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I 1 THE PEBPLFl* BARNWELL, S. C. I Che. <Copy (or Thta Department Supplied by the American l<*'lon News Service.) ESSAY CONTEST IS NOW IN PROGRESS tesj of ip+il 1 ^The (hlrtl unnual essay contesl the American I^*Klnn ‘began A with the chosen subject, “Why Com* munlam Is a Menace to Americanism." This contest, conducted by the Ameri canism commission of the Legion, Is held annually with .a view of enlisting a majority of thought In the direction of some vital question facing America’s citizenship. Heretofore the contest has closed in the fall, but in order to coincide the work with that of the school year nor land W. Powell, director of the Le gion's Americanism commission, decid ed to open the contest in the spring and close it with the completion of school terms. According to Mr. Powell, .‘{00,000 school children participated in the last contest held by the Region, which took as its subject, "Why America Should Prohibit Immigration for t Flve Years." A previous contest conducted by the Legion enlisted efforts of 200,000 chil dren, who submitted essays on the sub ject "How the American Legion Can Itest Serve the Nation.” Kacli of the subjects chosen reflects some phase of American Legion activ ity and the Legion view' of such poli cies. The Legion believes that by bringing the subject before the chil dren of the nation It can cause a dis cussion in many American homes that will be of \ltul import to the welfare of America. Prizes aggregating $1,500 are award ed the winners. The best essayist re ceives $750 in cash, to be applied as a scholarship in any school, college or university he may designate. Second receives $500 and third $250, each for ^ scholarships. The essays are chosen by elimination. Beginning with the county superintendent of schools in each county, who selects local Judges, the three most representative essays are sent on to Judges designated by the state superintendents,isuperintendents of public instruction or school commis sion. These Judges pass on the three best essays submitted In the state. The-winning essay from each state is sent into national competition, .from which are chosen the three winners by a committee of Judges selected by the Legion. Posts frequently give medals and awards to winners in their own counties, state departments of the Le gion provide medals for 1 he three winning essayists there and the cash awards are made by the national Judges. Tlie co operation of practically every educational oflicial in the country has been afforded the Legion since these contests have been Instituted. In ad dition, educational bodies and organi zations have accorded the Legion a great amount nf help. Efforts have been made this year through some of the nation’s largest fraternal bodies to concentrate the rfforts of school chil dren in the contest. Winter Outing Club New Legion Enterprise A Winter Outing club is the latest enterprise of the American Legion and the Forty and Eight voiture in Keen, N. 11. Imagine, if you can, the thrill of a tenth of a mile slide far-up on a hillside, to the landing chute In the valley, many feet below. For a long time, the chamber of commerce In Keen had been endeavor ing to build up ah interest In winter “FORTY AND EIGHT 9 AIDS LEGION POSTS The Forty and Eight—the "play ground" of the American Legion, la proving a valuable adjunct to the par ent organization In many instances. Certain problems afjse in Legion posts or departmental organizations thnt*the Legion may not always consistently handle. Then the Forty and Eight steps to bat and pinch-hits for the Le gion, usually successfully. This- has been true of the organiza tion practically since its formation by Joseph W. Breen, a Philadelphian, in 1021. Originally intended to express the joyousness of the veteran, the so ciety has taken over many arduous duties to perform that the Legion has been unable to meet on account of its more cumbersome, .organization. - In recent moqtlis this lias been seen in a national way. In addition to play ing a prominent part in the child wel fare program outlined by the Legion, MOTHER! Child’s Best laxative is®, ‘‘Qalifornia Fig Syrup” 0 1»—Scene in New Orleans pupils under the blossoming fr+>m lu'idKo UUn4v rlvw by v lifter cherry freak gale that hurt 50 persons and did $-100,000 damage. 2—Young d im ing trees along t-lm Potomac ijn-W-ushlngti>n.