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Volume XXXI. Number 31.1
Thursday, Oct. 12,1922,
The "unspeakable" Turk still holds
forth in Europe with great might and
power, despite the fact that the allies
4et it be known to all the world dur
ing the war that one of the jobs to
he completed before peace were
signed would be to rid Europe of this
pest. Since the war, the same as before
the war, the Turks have been
continuing the slaughter of the Ar-!
menians and Greeks, and the allies
have done absolutely nothing to hinder
them.
We don't like Uncle Joe Cannon's
politics. In fact, we are strictly of
the opinion that his politics are absolutely
rotten. But there is one
thing we do like about Uncle Joe,
and that is his firm grip on life. The
aged veteran is now serving out his
46th year in the lower house of congross.
He is 87 years old and is retiring
from politics next March, al,
though he says he is rather sorry he
made this decision now. When he
returned home from Washington the
rtav. he made the trip as far
as Indianapolis in an automobile.
Probably Uncle Joe's fortitude is due
to the fact that he is a southerner by
birth, being born in Guilford, N. C.,
in 1836.
There is only one trillionaire in
the world, so far as we have been
able to ascertain. He is George T.
Jones, of San Jose, Cal. Mr. Jones's
fortune happens to be in assets only,
v and there is not much likelihood of
Mr. Jones being able to convert his
assets into cash. In 1897 a friend
borrowed $100 from Mr. Jones with
the promise to pay him 10% interest
monthly, compounded, until the
debt was liquidated. He waited for
25 years on the friend to make pay.
. meat, and then brought suit. The
$100 had grown in the meantime to
/ . about 306 trillion dollars, and the
eouft granted a judgment fgr this
lamount, plus some extra odd billions
in small change. The case is interest"
jug only as a study In compound
interest, and reveals very clearly the
fact that it is a mighty fine thing to
' lend money at big interest compounded
monthly?that is, provided you
'j- can collect.
The News and Courier is strongly
advocating making the ternr~of all
state officers four years. The Herald
believes that in the interest of good
government this would be a wise
measure. There are many arguments
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as we see it, is that an officer can
hardly get settled in his office before
^ he has to make preparations to start
another campaign for reelection under
the two-year term system. Another
is that a large portion of the
meager salaries which most state officers
receive necessarily has to go for
- campaign expenses, which is no small
item, in view of the county to county
canvass system. We see no good
reason why^an officer should not hold
his office for four years, and in the
case of the governor it might be well
to restrict his service to one term.
iFour year terms should apply to all
county offices as well as state offices.
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The Herald is delighted with the
idea that seems to have taken hold in
various sections of the south to, discuss
and work out methods of producing
cotton under boll weevil conditions.
As this newspaper has stated
before, we are inclined to think
the people, including ourselves, went
off on the wrong trail in trying to introduce
so many new crops in place
of cotton. The net result was that
' cotton was sadly neglected. In fact
the people had almost reached the
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produced again, at a profit. This idea
is now fast being dissipated. Numerous
farmers are demonstrating the
fact that cotton can be made, weevil
or no weevil, and in that idea lies
the foundation of the south's future
prosperity, to a very large degree, we
' think. It is a thoroughly demonstrated
fact that for the average
southern farm, no crop is so well suited
as cotton. Other pests have been
outwitted, and the weevil will be outwitted
just as soon as the south gets
down to business.
A friend of The Herald has suggested
a new departure in the method
of collecting state and county taxes.
The suggestion is that the taxes be
paid quarterly, instead of annually
as at present. The suggestion has
many arguments in its favor, and
The Herald is of the opinion that it
would help in solving the tax question.
Most folks of modest means
are well acquainted with the fact
that they can and do frequently pur
chase articles on the installment
plan when it would be quite out of
the question to buy these same articles
outright for cash. Thousands
of thrifty housewives have furnished
their homes by paying weekly,
monthly or quarterly. The tax idea
is to open the tax books as usual October
15, when the entire amount of
taxes would be due, but a provision
would defer the payment of threequarters
of the taxes to remaining
quarters. A nominal penalty would
be invoked for each succeeding quarter's
payment, but on the other hand
if any taxpayer desired to pay the
full amount on October 15, he
would be given a ca9h discount, the
same as he would receive by paying
cash for a bill of goods bought from
a wholesale house, or a certain dis
count allowed for the payment or
any quarter's taxes in advance.
It Still Lives.
(By Savoyard, in the State.)
v When one accepts as items of the
account the dozen or score times it
has been destroyed, eradicated, oblit- !
erated, the league of nations is a
mighty thrifty as well as a mighty
promising youngster on the stage of
world politics. George Washington's
name is not more closely associated
with American independence. Abraham
Lincoln's name is not more
strongly linked with negro emancipation,
than is Woodrow Wilson's name
joined to the league of nations. But
that he spoke for civilization at the
congress of Paris convened to terminate
by treaty the World War, there
would have been no question of a
league of nations to avert future
wars in the politics of any nation under
the sun. But that Woodrow Wilson
was there "to stand till death
had made him marble," the archaic
statesmen of Europe, of whom Clemenceau
was chief, would have made
a peace after the pattern of "the
balance of power" that has meant
nothing but truce since the victories
of the Black Prince at Crecy and at
Poitiers. And when world peace
shall have become the aim and the
fruit of all international diplomacy
the name of Woodrow Wilson will
cling around that blessed policy as
does the name of Thomas Jefferson in
reflection upon the American Declaration
of Independence,
j The league has been assassinated
in both hemispheres every change an4
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full of the moon since the treaty of
Versailles was negotiated, but it manages
to live the youngest and the I
favorite child of human civilisation,
the hope and the light Of the world.
