitted. Trial of the case, which has attracted considerable attention, was begun Tuesday and the taking of testimony was concluded Thursday afternoon, following which the jury was taken to the scene of the accident. Argument* took place Friday, the case going to the jury at 4 o'clock. The rerdict was returned after a deliberation of seven hours. The late Burton II. Massey was a well known business man and farmer of Rock Hill. "TW Times" Modi Improved. Rock Hill Record. Much credit is due to the new owners of the Fort Mill Times for the great improvement they have made in that paper. For many years . The Times was what is called a "ready print" tkoat u>t#h "n?t. ? * 1? - ?? |?MWt UUIOIUB ~ m?l II, half of the sheet was printed out of town. Now, the paper is all home print. It looks good, and it is good, ' with plenty of home news. We hope the gentlemen will make a success of It?a hard thing to do in these days of trouble. TRAINMEN INJURED WHEN ENGINE JUMPED TRACK Wilmington, Del., April 20.?Two trainmen were seriously injured today when a Baltimore and Ohio engine and tender jumped the track near Leslie, Md? and rolled down a 30 foot embankment. The men were pinned under the en i.?u i and badly scalded by the escaping steuin i before they could be extricated. vv r" > * W " ? . Time; I BAPTIST CONVENTION TO MEET IN FORT MILL [ ? The 12th annual session of the York Baptist Sunday School convention will be held with the Fort Mill Baptist church Tuesday and Wednesday, May 4 and 6. The morning sessions will begin at 10:80 o'clock and the afternoon sessions at 2 o'clock. Topics pertaining to Sunday Bchool improvement will be discussed by local workers as well as by experts sent out by the State Bap rat. ounaay scnooi board. Special attention is called to Tuesday night's session at which J. L. Corzine, State rural Sunday school superintendent, will speak on the work of the B. Y. P. U.; Miss Elisabeth Nuckols, State ek^entary superintendent, will discuss "The Sevan Lamps," and Dr. C. E. Borts will give an addresa 011 "The Rural Program of South Carolina Baptists." Sunday school workers of the Methodist and Presbyterian churches, as well as the public generally, are cordially Invited to all the sessions of the convention, the Rev. Dr. J. W. H. Dyches, pastor of the hostess church, announces. The program of the convention follows: Tuesday, May 4. 10:30 A. M.?Devotional exercises, ithe Rev. J. D. Croft. 10:45 A. M. ? Enrollment of delegates and reports from schools. 11:00 A. M.?Address, "Problems of Ithe Rurnl'SimHuu QnKnnl 1' ?> > D? 1 ? vfVdWI, VIIC XVCV. U IR. Smith. 11:30 A. M.? Address, "The Duty of indoctrination," the Rev. 0. L. Jones. 12:00 M. ? Demonstration of normal training, J. L. Corzine, State superintendent rural Sunday school work. 12:30 P. M.?Dinner on the grounds. 2:00 P. M.?Devotional, H. D. Harkey. 2:16 P. M.?Address, "The Child and (His Needs," Miss Elizabeth Nuckols, State elementary superintendent. 2:46 P. M.?Address, "The Pastor's Responsibility for the School," the Rev. IF. A. Liles. 3:00 P. M.?Address' "The Pastor's Opportunity in the School," the Rev. T. H. Roach; discussion by pastors. 3:80 P. M.?Conference of elementary workers, led by Miss Nuckols. i 4:00 P. M. ?Miscellaneous business and adjournment. Night Session. 1 7:46?Song service. 8:00?Report of superintendent of teacher training and delivery of diplomas, the Rev. Dr. J. W. H. Dyches. ' 8:15?Address, "The B. Y. P. U.:Its Aims and Opportunities," J. L. Corzine. 8:45?Address, "The Seven Lamps," Miss Nuckols. 9:15?Address, "The Rural Program Of South Carolina Baptists," Dr. C. E. Burts, secretary and treasurer, general board, Baptist State convention. Wednesday, May 5, Morning Session. 10:30?Devotional exercises, the Rev. W. D. Hammett. 10:46 ?"What the Sunday Schools Can Do in Conserving the Results of the 75 Million Campaign," the Rev. B. H. Waugh. 11:15?"An Efficient Rural Sunday School," J. L. Corzine. 11:46? Reports of depart mental superintendents. 12:O0H.?'"Need of an Efficient Staff of Sdnday Sdhool Officers," Prof. W. H. Ward. 12:18 P. M.?"Need of an Efficient 1 Corps of Teaohers," the Rav. C. E. Thomas. 12:30 PI UL?Dinner on the grounds. Aeternoon Session. 2:00?Devotional exercises, the Rev. , F. A. Li las. 1 2:15?Demonstration of normal trailing, J. L. Conine. I 2:46?Address, "The Three Gates," ] Miss Nuckols. I 3:15?Address, "What Needs to be 1 Done to PutOur Sunday Schools on an t Efficient Basis?" the-Rev. R. 1. Corbett. i 3:45?Miscellaneous business; election of officers; adjournment. Engagement Announced. II j Btxioy >ii?novM ??. a uiifung ui ?ti u | Bachelor Maids' club with Mias Lucy , Pish of the engagementef Miss Mamie ( Jack Massey and Prsderiek Nims, Jr., , the wedding to take place in June. I Miss Mianey is a daughter of L. J. Massey and is an aceomplished young woman whose engagement will bring ] forth a wealth of good wishes from her , many friends. During the last year ] she has been the instructor of honrie ] economic ? in the local graded school j Eutfi is a Winthrop gradoate. , Mr. Nims is a son of Mr. and Mrs. , Pred Nims and is one of the communi- j ty's popular young men. He aervad with distinction in the Wosid war, ss a lieutenant of infantry, and mm <1 severely wounded 4n action on October 1 B, 1918. ' v' rS*5.. s > -* >. - - ^- ^-?