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? |*B ~ X' vt; ; . ?.&?' " v" > fsE&y THE FORT MILL TIMES Democratic?Published Thursdays. We. R. Bmlbri, Mtlff ui FsMSsher. y - ,-yX The Times Invitee contributions or live subjects but does not scree tc publish more than 200 words on am subject. The right Is reserved to edli every communication submitted foi publication. On application to the publisher advertising rates are made known t< j /those Interested. - J Telephone, local and long distance No. lit. Entered at the postothce at Fori Mill, 8. C., as mall matter of th< second class. ?.MM.__ THURSDAY. JULY 21, 1921. Some folks are so credulou* they are ready to believe, or pretend to believe, almost anything. In this class we find the editor of a Charlotte textile paper, who re pea ted for the newspapers a few days ago a story to the effect that the strike of the cotton mill qpefatives in the Charlotte dis trict was being financed in parr at least by New England mills. Informed people will not take the story seriously. The New England mills are not owned or managed by chumps who have money to throw at the birds. On tincontrary, the cotton mill magnates of that section have the reputation of being "elevated men upon an elevated plan, who keep all they get and get all they can." There is no telling?perhups some of them might do the thing the Charlotte editor says they are doing?some Southern men would not be above it?if they were absolutely certain that t :s. but to aak anybody to beliave that these long-headed business men arejfiputting up the money to l"'"1"'" milia whose wwoWcBufpur is so small that it has no effect upon the price of cotton goods, and therelore cannot moan the least ad"" vancc ill the price of the product of the New Eugland mills, is to ask people to believe something that bears every earmark of absurdity. Possibly there is no merit to the contention of the strikers in the Charlotte mills \vlin urn do,i>o...K..? _ ?? ~ uvwaiiuiiig more pay? of that The Times is uninformed; but it can guess that their cause, be it good or bud, will not be injured by such cock-and-bull sto. ries as the Charlotte editor repeats. In the opinion of The Times, practically every World war veteran in South Carolina who stood to receive assistance under the provisions of the bouus bill which was laid aside, perhaps indefinitely. by the United States senate a few days ago was hopeful that the bill would pass. The exservice men in this State, in common with the ex-service men throughout the country, feel that ~ they earned more in dollars and cents than the government paid them for the hardships they unwent and the service they performed for mankind on the battlefields of Europe and in the training camps in 1917 and 1918. and they dismiss as idle talk the charge that they are seeking to commercialize their patriotism. Hut granting for the sake of argument that there is the color of truth iu the charge, what is to )>>> vui(l 11 ? ? ?. ...V- nniuil Ul v OUgrfKN ir granting a bonus to the shipyard workers for commercializing. as many of them did. their cowardice f These men, along with teiiK of?thousands of department employees in Washington and elsewhere, were paid from $5 to $10 per day in the shipyards beyond the zone 'of danger or the discomforts incident to war while the overseas soldiers were daily facing death and the horrors of war thousands of miles from their homes for less than $40 per month. Not only that, hundreds of thousands of the men who were 3ent to Europe to stop German bullets with their bodies were called upon to make great sacrifices in a business way ' ' when they pat on the uniform that the government should recognize by granting them the additional compensation the botfus bill proposed. For whatever it is worth, the ex-service then of ' South Carolina should keep in i i mind the fact?they may find it , tuneful two or ;hree years hence? that Senator N. B. Dial of this j State was one of the Democrats i who assisted the Republicans <in 1 sidetracking the bonus bill. It ! seems easy enough for the presii dent and Congress to figure out where the money is to come from to present % the railroads of the | country with a half billion dollars to which they are not enti. tied, but when it comes to ft aim- I pie matter of fair treatment for I L the ex-service men. the govern? inent finances at once heroine in such deplorable shape that to grant the bonus would mean