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v- v ' I x 1 Batabliahed 1881. TAKES STAND FOB BONUS. Fort BU11 Legion Post Indorses -V Bill for Ex-Service Men. Eli Baileft post, No. 43. American Legion, Tuesday night came out flatfootedly for the bonus bill of the American Legion which was pigeonholed in the United States senate a few days ago on the recommendation of President Harding and not oidy expressed its disapproval of the opposition of the South Carolina division of of the Legion to the bill but went further and criticised Congress for shelving the bill and thereby "levying a tax on patriotism and placing a premium on cowardice." At an enthusiastic meeting Tuesday night at which 30 membersof tlie post were present ? resolution was unanimously adop . .1 4* IV VI .-M-lllliy ICMlll III UI1IIHM Jlivilble language the attitude of the ex-serviee men toward the bonus bill. They are for it?there's no mistaking that 1'aet. The resolution was drawn by a committer composed of ('apt. (ieorge W. l'otts, Capt. F. M. Mark and , .Jas. T. Young, Jr. A ropy of the resolution and a bonus editorial printed in The Times of July 21 will be sent by the post to The American Legion Weekly with the request tluit both he published in that paper. It also was planned last night by a member or the resolutions committee to send a copy of the resolution and the editorial to ('ongressnian John J. McKwain of the (Sreenville district and likewise request him to have both printed in The Congressional Record. The resolution is ns follows: "Resolved. That Eli Railcs post. No. 4J. American Legion, of Fort Mill. S. is imt in ni'<?i?i-ii with the action of the South Car oliuu division of tlit* American Legion which has several times gone on record as opposing the proposed compensation legislation for ex-service men; that the Kli Bailcs post, hv unanimous |Qr'oto of its membership, earnestly vindorses the American Legion bill providing for adjusted compensation for the ex-service men of the World war. "Resolved further. That Kli Bailcs post is not in accord with the narrow and short-sighted action of the Congress of the United States is shelving the hill for adjusted compensation. thereby levying a tax on patriotism and placing a premium on cowardice, and that we heartily indorse an editorial which appeared on page 2 of the Fort Mill Times of duly 21. 1921. urging additional compensation for ex-service men. a copy of which is hereto attached and made a part of this resolution. "Resolved further, that a copy of this resolution, including The Times' editorial, he sent to The American Legion Weekly, with flip Viwiiuict 1 l?ol t? .??.L1 ...1. . 1 ,..v . ? ?|||1 i l?? l II IM- |M|II| IMil'il, One "Manager" for Election. Turn I a.v five 1'ort citizens went to tin- .store *?i" Young & Wolfe and cast their ballots for George \V. McKcn/.ie for ablerman from Ward 4. Neither of the three managers appointed by town council to conduct the election found it convenient to 2ict ami the election was held by das. Young, dr.. who said the ballot box had been left at lite store of Young & Wolfe, where he is a salesman, and that he did not think it right to have men leave their work and come to vote only to be disappointed by the nonattendance of the managers. Yesterday one of the men appointed to act as manager of the election said he was ready to serve and came up town Tuesday morning for llntl purpose, but that finding neither of the other men who had been selected to serve with him in the neighborhood of the bnllot box he concluded there would be no election and went home. ^ The annual reunion of ihe descendants of the lale Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Kimlnvll was held last Thursday at the home of l>. !. Kimbrell, one mile south of town. Thirty-five members of the family were present for the reunion. i.i Vv ' > 'AMMH Fhe F WORLD 'S CAMBLING CENTER I Fort Mill Soldier Tells of Visit to Monte Carlo. "Speaking of gambling,*' yea- j tirduy said .lames T. Young, Jr., World war veteran of Fort Mid, who was in France with a signal corps outfit front Washington. 1). C., "the place to see real gain- ' bling, not the tin horn variety, ?s at Monte t'arlo, the world's head- , quarters for gatius of chance, j where fortunes are won ami lost every day in the year in less time ; than it takes to tell about it. The J city t?f Monte Carlo is on the island of Monaco, in the Mediterranean sea. about 'JO miles from Nice, France. Even during the j v ar visitors, men and women j alike, came to Monte Carlo from I every quarter of tliv globe to try | their luck. The Bank of Monte ; Carlo, the great gambling institu- i lion, is licensed under the laws of t lir island and there is no danger 1 ot' iis promoters I?i iu?r run in as | would happen in this country. 