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- 'OKENS, - {ti ! ,. W. HIOTT; .vr:..P blishe, JULIAN HI,OT ...Manage PUBLISHED EVRY 'HURSDAY 1.60 a Year in atrIaby In Adveane' entered at ''iokens, S. C. Postoflice a Second." Can Mat Matter. WHY DOES PROHIBITlON FAIl S....TO PRQfHIB1T? - By D2 W. Hiott. In our honest opinion the- reaso s very clear. .It is because our eir cuit and Federal judges. are tot do Stheir dtty in helping to erifore tis;. law by. Aes .imposed a se# ~ n~jpj,~jo paikos4ti lY ,.e, fsAii4thF nos t j j-hfg"i.4$dtt t at' coglr will .only 'impose -a fine 30;51 o $10,. that hei. can pay 't)jat in .few ,days aftfie gets back ',honic be .earesnotling.sfor taking the risk As foi. the suspended sentence, in' tih pasp that. has seldon been called up o. "I have been: informed, I heard o: two. men being-.tiied: for: selling: whis key, And they were convicted and thi judge Iuposed a fine on then an some one said that while the tria was going on that the wives of these two men sold enough...whiskey to pay the fines. I do not doubt.in the'leasi but that it was true. Some of the officers tell me: "What is the use for us to 'capture men and bring tham to trial when they know thai the punishment will hardly amount to anything?" The way our courts are acting today is just about the name as giving men cheap licenses to make, transport and sell whiskey. Our judges can stop it. if they would. No doubt of that, for it has been tried in this county. A few years ago .Judge Purefoy held court in Pickens and he imposed chaingang sentences on nearly every violator of the prohibition law and the oflicers have told me that for about a year that they had very little to do in the way of catching violators of the pro hibition law. Very few men woul risk coing to the chaingang if they knew that would be the sentence. know many of our judges and like them very much and I love to see ou: officials lean to the side of mercy but ALL mercy will not do. W( been told that in England the Pa: A ane nt appointed wettateirto-sei out license, but in South Caroling our judges practically give out li cense. The prohibition law in South Carolina is in the hands of our courts They can make it a success or thev can let it be a failure. HOW TO FIGURE YOUR INCOME TAX. A friend of ours who lost his mind studIying the income tax lawv, writes must have a little. justice. I have as followvs from the S3tate Lunatic "I des;ire to say that there need be no trouble in figuring your incoind tax if you adhere to the following: In the first place it must be work, ed out by algebra, astronomy, trig. orfo'llietry and syntax. If your income is $2,400 a yeal md you have a diamond ring and at .utomobile and are married to e ood looking girl, 26 years old, yot tke the amount of your income, adi our personal property, subtract yomi reot nunmber, multiply-.- by youm sigh an yor wfie's height anc vide by your telephone,- number. Ifyou carry youj: iuu, separ. ed~by your plus, to schedule G, or e tenth line of wich, you will sub. / . 1dt',:the multiple, whiich you w il: t on line X, sehe~dule.K, .enteri edumn.A. . a lou, have A~ cbil4~fl th~Y family *'rct $200 frmyu~idne (d n'~ount of your- perttotai p op ~,iultiply by yonnwa'ist ncaaur4 tjet the size of:.your collar,ad~ b cild's age, multiply.- by th aint you have given the churc1 i the. year and .divide by th hler of your automobile licenis A r you have it -all -figured, ou won t have to pay Income ta: ay sort-for they will have yoi vor at the county hospital an pped down." 'O MEN CAUGHT WITH WHIRi '~' 'While looking after things in th " T le' Rock cove Sunday, Rural Pa lman LaBoon and Chapman an IRevettue Officer Jake and Reube: Ge'nell& restedl Wester HendrIck nd 'Alfred Moody with about tw< liUons of whiskey. The officer ~e that the -men succeeded i2 p -urng but some. wvhiskey befor etygaight fu &LECTRDSOLICT Pl Va L COUNT'" CO RT. Gree4 tle PiedmoniA William E. Bowen, one - of th r popular younger members of tp loci bai",.vas 'elected solicitor of thi County ,Qourt on the second ballo 4 a meeting of the county, delegi Lion hsld at 11 o'clock this mornin - Mr. fowen is a member of the la' flirm of Bowen and Bryson, with o: fees in the Palmetto buliding. H ' was a candidate for the office of ci 'cuit solicitor in the primary hel last summer, but was defeated. - Mr. Bowen, who is 28 years of age is the son of Reese Bowen, a prom nent farmer of Pickens county, an was graduated from F'.trman. Univei sity several' years ago with the de gree of Bachelor of Arts, aid lat _ graduated in law from the Universit: of South Carolina, being admitted ti the barin Greenville courity in 1919 U6 is a -veteran of the World