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' ANOTHER CHAPTER Editor Tarkington Tell* About KfiwiutioiiM Adopted by Council The NVwh and Courier of Monday last published what that paper declared to be a "true and correct copy" of resolution* purporting to have been parsed by the town council of St. George. These resolutions were passed by four men representing the town council of St. George. They were presented, so it in stated, by \V. V. Patrn k. They were drawn by no one knows just who, this paper is informed. The mayor states that they were dictated by certain members of the town council and written on the typewriter of somebody else. Kffort was made to f.nd out who the author was, but no one seemed to know. And yet this was a true and correct copy. There being just four members of the round present when the meeting was held, called by no one knows just who, and called in the day time, the resolutions were carried around to the other three members of the council on instructions of the mayor. The mayor states that every member of the rotfhcil signed the resolutions except one. On investigation it was found that tins one was Mr. K. VV. Kiscr. The resolutions as drawn and sent around hy instructions from the mayor were carried to Mr. Kizer as he was busy in his farm work. He informs this paper, voluntarily, that he indignantly refused to sign the resolutions because he did not and could not agree with them in any particular. He stated that he did not think The town council of St. George had any business meddling in the politics of the county, and that he was unalterably opposed to the methods to endorse the officers of the county who had been bringing reproach upon the xounty of Dorchester. The members of the council who signed the resolutions were: Mayor C. H. Parler, W. F. Patrick, J. II. Whettsell, D. F. Dukes, M. L. Jordan and Willis S. Utsey. Not signing, K. W. Kizer. The resolutions were sent to thUJ paper with t ho request to publish, and an offer was made to pay for the publication. This paper is not fool enough to publish such slanderous charges against the writer of this article, and there is not money enough in the I'nited States mint to induce such publication, for several reasons:* Tlie resolutions state that the publication of fact* relat ieg to the political conditions in Dorchester county are prompted solely by personal differences between the sheriff and tie editor of tins pap^f. This charge is absolutely and unequivocally false. It is true that the editor of this paper has l>erm personally aggrieved, but he has no annm-itv ;n hi- In-art against any man n the eoun* >. * he sheriff included. The re?olut ion- declare 'hat what has been published in tins paper relative to the p litaal life of the sheriff are fal-e and defamatory. l'nt:l they are pn?\< t ).< falsi- then we' shall continue ' p.ib.. :. ;?n : in nf'oma' ion of tii j ul !: wbo have a right to know, a'! tba* i.e. h> f.und out about the .sheriff - n . f r . - high office. The resolutions further ?t?te that the publication of this political record of the sheriff doe* not do credit to a vast majority of the citizens of Dorrh? ?ter county, If the assertion be true, the conclusion inevitably follow* that this vast majority must necessarily be in Limehouse'* 800 or more voter* at notoi iou? Dorchester poll, on the outskirts of .Summerville, For the opposition to hlrn and hi* gang?and by opposition is meant those who stand for decency in the county?goes up to the poll yrfth a substantial majority. This is an awful indictment to bring against St. George, Kidgevillc, ileevesville, Harleyville, and particularly against what is known as "the gentleman's club" of Summervllle, the Carolina. The mayor and a majori^ of the town council of St. George seem to think that those six men who signed the resolutions can speak and do speak for the entire county. They could not even get a unanimous decision on the resolutions which were drawn up by one who was not even a member of the council. And it is understood that at least one other member of the said council regrets that he was induced to sign the resolutions. A vust majority of the people of the county cannot be led around by the nose by five or six men who are to all appearances under the influence of the sheriff. Again he shows the sinister influence he is exerting, when he dominates the town council of St. George. If the vast majority of the best citizens of the county are in sympathy with Limehouse and his rotten methods in the county, why did not the entire council of St. George sign the resolutions originating with Limehouse and his crowd ? The same resolutions were carried to the mayor of Summerville to Ik* presented to his board of aldermen, and it is said that he came near "booting" the bearer for daring to insult the intelligence of the citizens of Summerville. So that is the vast majority who stand with Limehouse and against tiie editor of this paper because he PPhs dared to make an effort to wrest the power of czarisni from the one man who has brought the county into such disrepute. The resoultions further state that the official conduct of the officers of Dorchester county is as good as that of any county in the state of South f arolina. This paper does not charge that the officers of the county as a whole arc io tricky and rotten in political life as Sheriff Limehouse. Arid if he has the "unpualif;ed confidence of the great majority of the best citizen of Dorchester county" why the pbcriomiual r^h on the part of scores uf mm and women in this and other | nearby counties, and even from Charleston to subscribe to the Dorchestei Magic? And in their letters with an em Insure of the subscription price, t hey all .