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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
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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
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' 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.
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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.
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