War ha ing-aerved in the:,navy. He is un -Jasered. Ms'' .,-n" ti heenlystlteh erit thist the newl -'elected -sblcitO, -world make today wa.li "that. .he "a1precatod the horrdr that had been coriferred 'upon him b3 -the delegatior, and that he would en deavor at all times to do 'his dut3 without fear or favor; and to the bes of his ability. i-r. Bowen said tha hG did n'ot know when the firt .erinoi nal term of 'the County Cou-t will bi held, as it will depend'upon the wish es of Judge Ansel and upon wher Mr. Boiven receives his commissior from the governor. TALK OF SPECIAL TERM OF COURT. There is considreable talk of hav ing a special term of court in Pick ens county to try Wade Ballew and Robert Wilson, charged with killing Policeman Holcombe at Easley last week. Howoev'er' no definite step, have been taken towards holding r special term. It is impossible to tell now when Ballew's wounds would al low him to be placed on trial, and i: Solicitor Smoak is engag-d in court at. Gire-nville and will be for sona time, a specific date for holding i special term of court could not be set with any certainty. While there is considerable sen, timent favoring a special term an( th! sheriff and solicitor are ready an( w'lling to take the necessary prelim inary steps if properly petitioned, i appear; now that conditions will pre vent one being held. The next regular t'rm of cour for Pickens county -will- be the firs Monday -:n June. CIRCULARS TO AUDITORS ANI TREASURERS. Below you will find copy of Join Resolution p~assed1 by the General As sembly affecting penalty on unpair taxes: A Joint Resolution. To extend the time for the pay. ment of state and county taxes fo: the year 1920, until May 15th, 1921 wvith certain penalties: Section 1. Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State o1 South Carolina: That the time fo the payment of taxes for the yea 1920 be extended to May 15th, 1921 with the following penalties: Ad4 for January one per cent; add~ fo February two per cent; add fo March three per cent; add for Apri three per cent; add' for May 1st t 15th, seven per cent, and that sai< penalties be not cumulative, and exe cutions be placed in the hands of th, sheriff after May 15th. Approved the 26th day of Febru (Signed) :R. A. Cooper, Gov. ary A. D., 1921. . Walter E. Duncan, Comptroller General. MONUMENT FOR HOLCOMBE. Fund or. Menyotial .is Growini - .Rapidly'. "LNele Mr1 ..E.. P. 'Mc.Crav started .a. movement to& raise a- fun for the -erection oef a suitable me morial at the grave of W. C. Ho] combe, chief of police of Easley, wh< was killed while In this discharge o duties on March 7, 'and also to buy; medal for R. T. Chapman for herol services performed In' capturing th slayers of Chief Holcombe. The Easley Progress will be gla< 'to reesive and report all contribu tions to this fund.. Tho fpllowing contributions hay - been received. .E. P. McCracy..--..-..-.- ...$10.0 The Pickens Sentinel- --..-..5.0 The Easley Progress-..-.-..-.-..5.0 W. M. Hagood......-----....-..10.0 a W. M. Hagood, Jr...-..---..---..2.5 -A. F. Day, Greenville .. - - ... 5.0 I John E. Craig-..-..-.-..-....-.-..10.0 J. M. Jameson-....-.-.-...-.--5.0 Sam H. Bowen-.....-.-.-..-.-.-..5.0 L. J. Smith-....-.-.-....-.-..-. 5.0 Henderson-Williams-..-.-.-..-..5.0 iFinley-Whitmire..-..-.-...-.-.-..5.0 s Total ALLOED TO STN O - 1 RECONSIDERATION WILL ONLY I COME WHEN REQUESTED BY TREASURY DEPARTMENT. BEER DY CA$E AS MEDICINE Whole Enforceernnt Theory Is Over thrown Udder Which~ Revenue flu reau Has sen 'Operated. [ Washington.-The reent .ruling of former 'Attorney 'e46erj Palnier per mitting -the - prattkia%1y unlimited. manufacture of beej Wites and whis-j Stkeyf f<r., nedicinal purpossiwill stand, -Qlicit} .Generai -Frtorgon' sali,, e i tesa,nuiber,of protatos bnlees th' tr~eaufy departneat should ask .for it'a' reboneideration. .Such i' -reqtidst - fi not: under. Contemplation, it wais said ater at the treasury.' Under this 'molt recent - interpre. tation of thet prohibition la ,'offitialt' ' declared it ..ouidplar-*that a pa tient for wbom 'beer was prescribed ould be abl.e to obtain it by-the case as It would -probailb)y be ordered as a tonic and it Would appear unrea. sonable to require a person- to pro cure only one or two -bottles. Study of the new ruling. officials said, -Nae disclosed 'that the whole theory of prohibition enforcement on which the internal revenue bureau has been proceeding has been over thrown. The prohibition unit, offi elais explained, has worked on the theory that it possessed regulatory powers under the act which permits it to limit the use and distribution of intoxicants excepted by Congress from the genral han. Druggists