-ay. "Keep up the good fight 1 !! tr.n <"Untv -hall bo made a place fit to e m." I his paper is only trying to right the wrongs of the /.ens of Dorchester county who ha\<- been oppressed for -o burg. And we shall continue to do -u regardless of any resolutions i passed by h vast majority of six men. In this path we shall walk, with an unshaken faith that the right will gloriously triumph.?The J)orcheater Kagle. HMALIKK GREENBACK* Dimensions of Paper Money lo He Reduced One-third in Size An order was issued yesterday by the secretary of the United .States treasury that will reduce the annual income of every citizen of the country by one third according to Information received this morning from Thomas H. Daniel of the Dollar Savings bank. However, the reduction will not be in value, but in bulk, relates the Spartanburg Journal. This is the first sweeping order directing the reduction of the size of currency notes issued from the treasury department since the Civil war. The dimensions of the currency now in use is 7 1-8 inches by 3 inches,1 and the new issue according to ejaculations made by local experts will reduce the size to 1 4-8 inches by 2 inches. The calculations were made in | the offices of Lockwood, Green and company. The secretary's order directs that the paper money of the United States be reduced in size one-third, beg:fining with one-dollar bills. The new currency will l>e put out within two or three months, as soon as mechanical changes necessary for its production can be provided. The one-dollar bill will be followed as rapidly as possible by reduced currency of all other denominations, up to the largest, $10,000. ; The change in the size of the currency has been discussed for some time, and has been decided upon as a fruit of careful surveys and investigations. It is estimated that a saving to the government of two million dollars a year will result, to say nothing of economies in vault space, transportation expense an)d similar details, which will be experienced chiefly by banks and transportation agencies. The new bills are not expected to be put into circulation until early in 1028 as new money is put through an agi-gg process after being printed. It lasts from one-third to one-half .longer, it is stated, if allowed to age before being put into circulation. Secretary Mellon made the follow- | mg formal statement in aim u:. ing' his order: "The treasury's desire to reduce the i size of the currency is the resu.t <>f an I .exhaustive study and investigation covering a period of several years. J "Currency in the reduced size, as j proposed, has been used in the Philip- ' pine Islands for a number of years, j and money handlers, sueh as bank , tellers, paymasters and others, find ! that it is m?>re convenient in every re-j spect than the larger size. The size | will not be reduced to such an extent. I however to make obsolete either, money counting machinery or cash' registers now in use throughout the I country. "In their smaller size the otes wi^ generally fit into pocket books without being folded, which is not possible j with currency in its present -ize. The ' frequently folding and creasing i von- ! tually breaks the fiber of the paper j and hastens its deterioration and re- i tirement from . ovulation. Further ! mon . the protection afforded by the I smal l r not. s against imitation and j alteration u. !, :t is believed, be great-I er than in tne case of th? present large design of the currency. "In connection with the change in size, it will be necessary > make I some changes in the design of the! notes. These changes will not, however, be material, the new notes re- j taming practically all the present i currency. Portraits now appearing; on, the notes will be real] >cated in j some instances in order to avoid the i use of a particular portrait to a given denomination of currency. "The portrait of Washington for instance." it was explained by "the secretary. "will be used only on $1 bills. It is likely that the portrait of Jefferson will be used on $2 bills. Others have not been designated." ( harles A. Levine, companion of Clarence Chamberlin, when the start across the Atlantic was made from New ^ ork last Saturday morning, made his will before starting on the jaunt across the ocean to Berlin.. The losses incident to the Miss- I issippi river valley floods is estimated | at $200,000,000 to $400,000,000 by | Secretary of Commerce