—lP__Pnssenger txuln In India blown ona. 50 persons being killed. sports, but w.lthout great success. Pre= vious attempts to construct u tobog gan slide had failed. But when the Legion men took up the proposition, the busy ring of hammers of,carpen ters was soon heard and the slide soon became a matter of fact. One of the first to make,the trip down the long slide was Past National Commander Owsley who got a perfectly good-thrill shooting down the hillside through the plne-t;lnd country. The slide Was eon-, sfrtjt-ted muter—direction—of—Prof (’buries Proctor of Dartmouth college, an expert.* •; • ■*—- ' NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS v .' Senate Passes Bonus Bill After Rejecting the Cash Option Amendment. By EDWARD W. PICKARD A T LAST the American ex-service man who fought in the World war seems assured of receiving a bonus, or as he prefers to call it.’ an adjusted compensation. The senate on Wednes day passed the bill essentially as it was adopted by the house, and in both cases.tlie majority was so great that there is no doubt it would lie rtpassed over a presidential veto. But the bonus provided for is not in cash, so it may he Mr. (YmHdge run see Ins way clear to approval of the measure. He, like President Harding, was op posed to a cash bonus for tin* pay ment of which no special financial plan was offered. According to tin* present measure, instead of ea.sh the -former survive man will receive a twenty-year en dowment insurance eertifiente on whieh he can obtain a loan after two years, equal to !M( per cent of the ciftrent cash value of the j«>licy. This loan will he obtained through a hank whieh will he reimbursed by the government in the event of a default. The loan value of a $l,(NtO policy would he SV7.- PM at tin* end of two years, .flofl.ot? in five years, and $5Sp.lp in fifteen years. Senator f’opeland of New York, supported by a number of Democrats, tried to have the Mil amended to pro vide for a cash option, but tills was defeated, to IS, because most of tiie senators felt it would mean tin* certain veto of the measure and per haps its 'defeat. However, the Democratic leaders announced after passage of the- hill that they con sidered it an unsatisfactory makeshift and that next winter they would make a 'fight for tbe cash option. If a Democratic administration is elected In the fall they believe they can so amend the law. Witli several minor nmem! meats adopted op the floor, the hill was passed by a vote of (57 to 17. Eight Uepublienns and nine Democrats were recorded in opposition. The cost, of the bonus under tin* in surance plan Is expected nr lie some where between. $2,202,407,120, the figure given by the actuary of .the veterans’ bureau, and $:{.0;iL017l>01 T "You ask me what influence legali zation of 2.75 per cent beer would have on general prohibition enforce ment. I answer in-one sentence: It would transform the people of the Lulled States from a whisky drink- : ing to a beer drinking nation." “The dissatisfied man is the one who becomes the drunkard. The satis- ; lied man becomes, the good citizen. And I sny. that this prohibition of today has caused the utmost in dis satisfaction." “No one wants the saloon: No one will la* foolish enough to- try to re peal the eighteenth amendment. What we wlio plead for 2.75 per cent beer want to do is to get the good that lies in temperance and rid ourselves of the evils of the present prohibition." , s Several eminent psyehiirtrists- told tlie committee of tiie great Increase In insanity from alcoholism since pro hibition. and at least one minister of the gospel stepped forward to de clare that the Volstead act is unen forceable, unpopular and wrong ethically, morally and socially. A large number of samples of the poison ous stuff sold in Chicago for “hootch” comprised one of the exhibits. and communist leaders who preach destruction of constitutional govern ment, destruction even of human life." O I-TJEUS for ^Muscle Shoals were-up before the senate agricultural j eommitter- ami a delegation of Ten- 1 tiessee manufacturers appeared to argue against tiie'Ford hid. Their statements may be thus summarized: ,1. E\p< nditure of thousands of dol lars made the South look on Ford as its savior if given Muscle Shoals. » 2. Some $."5,000 fur this propaganda came from Ford friends in Naslgville, Chatlainjoga, Knoxville and Memphis and its source alone. How much more is unknown .'{. lint tlie South , now is waking up to the fact that Ford in Muscle Shoals means ruin and not salvation. 'TMIE house committee on hanking ^ and currency, perfecting tiie Mc- Fadden biH—twising the national bunk act, approved city-wide branch bank ing proposals. Tin* committee’s de cision in this is approved by Con troller of the Currency Dawes. 