1 The hank is situated on a high cliff, known as 'The Cliff of Sighs.* overlooking the Mcditer- i rancan. where it is said scores | and scores of people who had lost , their all at the hank's seductive j rallies ended their lives hv hurl- I ing themselves from the cliff. "IMiring the war it was a rule | of the I tank of .Monte Carlo not | to admit men in uniform, hut j every now and then one man- | aged to evade the vigilance of the Ivnx-cyed spotters who are eon- I stoutly on guard for those who j might try to stick up the place j oi make way with sonietliing that I did not belong to tlieui. I'erhaps | the proprietors of the hank had ligured it out that the soldiers did not have enough money to make the effort of trying to separate them from it worth while, or perhaps they concluded the men in uniform might lrv to 'start .something.* Kither guess was perhaps a "ood one. .My observation was that there were tunny men in the army wonhl liave weleomeiI an opporuinity to organize a raid on an?l 'hreak tin* auk at .Monte Carlo.' "'Ilieie are many devices at he IhinU of .Monte Carlo to promote the interests of the house against those o! the player, for ntstanee. the ^rainI?Iiji*r rooms. I Was lol?|. Were heated art ifieially in summer and winter alike to ii.lise the player to heeome coilS11 set I and lose his power of elear thin kill};. The windows are never raised during the hours the games ..re in progress and everybody is encouraged to smoke incessantIv. <>! course wine and other intoxicating drinks are always to he had. And for the least service performed by one of the attendants the player is expected to give him a tip. Should the player want a match to light a cigar or a cigarette the only way to get it is m ask an attendant for it. That calls for a tip. The floors in the gaining rooms are covered with the thickest and heaviest kind id' arpels and these make one's feet 1 burn, adding to his discomfort and confused state of mind, lively condition of course favors the hank. Many men win fortunes '.here, hut for every one who leaves the hank with luck on his side, there are a do/.eli to tell a different story. "The visitor can find almost any kind of ,,ard game at Monte i i... i . i . t> I - ...... ...- n I.-.IIII. Ml lll'l till. I >i I ?* carat seems in In- the I'aivorili' ;r Imit nl' course faro and oilier card games arc to lie found ihriv. fortunes also change | liaiids at .Monte Carlo every I day in the year on craps. I was told that in the many years the Hank of Monte Carlo lias heen in existence only one mail had heen jdile to hrcak it even temporarily. This was in 1!H4 and the fortunate player forced the erou pier to announce that the institution was out of funds. How much this man won I did not hear, hut the hank was ready for business as usual the following day. There appears to be no sueli tiling as a 'system' to heat the hank. Thousands have imagined that they lu.d discovered a way to get. the best of the institution only to learn to their sorrow that they | were mistukeii." I ORT J FORT MILL, 8..C-, THURS NEWS OF YORK COUNTY. Current Items of Interest Found 1 in the Yorkville Enquirer. Rather than sell their butter for 10 cents a pound, which is the 1 price being offered them by the ' dealers in the nearest market. 1 farmers of the Hopewell section , are using butter for lard, according to leading farmers of the Hopewell community. Considerable improvements are , being made to the plant of the , Howling Green spinning mill, , which is under the management ( of C. N. Alexander of Clover. The , mill buildings have recent I v been painted ami considerable rentod- j cling bas been done. ( Prof. \V. S. Heid. superintendent of the Clover graded school, said Saturdat* that he was unable to announce at this time when the work of the next session would be entered upon. It will i probably be the last of October, however, since it is believed that the new school building will have been completed by that time. The management of the Clover cotton oil mill has under way < plans for the erection of a large brick building in which will he housed an up-to-date ice plant. The building, which will be erected near the present ice plant, v ill be a structure about 40 by tiO feet and the contract for its election has been let to .Ml*. Sail) Met'all. Tlie building will be sufficiently large to accommodate a 20-ton plant. Horace Johnson, special constable. now knows why it requires so many automobile tires to keep his machine traveling. It is because of the hard usage to which I lie machine is put in traveling lei.g distances ami over all sorts ul roads ami by-paths in jiert'orinin?r his ?lutv a s aprohihit inn otlieer. Constable Johnson kept a record ?Iurin?r July of tin* mileaj?a that hi' covered during* that month in tin- performance of his ilntii's. Tin' total distance traveled hy auto was ahout miles. A now sot of tires is reI quired for tin' machine about every two months. "I ri'iin'inhiT that follow S. .1. Kirby very well." said, \V. T. Ih'ailforil of the Beth-Shiloh iiei^rh horhooil. ^'1 i;ot to know him \v lion I was a jruard on the ?