^nitfT?i i i . $1.26 Per Yea r TEACHERS' SALARIES INCREASED BY BOARD In compliance with the act of the General Assembly passed at the 1920 session, the board of trustees of the Fort Mill public school at a meeting Monday night adopted the new sched,.u .? ?1?' ?.c ui bttiaries required under the act for teachers and also adopted a resolution providing for the employment of three additional teachers, one each in the first and Becond grades^ and the third to have charge of the 11th grade of the high school, which it is planned to install next fall. The new salary schedule calls for an expenditure of about $17,800 against the present expenditure for thiB purpose of $9,000. Of the $17,800, however, the trustees are expecting to receive from State and Federal sources $7,800, leaving $10,000 to be paid for teachers' salaries from local taxation. The addition of the 11th grade to the school means much for the buys and girta of tha community who for one reason . er another are not in position to complete their education by a college course, the trustees are certain. At the meeting of the board Monday night the election of teachers for the next session was not entered into, but this matter will be taken up at a meeting of the board to be held tonight. J. B. Mills, chairman of the board, has received a number-of applications from teaehers, and it ia thought that several hours will be consumed inthe eieetionB. The Fort Mill graded school has grown in the last four or five years from an eight teacher school to the 17-teach0r corps which will open the session next September. WALKER D. HINES QUITS AS RAILROAD DIRECTOR Washington, April 2fl.?Walker D." Mines, director general of railroads, has resigned and bis resignation has been necepted by President Wilson, effective Muy 15. Much work in liqqidating the affairs of the railroud administration will remain after May 15 and a successor to Mr. ITines will be numed. Max Thelen, in charge of the claims- department, probably will be appointed. He js understood to be Mr. Hino's choice, and ' it was said today at the White House that the retiring direutor general would name his own successor. Mr. Iline's letter of resignation was not made public, but it wns understood that the director g<fl>eral had desired to return to the pructice of law in New York when the roads were returned do private control March 1 and that die had consented to remuin only until the tusk of liquidation was well under way. Because of his long application to the business of his oflice Mr. Hinca is understood to contemplate a vacation trip Immediately after May 15 which will hake him abroad. In accepting Mr. Hines' resignation the l'residi-ut wrote that lie could not let the director general retire without telling him how he had "personally valued and admired the quite unusual services you have rendered the government und the country." s e ? u ? e uTcwa s moral courage. Presbyterian Standard. We have followed with admiration ^ the political career of Senator Overman / and rejoiced at his prominence in the senate. Nothing he has done should call for more admiration than bis heroic stand at the State convention, when he saw that woman suffrage was succeeding. Instead of pleading the inevitable, as Governor Blckett and Senator Simmons had done, he boldly stood by his ship and went down with his flag flying. What made the stand more worthy of praiae was the great need of roing with the current. He comes before the people this fall for the nomination for the senate and he is opposed by an enthusittstieichampion of woman's mfTrage. a fact that must have made bim pause before taking a step that would insure the opposition of the women. To his praise, let us remember how ie stood the test and refused to bend the pregnant hinges of the knee that thrift might follow fawnintr. Such a nan is an honor to hia State and we .rust that all who admire morul courage will do their beat to send him back to ire senate. ~ "> Clarence Miller, IS years old, son of Brnest Miller, had his right foot severely cut Tuesday afternoon by stepping on a broken bottle in the rear of a Main street store. The gash was about two inches long and a large artery was levered, the physician who dressed the wound finding it difficult to stop the How of blood. . Washington, April 20.?The census bureau today announced that the population of Mooresvills, N. C., was 4,31ft, in increase of 20.0 per cent.