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Pres. Harding Will Not Tell Certain Facts Washington, D. C., July 17.?President Harding has gone to the country to sound sentiment on the pending Ship Subsidy 'bill. Unfortunately, he will not tell certain facts about the effect of this bill?he is so intensely for the measure that he will sing its praises, with none present to state to the audience the following truths which the peo.ple are entitled to know: i The bill proposes to turn over to the shipping trust $3,000,000,000 xcnrth r?f fine steel ships built by the government, the most modern fleet in the world, most of them oil-burners. { The people of the United Stales own these ships. The bill proposes to sell them to this group of capitalists for $200,000,000, or one fifteenth of their cost. The bill also iproposes to lend these men $125,000,000 to recondition the ships. If they had been properly cared for during the Harding administration this would not be needi The bill provides for the payment of a subsidy of $750,000,000 to the capitalists in the next ten years for using this great grab of ships for * their own private gain. During three recent years the Atlantic Gulf and West Indies Steamship company made a clear profit of 100 per cent. W>%:? ? ; . on its shipping business without a subsidy; the published reports of the company show this, and it is merely used here as an example because it is one of the largest of American companies. During the war some ships earned their entire cost in one trip. f. v There Is no reason why any of them should fail to be self-supporting at fany time. This subsidy will be paid even to the value of the ships ot the Standard Oil company and the Steel Corporation for transporting their own products in their own ships for their own nrnflt. Is it any wonder they are all for Harding? And the passage of this bill greatly increases the list t of calling places for the campaign fund collectors of the Republican party when Mr. Harding comes up for reelection. Is it any wonder, therefore, that Warren is for the bill? Under this bill the army and navy transports will be abolished?sold for junk at a great loss?and the business turned over to the trupt, when we already have the ships, built and / paid for?not only the transports but the merchant fleet?in our own ?> possession. Is there a business man in the country who would make such a deal? The bill does not require any reports to be made to congress and no accounting as to earnings of these ships. Thus the people will never know how badly the Republican party sold them out. The bill exempts the shipping trust from the payment of all federal taxes, providing the amount is set aside for the building of new ships?and . all the time the party is claiming that too many ships are already built for the business being done?under a Republican administration. The bill makes no provision for regulation of freight rates on the water and creates a gigantic combination which can make rates as high as it chooses and leave the shippers helpless. Whether they will make the rates high can be determined by . / harking back to the open robbery of tne war rates. In the committee hearings practi' / cal steamship men admitted that; the wages of'our seamen do not hurt the American steamship in competition with European vessels. Their testimony showed that the difference in thes wages does not exceed two per cent. John C. Seager, Jr., vice president of the Seager Steamship company, admitted in the hearings that there is no reason why American ships cannot compete with the world under present conditions; his and other companies are doin? it. The on ly difficulty he saw was that some of the American companies paid very large salaries to unnecessary executives, some of them as high as $100,000 per year, greater than that of President Harding. The hill provides for the shipping hoard to make subsidy contracts with the shipping trust covering periods of ten years?this to prevent an effective repeal of the law,- for its repeal by a new congress would not stop the robbery of the people's treasury. The bill even fixes it so that this fund is not dependent on each congress appropriating the money ail* nually, as is done for all other expenses of the government. The hill confers on the shipping board the most enormous and unrestricted powers in regard to selling ships, making loans and subsidy contracts and in handling enormous sums of money. The present members of the board are rushing about the country making speeches in favor - 411 QVrDTI OP UI Lilt: LUil clL guvciurncat The bill provides more money in * Charges Against t Sheriff Dukes Columbia, July 17.?Last Friday afternoon a delegation of Orangeburg citizens called on Governor Wilson G. Harvey and made oral charges . against Sheriff Dukes of Orangeburg, asking the governor to require the sheriff to vacate the office. They , charged the sheriff with