-luihiiior a!..nit ten years aj?o. I lie was sent up for eruelty to one of his children. According to my rooolloot ion one of the neighbors report oil to the police that the oliihl hail hoen brutally whippod ami loll in the yard with u smoothing iron lied to it. Kirby was sentenced to pay a fine or go to the chaingang for JO days, j While oil the chaingang lie seemI imI to lake pleasure in telling how ! he had sold liquor and violated I other laws." Mr. II. K. I'Vrgiison. well known | ? at' le de ler of Vorkville. w as ! I, M r.bsllltr 1 11 . ? I i I t t 1 ? ? liimiiiok'L! * I?.? | ol 11? i* ?Iji v. linsiiiess is awiiv off ! .ilisi now ." said ho. '"and accord| ni<r to ill I indications it will he j lor sonic time. While it is a fact that people do not eat as morn steak and heef in the sninnnr as they do in the winter th.it is 1101 alli *.re her the reason for the tin a slump of the past few months. When the World war i < . r to an end the I'nited States l;d on hand thousands and mil1 i? . s of pounds of heef hoiltrht I o:n the ?reat packing houses to furnish the soldiers. The govern en lit since then h:is heen trotting rid of this ?rreat store hv sollinir i* to the general public. The hlitcllers who sell fresh heef find that they cannot compote with mi* ?rovernineni prices aiul coiise<pu litly tin- beef business is on the ilown grade while hundreds of butchers have gone out of business. There will lie no change in 'he situation until the ?roveminent supply is consumed by the public." Mrs. Osmond Barber. Mrs. Kenneth Nims. Mrs. L. M. Massev and Miss Nora Hamilton were called to donesville. Union conn ty. Sunday to be at the bedside of their father. Col. K. W. llamll1m. who is in a critical condition from a stroke of paralysis he susI tamed a few days ago. tflLL ' IDAY, AUGUST 18, 1921. RESTORING THE BUFFALO. Sfforts of American Bison Soci- 1 ety Meeting With Success. Tile buffalo, a meat and furnoducing animal that, even as i ate as the '50s, roamed the plains t a eouutless thousands; could eulure extremes of heat ami cold ind hunger impossible to cattle; 1 iiulowed with an instinct and * iluiity to extract food roots from y mow-covered ledges and meet the ' seemingly unendurable blasts of 1 storm and sleet to a degree that \ aould slay the hardiest range i L'attle by herds; an animal that | >iice%claimed its habitat from the j Alleghanies to the Rockies and , from I'anama to the vast reaches i?f the Canadian Northwest terri- , lory, today exists almost solely in a few national parks and pri- | V.I I.. HPUVl.fUUU " I" v"v * * " , Tlu* rut hlcssncss of buffalo slaughter passes common under- , s-anding. As. the natural food. , shelter and clothing furnisher of , the Indian, the latter, hunting 1 with how ami arrow or spear, killed only a sutlieient nutnher for | for honest, personal needs. The coming of the white man into the plains almost caused the extinction of the buffalo. From hunting as a sport? that was carried to such an extent of killing that i> was merely butchery?buffalo slaying became the occupation of the pothunter, hide seeker and renegade, 'I lius. today, news of the buffalo lias chiefly to do with restoring him. A late report of the American Bison society shows that Montana has MTU buffalo and Colorado 212. Kansas and Nebraska, the headquarters of millions of range buffalo, even as kite as the T?()s. possess just ;">?). .