Hoover. Senora Natalia Oalles, wife of the i president of Mexico, died in a hospital at Los Angeles, Cal., last Thursday afternoon, following a major operation five days previously. The immediate cause of death was a heart attack. Rewards totaling $700 have been offered by the city of Charlotte, county of Mecklenburg, th. state of North Carolina and individuals, for the arrest and conviction of the slayer I of Cyrus M. Fink, Charlotte mechanic [and choir singer, on Saturday night, May 28, in that city. Lightning Kills Two Branchville, Juno 2.?This afternoon around 5:30, when lightning struck a chimney on the south cad of the Smoak school building. Rural Policeman C. H. Strickland, 35, and Murnell Carroll, 19, were instantly killed and Miss Grace Smoak, Tom Ryan, Randall Black and a son of j M. F. Strickland were badly stunned, i Miss Smoak" was the most seriously; hurt as she was unconscious for two j hours. A baseball game was being played j between Smoaks and Rowesville and i a large number of people had gone into the school house out of the rain. Mr. Strickland was standing against the staircase and young Carroll was leaning against the door facing. Smoaks is about 12 miles south of here in Colleton county. The school building was seriously damaged. David Devlin, Alabama negro, was hrrested at Fast Spencer, N\ C\, on Saturday "charged with fatally shoot- ' i.ng a deputy sheriff on last Wednes- i day. : LAND OF EEL AND CUCUMBER National Geographic Society Telia of Chaiuberlin'ti Landing J*l*ce Washington, June 6.?The National Geographic Society hat) this to say about the country on which Chambcrlin was forced to land: "Klinge and Kottbus lie on the edge of the low, flat, wooded legions known as the Spreewald swamp, land of the Wends, a fragment of a lost tribe, who live largely by their eel-traps, cucumber patches, and their more prosaic hayfields and cherry patches. "These Wends are the descendants of a band of half wild fugitives who, when the Goths laid waste to Western Europe, hid for safety in the great swamp near the Oder. "Kottbus, according to a quick computation at the National Geographic Society headquarters is approximately 4,076 miles from Roosevelt Field, near New York City, taking off place of the Bellanca plane. "The landing place must have been a difficult one, for Kottbus is on the Spree, which rises in the mountains of the Czecho-Slovakian border and in the vicinity of Kottbus begin to spread out into the wooded swamp called the Spreewald. "When thousands from nearby cities flock to this quaint nook of Europe in summer the Wend natives cash in on theitr cucumbers, their eels and cherry pies, and reap a rich harvest from the oddly carved wooden geese and dolls they make. They also take toll from the couples and sightseers who pole up and down the labyrinth of water lanes dividing the Spreewald into a thousand charming green isles. "The Spreewald eel, slim and slippery, is enshrined in the songs and traditions of this singular commun.ty. A Spreewald swamp home with u: its eel-traps would be like a hn ken farm without chicken coops. And the eels, gastronomically, are mated for life with the cucumbers. These giant cucumbers, deadly grebn . n shade and wickedly curved like I scimitars, threaten you at every turn. "Cucumbers lie in heaps at every turn; punts piled high with the cucumbers are being poled to market at Burg or Kottbus; men, women and children are plucking, peeling, or eating cucumbers, and even sleep on piles of them. "The Wends are clannish, isolated, and happiest when left alone and are concerned not at all with the rise and fall of nation* 4r#fc/W "A Spj-eewald ?"' Venice. InZ* streets and sidewalk* fc .tirely by crooked watery? Valuable SiliTca^iTj^ Glemaon College, jUne fuliners have within months bought 100 mjTJH one county in South CuM from two other counties 150 yearling heifers to p J all at ridiculously low ing to Professor J. p. U|!^l of the dairy division here 1^1 by these sales, Professor asks two pertinent queitiaJ should give pause to SonttB dairy farmers. Are these other states dairy cattle for no other 3 1 that they can be bought chj I than elsewhere? I Why should we ship M/ cattle to other states for tB duee dairy products for ' and cities at a profit, M I dollars out of South Caroll I will never return? I I This mi*ht not be such ant situation, explains Mr. Ljfl were it not for the fact thi^B cattle are selling' for Jess thafl true value and that the dair,K shortage over the entire (K States will make it impossiblM2 us to replace the cattle we areBj mg. We must raise the dairy I , nee<led in South Carolina anfln. must keep those needed andl true value on those we sell toB"' states. ? According to estimates prepMr the Louisiana state superintei?'- * education, school property of t& ' has been damaged more thanMf 000 by the recent flood water*n Mississippi river. X*1, ??Xt Renew Y our HeB by Purification Any physician will tell "Perfect Purification of thifl is Nature's 1 oundation oifl Health." 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