1 Ti ESTIMoNY before the Teapot D RESIDENT COOLIDCE traveled * to New York hist week and spoke at the annual luneheon of tho Associ ated 1’ress. The more important of ids statements related directly to Eu ropean affairs. He said he hoped France would accept the Dawes com mittee report and that American capi tal would join in the loan proposed for Germany. He thought that thus the reparations question might lie definitely settled, and promised that he would then try to bring about-utl- other world conference on disarma ment to carry on the work begun by tlie Washington conference and to take up the codification of interna tional law with an attempt to estab lish the rules of warfare and to de termine the rights of neutrals. He also indorsed tlie Harding proposal for American adherence to tlie world court. Tiie President touched on tlie desire for profits and tiie quest for easy money, revealed in current govern ment investigations, as symptomatic of the morbid iinnneial state of_uiind brought on by the war. ami continued: “From nil of this sordidness the af fairs of government, of course, suf fered. In some of it a few public o(li- cers were guilijL participants. But tlie wonder is not that this was so much or so limny. rather thht it has In en so little and so few. "Tiie encouraging filing at present is the evidence of a well nigh com plete return to normal methods of -no tion. and a'sutfe public opinion. The gravity of gi’iilt of this kind is—fully realized and publicly reprehended. There is an exceedingly healthy dis position to Uproot It altogether, and administer punishment wherever com- pet-eut evidence of guilt can |>e pro duced. That I am doing and iiropose to cohtiiuie.’’ - * R 1 EALIZ1NG that economic relations between Japnh'amL America are far more vital to tiie former than to the latter, Japan’s privy council is un derstood to have Indorsed the govern ment’s conduct jn the immigration ex matter. That is, continued against the American exctu> Sion in i blit no retaliation. The Japa- troleum engineer, upheld hornier Sec- n( . St « were still hojdng that President tary Denb\ s policy of getting tiie Pnolidge would vet/ the* measure, and n. p:.l reserve oil out oft Teapot Dome. ; t hi s lie was askeif to do h’y a great hitne committee lost its ex-par,te_4_pi us i,, n character for a few James D~. Lewis, a minutes wbeu protegt consulting pe v| ()Il . l( . t ! and into storage us ex[>editlously as possible. I le said: "if Teapot were rapidly developed today, the recoverable oil could be gi>t .OM^'tweii ^Snj-pensi -ex- Eo- and and and the Iowa Post Plans to Render Civic Service Tnnm, in., is but a small city, hut i^je Legionnaires there, sensing a need for definite performance of genie civic duty, have lilt on a fou'rfold plan whieh they believe will bring their town into national prominence.* The first undertaking of Tama Le gionnaires will be to-establish a free dental slinlc In tbe public schools. Next, the post proposes tlie opening ©f a series of playgrounds In the city. The third move of the Legion men will he to open a tourist park near Lake Cherry, a favored spot with aq- tomobillsts, ahd the last, but not the least Important to the community will be safeguarding of tho milk supply of the city, which community leaders de clare will be of greatest assistance. C Department Headquarter* In an effort to secure department headquarters of the American Legion for Columbia. Mo., much aid was given to the Legion meji by the Commercial duh of that city, which undertook, to provide suitable quarters should the oftices be moved there. Estimates of the cost exceeded $2 500, which wa* Arranged for by tbe club member*. the amount claimed by the treasury j actuary., The cost the fir'd year would - be considerably in'excess of $100, : 000. Fnder its terms tlie basic rate of compensation is $1 a day for home t service and $1.25 for overseas service, with maxlimims of $500 for home serv ice and $02.5 for overseas service. The first sixty days of service are eluded from the computation.- i listeiL^men ^of the army, navy. Lnutrine corps and officers up to including captains in flu* army marine corps and lieutenants in navy are embraced within its scone. Those entitled to $50 ep l(‘ss^receive Cash/ 'Olliers receive .no cash, hut are given twenty year endowment insur tifiee certificates, tlie -fa.ee value of whieh is the adjustei)! service credit plus 25 per cent plus interest at 4 per cent compounded unmmll’y. Having thus disposed of tin* bonus, the senate turned its attention ty the revenue bill, and the prospect was that the discussion of tills measure would continue for several ’'weeks. Even so, tlie leaders in congress now think it may he possible to adjourn early. In JtiHe, before the opening of the Republican national convention. U'VEN the most enthusiastic prohi- bitionist will not deny tiie intense and widespread interest in the hear ings started Inst week before the house Judiciary committee which hud under consideration fifty-nine bills to amend the Volstead act and legalize the manu facture, sale and consumption of 2.75 per cent beer and of light wines.’ El'rst were heard those who argued for this lihernllzajion of tin* law, and the most Interesting and perhaps most Influem tinl of these was Samuel Gompers, who spoke for the 4,000.000 members of the American Federation of Labor. A few of hi* sentences were: out in two ye.'irs. "Otherwise, with Ihe gas pressure exhausted, it would take twenty to tifty years and be very ex nsive. The loss of, gas pressure would, in short, unfit. Teapot for un emergency." i Mr. Lewis said tin* amount of oil in Teapot Imd proved "very, disap pointing"- 12,<MMI.OOO to 24,000,000 of barrels instead of tlut-buwiuU of. mines' estimate of 135.<H>0,000. I - * ! JII^’AFSE of ids ^interference" in IIILK tbe. Borah committee was D tlie senate investigation of the In- henring stories of the alleged | ternill revenue hureiiu by suggesting plot to bring about the indictment of j'the* employment of Francis Heney as Senator Wheeler in Montana, the same f investigator. Governor I’inehot lost rought up before the John S. Glenn mass meettng'in (tsok+h—Ambassador Hhnihora. meanwhile, explained to congress that the words "grave conse quences" in his note were not meant to convey anything in the nature of a threat, hut Representative Johnson, chairman of the house committee, on liiini.ignition, replied with a statement that Fite action of congress had been assured before the note was written and that tlierefrrrr r tiie passage of ;he exclusion clause-~wns not 'due to sent m eh t against th* language. - ■■ Robert J. Murphy. tiie Forty and Eight is extending con tact for the national officers of the Le gion by personal visits to many sec tions that tiie organization leaders will he unable to reach during the year. Robert J. Murphy, chef chemin de fer, or principal officer of the society, has had outlined for him a seven months' tour which takes him into practically every sSate. Murphy, with a Legion spirit horn of association with organization affairs in Iowa, where lntere>4 is usually nt flood tide, lias responded cheerfully to tlie task and is meeting with a splendid recep tion wherever he lias gone, (’boosing as ids. subject "The Fnpardonaide Sin," which he says is just a way of telling tin* veterans that you can’t take anything out of tiie Legion with out putting something in. tiie Forty and Eight head is speaking before large groups of Legionnaires. Following a trip through the Cen tral West, after national headquarters of the society had been opened In In dianapolis, Murphy has been visiting Legionnaires on this extensive tour. He went into the South, covered ten states thoroughly, and in addition to boosting his own organization was the center of much real Legibn activity. Next he journeys to S'ew England and will wind up his tour nTirLTertn of of fice with a long trip through.the West, ending at St 1‘aul, the convention city, in the fall. ' - He has been closelv associated with Hurry Mother! Even a bilious, con stipated, feverish child loves the pleas^ ant taste of "California Fig Syrup’’ and it never fails to open tlie bowels. A tenspoonful today may prevent a sick? child tomorrow. Ask your druggist for genuine^TWi- fornia Fig Syrup” which has directions for babies ami children of all ages printed on bottle. Mother! Y’ou must sny “California” or you may get an. imitation fig syrup. Willing to Square It -Mom* was equipped with rod ami basket when he bumped right into the parson, tiie latter being headed for church. .. A < ^ "Where to* Moso?" asked tiie good man gently. "Well, parson, to tell tin* troof. 1 iu going fishing.” "Now. Moso. don’t -vour conscience : 1 — — * ’ , * ' e . hurt you7” "Yes. it do. If I inis any luck FI leave you a nice mess of fish.” lanta Constitution. % CnnMtputlnn (r<*neral!y In.tlratM .HioriV ■tomach. Ilv.-r uml bowel* WrlRht s bn *1 Vegetable I’lll!* restore regularity without griping. 