negligence in performance of his duties and conduct unbecoming the office. Governor Harvey refused to consid" er the charges, telling the delegation that he could not take cognizance of charges preferred orally; that the charges would have to be submitted in writing before he could consider them. The governor also told the Orangeburg men that his powers with regard to sheriffs are limited, and that grand jury action would be necessary before he could act, probably an indictment. The delegation left the capitol indicating that they would institute action in Orangeburg county. Sheriff Dukes's Statement. A recent news item from Columbia stated that a delegation of Orangeburg citizens visited Governor Harvey Friday and asked for the removal of Sheriff Dukes. It is understood that the governor informed the men that he could do nothing on verbal complaint and also that such a matter is more for consideration by the grand jury than by the governor. It is understood that there were three or four men in the party who visited the governor. Sheriff Dukes states that he will immediately ask for an investigation of the affair by the Orangeburg county grand jury and gives his belief as to the cause of the visit to Governor Harvey. Sheriff Dukes says the incident is the outgrowth of the loss of an automobile by a local transfer driver several months ago. This driver, he states, became disgruntled because he, the sheriff, did not find his automobile. Mr. Dukes says the machine was loaned by the owner, the transfer driver, to another person for immoral purposes and that the owner knew at the time that it was to 'be used for such purposes. The person to whom it was loaned, he states, ran off with the machine. Mr. Dukes states that the law does not make it the duty of a sheriff to run down every automobile reported missing nor does :t provide funds for so doing, especially, ne states, when a machine is loaned for immoral purposes. He states, however, that despite this he made efforts to recover the car on the basis of the feeling he had that the owner could not afford the .loss of his machine. He says that although he made these efforts, the owner became disgruntled because the car was not recovered and disseminated reports prejudicial to himself which later caused him and the owner to have a few words over the matter. The sheriff says the Columbia visit was the outcome of the situation as here described by himself, that he will insist on an investigation by the franri inrv. knowina that there is no justifiable basis for the complaint. Lightning Causes Big Cotton Fire. St. Matthews, July 15.?Calhoun had its second big cotton loss this afternoon when lightning set fire to and destroyed the cotton warehouse at Fort Motte with its complement of 520 bales. It is said the cotton was practically all of high grade and was of the 1920 crop. This, with the loss of 178 bales by Zeagler Bros., at Lone Star, and Mr. Chaplin, near th'e Orangeburg line of one bale by lightning, brings the total burnings of recent days for tl^s community up to 699 bales. * It is said that the last was the 12th time Mr. Chaplin had been visited by lightning in five years, and he is reported to have requested an investigation by the federal government of his environment to ascertain if there is latent cause. An old mine is said to have existed there once and he suspects the existence of minerals, which may prove the attraction. the form of subsidies, by fifty per cent., than the total amount paid in subsidies, bounties and ocean mail pay by all of the other countries of the world put together. President Harding goes to the country on this measure and says he is ready to stand or fall with it. It seems that any citizen who considers these facts, taken from the minority report on the bill, will agree that the president who would sup*- > j port sucn a steai uesci vcs iu ian with the bill he advocates. The minority report was signed by Judge Davis, of Tennessee, Rufus Hardy, of Texas, William B. Bankhead, of Alabama, Schuyler 0. Bland, of Virginia, and Clay Stone Briggs, of Texas, and is a masterly and patriotic effort to defeat the worst steal ever attempted in the history of the government. ? Southern Non-Union Coal Saving Nation Non-union labor in southern coal fields is saving the nation from a coal famine, which union miners are seeking to create. Without this nonunion production we would have been forced to shut down many of our industries, and possibly some of our railroads. This would have brought stagnation to the country. These non-union coal mines are producing steadily, day in and day out, and their product is being pushon far afiplrl into territories in which these coals had never before had apy regular market, but from which by reason of their superior quality they will never be driven. As the south with its output of 99 ! per cent, of sulphur and its cotton production made possible our success