ruin ! . As to which, however. Senator i Kenyon of Iowa hit the nail on . the head when he observed that a people who could ufford to pay ' over a million and a halt dollars . to see a slacker knock a Frenchman into unconsciousness would not find it difficult to put up the I money to pay the solders what . they owed them. k . Of course?the subsidized press of the country is as silent as death on the subject of the excessive freight and passenger rates of the railroad companies. A cash consideration keeps some of the larger papers in line for the railroads, while a mileage book slipped at convenient times to the smaller papers that can be influenced is enough to muzzle them. If all the newspapers in America were honest and would speak out on the subject as they should. ine railroads would be forced to lower-their rates in less than 60 days. Hut - litiimiriijjjbyir of the situation i? that the management of the railroads <U> not seem . to have sense enough to knbw tliat they are standing in the way of 'their own prosperity. It' freight and passenger rates wenput upon a reasonable basis, the business of the companies would immediately show an immense increase. Under present conditions many people patronize the railroads only when they arc forced to do so. But the railroad companies apparently prefer fo go before Congress with hat in hand like so many street paupers begging for alms, seeming to think that it is easier to influence the law-makers of the country to give them that to which they are not entitled than it would be to go out and honestly earn enough to keep their business going with a balance on the right side of the ledger. If a Fort Mill merchant should appear at the next meeting of the local town council and beg that an appropriation he made from the tax money of the community to keep his business afloat, everybody would write that man down fl knave and a fool; but that is exactly what the railroads are hogging the American Congress to do. with no more reason for their action than the local incident we have drawn would present. And the companies are getting away with it. thanks to the wise men we have on the job in Washington. 666 cures Malarial Fever. NOTICE OF ELECTION. Notice is hereby given that an election will In* hold in tin* town j of Fort Mill, N. ('., on Tuesday, the 15th day of August, 11)21. at the store of Young & Wolfe for the purpose of electing an Al- J deriuan from Ward 4. and that J. T. Young. J. Saville and ?!. M. Belk are appointed managers of the said election. The hooks of registration will j be opened at the office of the j Town Clerk for the purpose of registering voters on the 15th | day of July, 1921, and will re- j man) open until and including the 4th day of August, 1921. By order of Town Council, this j 12th day of Julv. 1921. F. K. ARilREY, Mayor. ; Attest: C. S. LINK, Clerk. New lot Ladies' and Children's Hats at half price just arrived at Massey's. ^ Rub-My-TUm kills pain. ( < ' >. FOBT MILL TUB J 1- 1 . nil I COIN I ' i^n * I (?JS?K m /1"~ | [four small c hang I Somebody Is saw I comes back to us easy if you have I us to show you. I THE SAVINGS BJ I YORK COUNTY' ^ ? OX 1 GOOD Tfl fihKi'rii-H, Market, Countrj Produce. IM tone Fourteen. r?1 ^ '* liJ iMwl wiwkj roonng Bary in a goo You will wa \ shingle when See this shin^lo & ' 1 | Fort Mill FOltT MJ -v "TT"^' ) . I I S, FOET MILL, B. C. pul bk ^=xu_ ^ ^ *! a - where does it go ? Ill ing it and it always I in the end. *9t's . fl| a coin bank. Ask 8 lOe will be glad. 8 m OF FORT MILL I S OLDEST SANK jg DISTES j IINGS TO EAT ? r =11 H=jl tesisting^P ^;!3" incc in a roof is a wISBSIb ' mt consideration \f 8. And in this ill find the VulcaoA Slab Shingle <?j* kxI. It will give ^ .jjM jetion for your * \3 g with this f;n /f?? ality are durabi JtiveneHS and JbfZS; [ ither protection. I live Vulcanite I i you all four of fcyg&yi I qualities neces- I: d roofing. f nt this attractive | Lumber Co. | ILL, S. C. i' ? 'II Y' ^' I | .. * V : I SELF MA 4 The only way to get < t .i if * wun yourseir is to b* t Yourself. v t Self Masters are cc I forceful and indepen< | Those that are slave | are always miserable | Thrift is a habit of S< | means mastering y< t every day. (Be a Self Master and tion of your earnings | come to you and pi ? bank. | 4 PER CENT ON SAVN I 1 First Natioi | Capital and Surplus . ? Your Wants in GROCE Can Be Filled Pi B. M. 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