371! I’earl St . N V. Adv. Bright Idea "Hubby, you must wash tin* car and the dogV" "Suppose I wash tlie car with tin* dogV" The wcii of your lift* Is of a min- —• * • , '“V. • - ' gled yarn, good and ill together. CORNS Lift Off-No Pain! Doesn t hurt one bit! Drop a little ‘Freezone” on an aching corn, instant ly that corn stops hurting,Jhrn short ly you lift it rf?W off with fingers. Your druggist sells a tiny bottle of j ‘Freezone" for a few cents, suflicleiTFTtf remove every hard corn, soft corn, or corn i>etween the toes, and the foot calluses, without soreness or irritation. DAISY FLY KILLER PLAa:D ANTW, ' E ' :E re- nmbassudor’s W Legion affairs since his return from, service. He organized a post in his home town, Nora Springs, la., and served as county commander of ail posts there. He was named to the' of fice in the Forty and Eight, and re ceived national recognition at San Francisco because of his, advancement of Mie society’s aims. During tlie war Murphy served as an instructor In the Officers’ Training school at Camp F'ike, Ark. He was discharged from service with the rank of a first lieutenant of Infantry. topic was Brookhnrt committej of Nashville, lent)., told the latter committee tlie first move to "get" Wheeler was engineered by W. J. Burns ami Mai Daugherty., Speaker GTliett of tiie house appeared volun tarily before tiie committee and ex ploded the sensational-- testimony of Ci)pt. H. L. Senlfe concerning a "trunk full of whisky” which Senlfe had more than intimated was sent to Mr. Gil- 1 eft’s office. Harry Daugherty, being now free to talk, made a red hot speech in Colum- the chance to sit in’ tho Republican -national convention ‘as delegate a7 , #•-- * ■* •*-'»• •" large from I’enqsx I vania. Represent a five Vine arid *Hier-* turitjC-d on him* 1 (or what they considered disloyalty to tho~'administrafion. and Ralph B. Strnssburger of 1 —Norristown defeated the governor by a large majojrtTTP Btnchot blamed the wets. J’ennsyl- vnnia, New Jersey and Delaware all j elected delegates favorable to . Cool- idge "and seemingly ids nomination is an absolute certainty. Reports are that he wants Frank Lowden of Illi nois as his running mate, and,—falling bus in which he dented flatly much of^ tbnt. wishes Lowden to be temporary* .. tin* testimony heard by the Wheeler committee. His most significant state ment was that he had given up ids cabinet post father than “contribute to a treasonable cause." Files of the Department of Justice, he said, con tained ‘‘abundant proof of the plans, purposes, and hellish’ deslgni; of the communist internatJonale." “Bear in mind." iu* added, "thiVt the files which I refused to deliver to the Wheeler investigating committee at tiie time ed -were demanded by Rrookhaft arid M heeler, two United States senators who spent, last summer in Russia with chairman and to deliver tlie keynote speech. It is interesting to'note-that the Democratic national committee is considering the selection of a woman ns temporary chairman of tlie national convention in New York. i their soviet frlends- -4 -those same sovitt A MONG the notable deaths-of the week.were those of Mine. Eleo nora Duse, the famous Italian , tra gedienne, who passed away Iri Plits- hurgh after an attack ot influenza, and English former minister of finance of Germany, was otje of the victims of a railway wreck in Switzerland. my resignation whs regm-wt— -Murle (’orelli, tiie popular novelist’. Doctor IlelfFerich, Give a Town a Bad Name— "Where do we light next, boss?" asked the ham and-egg* png, who gen erally woke up kissing the canvas. "Kokomo,", replied ids manager. . "Nuttin' doin', boss. Too many k. o.'s in dat place fer suit me."—Ameri ca n I.egiOI+—WCek I y. ^ Compliments Veterans Governor Austin Pray of Ten nessee recently greeted National (’oimnunder John’ R. Quinn of the. American Legion With the statement that responsibility of the World war veterans on the field of battle won the war,‘and that present responsibilities of the American Legion will win issues of that war In the forums of the people. He said: “As time goes on people will cease to forget * those’who com posed this mightiest army of all history. The people of this nation are not sufficiently + grateful for these services. "In you, I recognize the po- + tential citizenship of our state. ” I want you to be Interested in • • problems of government and ” realize responsibilities of our citizenship.” ATTRACTS A N D K1LLS ALL FtUS. befit, clran,rmamrn(An^ vemert, r)i«an all season. Mr Ji/f mot*!, can’t tip over; will not *r,u or ir;ur« anythin®. Gaaranteed effretiva. SoM by detlm, or 6 by EXPRESS, prrp& d, {1.2S. HAROLD SUM£I<3, 160 Do Kalb A to.. Brooklyn, N. X. If HI’NT’S SALVE falit* In tho treatment of ITCH. ECZEMA, RINGWORM,T KTT K R or alb elk Itehlns akin tllHennea. 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