an the European War?for without these two products, it would have been impossible for us to wage war in Europe?so southern coal is nowsaving the nation industrially, and winning the battle few independent or non-union, labor as against the domineering policy of rule or ruin with which union labor seeks to control the country. / Union miners have for years struggled to force their organization into Waet Virenn.in arid sometimes have been almost as despotic and lawless as were the murderous union miners of Illinois. They have murdered without compunction innocent nonunion miners. They have defied the laws of the state and of the nation, led by unscrupulous agitators hoping to break down non-union mining opoperations in West Virginia, Ken tucky and Alabama, and thus give to union miners an absolute domina- 1 tion over the entire industry. ] The whole nation has cause to be thankful for the sturdy independence of the non-union coal miners of the south, and for the backbone and stamina of the coal operators of these states who have stood for independence in mining operations regardless of threats of death and regardless of the denunciation heaped upon them by many newspapers and agitators who have sided with union labor without knowing anything of its influence for evil. General Grant more than forty years ago said to his son Jesse, as reported to us a year ago by the latter, that 'he regarded the rush of foreign immigration to America as so serious a danger that he thought the time would come when the AngloSaxonism of the south alone could save this country from destruction by the alien element. The indescribably "horrible conditions which have prevailed in Illinois where men and women and children joined gleefully in gloating over the death of dozens of non-union miners, murdered in cold blood, murdered as fiendishly as ever the savage Indians in olden days killed their victims, were brought about by the union coal labor element composed largely of the lower classes of aliens led by unscrupulous radicalism. We can readily comprehend that if this country is to be saved from destruction it must be by other sections and the south standing together in the fight, re gardless of personal consequences or personal danger, for the right of every man to work untrammeled by the chains of union laborism. We have brought in the lower class of foreign immigrants more rapidly than they could be assimilated and Americanized and that is Why they are a danger to our nation at present. The managers of every railroad and every industrial enterprise in the country using coal, and all people who are dependent upon the operation of their enterprises, may well give praise to the southern non-union miners, and to the southern coal operators who, having fought the good fight for. independent l^b.or, are saving the country from ruin.?Manu ? T-> iacmrers iveuuru. Results of Southern* Diversification. A witty North Carolinian illustrates in vivid fashion the extent and the variety of southern manufactures: "In the morning I put on WinstonSalem underwear, Burlington socks, Elkin s'hoes, Greensboro overalls of North Carolina denim, and use a Kannapolis towel. Breakfast is served on a High Point table, with a cover of North Carolina damask, and a Greensboro silence cloth under it. On the table are Florida grape fruit, Louisiana sugar, home-produced milk, 'butter, *bacon, biscuits, chicken, eggs, griddle cakes and sorghum. My Ashe county horse is fed on Guilford county hay harnessed to a ChatfonrtrterQ ninw rir a Hiokorv waeron. I V CI J~L V/W ^ i* ? - w sleep on a High Point bed with a Mebane-made mattress, between sheets made in Charlotte, and under a blanket made in Winston-Salem. All my food, save coffee, is made in the south; nearly all of it in North Carolina."?Manufacturers Record. r* Funeral Directors and Embalemrs MOTOR HEARSE J. COONER & SONS BAMBERG, S. C. r PORTABLE AND STATIONARY iiniuco LIHIIUd AND BOILERS Saw, Lath and Shingle Mills; Injectors, Pumps and Fittings, Wood Saws, Splitters, Shafts, Pulleys, Belting, Gasoline Engines LAROESTOCK LOMBARD Foundry, Machine, Boiler Worke, Supply Store. AUGUSTA, GA. Ill cigarettes H* They are GOOD! To Care a Cold la Oae Day rate LAXATIVE EROMO WULNLPIt (xaawa.7 it Modi the Cooih tad H?teche and works ?ff the Cold. E. W. GROVE'S sigaatare o* eaah tea. 96c. STOP THAI ACHE Don't worry and complain about a bad back. Get rid of that pain and lameness! Use Doan's Kidney Pills. Many Bamberg people have used them and know how effective they are. Here's a Bamberg case. Mrs. J. A. Miller, Main St, says: "I had sharp, digging pains in the small of my back. The trouble became more aggravating until I could hardly stand it. I could hardly get around as I always felt weak and irritable. My kidneys needed attention. Doan's Kidney Pills put my kidneys in good condition again." 60c, at all dealers. 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