More than 50 nations are members of
the league. Germany soon will enter.
Ireland will take her place in the
feague as soon as Irishmen cease to
cut the throats of Irishmen. Hungary
is the youngest child of the
league and that means peace in that
Balkan nest where wars have been
hatched since. Solymann the Magnificent
was a mighty man of valor. England
proposes to put the Dardanelles,
the Sea of Marmora and the Bosphorus
in ward of the league, a consummation
that is bound to compose the
politics of the Near East and restore
the ages agone power and opulence of
the,Mesopotamia of Cyrus' day and
hitch it to the train of present civilization.
The advance of civilization will be
achieved not because of our glorious
union but in spite of it, over the protpst
nf it and in defiance of the poli
cies of it. "Work done for God?it
dieth not," else Lodgeism would have
annihilated the league of nations.
The Harding administration in its
foreign policy assumes that the
league of nations is dead beyond resurrection.
Mr. Hughes as secretary
of state, a champion of the league
and spokesman for the league in
1920, has not been on speaking terms
with the league since he became secretary
of state the month of March,
1921. By the way, the church is pestered
with a conscience and has pestered
Mr. Harding to dabble in the
Near East problem "and secure the
immediate establishment of peace"
in that unhappy land. That means
"entanglements" and Lodgeism has
for its cornerstone the altruism that
better slaughter of rthe Christians
of Asia Minor by the "Unspeakable
Turk" than that our glorious
union should join with meaner
folk in Europe to curb the butchery
of human beings. According to
Lodgeism, our only mission in the
wnriri is t.n erah all the money in the
world and live apart from all the rest
of the world, especially all that ele- j
ment of it that is plunged in misery
and woe.
This is meant for Secretary Hughes.
He has in keeping the relations of the
G. O. P. with the Christian churches.
It is readily recalled that in 1920 Mr.
Hughes interceded with the church
in behalf of the league of nations.
About 95 per cent, of the Christian
clergy declared for the league. Then
a paper signed by Charles E. Hughes,
William H. Taft, Elihu Root, Herbert
Hoover, George W. Wickersham,
President Lowell and 25 other lead-'
ers of the Republican party was addressed
to the American electorate,
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pledging that the sole way to secure
our membership in the league of naj
tions was to elect Warren G. Hardihg F
president of the United States. That gre;
is a story that history has registered met
and that will astound civilization poii
throughout ages yet to be. 'didi
But the best evidence that the j. ^
league of nations yet survives and is ,by
in lusty health is the fact that the Cal
G. O. P. is fixing to steal it. It is now he '
become manifest that there is money say:
in it. That's the stuff that al- p.
ways fetches "the party of great cho
moral ideas." Senator McKinley, of a.
Illinois, is reputed a very rich man. acC(
j He is just back from Europe convinc- ber!
ed that the league of nations is the and
hope of the world, though he de- Car
mands that it change its name, and Sp6)
then our glorious union must join it. e2ig
Congressman Britton, also of Illinois, tha'
was about the bitterest assailant of the
the league while Lodge was stabbing he
it. He, too, has been to Europe and wor
upon his return he is a pro-leaguer. to s
Eminent Republicans now whisper js ,
the hypocrisy mat we wouia nave jj
joined the league but President Wil- ^jr
son wouldn't let us. 0f j
Will the Republicans succeed in
thus stealing Democratic thunder and
championing the league as Republican
policy? Yes, if the Democratic 1
party of the third decade of the 20th P?r]
century is as much of a jackass as the
was the Democratic party in the one
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To Nominate Republican.
Republicans ofN the fourth con3sional
district 'in South Carolina
in Spartanburg recently and aplted
a committee to select a canate
to place in the field against J.
IcSwain, incumbent, it was stated
W. M. Porter, proprietor of a lanegro
drug store, who said that
was a delegate to the convention, 3
the Yorkville Enquirer. Ben 1
Thompson, of Spartanburg was
sen district chairman to succeed
A.. Gates, of Greenville, resigned,
Drding to Porter. Joseph Tolt,
state republican committeeman
chairman of the party in South
onna, was present ana maae a
5Ch, Porter declared, urging all
ibles to register, and explained
t votes could not be cast unless
prospective voter could show that
had paid taxes on at least $300
th of property. The committee
ielect the congressional candidate
i sfollows, according to Porter:
E. T. Nueberger, Spartanburg;
Painter, o fGreenville, Mr. Huff, 1
^aurens.
In Haste.
'he hsot was nervous and inexienced
and he rose hurriedly at
conclusion of a song with which
of the guests had been obliging.
Ladies and gentlemen," he began,
ifore Mrs. Smith started to sing
?all?told me her?an?voice
not in the best condition and?
-asked me to apologize for it, hut
jglected to do so and?ah?I apoze
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