Seek Whiskey. San Francisco. - Druggists united In a rush on the customs house when they learned that 100,000 quarts of Scotch whiskey were to be sold at $3 per gallon. Twenty-seven druggists app'ared. Sales amounted to 500 gallons, it was announced. The liquor is the accumulation of seizures made on ships entering this port, and it is being sold to druggists under orders from Washington. Reward of $250 Offered. Warsaw. -- Leon 'T'rotzky, Russian soviet war minister, has offered a re ward of five million rubles for the body, dead or alive, of General K~os t lovsky, revolutionary leader. t General Koslovsky; in return, is re-. ported to hnve offe"ed ten million ru bles for Trotsky's body. ) It is pointed out here that a mil. lion rubles is now worth about $50. Pensioned by Steel Company. Pittsbuirgh.--An aggregate of $779, 76'0.60 in pensionhs wa paid to retired employees of the United States Steel corporation and its subsidiary com-. panies during the year 1920, accord ing to the tenth annual report of the United States Steel andi Carnegie ,pension fund. This is $46,059.15 more than was dlisbursedl last year, and greater than any year since the es -tablishment of the fund. Three Drops Will Kill. New York.-The chemical warfare service has discovered a liquid poison so strong that three drops will kill anyone whose skin it touches, it be came known here. Falling like rain from nozzles at tached to airplanes $he liquid would I kill .every thing in . th~e aircraf t's path, -according to a high official of the ser *onum Bill Passed. Des Moines, .Iowa.--A Woldiers' be muns bill was passed by nieth''the houfse and senate. The bill providin't a pay ment-of 70 cent. a day for iie day' of war service-.will he submnitted to the electorate in 1922. Railway 'Sh6ps Closed. Albany, N. Y. - The'-West Albany Sshops of the New o'rk Cute'al- closed down for an ipdefnnite period.. About 1 mew9Wr affected. .3 * i tnd' Pot, WNotvliated; WIs~hgton. 4- Former ,Represe nta - tive John J. 1lsch, "f .Wisconsin, amnd .. Merk W. Potter of New York, wiere. nominated by President -.Harding - to be .members of the Interstate .Cenm merce Commission. P armers Believe in Burniftg' Wood. B Washington. - Farmers burned up 68,244,00 cords, o wood, .-valued at I $345,866,000 for ful i last. year; delpart . mouts of agriculture figures disclose. .The average wass10.6 cords per farm, the report states. No. Chajnge iti Jap SItuation. & Washington -- The 'diplomnatic ex a changes between the Arnerican and 0 Japanese governments concerning the 0 Status of the Pacific cable center o1 0 Yap have, left the altuation un changed. .., 0 While MexIco is Quiet. Mexico City.-The pres~t lull in 0 Mexico has meanti an increased i 0 portation of gasoline from this coun. 0 try of noorly 100 per cent. Crude oi' o Jis comning in from the Tampico field: .. at rate of 10o,00000 barrels aumtually RING Friday Saturd Issac Hamburger and Sons Type of Tailord'd to Maure a You uecordiall, "The-store were- it .in price. . : . . the hoyne,of WaIk-Ove? $hbee, EnicoJ Stoves, Blue ,Ribbon Spridi ' fed iroso Fe Chase City Bugies, liiWgone, Inter lot.- in, 1if s8 S iAlW Geni This season's newes display and being sold ever tions are being made for a EASTER SPRING READY-TO-WEAR. The new Suits 6f today are lines, beautiful and serviceable The styles are various and so sel ing. Then the new waists to corn match the suit. The price of today is so that EASTER MILLllgJRY. You will be gWeatly sur prised when you see our Spring showing in trinimed and tail ored hats. Eastet is not the same without a kw hat .to greet the day And change in season.. MEN'S AND BOY& DEPARTM Our buyer h4ised every' to make this 4epa 4ens theeq consideratiouland ta lowest pri what we strive to offpr. Hats, shirt s seks, ties, und outfit. They're-herbe4 waiting yo SHO Ladies and Misses how .shoes..in Straps, Oxfords, Pumps, in black or brown, all here for Easter. ~-*.. .T. L BENSON hoL a t ahr .O erlF 1rn OPENING t. a et essee I-, New-Hm.wigAth crMarch .e& o Producers of Americas High otlies.' etrfed to attendh'* . xat plete yor cotm is4 her jtb' to ti 'W '0,11 . ii v PICDE RIC'GOD }Z' No'ff matr if ie's or tic e r e o a - t hee. tsgo sein weath -'enhoe, oarhat .oveu re g4 Itgf toeqe, New Home Sewi iec goh'ds V and Black at obfir. t h La'.' U fIighIItig (oods' a SpecIs Itty j t creations are now on day, as great prepara wonderful SSHO garments of beauty and pleasing materials and carefully tailored. ectedas, svertifr the eat urletorcsuei.hr utt No Maern fi's silkBoy gingham, orangie oth ds-e, serve noanbudwa yomfort. o-r ande makel ithep beorinshtfo wther mpring outfing .uPrcem ver moderte.gfr h e &W slCo., ANY