\e\V 1 OI'K Mils 41. At his range at Pawnee, Okla.. Ma.j. Cordon Li I ley. internationallv known as "Pawnee Bill," lias established a 10.000-aere preserve for buffalo and lias accomplished one of the most eoinmcudable aehieveinents of his plains career. Through the success of Itis raneh. many hotels in the large eities have tasted of the d< lieaeies of buffalo steak, consignments going out from time to time solely for the purpose of proving the palatable qualities of the meat and thus arousing interest in the raising of buffalo for food. The total number of buffalo given by the bison society for the I nited States today is 3,393 head. The lurgcst herd on the North American continent is the Canadian national herd at Wainwright, Alberta. This herd roams open range, virtually as free as e\er were its ancestors, and numbers 4.335 bend. Alberta lias a total of 4.543. Then there is tinwild herd of Athabasca, estimated at 500 head. In Canada as a whole there is a total of 5,080 bead. Kirby Known Here? Numerous Fort Mill citizens are confident that the S. 3. Kirby held in the State penitentiary in t.olnmhi;i m i<niiin>?i i.m tlw? murder ot the young unto transIVi driver. William Rra/.ell, in i.e.xiugton county a few nights ago, lived as a hoy on the farm of Magistrate .). K. Haile in Fort Mill lownship 17 years ago. At that time there was a family of tenants named Kirhy on Magisiiate Hade's farm and in the family were a number of hoys, one of whom was Robert Kirhy. w ho afterwards hcrume a locomoiive engineer for the Southern raiiway with a run between Columbia and Charlotte. Robert Kirbv died several years ago. S. I. Kirhy is thought to have been a brother of Robert Kirhy. On January :H. 1!HG. S. J. Kirby was eonvicted in the court at York of cluhhing and robbing a man on the outskirts of Rock Hill and was sentenced to serve two years in the State penitentiary. He was paroled after a year's imprisonment. Query of "Citizen" Answered. The mayor of a South Carolina town has as much authority to appoint a member of town council as a coroner has to appoint a governor of the StHte or m I'nited I States senator.?The Times. riMK THIRD HORSEMAN RIDES. Russia in Grip of Worst Disaster of Centuries. Hunger, the third of the four lread horsemen that have been rumpling upon the nations for hose seven years, rides today un heeked through Russia. and a voriii hardened to stories of starvation is quickened to now fears jv reports of hungry millions uarching east ami west from the valley of the Volga to lamls where here is food, says The Literary >igcst. It is to stop the catastro>hie snowslideora new "migraii-ii of peoples and to save civilisation from utter destruetion." that Herbert Hoover and tin* American Keform adiainistratiou liave begun feeding the Russian children. so one editor remarks, ireideiitallv. say many others, tin giving of relief will tend to weaken the power of the soviet government, whieh they hold in 10 small part responsible for the L'atastrophe. While the "horriIde stories spread by the foreign press" are said by an otficial Moscow wireless to he largely exiggerated." the same dispatch admits that "the calamity is grave." The official Ivestia (newspaper i of Moscow likewise admits that Russia "has ahsu Intelv no harvest this year. I'easints arc rcducted to despair. They in mowing unripe Ooru and fleciii^ paific-st riken before ileal h ii il starvation. .Many are living nf cholera ami typhus." Not since the grcut plagues scourged the Kgypt of the I'liaraohs has any nation sufl'ereu such horrors as are report e?l from Russia, according to a Iterliu dispatch to the New VorU I'ribune. # All the wells ami st t earns in the Volga region have dried up; whole villages are in flight, and "the vast steppes of Russia will he strewn with the bodies of men. women and children unless the world comes to their aid." Kuropc. continues the writer, "may witness a titanic invasion by Russian hordes such as has not occurred since the advance of the Mongols across the Russian steppes." A New York Herald dispatch floiil Reval tells how these people already are proceeding in the track of the barbarian invasions of Kuropc in the sixth century, 'eating all the crops as they go, and like locusts spreading fauiii very where." Other dispatches tell of scores being crushed to death in their efforts to hoard railroad trains, of people stagger -j nig after departing trams crying, "in the name <d tiod. give us hread. for we are d\ uig. The most uuia/.ilig scenes iliai Kurope lias witnessed for a thousand years "are to he seen in the wholesale migration id men. women and children, who earrx with 11.ciu dogs and such domestic animals as they can take." One Moscow newspaper is authority lor the statement that ti million ot these hungry, ragged peasants .ire marching on the capital, t hat do vanguard reached one city and. maddened by hilliel'. oVet'w helmed the Ued uriiix garrison, looted all the stores alul warehouses. seized every morsel ot food, and even killed and devoured the horses belong to the city s fire ilapartincut. The Poles are nat iirnllv alarm ft!. One well illlormeii <i11< 1 nt^li iv <-?i11?.*?!i? ?i I'oio told iIn* ("hieajjo iii I >i 1111 * eorrespomleni in War Mia W I llill " t'oluilll IS ill llllirtall (lunger of another Kiismuii niva mom (in invasion I?v ii mass ol starving hinnaiiity wliirli will sweep over I h lion lor liken park o? hungry wolvos invading a loiioly village in winter." and the odilor of a I'olish ilaily in Now York oily is not uiiiiat nrally movoil Iiv i In* reports of "oxIn listo<I. hungry massos. wandering in ilospair Inward an unknown ilostiiuitioii. niiirkintheir patli I iv tlio oorpsos of llioir i*li iltlroii. of their woinon ami old poo plo." I'orliaps, ho ventures, "another migration of peoples begins ii. this 20th oontury similar to that whieh 1,500 years ago overturned the Human empire of the Caesars." 1 >. $1.50 Per Year. LEGION POST MEETS. Ex-Service Men Act on Several Matters of Importance. Eli Buili?s post. No. 43. American Legion, of Fort Mill held a special meeting Tuesday night, ai which a number of matters of importance to the ex-service tueu were acted upon. The following delegates were elected to represent the post at fill* lili *??!? **? -v A * .....Iji ill 1IH- niilli' division of the Legion to bo held in NowImitv oil Soptoinbor 7 ami 6: T. I*. Spratt. (ioo. \V. l'otts. Brice I). Culp. h'rederick Nims, Jr.; altornatos. James T. Young, Jr., Hohert Bennett. llorbort Harris. \Y. B. Moaobaiu. Jr. By unanimous voto of tin* post a resolution was adopted indorsin?r an editorial wliiob appeared in tbe I'ort Mill Times of July *Jl fa\oring tbe legislation proposed by tbe Anierieau Legion for ad justed compensation for the o; service men ami condemning tin action of the South Carolina di vision of the Legion and the ''on gross of the 1'nitod States for re fusing to pass the proposed legislat ion. Twelve new members were ad to I ho roster of ilio post at the meet injr. It was derided to hold a picnic oil hYiday. Xi'CUM '2b. for the Allierirail Lotion members, the h'ort Mill military company ami all other exservice ( :? 11 in the community. The families of the ex-service men ami militiamen also will ho expo.-ted to attend the piruie. which will he at Spruit 's spring;, a short dis lance from town. After dinner there will he an exhibition drili by the military company, foot races. jumping; contestsaud other at lilet ic events, followed by a hall jjiime between the recently orj;aui/ed teams of the militiamen and the ex-service men. That night there will he wrest I in;; and hoxii??r umtches in the armory of the Tom llall (luards. Hurt in Automobile Accident. ?I. Sam White, employed by the Southern railway to operate tin*, pump for the company's water tank in h'ort Mill, was seriously Itii 1*1 Monday eycuiut; while iv turning; to l''ot't Mill from Itoek Ilill when tin* iiutoiuoliili' in 1 11it*It In- was riding left tin* road I and plunged down t lit' iU) foot *1111>?i11kint-i11 <it tin- wi'St olid ot tl'c 1'ounty rivi'i' bridge and ran into a I fi'i*. llf liad two ribs brobroken and is tlioii<rlit to In- m j.iri'd internally. Tin' driver of llit- automobile. (> 11 i?* llood. says ilif sieerinj; ?;eur t>(it out of order and that In* ooiild not keep tlif oar in tin* road. Three ot Mr. White's childrrii were in tin* eat at tin* t i nit* hut all passed ; through the aeeideiil. as did Ollie llood. without heinjr injured. Not "Joke," Publicity Scheme. v> rising a few days nj;o to a Irit'iul ot his in l-'ort Mill. t'ol. ' \\ . \\ . Hall, editor ol 'I lie State, 'who reeeiitlv inaile a motor trip Iroui < olumhia to ('hurlnllef had ' the following to say about the | York eount\ roads: "The road through York eountv was oood and 1 eaniiot see why 'l-'orl Mill township thinks about v i. i ... i it ... joining ,MI| III \ .11(11111.1. IIIIW I fVrl', I suppose llial w iis ;i joke. ; I lie York county rouils were hei iter than that between I'incville I am I 1 ha Hot le." Preparation is beinj? inaiie by ! lie uieiiihers of the (iohl 11111 I ('< 1111 111111 y club lor I lie aiinu.il pienic nt i lie club, winch will be I 1 I held next l-'riday at tin* home ol I Mrs. Kred Wilson. .Mrs. Karl Karis is | > i*?*s it I ?*i 11 of tin* <* 1112>. Anion*; tin* visitors expected is Miss .luaiiita Neely, home demoiistration it for York coiinty. An invitation to attend | tin* picnic is ? xt?*n?1 that sec lion ot' tin* |>111?Ii<* willing to add I to tin- success of tin* occasion by hrin?rin?: well-filled baskets. M iss Uutli .Meaebaiii. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. It. Meaebaiu, Tuesday morning; was operated upon at a Koek Hill hospital tor appendicitis. Miss Mcachain's eondition was reported satisfactory by the hospital physicians and she is expected to be able to return to her home in a few days.